Damn Kids cannot take care of games!(Plus what I got today!)

[VACRMH]

It's crazy, this kid that I know has so many games just laying on the floor, getting scratched up and damaged. And he pretty much just gives them away...

I got all of this today for $15 and 2 Gameboy games...

Note...
Crappy = Pretty Bad, may play without skips
Pretty Crappy = Even Worse, probly skips
Horrible = Doubt it'll work at all, may be able to get it to work a little
(If I don't mention the condition, it's probly fine)

Gamecube

Zelda Windwaker – Complete
Starfox Adventures – Complete
Super Mario Sunshine – Complete
Star Wars Rogue Leader – Case Only
Preview Disc – Disc Only
Star Wars Rebel Strike Promo Disc – Disc and Case only (Is there a manual??)
Mario Party 4 Manual

XBOX

Blinx The Time Sweeper – Complete (Decent Condition)
Mad Catz Gun

PS2

Tony Hawk 4 – Complete (Horrible Condition)
Spyhunter – Complete with Saliva Single (Crappy Condition)
Official US Playstation Magazine Issue 72 Disc (Crappy Condition)
Twisted Metal Black – No Manual (Pretty Crappy Condition)
ATV Offroad Fury 2 – Case and Manual Only
ATV Quad Power Racing 2 – Disc Only (Crappy Condition)
Army Men Air Attack 2 – Case and Manual Only
MX Rider – Complete (Horrible Condition)
EDIT AGAIN - ATV Offroad Fury - Complete (Crappy Condition)

PSone

Guncon
Ball Breakers – Complete
Point Blank 3 – Disc Only (Crappy Condition)
Scooby Doo and The Cyber Chase – (Horrible Condition)
Vigilante 8 – No Manual (Pretty Crappy Condition)
Army Men: World War Team Assult – Case and Manual Only
Star Wars Episode 1 : Phantom Menance – Disc Only (Horrible Condition)
Driver (Greatest Hits) – Case and Manual Only
Rayman 2 – Disc Only (Crappy Condition)
Syphon Filter (Greatest Hits) – Case and Manual Only
Rugrats Studio Tour – Case only (Icky)
Spyro – No Manual (Crappy Condition)
Croc 2 – Complete (Pretty Crappy Condition)
Rosco Mcqueen – No Manual (Crappy Condition)
102 Dalmations – Disc Only (Horrible Condition)
Time Crisis – Case And Manual only (Case is ripped on right spine)
Sheep Raider – Disc Only (Horrible Condition)
Digimon World 2 – Case Only
Uprising X – Disc Only (Horrible Condition)
Tiny Tank – Disc Only (Cracked)
Eggs Of Steel – No Manual (Horrible Condition)
Monsters INC Scream Team – Case only
007 Tomorrow Never Dies – Complete (Crappy Condition)
Operation Extreme – Disc Only (Crappy Condition)
Crash Bandicoot Warped (Greatest Hits) – Case Only
007 Racing – Case Only
Star Wars Episode 1 Jedi Power Battles – Disc Only (Crappy Condition)
Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command – Case and Manual Only
Pro Pinball Big Race USA – Case only
Tiny Toon Adventures The Great Beanstalk – Manual Only (Crappy Condition)
The Bombing Islands – Manual Only
Emperors New Groove – Case Only
Syphon Filter 2 – Disc Only (Crappy Condition)
Star Wars Rebel Assault 2 – Disc 2 And Front Of Case Only (Pretty Cappy Condition)

N64

System – No AV Cable
2 Controllers
Expansion Pak
3 Unlicensed Memory Cards
Rush 2049
Bomberman 64 The Second Attack
Tom And Jerry In Fists Of Furry
Dr Mario 64
Donkey Kong 64
Glover
Bio Freaks

Strategy Guides

Perfect Dark
Mario Sunshine
Viewtiful Joe
Billy Hatcher
GTA 3
GTA Vice City
LOZ Majoras Mask (2 Different Ones)
Starfox Adventures
Mario Party 3
Smash Brothers Melee
Pokemon
Rogue Leader
Hulk
Metroid Prime
Luigi’s Mansion
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle/Sonic Advance

Extra Junk

1 issue of EGM
2 Issues of Tips and Tricks
Gameboy Color carrying case
Mario Bobblehead (head fell off, could be fixed)
Gamecube Watch
Activator (Complete In Box)
EDIT - Forgot that I also got Rayman - The Animated Series VHS as well.

[§ Gideon §]

How did you get all of that for $15 and 2 gameboy games? Were the gameboy games unreleased English copies of Sword of Mana or what?!

Oh, and I may sound like an old man by saying this, but I never treated my games badly when I was a wee one.

[VACRMH]

How did you get all of that for $15 and 2 gameboy games? Were the gameboy games unreleased English copies of Sword of Mana or what?!

Oh, and I may sound like an old man by saying this, but I never treated my games badly when I was a wee one.

I think they were... Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Gex

I don't know why, but this kid just doesn't know the value of a game.

His parents buy him 3-4 new games a week and he beats them within days (Only plays easy mode) and then trades them in :angry:

I took decent care of my games, I wasn't as anal then as I am now but 75% of the time they went back into the cases when I was done.

[GamecubeFreek]

You made off like a bandit! I could never even hope to get all that for anything less than a couple hundred bucks. Plus, I never mistreated games when I was young, but I think that not taking care of your games is more of the type of person you are, not your age. Just look at all those messed up used games at Gamestop or EB. Not everyone that had those games were kids. It's just stupid people that dont know how to put their games in their cases or to not tlouch games with chocolate covered hands. Stupid peons!

