Ever lose a game or games due to an "act of God"?

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

For the second time in a week, nasty storms are bearing down on my home. Such is the peril of tornado alley. But once, in 1996, a tornado actually struck my apartment a glancing blow and the resulting damage took out the Odyssey 2 that had been given to me by my uncle in 1981. I was crushed. I found a worthy successor - another detachable-joystick model with the Voice, even - but it was still painful to lose that one. My carts were all stowed away safely, but it sure hurt to lose that specific machine.

So has anyone else here lost games to fire, flood, or worse?

(I'm hoping that starting this thread doesn't jinx me by pointing a big neon sign toward my newly-remodeled game room with letter spelling out ALL TORNADOES, COME HERE.)

[zektor]

Well, this isn't actually physically losing a game/machine, but more just losing because of a natural disaster of sorts :)

I was playing Breakthru for the NES one day many many years ago. Got right up to the end and had a power failure. I was so po'ed I got up abruptly to go check the circuit breaker and forgot I was holding the gamepad in the process which was of course connected to the NES. The force pulled the NES right off the table and winged it directly into the wall pretty damn hard. Needless to say I was at CHild World the very next day to buy another NES, just to find they were sold out entirely. I had to wait 2 months from then to get another NES. Boy was I pissed.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Fire............everything

[zektor]

Fire............everything

Don't even tell me all of the stuff in those linked photos?

[Mayhem]

Fortunate to live somewhere that the chance of natural disaster is incredibly small...

[Ascending Wordsmith]

One summer day, there was a tornado bearing down on my house. I had a lot of NES games and I didn't want to lose any of them. With a bit of quick thinking, I grabbed the only game that could save the day. As the dark funnel of twisting death neared my street, I ran out into the yard, amidst flying dust and debris. I was pelted in the hip by a piece of scrap iron but with all the strength I had left, I raised up a light blue cartridge called Bible Adventures. The cartridge shined in my hand, causing the tornado to weaken and gradually disappear. The dark skies cleared up immediately afterwards, and my injury was instantly healed. The Bible Adventures cart continued to shine as damage from the storm was repaired, dead people were revived, and the puddles of rainwater were turned into wine.

Ever since then, I've always kept a game made by Wisdom Tree in my collection.

[FABombjoy]

I once lost a copy of C64 Maniac Mansion to permafrost.

Seriously though, a bunch of friends and I were playing networked Carmageddon in our college's PC lab. During one point in the game, the most incredible thing happened: 5 of us hit jumps simultaneously, and in a flurry of car parts & smashing noises we all collided with each other in the middle of the air. At that precise moment on the other side of campus, a squirrel decided that the pains of life were too unbearable, and he dove into a power transformer. For us, we saw this giant, awesome mid-air collision, and then suddenly we were in total darkness. The immediate reaction was "Aaah! That crash was so powerful it broke everything!" But sensibility kicked in, and we went outside and played lab chair bowling until the power came back on.

[chadtower]

I lost several Atari systems of various kinds once to a flood in my apt...

[hamburgler]

I lost all my old video game magazines due to a flood from my washer machine
Pipe exploding.Only a couple of my old magazines survived.To this day, I still rememver all those times I'd enjoy reading them.

[Griking]

I've lost an Atari 2600 once by an act of Dog which is God backwards? Does it count?

[MyNameIsBoB]

I've lost an Atari 2600 once by an act of Dog which is God backwards?

How is that a question?

[dreamcaster]

Ahhhh....the joy of living in Australia where natural disasters are not a problem! Especially in the city I live in!

I have never lost anything through any 'act of god'...


*dreamcaster touches wood*

[CrazyImpmon]

A couple years ago the modem in my DC died after a freak lightening strike that alkso fried the satellite system. Fortunately my Mother was able to swap it for a replacement one from Toys R Us simply by waiting for someone to return a defective DC system. ;) Of course if that modem died today, I'd have a hard time replacing it but then I wouldn;t care anyway because there's hardly any reason to go online with DC.