Weirdest things written on or in a used game.

[skaar]

Just wondering if anyone's ever noticed some random crap on their used games they've found amusing. I just got a box full of used Super Famicom games from japan and a bunch have random names written on the back in Japanese - I'm going to ask my sister to translate for fun. A few retailer stickers too looks like.

I've gotten used NES games with phone numbers, a SNES game with a love poem in the manual and a few Playstation games where someone had written SATAN over all the pages in the manual.

RPGs with characters with offensive names are always amusing. Both Secret of Manas I've ever had came with the hero named Dude - one from Connecticut and the other from Vancouver. Go figure.

Anyone else?

[tom]

I've got a Ms Pac-Man (5200) with high scores written all over the cartridge, I mean ....how? and why on the cart, not the manual?

[Shaq-Funaki]

I bought a used copy of WWF No Mercy for the N64 and there were all these weird created wrestlers. One named Dick Face who was just a guy with like no hair with almost no clothes and one named Gay Hitler who looked kind of like hitler but in pinkish attire.

[coreys429]

Your mom's number...:pimp:



First thing came to my mind for a laugh.

[mnbren05]

Don't see too many wacky things anymore. On my Spiro game for PSX I had a bunch of telephone numbers on the manual, "give back" written on PS2 MGS case, and some kids name with Weebolos written below it on Blast Corps N64.

[BetaWolf47]

On a used rental NES game I acquired, there was an insert with someone's grades, either college or high school, printed on them. It was cool to see the old perforated copy machine paper that had gone through a dot matrix printer again. The grades were for a programming class, with game passwords written on the back. Go figure.

I also have a copy of Ducktales where two people wrote their names on it. And messed up. Multiple times. There was a part where they messed up so bad, there's just a solid square of marker ink in the corner. I was extremely hesitant to buy that game when I saw it.

I also saw a game where someone didn't use a marker to write their name. They etched it into the rear label with a paperclip or knife or something.

[tubeway]

A used game store near me would drill holes in the corner of their game cartridges, feed through a length of braided metal rope, and then leash the game to the plastic rental box. I think I still have one of the titles I bought from them. It was almost impossible to get rid of them afterwards, though. I ended up having to get some gray clay and fill in the holes before trading them in at Funcoland.

[Rev. Link]

I bought a used copy of WWF No Mercy for the N64 and there were all these weird created wrestlers. One named Dick Face who was just a guy with like no hair with almost no clothes and one named Gay Hitler who looked kind of like hitler but in pinkish attire.

The winner so far, IMO.

[Kitsune Sniper]

My first Mike Tyson's Punch-Out (a cart that an aunt from up north brought me like ... eighteen? years ago) had a guy's name written, in marker.

Below the cart contacts. Yep, on the inside, in the space where the cart plugged into the system. Pretty weird.

[MarioMania]

Pitfall the MA for the SNES..has a "13" on the cart

[carlcarlson]

I got an entire NES lot once that had the guys name, "symbol", and... social security number etched into everything. That's the system, each controller, and probably 15 games, all with the info etched in. I think I only have one of the games left, all of the others have been spread across the country.

[swlovinist]

I once had a Nes Total Recall cart that had "this game sucks, avoid playing it" written on it.

[muchomojo]

For some reason on all my saves I like to put two body parts together and make that my name. I'm sure there are more than a few people out there who have picked up a game with Assneck or Dicknose as characters.

[FantasiaWHT]

I used to work for EB and we once had traded in a big PS2 that had a bag of weed stuffed in the expansion slot.

[tubeway]

I used to work for EB and we once had traded in a big PS2 that had a bag of weed stuffed in the expansion slot.

That's funny. Joe got one of those traded into his store. I guess the expansion slot is the choice of stoners everywhere.

[obesolete]

I used to work for EB and we once had traded in a big PS2 that had a bag of weed stuffed in the expansion slot.

But did they come back for it?


I've gotten the RPGs with names like bitch, slut, whore, fucker,... my favorite was my final fantasy 1 copy with the previous owners names, shit, fuck, dick, bich(the 't' didn't fit?)

and i have a few carts with names, and even a few superfamis with japenese on them.
cracked cases/missing pieces of plastic...as long as the guts work, i don't really care.

[TheRealist50]

I found a copy of Duck Hunt that had "tofu" written all over it...at least 50 times, he covered it in tofu.

[Dr. N. Gin]

I bought some N64 games on eBay and the seller marked the price & sellers signature on each one with a black marker. I guess it goes without saying that I left negative feedback when he didn't let me return them.

