Worst Insults to Your Collection

[larsoncc]

I like to get bitter - it's kind of my hobby. So, I thought I'd share a little event with you, hoping that you all will share your pain.

When I was younger and in school, I was poor.

I was "hmm, I've got water and cheese - do I have a recipe for that?" poor. It sucked. I had my TV, stereo, and games.

During one especially poor week, someone offered my $250 for my entire game collection. This was when a new PS1 was going for $300, and I had one, plus many other systems. Naturally, I told him to STICK. IT.

Yeah, I'm poor - so, I'll give you the only thing that I have of value so that I can be destitute. *buzzz* No. Wrong answer.

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So, what's the worst insult to your collection? The day you added your N-Gage? The look your significant other gives you because you "still" play games? A flood that destroyed all your Mint in Box items?

[AB Positive]

... I'm getting an NGage today... for $40 tho...

-AG

[Oobgarm]

... I'm getting an NGage today... for $40 tho...

-AG

Taking advantage of the $200 deal, eh?

[AB Positive]

Nope! :D

I know someone that just REALLY regrets getting one.

-AG

[larsoncc]

Nope! :D

I know someone that just REALLY regrets getting one.

-AG

As stupid as this sounds, it's likely to be the best thing to have happened to your collection (even though I poked fun at the NGage). Since no one is buying the NGage, it's probably going to be pretty rare.

[digitalpress]

I look at insults in two different ways.

1) the goddamn games that don't look right with the others. Examples: Doom for 32X. Why is the 32X UPSIDE DOWN? Other examples include early CommaVid games (both the boxes and the carts), Xonox double-enders, Sega CD Revengers of Vengeance (hello, where's the spine label?), and most of the early homebrews like the boxes that deteriorate in your hands when you pick them up *cough*ebivision*cough.

2) then there's the kind you're referring to, which I've got a few of as well, I probably don't need to go into detail here - I bought a Panasonic 3DO on launch day. :o

[anagrama]

1) the goddamn games that don't look right with the others. Examples: Doom for 32X. Why is the 32X UPSIDE DOWN? Other examples include early CommaVid games (both the boxes and the carts), Xonox double-enders, Sega CD Revengers of Vengeance (hello, where's the spine label?), and most of the early homebrews like the boxes that deteriorate in your hands when you pick them up *cough*ebivision*cough.


Yeah, it's kinda petty, but that bugs me too. The Micro Machines/Psycho Pinball MD 2-in-1 is another upside down spine.

[Ed Oscuro]

I look at insults in two different ways.

1) the goddamn games that don't look right with the others. Examples: Doom for 32X. Why is the 32X UPSIDE DOWN?

See, it's like the upside-down cross in E2M1. Don't stand under that upside-down 32x, bad things will happen. I knew DOOM was a satanic game, this just clinches it!

Yeah, games that don't fit on the shelf annoy me somewhat too. Some of my Super Famicom games just don't want to have the SF logo running the same way on the side.

[Flack]

My biggest insults usually come from friends or family, when they refer to my "treasure pile" as "all that old crap".

Sometimes when I go into a thrift store I feel like it's my duty to "rescue" old pieces of hardware from their fate. A couple of months ago I bought an old Mac Plus because, well, it was .49 cents. It works, too! There's nothing like finding that one piece of treasure, walking out to the car with it, and having my wife ask, "so, what old crap did you find today?"

One time a friend of mine had an old Intellivision. When I told him I'd buy it if he didn't want it anymore, he said, "why would anybody want that old shit ... er, except you, of course." Thanks, pal!

[maxlords]

I've had people make offers to me like $20 for my Saturn Dragon Force before. Basically EVERY single time I've been insulted like that...it was an offer from a gametz user. I had one guy.....I asked him for Terranigma. He had it on his tradelist....PAL version...worth MAYBE $60-75 complete. He emails me back and says he'd be happy to trade it...

...for a FACTORY SEALED Lunar for Sega CD...AND a factory sealed Lunar: Eternal Blue for Sega CD!!!! Hmmmm....yes, please, have my bank account numbers and free access while you're at it too!

I've never had anyone offer me silly low money to buy ne out...but then, I don't let those sort of people know what my collection is like either :D

[larsoncc]

My biggest insults usually come from friends or family, when they refer to my "treasure pile" as "all that old crap".

Sometimes when I go into a thrift store I feel like it's my duty to "rescue" old pieces of hardware from their fate. A couple of months ago I bought an old Mac Plus because, well, it was .49 cents. It works, too! There's nothing like finding that one piece of treasure, walking out to the car with it, and having my wife ask, "so, what old crap did you find today?"

One time a friend of mine had an old Intellivision. When I told him I'd buy it if he didn't want it anymore, he said, "why would anybody want that old shit ... er, except you, of course." Thanks, pal!

It's like you've stolen my life.

