Your Gaming "Dirty Little Secret" - Let's Hear it!

[Deadman]

Everyone has one - something in their gaming collection, gaming style, gaming preferences, whatever it is that makes you keep it all to yourself to avoid those horrified looks from your friends. It shouldn't be as simple as "I have a Barbie game in my collection" as most of us do, but "Barbie Horse Adventures is my favorite Xbox game" - now THAT is what I'm talking about!! :)

I'll start by saying that mine isn't quite as embarrasing as the above example, but it's one that when I mention it to other game collectors, they gasp and look at me like I have three heads. My collection is pretty large and contains some pretty nifty stuff (if I do say so myself) including over 60 unique consoles from classic to current. I like to collect just about anything, including rarities like CIB Mega Drive, Pink Hello Kitty Dreamcast, Tommy Hilfiger Gameboy Color, complete Microvision boxed, and more. Just over 3000 games and I can say that there's one system I've never been able to pick up, not really due to rarity, just because I don't really care about it that much. It's one of the most popular systems ever made, and I still don't have one. What's my Dirty Little Secret?

I Don't Own a Playstation 2.

Why? I haven't found one that's a perfect deal yet. Too expensive, bad condition, missing pieces, no games included...whatever, I just always find an excuse to walk away from a purchase. Part of it is that I realize I will then have to more actively purchase PS2 games, and that's a 1000+ game library that I'm not looking to add to my want list at this point. Oh, and the original Xbox was way better (and still is to me).

[ownerizer]

My dirty little secret? I'm better at playing First Person Shooters, naked and drunk with my penis wrapped around the controller than any other time.

[Deadman]

My dirty little secret? I'm better at playing First Person Shooters, naked and drunk with my penis wrapped around the controller than any other time.

ooooo kay...

next?

[j_factor]

Pretty much every reply in this thread is going to contain the word "penis".

Penis.

[alec006]

Hmm a dirty little secret huh....I enjoy playing Hey You Pikachu...cause my voice works perfectly with it since it is abit high for a guy in his twentys...guess being a *** pays off ROFL X3

Guess the word and you get a cookie...my picture should help XP

[Gameguy]

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6561/bathtub2.jpg
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[Boltorano]

I NEVER* play JRPGs when family members are around to see me playing. I feel strangely uncomfortable and don't want to answer any questions about why I would play "such strange games".

* With extremely rare exceptions. I played through Earthbound up through Giant's Step the day I got it while my cousins watched and cheered me on but I can't imagine they remember it almost 15 years later.



http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4224/bathtub1k.jpg

Oh no, that poor original Zapper.

[Gameguy]

LOL I just grabbed those pics off a google search. Supposedly they're wearing boxers.

I think these are the original sources, or at least what google found them on now.
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/22/taking-the-meaning-of-nintendo-fanboy-to-a-whole-new-level/
http://gaygamer.net/2007/03/naughty_but_nice_naked_nintend.html

[kupomogli]

Moar penis!

Just got back from looking at this thread in the future.

[alec006]

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http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4224/bathtub1k.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpyh8coU631qe0reo.gif

EWW! X(

[Icarus Moonsight]

The first time I finished GH Bark at the Moon on Expert I was insanely high/drunk.

[Sunnyvale]

The pic everyone seems far too happy to reproduce

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/ConneticutLeatherCompany/barf.jpg

[pixelsnpolygons]

At least several times a week I pretend to be a sexy girl gamer on Xbox Live. I like to let the guys know that I'm single and, like all girls, I only play naked. Sometimes I'll pretend to play really poorly. While getting shot over and over again I'll comment that the controller rumble is giving me naughty thoughts and I'm finding it hard to concentrate. It's around this point that the one remaining person calls me a queer and disconnects from the game. I fire up my Game.com and play Resident Evil 2 while uncontrollably sobbing and spluttering insults towards myself. I fall asleep in a pool of my own tears.

Nah, just kidding - although after reading that over I might try it sometime. I can't really think of any dirty little secrets. I kind of enjoyed Driv3r and Wreckless for the Xbox and have actually finished Wreckless more times than some AAA games. Best I got, unless I make up a story about finding a penis inside my GameCube broadband adapter package.

... and I will if I have to.

[Patney]

The excellent graphics made FFXIII an enjoyable experience for me. The decent combat system and nice music helped too, but yeah.

[PentiumMMX]

I can easily convince people on most every MMORPG I've ever played that I'm a girl in real life, when I'm actually a guy. Well, as long as voice chat isn't involved

[jcalder8]

Well I think this is an interesting penis... I mean topic so I'll post.

