Lending Out Games

[Streetball 21]

I'm pretty sure most of us have lent out games and never received them back or they were returned damaged. Most of us on here are collectors so we do not lend out games anymore. However, before I started collecting games and taking care of them I became of victim of not having a few games returned to me. Has this happened to anyone? I'm curious to hear what games other people have lost. I have lost:

NBA Live '98-PS1
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter-N64
NBA Hangtime-N64
Final Fantasy:Mystic Quest-SNES

Anyone else?

[walrusmonger]

I stopped lending games when my friend would not return my copy of Ready to Rumble Round 2 for the Dreamcast, and my other friend's PS2 got one of my PS2 games all dirty.

[Damaramu]

The last time I lent a game (Final Fantasy Legends), it came back with a crushed box and bent instruction booklet. After accidentally breaking a few of the guy's Transformers, I vowed to never lend out my games again.

I said it before and I'll say it again: You're more than welcome to come over and play any game you want for as long as you want, but you're NOT taking it with you.

[FrakAttack]

Worst loss ever was my Arcadia/Starpath Supercharger and tapes for the 2600. Loaned them to my step-brother's daughter in '87 and never saw them again. Dragonstomper, NOOOOO!!! :bawling:

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Anyone else?
Anything I lost was so long ago, I don't even remember. It's more often you get something back and it's trashed. I don't really lend out games these days.

This pretty much sums it up:

I have about three people that are on my "good" list. My dad, and one of my friends. That's it. If you're not on the list, the answer's "no".

Quoted from this thread:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26258

[The Batman]

Never got back Resident Evil 3 for ps or Dino Crisis

[lynchmcgahee]

My casualities are MVP 2004 for PS2 and a dualshock controller. I don't even remember where I left those two.

[Daria]

The last time I lent a game (Final Fantasy Legends), it came back with a crushed box and bent instruction booklet.


See now that was stupid. If you're going to lend someone a gameboy game, including the fragile box is asking for trouble.

I used to have no problem lending out games within reason. But after I had a friend borrow The Gamecube version of Ocarina of time and conviently lose it for a couple months I've become more cautious. He did find the game, in a stack of DvDs we'd already searched. His roomates are still convinved he lent it out to one of his friends without asking me.

[MrSparkle]

I'm pretty sure most of us have lent out games and never received them back or they were returned damaged. Most of us on here are collectors so we do not lend out games anymore. However, before I started collecting games and taking care of them I became of victim of not having a few games returned to me. Has this happened to anyone? I'm curious to hear what games other people have lost. I have lost:

NBA Live '98-PS1
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter-N64
NBA Hangtime-N64
Final Fantasy:Mystic Quest-SNES

Anyone else?

i lend out games all the time sometimes even fairly rare ones i usually borrow a game of theirs at the same time so i have a little security on it (and a new game to play through).

[udisi]

I one big one I can think of is I loaned out Dracula X for the SNES and never got my instructions back.

[otoko]

I don't lend out many games.. and those I have all have returned in the exact same condition. I have been fortuneate with the group of friends I have. Then again, most of them are also serious gamers and have had the same happen to them. So I'm pretty safe. I've even gone as far as loaning my Sega CDX and Loadstar to one. Both returned and without damage.. well for the CDX.. no more damage than it already had...

[TheDomesticInstitution]

I don't have any friends, so it's never been a problem for me. I've only had that happen with some movies and the one that pissed me off most was- Yojimbo: Criterion Collection. Which I pointed out already, is not a game- so I'm not sure why I'm posting here.

[Greg2600]

It's odd, because during the NES time period, I would always be swapping games with people, friends, cousins, whatever. In reacquiring NES games the last couple years, I have been just getting games I had over the years. Yet I can't remember which games I had that I had bought originally or not. Often I'd swap say RBI Baseball to a friend for Double Dragon, and play that for awhile, then trade that with someone else. Never had a problem.

With the Genesis, for some reason, people were a pain. I hated lending my games out. Either I'd have to nag the person to get it back, or it would come back grossed up. That is how I got rid of my original Genesis. I lent it to this kid in '95, and he never would give it back. I think he lost it or broke it or something. Eventually I had him give me $15, a gameboy, and several Gameboy games. I traded almost all the GB stuff to another friend for something else.