[Slate]

I think this is close enough: I once bought a copy of Prey from Gamestop and behind the manual there was a receipt from a previous owner. Since they also pre ordered a game both their name and phone number was also on the receipt. I eventually blacked out the receipt with magic marker and threw it away to save them of their stupidity.

[MrSparkle]

Bought a large lot of games from a guy online once. pretty much all the rpgs had the main character either named hitler (htlr if there was a 4 letter limit), or jew. You can learn alot about someone when you buy their old games i guess lol.

[Dr. Dib]

I remember renting a copy of Mario Party 3 that had a save with the name Fucker or something like that. Not really bad, but considering I was in grade school it was pretty interesting. Now I just wonder if a child rented the game and increased their vocabulary.

[nebrazca78]

I acquired a bunch of Genesis manuals, one being Flashback. On it was written "He doesn't like you!!!!!!"

[Diosoth]

Back when Gamestop still stocked SNES games a few years back, they had a demo unit running with an RPG. Someone named the characters offensive names.

They stopped letting people play such games after that.

[MaypoBandit]

I was searching through some of my extra Space Invaders carts last night, and I found one where somebody had written, in blue paint no less, "THIS END DOWN" with an arrow pointing down. That one left me wondering if there was somebody who continually put their 2600 games in backwards, until one day they finally had enough.

[todesengel]

I have a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula for Genesis that had a promo sticker for an Ol' Dirty Bastard/Wu Tang album(it's now on one of my bookshelves) and a copy of Simon's Quest that has the name "Jimmy Lawrence" with a phone number on the cart and instructions. I also once had a copy of Bubble Bobble that had "I love the Backstreet Boys" on the back of the cart lol.

[carlcarlson]

I thought of another: when I first started collecting DS stuff I bought three lots. In the three lots were two copies of Mario Kart and one copy of Animal Crossing, each from a different person. Both Mario Karts had a set of hairy balls as the logo for the car, and the logo for the Animal Crossing flag was, you guessed it, a hairy nutsack. I was very confused at that point with what kind of people were buying DS games.

[skaar]

I found a copy of Duck Hunt that had "tofu" written all over it...at least 50 times, he covered it in tofu.

That's pretty awesome. I'd bet it was his vegan little sister that did it :P

[darkslime]

I used to work for EB and we once had traded in a big PS2 that had a bag of weed stuffed in the expansion slot. Once when I was at gamestop someone traded in a copy of sonic for the 360, and when the guy was sticking the price sticker on it a bunch of weed fell out of the manual. Stoners must like crappy games.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I think this is close enough: I once bought a copy of Prey from Gamestop and behind the manual there was a receipt from a previous owner. Since they also pre ordered a game both their name and phone number was also on the receipt. I eventually blacked out the receipt with magic marker and threw it away to save them of their stupidity.

I must be weird. I love finding old receipts like that when I buy used games. I keep them with the manual.

[Rev. Link]

At my local game store, somebody traded in a whole mess of SNES games. The dude's name was Nate. I know this because all of the games said "Nate" in black marker on the tops of the cartridges, next to the labels. There were ton of them, at least 20 or 30. I bought a few, so did a friend of mine.

Now whenever I'm at his house and see his SNES games I have to point them out. "Ah, there's one of your Nate games. I have a few of those!" I think there's still some left at the store, too.

[DigitalSpace]

I posted these in other threads, but they're worth repeating here.

In my Wrecking Crew manual, someone wrote down a list of Vs. series games in all caps on the second of the three memo pages, and he/she used dashes instead of spaces. The list:

VS-DUCK-HUNT
VS-HOGANS-ALLEY
VS-WRECKING-CREW
VS-COMMANDO
VS-DONKEY-KONG-3
VS-CLU-CLU-LAND
VS-WILD-GUNMAN
VS-SUPER-MARIO-BROS
VS-KUNG-FU
VS-GUMSHOE

I wonder about the story behind that.

And here's some of the more notable (and just plain odd) things I've seen written on my carts and discs, from the Names on carts (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90918) thread:

-Test Drive Off Road (PSX) - "Meat" (written on the disc)
-Little Nemo: Dream Master (NES) - "Kids"
- A Bug's Life (N64) - "READ" written on the back label
-Operation Wolf (NES) "Rick Rossi" written under the front label, and "Rossi" on the back with a phone number below it (the store I got this from had at least five more NES carts that belonged to him, each with his name and phone number written in the same places)
-Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (SNES) - "PCMNDPW" and "MSPCMND" written on the back of the cart. These looked like passwords, so I looked them up, and sure enough, they are - the first one allows you to play the original Pac-Man without having to play through the game, and the second one allows you to play Ms. Pac-Man.