Off the top of my head. I burned over 200 Dreamcast games. Most of them were never played beyond putting them in the system to see if they worked.

[dgdgagdae]

When I bought Britney's Dance Beat at Gamestop several years ago, I said it was a gift for someone.

It wasn't a gift for someone.

[Ze_ro]

I like the Wii and think it's a good system.

Penis.

--Zero

[Swamperon]

I've repeatedly played Sabrina: Zapped! for the GBC and enjoyed it.

In my defence, it is a really solid platformer.

[kupomogli]

I kind of enjoyed Driv3r

This is the only thing I can agree to to actually contribute to this thread. I like Driv3r better than any GTA except for the GTA4 series and maybe San Andreas. Driver 2 is worse than Driv3r and I like it better than any GTA except for the GTA4 series and San Andreas.

[Shingetter]

I played Animal Crossing every day for a year, and liked it.

[Sunnyvale]

I have never had an online account for Xbox, PS2, Wii, 360, none of it. Haven't played a game online multiplayer since Diablo 2.

And in those days, it was with my penis.

[Smashed Brother]

I once owned Spiceworld (PSX) and enjoyed it!

[The 1 2 P]

I once bought a copy of Kinect Sports from Goodwill as a Target refund. The disc had really severe ring scratches and even though it would load it was so scratched up that you could hardly get any of the events to load far enough to play. So I went to Gamestop, bought a used copy of the same game and then returned it with the scratched up disc while keeping the good one.

[Sunnyvale]

I once bought a copy of Kinect Sports from Goodwill as a Target refund. The disc had really severe ring scratches and even though it would load it was so scratched up that you could hardly get any of the events to load far enough to play. So I went to Gamestop, bought a used copy of the same game and then returned it with the scratched up disc while keeping the good one.

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to have it resurfaced?

[The 1 2 P]

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to have it resurfaced?

Less time consuming? Yes. Cheaper? No because I ultimately got my money back. Resurfacing is an option for the future but there are very few places around here that do this and the only one I know of personally has been closed for remodeling over the last month.

[Sunnyvale]

Had to double-check your previous post. I missed the 'Target refund' bit. Sorry bout that :-/

Yeah, we've only got one place here that does it too. $3-6 apiece. Great for Panzer Dragoon Saga, not so great for Gun.

[heybtbm]

I bought the Playstation Originals version of Cho Aniki on PSN.

In my defense...I've bought all the Japanese shooters they have on there. But, yeah.

[jcalder8]

I increase the difficulty of sports games until I start to lose then I lower it back one. If I do lose a game I reset the system.

[duffmanth]

The drunker I get, the better I get.

[Patney]

The drunker I get, the better I get.
This stays somewhat true for me too. I mean, if I get home from a party drunk as hale and I decide to play some video games, it's never long before I turn the system off because I'm unable to play the game due to my drunkenness. But if I drink three or four beers while playing Left 4 Dead, I kick ass.

[YoshiM]

I played Animal Crossing every day for a year, and liked it.

And you stopped?

Um......

:looks at DS that his copy of "Wild World" has lived in since he got it in 2006:

Ok the above is true: I rarely pull the game out for anything else. I used to play it solid from May 2006 until sometime in 2010. Now I visit to pull weeds to cure insomnia, which is not too often these days.

Though I do visit every Saturday, if I can, to listen to KK Slider.....

[Oobgarm]

I increase the difficulty of sports games until I start to lose then I lower it back one. If I do lose a game I reset the system.

You're not alone.

[Deadman]

Since I started this penis...umm I mean thread last week, I've actually come up with a few other dirty gaming secrets but this one stands out.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 games for the current gen systems (360, ps3, wii, psp, nds) that are still sealed. If I see a "deal" at a store for a new game, whether I actually want to play it or not, sometimes I'll just buy it and put it in the collection, thinking I'll eventually get to it. Well, let's just say I don't always get back to them. I know I'm not the only person here who has this situation so it's not so "dirty" in this crowd, but when I tell my non-hardcore gaming friends this, they flip! Of course most of them only have maybe 10-20 games in their collections total, and most of those are either Rock Band or Wii Sports-based titles.