[WiseSalesman]

Lost Contra for the NES, but I think that's it.

[NES_Rules]

My sister let her friend borrow Dr. Mario back in the 90's which was never seen again. I only lend games to people I know very well. So far, I've gotten everything back in more or less the same condition they got it in.

[MachineGex]

Just like DVD movies, if I loan games out, I can count on not getting them back. Sadly I usually dont get them back unless I go and get them. Currently I need to go get "the Office" set (british version) and a few other movies back. As far as games, I have not lost anything since PSone was popular. Games I just don't loan out anymore and I should do the same with DVDs.

[Nirvana]

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 4. I was so upset.

[zemmix]

I lost my Donkey Kong Country (SNES) by loaning it to someone in high school. Last time I think I ever let someone borrow a game actually. I should buy it again. I was at 99% complete I remember. I also lost my Mario All-Stars but I think it was an Ex that took that one.

[RickHarrisMaine]

For my friends, I'll help you move, I'll help you remodel, I'll loan you money, I'll give you a kidney, but no one gets my games unless they like them and appreciate them as much as I do.

[joshnickerson]

I once lent a friend of mine a Super Mario World guide book, which he kept for nearly two months, despite me asking him to give it back. I finally had to go over to his house, and get his mom to get it for me. And once I had it, I found he had pretty much trashed it (the cover was all torn up) The next day he yelled at me about getting him in trouble and never talked to me again. Good riddance to that douchenozzle.

[darkhades]

I have let a few untrustworthy friends borrow games in the past. Three games I never saw again were, Resident Evil Directors Cut (PS1), Fear Effect 2 (PS1), Breath of Fire 3 (PS1). I also let a very trustworthy friend borrow Final Fantasy 7, he accidently stepped on the case which cracked disc 1. He bought me a new copy.

The only person that borrows my games now is my father. He's really into the DS, so whenever I go see my parents I'll bring a couple of games he might like.

[RadiantSvgun]

I lost Shining Force for Game Gear to someone who took it and moved. I generally don't lend out things anymore.

[DigitalSpace]

-Gran Turismo 2 (PSX): On the plus side, it was one of the buggy non-GH copies that once wiped out a save after the game froze and I was planning to replace it with a GH copy anyways, which I did a few months later.
-Onimusha (PS2): What sucks about this one is that I had got it from a friend for Christmas one year. Never bought a replacement, but I probably will one of these days.
-I had a close call with my first copy of Donkey Kong Country (SNES) in the mid 90's. A kid that lived down the street borrowed it and a week later, I found out that his family had moved away. I thought I'd never see the game again, but about two weeks later, there was a knock on the door. It was the kid, returning the game.

There aren't that many people I'd lend a game out to these days.

[k8track]

I would never lend out any game to anyone, ever.

I used to trade Atari 2600 games all the time back in junior high (for 1-2 weeks at a time), but that was 1983-1985.

[kaedesdisciple]

I've had a few nasty "borrowing" casualties myself:

Genesis: Golden Axe II
PS1: Metal Slug X
PC: Quest For Glory Collection (I looked up what that disc is now worth and that's when I got REALLY upset about that one)

[retroman]

i dont lone out games that much anymore either. Since i lost my copy (been replaced of course) of Crazy Taxi for the Dreamcast back in like 2000.

[ryborg]

When I was really young, I lent a friend the first Double Dragon game for the NES. The only game he had for me to borrow that I didn't already have was Deadly Towers.

This temporary trade scarred me for life and it took well over a year before I got my game back.

[thetoxicone]

Let's see this list could become quite long:

Genesis:
Coach K Basketball and Lethal Enforcers - lent to a kid when I was in junior high, coach k was an easy replacement in the last two years (as almost any complete genesis sports title can be found for a buck or two) but it was a pain finding a good condition lethal enforcers with gun in box (I thought I bought one on ebay in a group of games but it contained the two player gun pink gun and then had to find the blue gun by itself and also I still need the instruction manual).