Just recently, I came home with 2 Intellivisions, BOXED, with over 20 games, BOXED, for $10. I was ecstatic.

The wife said "that's cool!" - cause she knows the Intellivision. She didn't think it was a deal though. I had to sit her down to eBay to really make her hair stand on end.

[chadtower]

I think I'm getting a slightly different reaction than you guys. My wife pretty much looks away from, but not down upon, my collection because she knows it makes me happy. My relatives either have no idea about it, think it's cool, or just write if off as "another one of chad's things". I think they've come to expect such things out of me. My inlaws often refer to my basement as "Frankenstein's lab" because it's always full of (to them) intimidating looking open machinery in various states of assembly and cables running from one to the other doing various things. Pretty much every hackable appliance in my house is hacked to do stuff other than the designers included so people are used to seeing things in my house that aren't what they would consider normal.

[MarioAllStar2600]

At my school they were writing an article on someones hobby. Mine was picked, classic gaming, and the teacher said to many people do it and its to boring!!!

[Half Japanese]

I'm going to take a different angle here, the worst insults to my collection:

-Space Channel 5 (DC) - one of the worst games I've ever played. Even for the 2.50 I paid for it new, I still think that would have been best put towards a combo meal at a fast food joint.

-Tobal No. 1 (PS) - One of the most overblown and piece of shit fighting games I've ever seen. Even Akira Toriyama's art is terrible in this one. Just a terrible, terrible game that gets tons of undeserved praise. $3 I paid for this one.

I should have left those two when I found them, and got a burger and fries instead or something.

[Achika]

-Space Channel 5 (DC) - one of the worst games I've ever played. Even for the 2.50 I paid for it new, I still think that would have been best put towards a combo meal at a fast food joint.



:angry: :grrr: :grumble: BLASPHEMER!


Anyhow, my dad used to say I had a bunch of "crap" in my room. But for the past year or so he's seen how passionate I am about it and has started to willingly pick up games if he sees them while he's out.

My mom has always been proud that there is something I am so into and knowledgable about. If there's "trustful" people around, she'll show them my room and let them gape in awe of it. I'm very peculier about who I want in my room and who I don't want to know that any of that stuff exists.

All of my friends jokingly call tell me I'm "such a dork" but they always bring me things and call if they are out and see something I might want.

My bf isn't into games too much (very casual gamer) he hassles me a little, but it's all in good fun and usually takes me to the arcade or to game stores. His little brother looks up on me and did a report on my room as "a place he wants to visit one day."

In all, most people "outside" I don't let them know about my collection unless I feel we are "on the same page" or something, so I've never really had the chance to be insulted by someone saying "you're such a loser" or something.

[badinsults]

Captain Novolin, most of my friends make fun of that game.

[Bratwurst]

Achika's post brings to mind something I felt similar about- who openly displays their stuff and shows it off and who is more selective about who they show it to? I'm of the latter, though I can afford to be secretive without being a shut in. I've only got about 130 pieces and it takes up a 4 foot square area in my personal bedroom.

I have had things stolen from me before, minor items but enough to the point that I don't want too many people aware of what I own and have incentive to break in while I'm away someday. I also don't want everyone grabbing every friggin thing and ruining their condition. x_x Some close friends have caught glimpses before, and to return to topic, their ribbings were along the lines of 'Dude, don't you have enough NES carts or what?'

Strangely I take those more as compliments than insults.

[larsoncc]

At my school they were writing an article on someones hobby. Mine was picked, classic gaming, and the teacher said to many people do it and its to boring!!!

Oh, BURN.

We're cliche'?

Ow. :eek 2:

[RetroYoungen]

At my school they were writing an article on someones hobby. Mine was picked, classic gaming, and the teacher said to many people do it and its to boring!!!

Oh, BURN.

We're cliche'?

Ow. :eek 2:

LOL I think it's because shops like Hot Topic are selling t-shirts with Duck Hunt box art on them and wantnot, so those people think they're a collector when they're just a punk with art on their shirt. Those people are insults to me just for THAT. I'm getting so sick of them.

One funny yet insulting story I've got is that a friend of mine was wearing one of those t-s I just talked about (how I'm loathing them...) and he thought it was a Space Invaders T when it was really an Atari Football T, and then he argued, TO ME WHO KNOWS, that it's Space Invaders, and then he tells me that the rack he bought it off of said it was SI. I had to school him and slap him around a bit.

But as far as games go, Street Fighter 2010 is an insult. I didn't get past the first screen, I was both disgusted and annoyed to the point that I nearly destroyed it as soon as I pulled it out of my NES. My poor toaster didn't need to be besmirched that way...

[Achika]

Achika's post brings to mind something I felt similar about- who openly displays their stuff and shows it off and who is more selective about who they show it to? I'm of the latter, though I can afford to be secretive without being a shut in. I've only got about 130 pieces and it takes up a 4 foot square area in my personal bedroom.