[substantial_snake]

Since I started this penis...umm I mean thread last week, I've actually come up with a few other dirty gaming secrets but this one stands out.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 games for the current gen systems (360, ps3, wii, psp, nds) that are still sealed. If I see a "deal" at a store for a new game, whether I actually want to play it or not, sometimes I'll just buy it and put it in the collection, thinking I'll eventually get to it. Well, let's just say I don't always get back to them. I know I'm not the only person here who has this situation so it's not so "dirty" in this crowd, but when I tell my non-hardcore gaming friends this, they flip! Of course most of them only have maybe 10-20 games in their collections total, and most of those are either Rock Band or Wii Sports-based titles.

I know exactly what you mean.

Now that I'm older and can usually by whatever game whenever I want I've fallen into the trap of buying games that I don't really play. When I was younger unless something was horribly buggy I would usually play whatever game it was until I had gotten completely tired of it then picked up another. Now however a game can sit on my shelf for months unplayed and I know the younger version of myself would be in shock at this. lol

[Patney]

I know, as a kid you usually had one or two games you could play (at least for me since we sold the games we were finished with :() so you just kinda had to have fun with those games. Now I'm too spoiled with game choices that I sit a while thinking "what should I play now?", sometimes I give up and do something else entirely. And I haven't finished half of my games even! I play something, have fun with the game, but then I get a new game and start playing that instead and I forget about the old one. So when I try to go back to the previous game I say "screw it" because I can barely remember where I was, what had happened or where to go. Eventually I start all over again.

Seriously, these are the worst gaming sins.

[LaughingMAN.S9]

i sometimes talk to the in game characters out loud when im by myself



"HELP! please save me from the monsters!" - Princess

"yo...i dont even know you like that b" - Me

[SpaceHarrier]

Now I'm not a furry or anything, but if Amy Rose were real and Sonic kicked her to the curb and we had both been drinking maybe one too many..

nevermind.

[Malon_Forever]

My favorite system ever is the N64 and I've never completed Perfect Dark. And I don't like Secret of Mana.

[Shingetter]

And you stopped?

Um......

:looks at DS that his copy of "Wild World" has lived in since he got it in 2006:

Ok the above is true: I rarely pull the game out for anything else. I used to play it solid from May 2006 until sometime in 2010. Now I visit to pull weeds to cure insomnia, which is not too often these days.

Though I do visit every Saturday, if I can, to listen to KK Slider.....

Yeah well after the Game Cube, DS, and Wii versions you're talking like 3 years of Animal Crossing, that's enough for me. I still worry about weeds sometimes though.

[YoshiM]

Yeah well after the Game Cube, DS, and Wii versions you're talking like 3 years of Animal Crossing, that's enough for me. I still worry about weeds sometimes though.

Don't forget about the roaches that are now living in your homes, sitting on your Modern furniture, using the tissue you earned for having a million bells in the bank and sending nasty letters with the stationary you have stored in a drawer.

You SHOULD worry.....


I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 games for the current gen systems (360, ps3, wii, psp, nds) that are still sealed. If I see a "deal" at a store for a new game, whether I actually want to play it or not, sometimes I'll just buy it and put it in the collection, thinking I'll eventually get to it. Well, let's just say I don't always get back to them.

THIS is another for me, something I still struggle with when I see some killer deals. It used to be that way with older games-see a bunch on sale, buy them with intent of playing them and then they just sit. It moved on to modern games and was then bolstered by my brother-in-law who would sweep through and buy a stack at a crack because they were on the cheap.

I swore I wouldn't do that, even picked on him a bit as I knew he'd never play them (still doesn't as he primarily watches TV). Then suddenly I started to do it more when prices on new games started dropping soon after release. When I finally got around to playing them, I didn't like the games, so I sell them off at a slight loss a chalk it up as an "extended rental".

[Shingetter]

Don't forget about the roaches that are now living in your homes, sitting on your Modern furniture, using the tissue you earned for having a million bells in the bank and sending nasty letters with the stationary you have stored in a drawer.

You SHOULD worry.....



Crap! My Halloween furniture!!!!!

[PapaStu]

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 games for the current gen systems (360, ps3, wii, psp, nds) that are still sealed. If I see a "deal" at a store for a new game, whether I actually want to play it or not, sometimes I'll just buy it and put it in the collection, thinking I'll eventually get to it. Well, let's just say I don't always get back to them. I know I'm not the only person here who has this situation so it's not so "dirty" in this crowd, but when I tell my non-hardcore gaming friends this, they flip! Of course most of them only have maybe 10-20 games in their collections total, and most of those are either Rock Band or Wii Sports-based titles.


100... Snicker *snort* must not laugh at the low number of still sealed games sitting on shelf for current gen systems. I guess this could by my dirty secret, but I don't really hide the massive amount of sealed games all that well.