Snes:
For 5 years (1996-2001) my sister had my snes and games and when I finally got it back I was missing quite a few classics. This includes F-zero, Super Mario Rpg (ouch!), Mortal Kombat, and various others. I'm pretty sure people either grabbed them or she borrowed them out to people. At least the DKC, SMW, and especially the Starfox Competition Cartridge (before I knew how valuable it was and oddly enough the regular Starfox was missing) came back in tip-top shape.

Nes:
My mom had a bad habit of letting my friends wait for me to come home if I was out doing stuff and thus many items came up missing...some where returned but not many. This list includes G.I. Joe, Tengen Tetris, and Ninja Gaiden just to name a few off the top of my head.

N64:
My last casualty of lending was KI: Gold. My friend that borrowed it told me to tell him how much it costs when I get another copy but I probably wont since he is honest about misplacing it and I know I'll find a copy down the road for cheap in group of N64 games.

With all that damage I am still willing to lend games out but only to people I am good friends with, not the random "I use to love that game can I borrow it" people at work.

[Haoie]

Excluding my sis [who lives in the same house as me anyway], then I never lend my games.

[Damaramu]

See now that was stupid. If you're going to lend someone a gameboy game, including the fragile box is asking for trouble.

Yeah, I was young and stupid then (this was right when the game came out, circa '90 or '91). I know better now! :wink 2:

[Lerxstnj]

Good topic, I'm glad you guys can understand what my friends just don't get. Though sometimes I'm put on the spot and don't want to be stingy. One tip is to have a look at the friend's own games. Are they full of fingerprints and scratches? Cracked cases and torn books? Those signs make a perfect case to be reluctant! I, of course prefer lending games that are not rare and that I have played already. I've had friends borrow rare games that were mint condition and before I've even played them. I knew it would be tough to get it back still mint, but I've been pretty lucky so far. I don't regret it since I have many I still have not played and someone should get use of them. I do hate seeing that empty space on the shelf spot during its absense that serves as a reminder.

[MachineGex]

Alright, let's hear the other side of this story(if the OP doesn't mind). Anyone currently have a game in their possession that belongs to someone else? How long have you had it and when do you plan on returning it?

[lynchmcgahee]

Alright, let's hear the other side of this story(if the OP doesn't mind). Anyone currently have a game in their possession that belongs to someone else? How long have you had it and when do you plan on returning it?

I have someone else's Ocarina of Time. I'm not going to return it b/c he has someone else's Ocarina of Time...

I also took a non-working Paper Mario from someone (told me it didn't save). Couldn't fix it and he doesn't really want it.

[youruglyclone]

I'm starting to rethink my loaning policies here's 3 incidents which led to this.

1] Let someone I knew borrow frequency, got it back almost a year ago. Dug it out last sunday to test PS3 compatibility...found out the box was empty. They only returned the box and manual (Granted I should've looked inside, but you think you know someone).

2] Lent someone's boyfriend a copy of burnout revenge. 6 to 7 months later. I found out they broke up via myspace (the new "dear john" letter of our age). Needless to say I haven't seen it since.

3] Somehow my generosity got the best of me, let someone online borrow my copy of crackdown for the halo3 beta...the kid kept it more than a month after the beta was over, and when it got back, scratches up the wazoo.

so yeah I really need to reconsider my loaning practices.

[Gabriel]

I lost just about all of my Atari 2600 games due to taking them all over to a friend's house to play. He asked if I would leave them there for a couple of days so he could play them some more. He was my friend and I was a dumbass, so I said yes.

I eventually got about 4 or 5 cartridges out of about 30 back. He loaned/sold them all to other people.

Due to that, and a couple of other incidents relating to other things, I now have a policy to never loan ANYTHING to anyone.

On the other side, I was loaned a copy of Warcraft II for the PS1 by a coworker. He soon quit that job and I still had the game. Later, another coworker told me the game belonged to her. I told her I'd return it, but I wanted to confirm from the original person who loaned it to me that her story was true. She agreed, and months later, I found the original loaning guy. He told me the game did indeed belong to the other woman, but he didn't want her having it back because "she's a bitch."