[chrissylas]

I once found a copy of Ikari Warriors with one of the guys in my youth group's name on it. Apparently he'd traded it away when he was around 8 and it landed in my hands 9 years later :D

I wonder where it had been in that 9 year gap.

[The 1 2 P]

Found a cart only copy of Superman 64 with "good game" written on it in black marker. Doesn't get much weirder than that.

I usually find older carts with peoples names on them and tons of notes written in manuals. But one of my Gameboy carts has a small piece of paper(with passcodes written on it) taped to the back of the cart.

[Ryaan1234]

Well, I recently got a whole lot of 30 NES games where almost every game had "FM" written on it at least once in orange marker. In the same lot I got a copy of Spy Hunter with "Grandma" written on it twice: one spelled right and one not.

[ButtonMasher123]

I once had a Nes Total Recall cart that had "this game sucks, avoid playing it" written on it.

LOL I wish more crappy games came with warnings like this

[Daria]

When I worked at Gamestop we had a kid turn in a gameboy camera with homemade porn saved to it. Spread eagle vag shots of some girl. It was sort of abstract in a black and white dot matrix sort of way.

[PentiumMMX]

Probably the funniest I found was a bulletin for a catholic church stuffed inside the box of a copy of Metal Gear I bought ages ago. On the back, sure enough, was passwords for the game. Don't remember what I did with it, though...

Also, I remember buying a PSone memory card at a garage sale, and found the previous owner's FF7 save file. That person was definitely a fan of The Matrix, considering all the character names they used came from it.

[SPAZ-12]

I've found that about 1/4 of all of the used xBox games that I buy smell very, very strongly of weed. I find it pretty funny, and it's not even that annoying, because the smell tends to go away for good in minutes if I leave the case open. I now think of it as sort of a "new game smell".

[Compute]

In a boxed Colecovision I snagged last week there was the original sales receipt from Toys r Us. October 1985, sale price of $49.xx charged to a visa with full number and exp date printed on the receipt..badass! Also had a receipt for three items at 9.99 ea, presumably games.

Come to think of it, the copy of NHL 98 I recently picked up for the Genesis had a draft pick listing with a bunch of player-creation stats written on them.

[Giskard]

When I worked at a game store we once had an Xbox game that was traded in with a porn DVD hidden between the pages of the instructions.

[aaron7]

I keep the receipts I find with the game it was in too. Kinda neat.

One time I bought a lot of NES games off eBay from a seller in Canada. When I received them all were in those plastic clearish Nintendo cases... and one had a sticker on it from "Dave's Video, Townsend, MA"... the same town I live in!

How cool is THAT??

[mr obscure]

When I worked at a game store we once had an Xbox game that was traded in with a porn DVD hidden between the pages of the instructions.

:above me: Also have a story like this.

I bought a sega dreamcast off ebay with 20 games or so.
In 1 of the games was a porn dvd hidden.
I thought it was funny so i emailed the guy gues what?

It was a rental.. the guy had to return it and asked if i wanted to mail it back,what i did.

[Sabz5150]

I bought a Gameboy Camera with some rather interesting pictures on it. They were four color monochrome horribly pixelated photos, but you knew what they were.

[NES_Rules]

I can't think of anything amusing from my collection (I clean away any kind of writing, so I've forgotten anything that was on stuff) but at a garage sale the other day I saw a CD binder filled with PS1 games and on each one was written in marker either "Like" or "Don't Like" I guess he was tired of forgetting which were good/bad games.

[darkslime]

Just thought of another one. I bought a PSP memory stick that was completely filled with dragonball z hentai.

[Joe West]

i bought a Nes game cart, on the back was written, In case of fire take outside.....

[Push Upstairs]

I bought a Gameboy Camera with some rather interesting pictures on it. They were four color monochrome horribly pixelated photos, but you knew what they were.

I don't doubt the things people would take pictures of, but I can't understand why they would use a GB Camera.

[BetaWolf47]

One time I bought a lot of NES games off eBay from a seller in Canada. When I received them all were in those plastic clearish Nintendo cases... and one had a sticker on it from "Dave's Video, Townsend, MA"... the same town I live in!

How cool is THAT??