Well, there's a reason for that too. See, this rather "bad" sector of my family is lying, manipulative, and theives. So if I'm not around, they know to lock my room if this set of family members comes over. What has happened before is they wanted to borrow a game. I said ok, but being Harvest Moon 64 and having a complete copy, I said she could not borrow the instructions. God forbid the game get lost, I could atleast ask her to replace that, the instructions on the other hand would take a great deal of work more to replace. So I told her "no instructions" I called to my parents house, told them exactly where the game was and to get it, bring it upstairs, so there was no reason for the family members to be in my room unsupervised (they lived with us for a period of time and took many things from us. We would have given if they asked, but they didn't) So anyhow it's upstairs. When they come over they LIED to my parents and said, "Oh, Adrienne called us back and said we could take the instructions." So my dad ("agent") gave them the eye, but they took it anyhow. My parents called me at work after they left and told me what happened. I waited half and hour from when they called to call to this family members house, speaking in a firm tone that I don't appreciate them lying to my parents and taking something when I told them NOT to. Also, that I was stopping by after work to get the instructions. :angry:

[Sotenga]

I don't like telling anyone at my school that I'm a video game addict on the grounds that they would think I'm pathetic, and so are video games. I've never gotten that comment yet, so I'm remaining low key with it. Teenagers are cruel, I know. :(

[Bratwurst]

My hoarding nature too was encouraged by negative family experiences. A cousin of mine asked to borrow a genesis game and he was living next door with my grandmother at the time. No big deal I figured. A week later I ask for it back (Because Sonic the Hedgehog was all the rage back then) and he had the gall to loan it to someone at his school in exchange for Dinosaurs for Hire.

Worse yet he lied to my matriarchal granny about asking my permission to do so, and she wouldn't even let me play the game he got in return. This was a time when I had started earning my things with my own money.

[ManekiNeko]

I was involved in a bad trade with someone else, which resulted in my losing a ton of Japanese Saturn games. What did I get out of it? Screwed. Yep, that was a pretty bad deal all around.
I'd almost throw in the time when I traded two games, including Arkanoid and its dial controller, for a copy of Metroid, but that was well over a decade ago. This was just after I hit puberty and just before the debut of Digital Press, so I never really thought about games as collector's items.
Besides, I have to say that I got my money's worth out of Metroid... I played that damned game for dozens of hours.

JR

[portnoyd]

Insults to my collection... I'm not too crazy about the fact that for a lot of cart systems some manufacturer's feel they don't need top labels on their carts (say color dreams). Unless you have games alphabetized, you can't just glance at the game and know what it is. A minor peeve, easily correctly by storing in their own boxes. But a peeve. Instead of having a wall of game labels, you have spots of unknown titlage.

My room is my collection. I still sadlfully, woefully, painfully, live at home, so I like to keep everything concentrated. I don't like showing off the stuff, but I don't mind it. Most of the time my friends advertise it and tell others about it without me knowing. :0 They're kinda amused/amazed by it. *shrug*

dave

[DDCecil]

Sega CD Revengers of Vengeance (hello, where's the spine label?)

Heh, my spine has the title on it, you probably got some wacky variation.

Anyways, the worst insult to my collection is having a Madden game in it (In the collecting sense). Once you own one, good luck getting rid of it a few years down the road...

[cheesystick]

Well, I'm still in high school. I'm captian of the wrestling team, I'm a seinor, I'm in a drummer in a local band, and I love to party. Naturally, I enjoy the lasies as well. All this, and I have over 500 video games in my room. I have brought many people into my pad, and as soon as they see the shelves uponb shelbes stuffed with video games, they raise a huge eyebrow. Also, all the chicks I bring home automatically think I am much nerdier than originally percepted. I'm am not shameful though. I'm damn proud.
-crispy

[Balloon Fight]

I don't like telling anyone at my school that I'm a video game addict on the grounds that they would think I'm pathetic, and so are video games. I've never gotten that comment yet, so I'm remaining low key with it. Teenagers are cruel, I know. :(

Same here. Only a handful of people that i know peronally know about my little hobby.

[ROBOTRON]

I have Street Fighter the movie for Saturn.

Terrible game indeed...but it worth a few bucks. -_-

[Griking]

[quote="larsoncc"]When I was younger and in school, I was poor.

I was "hmm, I've got water and cheese - do I have a recipe for that?" poor. It sucked. I had my TV, stereo, and games.

During one especially poor week, someone offered my $250 for my entire game collection. This was when a new PS1 was going for $300, and I had one, plus many other systems. Naturally, I told him to STICK. IT. [quote]


No offense, but where I'm from truely "poor" people don't have Playstations and "many other systems". They're too bust trying to figure out how they're going to pay for rent and food.

[Sally J. Lipstan]

My so called friend gave me this horrid little cocktail dress number. It is not only an insult to the other dresses I own, it is an insult to everyone who came before me.