I guess I should have done the right thing and returned her game, but I agreed with him. The owner of the game was a bitch. I decided to just keep the game and not bring the subject up again. She never asked further about it, and she quit the job a few days thereafter.

Not really a proud moment, but I do still have the game to this day.

[Slate]

I never lent out a game to anyone. But on the other hand when I was 5 I lent some toys to the neighbors and sheesh. The neighbors either broke or "Lost" them and I only ever got one thing back from them.

[fishsandwich]

I was in my first year of junior high (maybe 13 or so?) when I loaned out my copy of 2600 Ms. Pac Man for some a-hole's copy of 2600 Haunted House.

I brought Haunted House back to school with me me many, many times so I could get my game back but the dude always "forgot" to bring it to school. BTW... Ms. Pac Man is a hell of a lot better than Haunted House, a fact I imagine the other guy knew.

I finally realized I had been duped. He had simply swapped out one of his shitty games for one of my good ones.

So I told a lie. I told him that I had a new game (forgot what it was, something new and popular) and that he could borrow it when he returned Ms. Pac Man. He brought it back the next day. I "forgot" to bring my new (imaginary) game to exchange but promised I would do so the next day. He asked for it every day after that for weeks but I always forgot to bring it to school with me.

I still have both games and Haunted House still sucks.


I would still get screwed in the end, though.


Years later, I loaned a friend of mine my entire 5200 collection, console included. There must have been at least 20 games in there plus two good controllers.

Never saw it again.

[RASTAN]

Lent out the following NES games out to ppl...

Elevator Action
TROJAN
GI JOE: Atlantis Factor
Shadow of the Ninja

AND NEVER GOT THOSE GAMES BACK! :grrr:

...but I've moved on, and ended up at least
buying back the Ninja game for my AV Famicom
under it's original title of KAGE. Funny this thread
got brought up, I had more or less forgotten about
this, and to be honest... well I'm still kind of pissed I
didn't get GI JOE back. I never got to beat the game.

:sob:
Oh well...

[Retsudo]

I never lend out my games. I lent out Super Street Fighter 2 for the Snes once in the early 90's. I had to ask for it back.

I have my nephews Socom:US Navy Seals game, but It's in the same condition he gave it too me. Scratched.

[kataboom]

i lent out my street fighter alpha only to find it weeks later on top of another friends speaker! they didnt even remember it was mine...grrrrrrr

[MachineGex]

.....
So I told a lie. I told him that I had a new game (forgot what it was, something new and popular) and that he could borrow it when he returned Ms. Pac Man. He brought it back the next day. I "forgot" to bring my new (imaginary) game to exchange but promised I would do so the next day. He asked for it every day after that for weeks but I always forgot to bring it to school with me.
......

Very Funny!
Always work smarter not harder!!! Nice, that is exactly something I would do. Although I woulda given the Haunted House back after awhile, and sarcasticly appologized for making the guy wait for so long.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I don't like lending ANYTHING out to friends.

Books, movies, games, anything!

Everything always comes back in a condition sub-par to what it went out in.

If I absolutely HAVE to, I'll lend something out, but in the case of disc-based-media (CD/DVD) I'll remove it from it's actual case / package and lend out just the disc in a hard plastic CD case with explicit instructions that if it comes back with scratches, I'll eat their first born.

[Dreamc@sting]

I stopped lending out games back in 1994 - I let a classmate borrow my original Gameboy for a day because his parents were taking him on a a mini road trip. Turned out when he said "for the day" he meant forever. That mini roadtrip was to the airport to fly to their new home in arizona. Ever since then I been very iffy about game lending. I only lend them now to my cousin. He knows I would kill him otherwise.

[Mianrtcv]

I lend only to those I know will respect my property. Pretty much any of my friends. I don't lend to people that have only an interest out of curiousity "just to see". Those are usually the culprits of treating things poorly and do silly things like "hey what happens if I drop this down the stairs..." "Hey, I kick you down after it".

[RASTAN]

Very Funny!
Always work smarter not harder!!! Nice, that is exactly something I would do. Although I woulda given the Haunted House back after awhile, and sarcasticly appologized for making the guy wait for so long.

:rocker::rockets:
Chance Boudreax in da house!