That is awesome! Speaking of MA, I bought a used game down here in south FL that had a store sticker from Boston on it.

[FantasiaWHT]

I don't doubt the things people would take pictures of, but I can't understand why they would use a GB Camera.

What kids had access to a real camera otherwise at the time? Maybe if you were really lucky you could sneak a polaroid from your parents...

But otherwise, maybe it's a sort of mental rape - leaving it on there for the next person the same way sickos will leave unspeakable things on/in public toilets.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

I bought a box lot of Gameboy carts and one of them was the Mary-Kate and Ashley Pocket Planner (or whatever it is called). When you turned it on, it listed the girl owner's name and phone number. The data on it, however requires a pin to be entered.

JY

[Tupin]

I have a Genesis game that still had the original receipt in it from a rental store in Florida.

I also have a receipt for my LaserDisc player purchased from a Circuit City in 1994 in California. I found it in late March, if I had found it a month earlier I would have called the Circuit City in California and asked if they still sold it. LOL

[thom_m]

I bought my SNES and some games form my ex-wife's little cousin, named Paulo Vitor. So, the console and the games have the initials on them. But BURNED with a hot piece of iron or something, rather than written with a marker. The price was really good, though

[mobiusclimber]

I, too, have gotten a porn disc with my games. I bought FFVII PC version AT A CHURCH RUMMAGE SALE and one of the discs in it was a porn cd (runnable on the PC, I guess).

[JanLazer]

I've a copy of Transbot (Euro card edition) for the SMS that has (in big damned letters) on the case:

TWO FOR FUN!

...Have no clue what it means or where it came from.

[SparTonberry]

I bought a box lot of Gameboy carts and one of them was the Mary-Kate and Ashley Pocket Planner (or whatever it is called). When you turned it on, it listed the girl owner's name and phone number. The data on it, however requires a pin to be entered.

JY

Yes. GameBoy cartridges are a secure data storage medium. :P

[JSoup]

I have a copy of StarFox Adventures that has the name of the previous owner scrawled across the cover in blue marker.

I bought a used copy of Wario Blast in 1996 that came with the manual. In the back of the manual were these strange calendar like drawings.There were 12 of them, so I figured it had to be a calendar. At the time, I thought they had something to do with the game, but I couldn't figure out what. 6 years later, my step-sister borrowed the game and saw the drawings. Apparently, someone was keeping track of someones menstruation cycle in the back of a game manual.

[Iron Draggon]

I've never understood people who put their names or initials on their games... if you're that afraid of your games getting stolen, then lock them up in a safe or something, but what on earth makes you think that it will ever stop a thief from stealing it just because you ruined it putting your name or initials on it? I can just hear all the thieves of the world talking to themselves about it now... DAMN, I was gonna steal this game from this person, but it has their name on it! now I can't steal it, cause it belongs to someone else! CURSES, foiled again! get real... and stop defacing games with your names and initials!

[mobiusclimber]

I've never understood people who put their names or initials on their games... if you're that afraid of your games getting stolen, then lock them up in a safe or something, but what on earth makes you think that it will ever stop a thief from stealing it just because you ruined it putting your name or initials on it? I can just hear all the thieves of the world talking to themselves about it now... DAMN, I was gonna steal this game from this person, but it has their name on it! now I can't steal it, cause it belongs to someone else! CURSES, foiled again! get real... and stop defacing games with your names and initials!

This is mostly, I believe, done by children, or the parents of young children. There's no dispute over who's copy of Mega Man that really is if Johnny's playing a cart with BILLY written in big block letters.

[todesengel]

I bought a used copy of Wario Blast in 1996 that came with the manual. In the back of the manual were these strange calendar like drawings.There were 12 of them, so I figured it had to be a calendar. At the time, I thought they had something to do with the game, but I couldn't figure out what. 6 years later, my step-sister borrowed the game and saw the drawings. Apparently, someone was keeping track of someones menstruation cycle in the back of a game manual.

You sir win the prize for strangest thing written on a game.

[FantasiaWHT]

You sir win the prize for strangest thing written on a game.

I have to agree, that's just... wow.

[skaar]

I bought a used copy of Wario Blast in 1996 that came with the manual. In the back of the manual were these strange calendar like drawings.There were 12 of them, so I figured it had to be a calendar. At the time, I thought they had something to do with the game, but I couldn't figure out what. 6 years later, my step-sister borrowed the game and saw the drawings. Apparently, someone was keeping track of someones menstruation cycle in the back of a game manual.