[Deadman]

100... Snicker *snort* must not laugh at the low number of still sealed games sitting on shelf for current gen systems. I guess this could by my dirty secret, but I don't really hide the massive amount of sealed games all that well.

Yeah, I figured that number might be pretty low around here. I do remember a time about 3 years ago that I would buy the games and open them, to try to jumpstart playtime and many of them still never got played. So I also have a bunch of open untouched games...oh well....looks like I need to go buy some more....

[Icarus Moonsight]

I lost my ass in the turnip trade. Started whacking rocks with a shovel, chain gang paid better. It's so realistic!

[Nirvana]

When I have conversations with people about classic video games, and someone mentions Sonic...I always agree that those games were awesome.

...I've never played a Sonic game in my life.

[Deadman]

When I have conversations with people about classic video games, and someone mentions Sonic...I always agree that those games were awesome.

...I've never played a Sonic game in my life.

Wow, that's a biggie! That's almost up there with someone never having played a Mario game. So, do you not own one or just don't really care about that genre? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Robocop2]

I still blow on my NES carts to make them work. Sometimes I do it to my other systems too.
I also sometimes freak out over the smallest dust on a game disc and start washing it to keep it clean.

[kupomogli]

I also sometimes freak out over the smallest dust on a game disc and start washing it to keep it clean.

I didn't think about this.

Nearly every disc based title that I've bought new still has no scratches. The only ones that have scratches were purchased used or handled by a friend, family member, etc. I've even bought a second copy of a game because the first copy has been scratched.

[Robocop2]

I didn't think about this.

Nearly every disc based title that I've bought new still has no scratches. The only ones that have scratches were purchased used or handled by a friend, family member, etc. I've even bought a second copy of a game because the first copy has been scratched.

Its funny I guess I shouldn't be so OCD but my whole life I've been insanely protective of my stuff and try to keep it looking as close to brand new as possible. Most of my game discs still look almost brand new years later at least ones I've owned since new; I hardly can bring myself to buy a used game if it isn't complete and looks to be close to the condition I'd keep it in. And I've been guilty of buying a second copy myself. I even did that one time with a strategy guide I had that got some coffee spilled on it.

[kupomogli]

It's good to know that I'm not the only one like that. I wonder if there are others here that are like that.

[Deadman]

And I've been guilty of buying a second copy myself. I even did that one time with a strategy guide I had that got some coffee spilled on it.

I'm the same way about my gaming magazines. When I get a Game Informer in the mail that's all beat up or torn, I get really ticked and immediately start looking for a replacement. I'll sometimes take it to Gamestop and switch it out with a nice new one from their checkout desk pile. And my nicer mags, like Retro Gamer or GamesTM, if one of my son's friends gets hold of it and wrinkles it or tears it, it just pisses me off... I really shouldn't be that way I guess, but it's MY STUFF!!

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

My Smurf Village is on level 18 (and growing).

[Robocop2]

It's good to know that I'm not the only one like that. I wonder if there are others here that are like that.

We should start a support group LOL

[Tempest]

My secret is that while I love playing RPGs, I don't have the time anymore to discover and solve all the puzzles on my own. So every time I get a new RPG I go to GameFAQs and download a walkthrough for it. I'm so ashamed *sob*.

Back in the day (and before the internet) I solved all the RPGs I bought on my own. Bards Tale I-III, Wizardry I-V, Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior I-IV, etc. Of course even if I still had the time I don't think I'd have the patience to do that anymore though.

I guess my other secret is that I didn't play Mario 64 until it was released on the Wii a few years ago. I hated it!

Tempest

[Nebagram]

I once destroyed a copy of Street Fighter Alpha 3 on the PS1 by hurling a controller... at the PS1... whilst the game was running.

[shopkins]

I really dislike Sonic the Hedgehog. Seriously, just can't stand him.

[pseudonym]

Since this thread is in modern gaming,

My brother and I used to troll the fuck out of the 12 year olds on Xbox Live. We got some kid so angry that he was screaming into his headset, "fuck me, fuck my family, i'm going to track you down, etc". We lost that match because we were rolling on the ground laughing after his tirade.

[Aussie2B]

Hmmm, let's see. Well, prior to 1999, when I bought a PlayStation, I was anti-anything not Nintendo and owned no systems created by any other company. It's not that I blindly worshiped everything put out by Nintendo, I just had a negative view of Sega and Sony. It probably didn't help that Sega made itself look like a jackass in its marketing campaigns. I preferred Nintendo's approach of simply ignoring the other companies and just showing what made their games/systems awesome, rather than constantly insulting the competition like Sega. But I suppose Sega wanted to seem like a more "mature" company, kind of a "bad boy", so that strategy worked well enough for them. I guess to a teenage boy, they'd seem cool, but as a young girl, it just found it off-putting. And wasn't there another one where they were insulting the Game Boy by dressing it up like a doll? Yeah, not a great way to win over female gamers.

