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Post by H Hog on Aug 27, 2017 14:55:41 GMT
It can always happen, maybe your parents accidentally threw stuff out, maybe things got lost while moving homes, maybe you borrowed a game to a friend and never got it back, or maybe you're like me and left a game in your schoolbag on a busstop long ago. >_<
So, any games you ended up losing (and did you find or re-buy them again later or not)?
First game I lost was my copy of Sonic 1, couldn't find it for years until it eventually tuned up in the case of a random videotape.
Another game I lost was my copy of Double Dragon. Never figured out what happened to it, ended up re-buying it a couple years ago.
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Post by Kaunisto on Aug 30, 2017 18:05:59 GMT
Never lost anything like that, but I traded away some games. As I've hardly gotten any games since early 90's, I never got any of those back.
And in retrospect, I quite miss some of them:
The Ninja: my first game; while I plenty of times went through the 12 levels, in the days before internet I never knew how to finish the game and gave up
Fantasy Zone: got frustrating, especially without RFU or a joystick with turbo
Golden Axe: got on my nerves more than any other SMS game (going for highscore)
Phantasy Star: yes, I had bloody Phantasy Star and traded it away!! Because that was the first RPG I played and like when finishing each of the dozens RPGs I've played since, I got the "I'll never play this for a second time!" feeling.
Ghouls'n'Ghosts: don't miss that one, besides having bought it used I actually won in the trade
Sonic 1: I never really loved Sonic; I don't regret getting it but neither really trading it
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Post by rupert on Aug 30, 2017 23:28:21 GMT
I remember trading somewhere between 15 and 20 of my original Master System games for just 4 Atari Lynx games at the local independent games shop. Really bad disission but I didn''t have many Lynx games at the time. I recall my Mum being angry that I had done it as she had bought most of my games and they had cost her a lot. I had just kept my favourites which I later sold to my Dad along with the Master System to help fund a Philips CD-I (he didn't live with me). However many years later (I calculate about 12 years) I got these back off him which then sparked my collecting bug.
I struggle to remember all the games I traded in back then but I think they included Transbot, Teddy Boy, Wonder Boy and Arcade Smash Hits. Some of the games I sold my Dad and then later got back were Dizzy, Cosmic Spacehead, Castle of Illusion, Wonder Boy III, Moonwalker, Sonic Chaos, Sonic 2, Cool Spot, Lemmings, Putt & Putter, Zillion and Action Fighter.
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Post by ian on Aug 31, 2017 21:24:01 GMT
I don't remember losing any of my original games. I did end up trading them all in (about 40 I think) for a SNES and a few games. I don't regret it as I really enjoyed the SNES and some its awesome games. Although one of those games I owned back in the day and traded in was Masters of Combat!
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Post by gallos_11 on Sept 1, 2017 2:32:05 GMT
I once had lent my SMS and games to my cousin for a month. When I got everything back, 5 of the 10 games returned without manual. Actually I didn't really care at the time, but I realised the loss when I started collecting. A bigger loss was my 30-40 big box PC games when I started giving them to friends around in 2000, because I had bought a new PC and most of them didn't work there. Great titles were included like Monkey Island, Doom, Alone In The Dark, Sim City and many more.  |
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Post by Chunkchenko on Sept 2, 2017 21:15:33 GMT
I borrowed games which never got returned I think a lot of it was people who moved on to other consoles weren't bothered about getting them back. I might have lent games to people which I never saw again but to be honest I don't remember any I never lost.
I perminantly borrowed
Mortal Kombat
Alex the Kidd in Shinobi World
Micro Machines
Psycho Fox (which I returned haha)
My whole lot of games and console was donated to a family friend who had younger kids. My mum didn't tell me about it till it was already gone though. At the time I was already on the PS1 and the inferior Saturn.
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Post by Transatlantic Foe on Sept 2, 2017 22:07:48 GMT
My family had a couple of boxes "go missing" when we moved house in 2001ish - we'd have accused the removal guys of thieving if anything of value went! I think one was mostly junk anyway, the other had some of my SMS games (Super Space Invaders, Sonic 2 and GP Rider) and Die Hard 2 on VHS. Very easily replaced.
I did have a nightmare getting lent games back sometimes, kids are mental.
