[General Discussion] You gave away THAT?

Everyone (I assume) has a story of some game that they lent to a friend and never got back, or sold to EB only to regret it a few days later, and it's always some game that they know now was totally NOT a game you should ever let your hands off of, but gave it away anyway...

I have two games like that. When I was around 8, I lent my cousin (who lived in Alabama) Final Fantasy for the NES. I didn't see the guy for years afterwards, and the first time I saw him I asked about it... and it had gotten stolen from his house, along with all of his other games and systems. That game is one of those games that just should never leave any good gamer's possesion once they get a hold of it...

The other one, the one that I constantly cite as my worst decision ever in the history of my gaming (except calling Hoth the hardest level ever in LSW2, I'll never be able to live that down apparently) was the decision to sell Chrono Trigger for the SNES to what was then FuncoLand. At the time, it seemed like a good idea. FuncoLand actually traded games based on their value and demand, so I got a cool $100 or so for it, and promptly bought... fuck, I forget, but whatever it was it clearly wasn't as awesome as Chrono Trigger. To this day I wish I had that cartridge so I could proudly hook up my SNES and play it. It was a terrible, terrible idea.

So, now that I've bared my soul for all of GFF to see, what decisions related to gaming have YOU made that can only be classified as colossal blunders?

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I never really trade a game, I think I never had enough trust in my friend for those kind of thing XD

but I remember that a friend lends me his FFVII for ps1 and I really don't know how, but it just disapear from my computer room one day XD My friend was pretty mad or acted like it, because I suspect that he's the one that took it back and acted like I lost it. Anyway I said that I would buy him another copy and sadly, I didn't find any but I told him that I saw FFT. He immediately say that he would prefer FFT to FFVII >.> anyway I still bought the game (was 20$) and gave it to him and one week later I saw FFVII to sell at the same store >.< well I bought that one for me XD

at this time I'm still not sure if I really lost his game or if he took it back without warning me XD

I think it's the only time I trade a game with someone XD

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Ugh, just one comes to mind at the moment. I had lent my friend a copy of Dance Dance Revolution Extra Mix. I had a gut feeling that lending it to this guy was a bad idea... Oh boy, was I right about that. <_<

He would only be borrowing the game for one night and give it back to me the next. Who would've guess he would crack the CD in that ONE night? The crack was a small crack that literally broke the CD in half. It was still playable, but certain songs wouldn't work because of the damaged disc.

Over time, the damage would just become greater to the point the whole CD just snapped in half. Since then, I would ask friend who I knew had bootleg copies of imports if they had it. To my dismay, I wasn't very lucky. <_<

I really wish I didn't lend him the that night. T_T

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Back when my brother bought his PS2, we decided to go in 50/50 on a memory card (largely because he was short of cash at the time). I kicked in half the cost and got half the space. Which was fine until he went and lost the card. He lost a few Mortal Kombat and Sould Calibur unlockables; I lost all my FF X-2 saves (98% completion), all my Xenosaga saves (last save point in final dungeon), and more.

Needless to say, I went out and bought my own card the next day and pledged never to be so stupid again. But I haven't touched X-2 or Xenosaga since then; thinking of the sheer effort it would take to claw my way back to where I was just makes me sick.

I also once had the oppurtunity, back in '99 or so, to pick up a copy of Breath of Fire 2 at a hefty discount. That store was great (we scored copies of Chrono Trigger, SoE, BoF1, Earthbound, and Paladin's Quest for a song). I assured myself that I'd pick up the cart eventually, but the place eventually went belly-up.

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I swapped Streets of Rage 2 or 3 (the one with the rollerblading kid) for the Genesis for Base Wars and some other NES game. His family moved about a month later and I never got my games back.

On the other side of things I got Chrono Trigger from one of my brother's friends that had beaten the game and didn't want it any more (didn't go through the Black Omen, so he didn't find out about New Game+). I think I paid $5 for it.

I let one of my friends borrow the last disk from FFVII since his wasn't working and he wound up breaking it. I need to remember to not ever let friends borrow games from me again.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I kind of regret selling my copy of Klonoa. Not really, since I am 100% sure I would have only ever spent another 5 minutes in my whole life ever playing it again. So, although it would be cool to have, it would also be kind of pointless. I've learned to let go of some games like that...

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I actually let my friend borrow my NES, and somehow he "lost" it. That sounds like complete bullshit, I know, but he gave me his Playstation in return (this was back when they were still new), so I wasn't complaining. Of course, looking back now, keeping my NES probably would have been better in the long run, but this incident did help me get into that generation sooner than I ever would have had it not happen (I was way too poor back then to get a PS or N64 on my own), which is why I'm indifferent towards it.