[Emperor Megas]

I recently of went off on my ex's 6 year old son because I watched him throwing away the (mint) manual to his newly acquired copy of Burnout for the PS2. I get that he's a young kid and doesn't bother even trying to read them, but then why remove them from the case at all, let alone toss them into the trash?

I asked him "What the hell are you doing? Why are you throwing that away?!" when I saw what he was doing, and he nonchalantly said "I don't need it." and shrugged his shoulders. I immediately fished it out the trash and started to lecture him. He has a habit of removing the graphic inserts from the game cases and destroying them as well, along with most of the cases themselves, and then he leaves the discs laying around in stacks getting scratched to shit.

I probably shouldn't care, but it really peeves me when people are careless and wasteful like that, kids and adults alike. It makes it that much worse when it's something I'm close to, like video games. It's not because I'm older now either -- I was really young when I got my first game system (4 or 5), and I would have NEVER dreamed of tossing the manuals. I use to read them over and over again, and I loved looking at the artwork or the Atari 2600 mini-catalogs. I'm not one of those guys who tossed or discarded my toys and regret the hell out of it today because they're collectibles now. I lost a lot of my shit because my parents would give my stuff away to the Goodwill against my wishes...but that's a different thread altogether.

I suppose a part of it is that I don't want him (or any kid) to have those regrets -- and even if he doesn't care about his games/toys/media when he's older, he needs to learn to care for his belongings. His mother doesn't have much money (like, AT ALL), and the PS2 system and games he owns were all given to her from a friend. That only made things worse in my eyes. We were poor for a while growing up, and it was a huge deal to get toys and shit when I was a kid, so I always tries to take care of my stuff. He's in the same situation. I'll try to explain to him that you can get more games to play, in trade, if you take care of the ones you have. Hopefully that will take and I won't look like an huge ogre with OCD, scolding a 6 year old boy about the importance of keeping games complete, and in good condition. :|

[nebrazca78]

I once bought a copy of Kinect Sports from Goodwill as a Target refund. The disc had really severe ring scratches and even though it would load it was so scratched up that you could hardly get any of the events to load far enough to play. So I went to Gamestop, bought a used copy of the same game and then returned it with the scratched up disc while keeping the good one.

Gamestop is a total shithole, this post should have been in the thread "coolest things you've ever done."


I was really young when I got my first game system (4 or 5), and I would have NEVER dreamed of tossing the manuals.

My brother and I used to throw Atari, NES and SNES boxes away when we got new games because they were cardboard. I don't remember what we did with the manuals. If only we had known how valuable those boxes were... but really no one I knew at that age kept the boxes for anything but Sega games.

.

[AceAerosmith]

Penis.

[WesternNYCollector]

I thought Sega was an American company until around the time the Dreamcast came out. I didn't even know the Master System existed until 6 months ago, or that Sega had been producing consoles even before the NES came out in Japan. I must have just assumed they appeared out of thin air with the Genesis in 1989.

[Zing]

[QUOTE=nebrazca78;1849796
My brother and I used to throw Atari, NES and SNES boxes away when we got new games because they were cardboard. I don't remember what we did with the manuals. If only we had known how valuable those boxes were... but really no one I knew at that age kept the boxes for anything but Sega games.
[/QUOTE]

I threw away the boxes to 2600 games, but that's probably only because they weren't purchased with my own money. I was too young. I still kept every manual and catalog that came with them.

I kept all my NES/SNES/N64 boxes. I know any other kids who did, though.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Penis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eK9wcX6ysY [Warning: 'May' contain cartoon penis]

[SamuraiSmurfette]

I happen to really enjoy horse racing games.
A genre that a friend once referred to as "ass-watching simulators"

[retroman]

I enjoy The Little Mermaid for the NES

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

I collect crappy games. I have Powerpuff Girls Chemical X-Traction, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, Spawn the Eternal, Superman 64... that I got all because of their s*** value.

Penis.

[retroguy]

I use Game Genie codes on almost every game I play, if the game even has codes to use. I do try to get as far as I can without the Game Genie (and sometimes I skip it and use save states instead if I'm playing on the computer), but I usually need all the help I can get. The casual gamer's lament.