[General Discussion] Bad Memories associated with Games?

La Pucelle springs to mind for me. I was under a lot of stress around the time that I bought it, and as much fun as it was I never could get into it. When I got to the beginning of the second chapter progress just came a complete halt. Every time I tried to do the first section of chapter two something would happen to completely distract my attention or pull me away from the game completely, and I just got tired of it. Two years later I'm still in the same spot. It's at around the #4 spot on my list of games I need to get back to.

Gradius for the Game Boy was one of those cases of friend issues. I loaned it to my best friend at the time, and he promptly lost it. Not wanting to pay for a new copy, which would have been hard enough to find by then, he kept skirting the issue when I asked for it back. Then he stalled for time to search more, even though he was pretty certain that it was either lost for good or his dog had eaten it. The day before he was finally going to give me the money his mother found the cartridge under the guest room bed, undamaged. It was a relief, but it didn't help the weeks of frustration.

Oh, and this one isn't about me, but a friend of mine held a massive grudge against another kid for deleting Super Mario World save data. He and his older brother, who moved away soon after, had gone through nearly the entire game together before this other guy accidentally deleted the file. That was back in elementary school, and my friend made his life hell in whatever way he could all the way through high school. During his senior year he bought a used SNES and dug out Super Mario World only to discover that apparently he and his brother had worked through most of the game again after the original file was deleted, but for some reason he couldn't remember that at all.

Jam it back in, in the dark.