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Mario's Time Machine for Super Nintendo. Last year I found it at EB games for eight dollars, and since I've never played it before, hey, why not pick it up and try it out? So I do so, and then I find out what a horrible game it is. So I sold it at a garage sale a month later at the same cost as what I paid for it.

I'm regretful because, as a Mario game collector, I could have had it in my collection still if I hadn't sold it. That, and I'd like to rip the music from the game also (it has a few nifty tunes, but I'm reluctant to just convert the SPCs). And since I live in the middle of nowhere it'll be impossible for me to get it back unless I just hop onto eBay and get it there. But even that is a huge burden for me.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Ooh, another moment popped fresh into my head.

Incredible Crisis. An amazing game. I was playing it at my friend's house and since my Playstation was busted, and he had a well-working PS2, I decided to leave it at his house.

It's about a week later I decide I wanna pick it up, of course, It's nowhere to be found anywhere in his house. I looked around everywhere for it, but never did actually find it.

Since then, I haven't found a copy anywhere. I did come close, but being 13 and having almost no money at all on you, $8 seems like a lot. <_<

But I never did see it again, since the Software Etc. I found it at closed down later that year. <_<

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I am one of the worst people for this, since although I hardly had to lend any games to my friends in the past, I am an EB trade whore. Thus, I regret a lot of my trades after the fact, and my game collection never surpasses 10 the last few years.
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Valkyrie Profile - Easily worth $100+ even still, my favourite game of all time, traded away for $20 store credit. I had beaten Iseria Queen just enough times to get an Angel Slayer and all that was left was to level everyone up obsessively. At least I can work through it again in Lenneth, but it sucks not having the original and being able to access every PWS and watch the Empress Massacre at will.

Wild Arms 3, Wild Arms 4 - My second favourite games ever traded towards some games I literally don't have anymore. I regret never challenging Ragu Ragula or taking screenshots of Maya's hidden skirt guns.

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - Traded for $50 credit, but I wish I still had it to level up past 1042. My logic was "Disgaea 2 will keep me busy and is almost if not superior to it".

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I traded in my copy of Strider 2 for the PSone to EB Games back when I found out EB even traded games (noob). Traded in a bunch of stuff and don't remember all that I bought, but I clearly remember SSX 3 being in there as well as Seven Samurai 20XX.

Fortunately, I recently found and acquired another copy. I went to help with an inventory at one of the GameStop's in my area (store managers have to do that -- inventories suck) and found the copy at his store. The case was scratched up, but for $7 I said "What the hell."

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When I was 13 I let my friend have one of my NES systems and a copy of Mario/ Duckhunt since I had 3. That was okay, but he convinced me to let him borrow Mario Bros 2 and 3 as well. A week or two later he moved away and took them with him. I am now 17 and havn't seen him since

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I once let a 'friend' borrow Super Smash Bros, this was when I was 15. I'm 20 now and haven't seen his ass since, nor my game. Worst thing I've ever done

I was speaking idiomatically.

At least you got a hundred bucks Mo0 ._.
I on the other hand wasn't so lucky. This happened nine years ago~ I don't know how my "friend" talked me into it but I lent him my precious copy of Final Fantasy VI for the SNES. I paid quite a bit for that game too, around 80 dollars if I remember correctly. He said it'll probably take him a couple weeks to beat the game so I thought, "alright, have fun."

Three weeks went by so I decide to get a progress check on him. To my horror he said he ended up lending it to another friend that wanted to play it! I didn't know what to say after that. So I tell him to get it back to me as soon as possible. Another week rolls by so I check on him again-- This time he says his friend lost it ;_;. Of course I called bullshit so I tell him to pay me back or buy me a new copy (haha, right.) Haven't seen the fucker since. But if I saw him today I'd probably throw him across a room.

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In my desperate need to own an N64 to play the recently released MARIEO CART 64 and the upcoming GoldenEye (plus some other 3D platformer that had Mario in it or something), I sold off my Super NES and all its games. I SOLD TERRANIGMA FOR TEN BUCKS.


;___;

Now just the cartridge by itself goes for over a hundred bucks on eBay. I haven't seen a single copy in pawn shops or whatever ever since I got rid of it. This memory haunts me. Like a ghost. I've been pretty right lending my mates games though. Worst that's happened was the instruction manual to Midtown Madness 3 went missing. It didn't matter, because.. well.. it's Midtown Madness 3.