[Darth Sensei]

My so called friend gave me this horrid little cocktail dress number. It is not only an insult to the other dresses I own, it is an insult to everyone who came before me.

Attention folks, apparently we have a brand spanking new idiot on the board.

D

[hu6800]

Ok
this one time Sears did a misprint add in the local papers..

This was when the playstation first came out..
games averaged about $40 a piece..


I bought $3000 worth of games @ $15 a piece !

my girlfriend looked at me like i was crazy..
but i got the last laugh.

I sold alot of those new games for $30 a piece and actually made more than i spent.

People are too quick to judge.

[Cmosfm]

Anyways, the worst insult to my collection is having a Madden game in it (In the collecting sense). Once you own one, good luck getting rid of it a few years down the road...

I must add a little criticism to this, most collectors don't even think about getting rid of there games "a few years down the road". And even though Madden games are really worthless, they still add to the collection.

Anyways, my worst insult is my foam eyepiece-less Virtual Boy. I love the VB, but without that eyepiece I feel like its taking up space. I need an eyepiece!!!! :(

[VACRMH]

Sega CD Revengers of Vengeance (hello, where's the spine label?)

Mine has a spine as well (someone posted that they had one with a spine as well). Joe, may I PM you and ask a few questions about your copy? As long as the game and system is within reach.

The biggest insult to my collection that I can think of is my sealed copy of Kakuto Chojin... because I paid for it. :embarrassed:

[gamergary]

Deadly Towers for NES is the only insult to my collection.

[charitycasegreg]

My friend gave me 50 ps2 cases without games, jsut instructions because he doesn't care for them. They sit on my shelf and it makes me sad knowing only 2 of them have games in it.

Also my little collections of games. I only have about 200. I jsut started collecting though so whatever.

Most of my friends know I collect old games. Most think its cool and they help me get stuff. Some of my friends were going to give me thieir old systems and games but a few backed out because they hooked them up and now say that the oldschool games are awesome...

bastards.

[djbeatmongrel]

I'm going to take a different angle here, the worst insults to my collection:

-Space Channel 5 (DC) - one of the worst games I've ever played. Even for the 2.50 I paid for it new, I still think that would have been best put towards a combo meal at a fast food joint.

-Tobal No. 1 (PS) - One of the most overblown and piece of shit fighting games I've ever seen. Even Akira Toriyama's art is terrible in this one. Just a terrible, terrible game that gets tons of undeserved praise. $3 I paid for this one.

I should have left those two when I found them, and got a burger and fries instead or something.

damn, those are some of my favorite games to *sniffle*. what really hurts is i bought the ps2 double release of space channel 5. i'll enjoy em' any way :P

i think the biggest insult to my collection is just people not putting my games back in alphabetical order :angry:

when it comes to items themselves it has to be owning Dragon: Bruce Lee Story for genesis. i really hoped it would be awesome but it just sucks! will Mr. Lee ever get a good title?

[ApolloBoy]

Two non-working Atari joypads and two non-working Atari Pro-Line sticks. :angry:

[v.g.lover]

I'm still in highschool, and since all the girls there are bitches, i care not what they or anyone else thinks. Comming out to students about classic gaming has helped me sell my extra NES' when I get them (I have like 3 people who want one right now). It also gets me a lot of free stuff, and cheap stuff, cause people want money (for their own reasons, i ask no questions) I got some realy good / rare game this year for free or $5 each. Its awesome. I still find more people each week who think its cool, and they admire the belt buckle i made from an NES controller (i thought it would be mocked, but now people want one of those too). So I have to say despite snide remarks now and then from jerks / my mom who thinks games are a "phase", I get no guff.

[Elviticus]

Today, my mother gave me the finger on BOTH HANDS when I discussed playing 2600 games/ how I was trying to learn assembly language!!

Where's the love?

[pango]

well, my worst addition to my collection was kingdom hearts

[Jasoco]

I would say both the upside down "32X" on my DOOM 32X box and the upside down wording on my Genesis "NBA Hang Time" cartridge. WTF?

Also, any game that I have that puts the company name as the top label instead of the game title. "Jaleco" instead of "Bases Loaded" for NES and "Jeopardy" for Genesis that has nothing on the top. How are you supposed to tell what it is?

Next, all my N64 games. Most are cart only, which is bad because there are no top labels, so years ago I decided to use permanent marker to write the titles on most of them. How was I to know I would one day collect games?

Then there's my Jaguar games. I have one in box and two not in box. The two not in box are awkward for a few reasons. One being the dumb strange shape. And the other being no labels for them. Not that it's hard to tell what is what. I only have two. Cannon Fodder and Tempest 2K. Not too much searching there.

Then the 6 Master System games I have stacked out of box with no labels on the top. I'd REALLY like to get boxes for those.

