Mines pretty weak compared to some of the true horror stories on here. Probably 1/2 to 2/3rd through Brute Force when a bug in the game caused it to trap me after I defeated the boss at the end of one of chapters. Basically I was trapped in the room with the boss and couldn't get out to teleport off to the main chapter. (Or it was something like that.)
I could have restarted the chapter, but the game was barely good enough to hold my interest as it was so I sold it. Depending on your opinion of Brute Force I suppose this could almost be considered an example of video game grace
[quote name='alankhns']A friend of mine had just gotten Final Fantasy II and we played the game for an entire day. We got to the part where you first meet Yang and fight the bombs. We died but thought "hey no problem we saved on this mountain." Then the cut scene from the begining of the game when Cecil flies back to Baron started. We had not saved all day becuase we were used to the system in the original FF where you just had to use a tent to save.

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Not terribly similar, but in Fable (Xbox) you have to go a fairly long time right at the beginning before you can save. I had been playing for 30 minutes or so and needed to do something in IRL (and I don't put off people/appts/etc for video games) so I did this secondary save option they have in the game which I didn't think would work, but was my only option. My suspicion was correct and I had to pretty much start over. (Not as bad as losing 12 hours though!) IIRC I had another buggy save situation force me to replay a quest later in the game. The save system should have been overhauled on that sucker, poor execution.
[quote name='thegamer4787']I wanted a genesis badly when it was released, and still had an NES at the time. Anyway, I recieved a genesis for Christmas, and then my parents explained to me that I had to give away my NES to my cousin who didn't have any video game systems at the time. I remember trying to explain to my parents that I still liked and wanted the NES, but to no avail.
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Damn, you've had some bad luck with family and video games. Doesn't sound like they did, but your parents really should have told you up front that a condition of getting the Genny would be donating your NES to the cousin. I can just imagine something like this happening to me. A euphoric jump for joy at finally getting the Genny is cut short by my parents coldly telling me that the old NES now has to go.