Anyone else snicker at the title of the game being Wario Blast for this one? ;)

Quality.

[BetaWolf47]

Anyone else snicker at the title of the game being Wario Blast for this one? ;)

Quality.
ROFL didn't catch that.

[skaar]

Bump an old thread to see if there's new gold out there....

[Steven]

Nothing particularly earth-shaking, but had a girl (I'm assuming) write "If your cute, call me Sara xxx-xxx-xxxx"

[Voliko]

Hmm. i bought a copy of Secret of Evermore CIB at a store a year ago at a great price and inside I found this Alien Vs. Predator poster promoting a comic. It also had this note in it that said " I'll be home around 7:45. There's roast beef in the ref."

On the other side it has some obscure stuff written that probably pertains to the game. I have yet to play it so I don't know. It says stuff like "Triangle Monster will suck you inside" and "When Queen stands take 5 steps". Sounds like in-game advice in a NES game! It might help me out when I get around to playing it though.

[MissingNo_1231]

This is mostly, I believe, done by children, or the parents of young children. There's no dispute over who's copy of Mega Man that really is if Johnny's playing a cart with BILLY written in big block letters.

my name is Johnny, and it's on some of my early carts. That or my initials. I put them there as a kid because I thought it was cool. I also drew in a lot of my manuals.

In retrospect, I'd go back in time and slap myself.

[skaar]

I'm actually rebuying my Bubble Bobble cart from childhood because I wrote my name and phone number on it. What a dick. I'm keeping the original of course ;)

[AB Positive]

Well, I sold a copy of Zelda II that I had recently beaten. Being a fan of Yahtzee Croshaw... I had named the character "Fagballs". Forgot to erase the save.

...

If you got that copy, I apologize :D

[skaar]

A few weekends from now I'll be taking apart and cleaning/testing a ton of games, I look forward to many interesting save files. I've also got a half dozen memory cards to explore.

[Scrimble]

Here's a nice little note from the back inside cover of an NES system manual I found years ago. Words can't describe how good it really is...


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t295/Scrimble/P1030502.jpg

[SPAZ-12]

Here's a nice little note from the back inside cover of an NES system manual I found years ago. Words can't describe how good it really is...


http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t295/Scrimble/P1030502.jpg

With B*tch drop the 'T,' 'cause Bich is Latin for generosity!

It's nice to see that kids are learning how to curse properly before they can write.

[scaryice]

On the other side it has some obscure stuff written that probably pertains to the game. I have yet to play it so I don't know. It says stuff like "Triangle Monster will suck you inside" and "When Queen stands take 5 steps". Sounds like in-game advice in a NES game! It might help me out when I get around to playing it though.

Those are both from Final Fantasy 6.

[PC-ENGINE HELL]

This thread reminded me of this one shitty Genesis sports game I got in a massive batch of carts with a deck a few months back. Half the carts were crappy sports carts, but regardless of that this one had extra special suck due to it having received a Hitler makeover at one point in time. I pulled it out and scanned it for your viewing displeasure. I doubt the seller even noticed the makeover was done, unless they did it themselves, because it came with about 40 other carts. Who knows, who cares. Anyway, heres the pic:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a66/Amakusa666/hitlercart.png

Eventually I'm just going to toss the thing in the garbage with the 20 something sports carts I still have left in a plastic bin. Things are just taking up space, and with this cart in particular, no point in trying to push Hitler on anyone anyway.

[Game Freak]

I bought a copy of Geist (GCN) at a GameStop (here in MA) and discovered inside the case a GameCrazy receipt from Burbank Illinois. Damn this game travelled far!

Other than that, nothing but last names...Mustn't be any interesting save names either. I usually erase all the files when i get the game XD

[thchardcore]

This thread reminded me of this one shitty Genesis sports game I got in a massive batch of carts with a deck a few months back. Half the carts were crappy sports carts, but regardless of that this one had extra special suck due to it having received a Hitler makeover at one point in time. I pulled it out and scanned it for your viewing displeasure. I doubt the seller even noticed the makeover was done, unless they did it themselves, because it came with about 40 other carts. Who knows, who cares. Anyway, heres the pic:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a66/Amakusa666/hitlercart.png

Eventually I'm just going to toss the thing in the garbage with the 20 something sports carts I still have left in a plastic bin. Things are just taking up space, and with this cart in particular, no point in trying to push Hitler on anyone anyway.

Can I have it? I'll pay shipping.