I also have a few Disc based games for PSX, Saturn and Sega CD that have no inserts so from the side I can't tell what they are. Well, I can now because I made some for most of them.

I guess lastly aside from all my Game Boy games (All 6 of them) not having end labels, it would have to be my 2600 "Collection".
First of all, the system is missing both the power cord, and because I opened it up and disconnected it for some reason, the RF wire. Next it's because all the games are falling apart and most don't even work. *sigh* That should really be my first peeve, shouldn't it?

[larsoncc]

[quote="larsoncc"]When I was younger and in school, I was poor.

I was "hmm, I've got water and cheese - do I have a recipe for that?" poor. It sucked. I had my TV, stereo, and games.

During one especially poor week, someone offered my $250 for my entire game collection. This was when a new PS1 was going for $300, and I had one, plus many other systems. Naturally, I told him to STICK. IT. [quote]


No offense, but where I'm from truely "poor" people don't have Playstations and "many other systems". They're too bust trying to figure out how they're going to pay for rent and food.

Oh, none taken.

There's a difference between 'operationally poor' and 'truly poor', to be certain. You can still use the word poor, however, if you are describing a lack of money - it's not disrespectful, as there are varying degrees of poverty.

The US government defines "poor" in terms of annual income - and by that definition, I was certainly poor, for a period of several years. My brother will tell you I was poor - without his hospitality, I would have gone homeless for a period of 4 months. Poor, by many folks' standards, is not something that has to be permanent, but is always BAD.

If you find yourself in a poverty situation (be it temporary OR permanent), it is not wise to surrender what little assets you have for less than a fair market value. Had I received a DECENT offer for my collection, I would have taken it.

It was the "pretty blatent attempt to take advantage of me" part that I was complaining about, not my lack of money.

[WiseSalesman]

well, my worst addition to my collection was kingdom hearts

you are crazy

[ianoid]

I've got some annoying systems (game.com) and stuff, but by far, the most insulting thing to my collection:

BLISTER PACK

I hate blister pack. It doesn't stack. It looks stupid on a shelf. And it's PAINFUL to open. And one you open it, you HAVE to throw it away, or risk looking even stupider.

The corrolary to this is:
R-zone (even the big tabletop R-zone was sold in blister)
Supervision

Two bastions of blister. Die BLISTER PACK. Die in a cardboard fire.

-ian
Captain, Cardboard industries of america

[chadtower]

No offense, but where I'm from truely "poor" people don't have Playstations and "many other systems". They're too bust trying to figure out how they're going to pay for rent and food.

That statement struck me as poorly worded, too. I know the speaker, though, and he's a good guy with his head on straight, so I'm sure he just didn't phrase it well enough to articulate what he really meant. I know when I was a kid what he described would have been several steps above me on the income ladder too.

[Jasoco]

I've got some annoying systems (game.com) and stuff, but by far, the most insulting thing to my collection:

BLISTER PACK

I hate blister pack. It doesn't stack. It looks stupid on a shelf. And it's PAINFUL to open. And one you open it, you HAVE to throw it away, or risk looking even stupider.Hear, hear!

God, I hate Blister Pack. The bane of a collectors existence. I'd like to have put the box to my Game Boy Player on my shelf... but I can't. It's blister pack. And the stuff's so hard to open.. WHO came up with this idea?

[Ed Oscuro]

God, I hate Blister Pack. The bane of a collectors existence. I'd like to have put the box to my Game Boy Player on my shelf... but I can't. It's blister pack. And the stuff's so hard to open.. WHO came up with this idea?

Blister packs are terrible, especially when they're built quite like the GameBoy Player's. I think the reason they went with that design was that it was cheap, didn't take up a lot of room, but still looked a bit impressive when bundled with your GameCube for the people who bought it together with a GameCube (as I did, taking advantage of that special offer). It is a horrible design, though, and the fact that many headsets and other types of electronic equipment come in such packages is a real pain. The main reason for the blister package in those instances, of course, is that youhave a better chance of getting people to notice your item, even before they start looking at features.

[Jasoco]

The main reason for the blister package in those instances, of course, is that youhave a better chance of getting people to notice your item, even before they start looking at features.I disagree. A box can be prettied up a lit nicer than a blister pack can. I say it just comes down to cost cutting. Bah.. cost, shmost.. I want a pretty package!

[SegaAges]

My worst insult is the fact that I am way too paranoid. Seriously, only at the most 2 of my close friends have stepped into my room and seen all my games. It is all a myth (or legend) after that. I don't even have pictures of my room in thinking that if people around me saw them, they would be able to steal from me better. Oh yeah, and spending my money on the R-Zone. It sucks pretty bad. Granted, now that I have a collection going, I don't plan on selling, but it really was a waste of money.