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Post by asterix on Nov 4, 2017 19:50:51 GMT
Ones I lost Aztec adventures , and James pond
I newer finde out , where they went 👎
Probably I borrowed it to someone, and never get it back again.
It was common to borrow each other’s games at that time.
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Post by desperado on Nov 4, 2017 20:20:21 GMT
My grandmother consequentially disposed of all of my NES and SNES boxes / manuals ( over 120 games ). Only the cartridges werde spared.  |
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Post by snowblind on Nov 11, 2017 0:39:04 GMT
"maybe you borrowed a game to a friend and never got it back"
This one. I lent six games to a friend (Cool Spot, Mortal Kombat (with the move cards from Master Force), Streets of Rage, Global Gladiators and two others I forget. All within a year of me buying them brand new, full price) and a few weeks later when I asked how he was getting on with them and when I might get them back he laughed at me and said he had sold them so "never". We stopped being friends at that point.
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Post by kfred on Nov 11, 2017 11:53:15 GMT
"maybe you borrowed a game to a friend and never got it back" This one. I lent six games to a friend (Cool Spot, Mortal Kombat (with the move cards from Master Force), Streets of Rage, Global Gladiators and two others I forget. All within a year of me buying them brand new, full price) and a few weeks later when I asked how he was getting on with them and when I might get them back he laughed at me and said he had sold them so "never". We stopped being friends at that point. That is awful! Ive heard of friends keeping games for years before giving them back, but this is crazy! |
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Post by asterix on Nov 12, 2017 20:20:30 GMT
"maybe you borrowed a game to a friend and never got it back" This one. I lent six games to a friend (Cool Spot, Mortal Kombat (with the move cards from Master Force), Streets of Rage, Global Gladiators and two others I forget. All within a year of me buying them brand new, full price) and a few weeks later when I asked how he was getting on with them and when I might get them back he laughed at me and said he had sold them so "never". We stopped being friends at that point. That is awful! Ive heard of friends keeping games for years before giving them back, but this is crazy! Totally understand that he’s not your friend after that! Hope you find some new real friends back then 😉 I had also a school friend who tried to steel some of my games, but I got them back again , after I called he’s parents at told them that He not had returned them. Generally I always had been, skeptical when someone wants too borrow something from me, that I take good care of. It never returns as it was. mostly I said no |
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Post by lambrettadave on Nov 13, 2017 19:13:29 GMT
"maybe you borrowed a game to a friend and never got it back" This one. I lent six games to a friend (Cool Spot, Mortal Kombat (with the move cards from Master Force), Streets of Rage, Global Gladiators and two others I forget. All within a year of me buying them brand new, full price) and a few weeks later when I asked how he was getting on with them and when I might get them back he laughed at me and said he had sold them so "never". We stopped being friends at that point. I had exactly the same problem but with a neighbour who had browed a game but never returned it when we caught up with him he said he had sold it and thought that we didn't want it anymore. |
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Post by Retrobob on Nov 13, 2017 19:47:06 GMT
Yes I had to re buy Ghostbusters (I think) after going through my collection and finding it missing.
Also, and this is rather embarrassing, I replaced my copy of Sunset Riders as the instructions were a bit shabby - I came to play the game and realised I'd only gone and posted the much better condition replacement! So lost but by my own fault (have since re-replaced).
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Post by H Hog on Feb 24, 2018 23:55:51 GMT
"maybe you borrowed a game to a friend and never got it back" This one. I lent six games to a friend (Cool Spot, Mortal Kombat (with the move cards from Master Force), Streets of Rage, Global Gladiators and two others I forget. All within a year of me buying them brand new, full price) and a few weeks later when I asked how he was getting on with them and when I might get them back he laughed at me and said he had sold them so "never". We stopped being friends at that point. Wow, what a jerk move. Back in the day I usually lended games on the "temporary swap" system, so instead of outright borrowing them, we'd temporarily trade one of our own games in return. Even if I didn't particularly want to borrow any game of theirs, it's still a bit of 'collateral', in a way. There was one time where this worked against me however, when I lended my copy of Sonic & Knuckles to a classmate in return for his Spirou, then on the day we were supposed to trade them back I accidentally forgot my school bag, with his game in it, at the bus stop. So I begrudgingly told him that he could keep my game because I lost his. |
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