Also ouch at

- Klonoa
- Incredible Crisis
- Mario's Time Machine (that game was rad I never figured out just what the point of it was)

Let's join hands guys. We can sing a song!

FELIPE NO

Man, upon reflection i don't think i've ever given away/sold/traded a game in my life, except for once. Once i traded a Ninja Turtles game for the Gameboy Brick to my friend for a Terminator 2 game. Neither game was particularily good, but the Ninja turtles game was my very first video game. I guess it's more of a "I want it for a trophy sort of thing" but whatever.

I've had a few bad experiences loaning games to people too. I swapped my Chrono Cross to a friend for Final Fantasy IX. I hadn't finished Chrono Cross yet, and when i got it back, i found a huge stall near where i had left off. I then inspected the discs, only to find them totally scratched and beaten the hell up. I've since repurchased the game, so i'm cool in the temper now.

Same thing happened to my original Copy of FFVIII, different friend though. I never realized i'm the only person left in the world who takes immaculate care of his CDs.

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I never understood how people could be so careless with their games and scratch them all to shit. D:

Anyway, I once sold a few games to a local gaming store quite a while back. I regret it, because I sold off Super Metroid and Mario RPG. There might have been another game in there but it's not really worth noting.

The worst part? I traded them in for fuckin' Yoshi's Story. Worst. Trade. Ever.

Luckily, I've picked up the SNES carts again since then. And I actually play them sometimes.

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Mines would be Illusion of Time (SNES).

For some reason I wanted Killer Instinct (SNES) badly. I did like IOG and never got around to completing it, but it's one of those decisions I don't know how I came to. Can't remember what I traded Killer Instinct for...

I did finish it by emu but it's such a neat game...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

At my first job, I lent a co-worker my copy of SimCity 3000 (my fave SC game) and he was fired/quit/who knows days later. I told him to meet me in the lobby one time during my lunch and he never came >:|

Actually, I'm glad I did lend to that evil co-worker, because SC3000 Unlimited came out after that and if that guy hadn't stole the game from me, I wouldn't have gotten SC3KU, and that's better than the original game.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Sousuke

I never understood how people could be so careless with their games and scratch them all to shit. D:

Anyway, I once sold a few games to a local gaming store quite a while back. I regret it, because I sold off Super Metroid and Mario RPG. There might have been another game in there but it's not really worth noting.

The worst part? I traded them in for fuckin' Yoshi's Story. Worst. Trade. Ever.

Luckily, I've picked up the SNES carts again since then. And I actually play them sometimes.

At least you could even FIND copies of Mario RPG, I've been looking for that thing for ages.

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When my brother was in college he went on a kick selling off a lot of our old games since he figured emulator versions would be just as good. Although it was him selling them, he had to ask for my permission on SNES games due to a deal we'd made (I had rights to all SNES stuff because I'd helped buy his N64). For some insane reason I OK'd selling off Super Mario RPG and Super Metroid. Ugh. Since then I've repurchased a used copy of Mario RPG for $25, but I've yet to find a copy of Super Metroid in good shape. Well, I did once, but it was $16 and the Wii's Virtual Console had just been announced. Surely Super Metroid would be released within the first few months, right? Right? ;___;

Also, I'm not sure if I OK'd this one being sold or not since neither one of us actually remembered selling it until I tried to play it last year, but Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge for the Game Boy. I managed to replace that fairly quickly though, through a massive strike of luck at a Gamestop for $8.

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I've had few instances of me allowing something to be traded (fortunately), but one that sticks out in my mind a great deal is Final Fantasy II (the SNES one). I traded it to a friend in exchange for Battletoads in Battlemaniacs. Really really really really bad idea. I was fortunate enough to snag another copy of it, but only in exchange for another really really bad idea. I traded Super Castlevania IV for it. Unfortunately, I've never had the opportunity to get that one back.

How ya doing, buddy?

Really? I've seen Super Castlevania IV at a lot of used game places around here, usually for about $13.

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Unfortunately for me it's not a lack of copies barring me from acquiring it, since I can always go on eBay, it's a lack of funds >_<.

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I'm always very cautious with games, but there is one game that sticks out in my mind that has gone missing from my collection-

Tomba!

If you ask me, one of the best platformers for the PS1. It's entirely possible that I let my friend borrow it, but I honestly don't know where it went. Le sigh.

My friend flat-out gave me Rez a few months ago. I wonder how much he regrets that...

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