[Flack]

I think I picked up a new insulter last week. In the grab bag of 2600 games I bought a couple of weekends ago, there was a cart with no top label and no front label. Just a cart with gummo sticky crap where there used to be a label. So I finally test it, and it's Combat. How much is a Combat with no label worth? It looks hideous just sitting there, too. I didn't want to put it in the stack with everything else so I put it on the shelf and now it looks like I'm displaying it. And yet I can't throw it away ...

[NintendoMan]

The same insult that I usually get is why I have so much old crap? What is the point of having it all, espcially the stuff you never use?
I get that from my brother, dad, and a few friends. Most of them don't mean it, but a few do. I could really give a shit though, I LOVE collecting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[NintendoMan]

I forgot to say that the only actually insult (Game, system, etc.) to my collection would just have to be a couple of NES games that I really wish I didn't buy. I only buy things I KNOW I will like or even love, so everything I own I like.

[Jaker]

Achika's post brings to mind something I felt similar about- who openly displays their stuff and shows it off and who is more selective about who they show it to? I'm of the latter, though I can afford to be secretive without being a shut in. I've only got about 130 pieces and it takes up a 4 foot square area in my personal bedroom.

Well, there's a reason for that too. See, this rather "bad" sector of my family is lying, manipulative, and theives. So if I'm not around, they know to lock my room if this set of family members comes over. What has happened before is they wanted to borrow a game. I said ok, but being Harvest Moon 64 and having a complete copy, I said she could not borrow the instructions. God forbid the game get lost, I could atleast ask her to replace that, the instructions on the other hand would take a great deal of work more to replace. So I told her "no instructions" I called to my parents house, told them exactly where the game was and to get it, bring it upstairs, so there was no reason for the family members to be in my room unsupervised (they lived with us for a period of time and took many things from us. We would have given if they asked, but they didn't) So anyhow it's upstairs. When they come over they LIED to my parents and said, "Oh, Adrienne called us back and said we could take the instructions." So my dad ("agent") gave them the eye, but they took it anyhow. My parents called me at work after they left and told me what happened. I waited half and hour from when they called to call to this family members house, speaking in a firm tone that I don't appreciate them lying to my parents and taking something when I told them NOT to. Also, that I was stopping by after work to get the instructions. :angry:

That must REALLY suck. I hate it when people lie and get away with it. :angry:

[Arcturius]

Visual insults for printing on spines:-
-NFL Blitz 2000 (DC PAL) for having the name missing on the PAL version
-F1 Racing Championship (DC PAL) for having the title the opposite way round from every other game.

Insults from just being plain bad:-
-WWF Attitude (DC PAL) Sucks so much 2 copies side by side have been known to form a black hole...
-ECW Hardcore Revolution (DC PAL) Please stop making these Acclaim...
-ECW Anarchy Rulz (DC PAL) No really please stop....
-E.O.S. Exhibition of Speed (DC PAL) Awful just plain bad cheap looking poor sound bad gameplay
-Roadsters (DC PAL) The Follow up to the above maybe? Same company just as poor.

Insult to the Ear:-
-Blue Stinger (DC PAL) Did anyone ever tell them about timing the voices???

[DigitalSpace]

Simpsons Wrestling, PS1. What a waste of money, even for a hardcore Simpsons fan like me. I still haven't beat Smithers. And I don't care.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for SNES is pretty bad too. But I got it for free, so at least I didn't waste any money on it.

Someone once asked me why I bother to buy SNES games when I could just download them on an emulator. I told him that I've had my Super Nintendo since 1992 and even if I didn't, I'd still prefer to play the games on an actual SNES because it's just so much better to play the games on the real thing.

But other than that, I haven't had anyone around me completely mystified as to why I collect SNES. My friends think of it as a hobby of mine, which is what I want people to think of it as, so it's all good.

[youruglyclone]

Simpsons Wrestling, PS1. What a waste of money, even for a hardcore Simpsons fan like me. I still haven't beat Smithers. And I don't care.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for SNES is pretty bad too. But I got it for free, so at least I didn't waste any money on it.

Someone once asked me why I bother to buy SNES games when I could just download them on an emulator. I told him that I've had my Super Nintendo since 1992 and even if I didn't, I'd still prefer to play the games on an actual SNES because it's just so much better to play the games on the real thing.

But other than that, I haven't had anyone around me completely mystified as to why I collect SNES. My friends think of it as a hobby of mine, which is what I want people to think of it as, so it's all good.

more power to you for not playing simpsons wrestling...for a wrestling game it's pretty much devoid of....well wrestling and if you thought smithers is a bitch pray you never reach ned flanders

and yeah I too get the why don't you download the roms thing...i just shrug it off

[rbudrick]

But as far as games go, Street Fighter 2010 is an insult. I didn't get past the first screen, I was both disgusted and annoyed to the point that I nearly destroyed it as soon as I pulled it out of my NES. My poor toaster didn't need to be besmirched that way...