...sorry had to say it, I rarely see
anyone quote Van Damme from that
film anymore.

[Daria]

Originally Posted by MachineGex

Always work smarter not harder!!!

:rocker::rockets:
Chance Boudreax in da house!


...sorry had to say it, I rarely see
anyone quote Van Damme from that
film anymore.

DuckTales used that line at least three years prior to Hard Target.

>.>

[Zing]

I had a friend borrow NES Bases Loaded. I was at his house one day and noticed it wasn't there. He loaned it to someone else. I told him I would take his Super Mario Bros. 2 until he found it, secretly hoping he would never find it.

I also loaned a friend my NES. He took it to someone else's house to play and left it there. We didn't realize until months later and it was far too late. That other person was long gone. I still have a control pad, though.

[pugmagician]

The only one I can remember is loaning one of my friends in high school Shining Force II, and never seen it since.

[Fuzzball24]

God, you guys must have shitty friends or something...rofl. I lend out my games to only friend though, and we always do a 1 for 1 or a 2 for 2, etc. All of our games are returned the exact same condition. We are very anal about our games. I only let him borrow my games.

[G-Boobie]

I have lost:

NBA Live '98-PS1
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter-N64
NBA Hangtime-N64
Final Fantasy:Mystic Quest-SNES

Anyone else?

You lucky dog. I'd PAY people to take those games out of my house.

[RASTAN]

God, you guys must have shitty friends or something...rofl. I lend out my games to only friend though, and we always do a 1 for 1 or a 2 for 2, etc. All of our games are returned the exact same condition. We are very anal about our games. I only let him borrow my games.

Well not exactly. Back in the day I had about 30 NES games (overall by the time I was ready to graduate up to the Mega Drive and Super Famicom), and if I was "cool" with someone at my elementary or junior high, I might let them borrow something. Never for nothing in return. But I mean seriously, I wanted my Trojan game back and did not want to be stuck with Kid Nikki Radical Ninja the rest of my life. Losing Elevator Action wasn't that bad as I got to keep Hudson's Adventure Island, but never getting back my GI JOE: Atlantis factor in exchange for Impossible Mission II (forgot who released it) was kind of sucky indeed. After these incidents I just stopped borrowing things out, looking back on it, it is possible these people thought we were trading the games, but I clearly said "Borrow".

[Bandicat]

You lucky dog. I'd PAY people to take those games out of my house.

I charge $5 per game + mileage. :)

In all seriousness though, in Junior High, Loaned a buddy of mine a Gold Zelda 2 in exchange for him loaning my some stupid SNES racing game. Well my buddy turned into a giant douche and we stopped being friends. I ended up winning in the end when I traded his game in to a Funcoland for a Gold Zelda 2 + $2. I used the $2 to buy pop.

I also went to Germany in 1998 on an exchange program. The guy I stayed with had a US SNES and let me borrow a complete Secret of Mana. I had intentions of going back over there the following summer but never made it. I finally made it back over there in 2005, but had been unable to get a hold of him before going over there. I brought the game with me.

Once I got over there, I was able to hook up with him and returned the game. It was only then I realized I forgot the box and manual :frustrated:. He no longer had his SNES either. I still have his box and manual, and intend to get that back to him someday.

Also when I was over there, his younger brother gave me a European copy of Super Mario Land 2: Six Gold Coins for Gameboy. He did not have a Gameboy so I am not sure where he got it from.

[RJ]

I thought I posted something about this recently...like an earlier response, I used to trade VCS games back in grade school all the time. Halfway through 7th (or 8th?) grade I traded Crystal Castles for Pitfall 2 & didnt get it back until AFTER summer vac. began! (Seems fair but I wanted MY game back! (Pit2 doesnt have the replayability of CC)

Before summer vac. I asked the kid about it everyday, finally I called him & said my dad was driving me over to get it, & he'd BETTER be home. That whole incident affected me later on, but there's a few good people I'd still trade w/, no questions asked.


Also, 20+ yrs ago I traded my VCS for my nephew's NES once or twice. Some of my VCS games strangely disappeared...WTF? Keep 'em w/ the system!

[DefaultGen]

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