I know a lot of people brush this game off at the first level...I almost did. But people, PLEASE play this game for a few levels. You will see it is a challenging game that had some great game depth and is a lot of FUN! DOn't let the first couple of levels fool you. It's no Ninja Gaiden, but it actually makes use of the cinema scenes so popular at the time, a relatively interesting, sorta twisted story, great graphics, cool and varied attacks, and hey, it's made by Capcom. I played this game for an hour and I was hooked! I spent the next day and a half trying to beat it.....this is a great game, don't pass it up. It's really not nearly as hard or boring as the first level lets on! Far, far from it.

And now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

-Rob

[DigitalSpace]

Simpsons Wrestling, PS1. What a waste of money, even for a hardcore Simpsons fan like me. I still haven't beat Smithers. And I don't care.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story for SNES is pretty bad too. But I got it for free, so at least I didn't waste any money on it.

Someone once asked me why I bother to buy SNES games when I could just download them on an emulator. I told him that I've had my Super Nintendo since 1992 and even if I didn't, I'd still prefer to play the games on an actual SNES because it's just so much better to play the games on the real thing.

But other than that, I haven't had anyone around me completely mystified as to why I collect SNES. My friends think of it as a hobby of mine, which is what I want people to think of it as, so it's all good.

more power to you for not playing simpsons wrestling...for a wrestling game it's pretty much devoid of....well wrestling and if you thought smithers is a bitch pray you never reach ned flanders

and yeah I too get the why don't you download the roms thing...i just shrug it off

Maybe someday I'll play through Simpsons Wrestling and see if I can get to Flanders. Maybe once I get through my other PS1 stuff, as well as all these SNES, PS2 and GC titles I haven't beaten yet... :P

If I had to pick one good quality about that waste of plastic, it's that it's fun pointing out references from the show when you first play it... but it wears off fast.

I can't even get rid of the damn thing. One friend said he'd buy it for $5, and then he changed his mind. But whatever, I'm going to keep it, since my PS1 collection is pretty small. Every title, crappy or not, helps.

[Gapporin]

Someone once asked me why I bother to buy SNES games when I could just download them on an emulator. I told him that I've had my Super Nintendo since 1992 and even if I didn't, I'd still prefer to play the games on an actual SNES because it's just so much better to play the games on the real thing.

Exactly. That's usually what I say when I'm presented with that question.

But on the topic of insults, the worst one would have to be the fact that I bought three systems used and not one of them worked correctly when I brought them home. :angry:

Here's hoping four's a charm...

[Nez]

Worst insult wold have to go to my original case for my dreamcst. The outside is stained yellow and was a bit crusty. So I got a replacement for it, a see through clear blue case. When I opened up my dreamcast I was sickened. There was a dorito chip and mold growing on the bottom of the case. So nasty, I still have it though, its where I keep my gaming recipts of course theres no chip but mold thats another story.

[Kamino]

Achika's post brings to mind something I felt similar about- who openly displays their stuff and shows it off and who is more selective about who they show it to? I'm of the latter, though I can afford to be secretive without being a shut in. I've only got about 130 pieces and it takes up a 4 foot square area in my personal bedroom.

I have had things stolen from me before, minor items but enough to the point that I don't want too many people aware of what I own and have incentive to break in while I'm away someday. I also don't want everyone grabbing every friggin thing and ruining their condition. x_x Some close friends have caught glimpses before, and to return to topic, their ribbings were along the lines of 'Dude, don't you have enough NES carts or what?'

Strangely I take those more as compliments than insults.

everyone knows i'm a gamer. EVERYONE. i never leave the house without my GBA SP; i wear a vice city baseball cap all summer, and a vice city hoodie and gta3 hat all winter. my car is full of bags from EB, and my virtual boy has been both to work for my breaktime and at school. i passed around a "top ten reasons why video games are better than sex" list that i wrote, and everyone laughed even though they knew i was not kidding.
I don't let anyone in my room EVER though. I do not trust anyone in this room. Not my best friend, not my parents, and if i did so venture into the world enough to share a relationship with a girlfriend, i doubt i'd let them in either. no one enters the fortress of solitude, the temple of insanity. Although, in another 3 weeks after i add INTV, Coleco, and an atari 2600 six switch(currently only have a four) i'll be taking pics and putting them on my site.

[-hellvin-]

Halo for the xbox.

[DigitalSpace]

I don't let anyone in my room EVER though. I do not trust anyone in this room. Not my best friend, not my parents, and if i did so venture into the world enough to share a relationship with a girlfriend, i doubt i'd let them in either. no one enters the fortress of solitude, the temple of insanity. Although, in another 3 weeks after i add INTV, Coleco, and an atari 2600 six switch(currently only have a four) i'll be taking pics and putting them on my site.

I wish people would stay out of my room too. I need to get a lock. Half of the time I tell my 14 year old brother to stay out of my room while Im gone and when I get home later I can tell he's been in there. My more trustworthy 16 year old brother pops in here to borrow CDs, movies and N64 games (he has an N64 and an Xbox), but at least he leaves a note when he does.

One time the 14 year old brother asked if he could play Final Fantasy VIII (he has a PSX in his room). I noticed he had a coat on and I could hear his friend in the living room. I asked him if he was going to a friend's house. He said yes, and I told him he couldn't take it. He goes to his friend in the living room and tells him "He said you couldn't borrow it." :angry:

My friends are welcome in here though. Hell, when I'm no longer single, my girlfriend will be welcome in here. If she isn't already a gamer, I'm going to make her one. :devilish:

[michael_lynx]

My worst insult ever is when I tell myself I'm never going to get into my college (full sail) www.fullsail.com, because I end up not studying. How I end up not studying is when I come home. As soon as I come home I either get on my computer to make web pages or try and design some software, because I LOVE TO PROGRAM AND DESIGN WEB PAGES. My sister used to call me a zombie :eek 2: .

Also I notice how much shit I have in my room. Did I surprise you @_@ ? In my room, my clothes are everywhere. Dirty on top of clean. I really just dont care.

[Jasoco]

i'll be taking pics and putting them on my site.I'd love to look around your site, but there are no links in the left side navigation bar. Probably because I do not have Java (Not JavaScript. I have that on.) turned on. And nor do I plan on turning it on. Most good webmasters provide two versions of their Navigation links. One in plain URL text for the people who don't want Java slowing down their browser's load times.

Just wanted to let you know.

[Sibs]

The worse insult to my collection was when I sold of ALL of my NES stuff(including console,accesories, and games) just so that I could buy Super Mario RPG for the SNES right after it came out. Back then it didn't really affect me, but everytime I remember, I kick myself for it. Not so much anymore cuz I have almost completely gotten all of the games back.

[Famidrive-16]

No one has ever insulted my collection. A lot of people love it, hell my friends oooh and aah at my Bible adventures cart for christ's sake!

but i do feel awkward about owning the NES rocky and bullwinkle game, since I hate it so much AND it doesn't function with the controls anymore (even with good cleaning)

[optic_85]

Halo for the xbox.

O_O You a CRAZY mofo!


.....Back on topic, most people that know me are aware that i like games, comics, and other geekish activities. But not since i was in like Jr.High has anybody ever given me shit for it. Im very open, and i like to have people in my room to show them my stuff, and even if they dont like video games they usually think it's pretty cool anyway....And it surprises me that you guys say that you've had things stollen from your collection before, or you worry that you will. If someonen ever ganked something from my collection then i'd grab the ol' ski mask & bat, and head over to their house :D

[fcfcfc]

The Famicom game A Week of Garfield. Boy oh boy.... Garfield looks wierd

[klausien]

Floating Runner for the Playstation. This one may just be the worst game I own. It has an interesting flat shaded look, but the gameplay is totally awful.

The worst games in general though are any CD Rom software that lacks box/jewel/instructions in any configuration.

[Bratwurst]

But as far as games go, Street Fighter 2010 is an insult. ....

I know a lot of people brush this game off at the first level...I almost did. But people, PLEASE play this game for a few levels. ....

It kind of surprised me to find Street Fighter 2010 universally hated when I first started frequenting discussion groups. I've had it since it was relatively new and played it enough to finally beat the thing years ago, good game, I say. I can understand how the first few levels might leave the wrong impression though, and maybe people were expecting a one on one fighter like its original namesake. It's also one of those games where you have to keep your powerups or it's an uphill battle, but I guess people have no patience for practicing these days. :P

[jetsetradio4ever]

OK, one time I was at getright games. I was kinda young. Anyway, I had recently bought A Bugs Life. I had already beaten it, and I needed money for other games. So, I go up to the the counter.

I say "How much can you gie me for this?"

He looks at it a while, then says "3 bucks."

So, I say "Nah, that's OK, I don't wanna sell it anymore."

Then, he takes it in the back and slaps three dollars on the counter!!!!! Now, I take the money, walk away, and I'm thinking 'WHAT THE CRAP?!?!?!?'

That's my experience.

[Jasoco]

Then, he takes it in the back and slaps three dollars on the counter!!!!! Now, I take the money, walk away, and I'm thinking 'WHAT THE CRAP?!?!?!?'

That's my experience.Why didn't you kick his ass?

[suckerpunch5]

The worst insult my collection has ever recieved (so far) is when I bought an N-gage. I went to my favorite local game store, looking for some used games for it.

Me: I'm looking for some N-Gage games. I just got an N-Gage.

Clerk: I'm sorry. (starts laughing)

Me: Actually, its pretty cool

Clerk: (pauses, looks for a second, and starts laughing again, harder)

Clerk 2: (also starts laughing)

Me: (walks out of store)

That is the end of the story. Poor N-Gage. It never did anything to anybody . . .