[MarioAllStar2600]

I ahve friends that leave their games lying anywhere. I take perfect care of my games.

[nesuser2]

complete or disc only? if you got complete or even in the cases..... X_x

[VACRMH]

complete or disc only? if you got complete or even in the cases..... X_x

It says next to all of em what they came with, All of the 64 games were cart only

But if it says Manual only... it was just the manual and same with the case.

[§ Gideon §]

...I think that not taking care of your games is more of the type of person you are, not your age.
Absolutely.

[Retsudo]

I know how you feel. I taught my nephew how to take care of his cd games since he first got a Saturn. But he still doesnt seem to give a dump about taking care of his games. Now hes 14 and still doesnt take care of his stuff. Everytime he wants to trade in a game, we havta look for the damn manual. Whats so hard about keeping game manuals inside those dvd cases?

I bet he will start to care when he has to start buying his own games. Most kids dont care because they dont buy them with their own bread @_@

[bargora]

I bet he will start to care when he has to start buying his own games. Most kids dont care because they dont buy them with their own bread @_@
I think that's the answer right there. It's a good thing that 2600 carts are indestructible, because I sure left them lying on the floor when I was a kid. Years later, I've loaned PSX/2 games to my teenaged cousins only one game at a time, and only if I didn't really care about the games, and only after making obscene threats about what would happen if the games didn't come back complete. I cut off one of them for a year until his sister found my Metal Gear Solid 2 manual behind a radiator.

Hey, this could easily lead into a rant about used games not being complete, but I'll let someone else drive us there.

[Flack]

I think carts and cassettes were far more durable than CDs, so we probably had an unfair advantage. Still, that's no excuse for kids like my nephew (8), whose CDs look like little people went ice skating on them. I don't even loan out audio cds anymore. If someone wants to borrow one I make them wait 5 mins and burn them a copy. The .20 investment is worth the peace of mind knowing that my original is safe.

[RetroYoungen]

I've seen both sides of the care scenario. A buddy of mine leaves CDs and random carts everywhere, while my cousin that came with me to CGE takes as good of care of his games as I do (the best he can). It doesn't have to do with age, as I'm trying to teach my nephew to take care of his games (he's almost 7), but the type of person with the games.

But it REALLY bugs me when kids (or parents) write their name on the carts/CDs with a SHARPIE. I can't STAND that... :angry:

[Jorpho]

Suddenly, the fact that my parents got me only a Game Boy when I was growing up makes a lot more sense.

If anyone's still wondering why a crash isn't happening, I suspect it may be because too many people are buying their kids everything.

[wberdan]

this is completely a parenting problem... i mean, my parents taught me how to take care of items, and i repected that- if you saw my gaming collection that i owned as a kid until now it's NM all the way through. i mean, even colecovision stuff that i started getting when i was like 4 and a half- none of it is messed up.
look on the bright side... it'll make your nice playstation games that more desirable in the future.


willie

[TheRedEye]

So let me get this straight. You totally RIP OFF this poor kid, and you have the fucking balls to complain about how he takes care of his stuff?

Do his parents know you more or less stole all the stuff they paid for?

[VACRMH]

So let me get this straight. You totally RIP OFF this poor kid, and you have the fucking balls to complain about how he takes care of his stuff?

Do his parents know you more or less stole all the stuff they paid for?

They knew about every bit of it. They told me to just take the stuff.

They said "Give him $10" so I gave him $15 and some gameboy games.

I constanly asked "Is this ok that i'm taking so much?" And their response "Yeah, take what you'd like. He won't play it anyways"

[nesuser2]

redeye, the kid should have payed him money. This stuff needed a good home and all he was going to do was destroy it. and do you for one second actually believe his parents care......obviously they don't :roll:

[TheRedEye]

Huh. I wasn't aware Bevery Hills moved to Maryland.

My apologies.

[nesuser2]

LOL LOL .......i'm laughing at your comment....not you LOL LOL

[Ed Oscuro]

Huh. I wasn't aware Bevery Hills moved to Maryland.

My apologies.

You know, I'm in total agreement with RedEye here. I was about to get into a "yeah kids tend to mess up games" but...wtf? These are all common PS2 and GameCube games, it's not as if you're saving them for posterity.

I know my brother messed up one of his N64 carts by leaving it on a floor (label got scratched up) and I'm about to take all my controllers and put them elsewhere, I don't need my new SNES controllers messed up...but we're talking about common games here.

Jeez, and I thought my $25 for fixing somebody's computer was a ripoff (and tried to get them to pay less). x_x

[SpasticFuctard]

Hell, I'm still terrible. The discs always go in a case... which case is a question best answered through 20 minutes of looking in cases and finding discs label to label in cases that aren't even theirs.

That said, all the manuals are always in the cases, mainly because I rarely even open them.

I buy my games, consume them and then relegate them to the piles. This is because my need for new entertainment outweighs my give-a-shit by far.

SF

[nesuser2]

Huh. I wasn't aware Bevery Hills moved to Maryland.

My apologies.

You know, I'm in total agreement with RedEye here. I was about to get into a "yeah kids tend to mess up games" but...wtf? These are all common PS2 and GameCube games, it's not as if you're saving them for posterity.

I know my brother messed up one of his N64 carts by leaving it on a floor (label got scratched up) and I'm about to take all my controllers and put them elsewhere, I don't need my new SNES controllers messed up...but we're talking about common games here.

Jeez, and I thought my $25 for fixing somebody's computer was a ripoff (and tried to get them to pay less). x_x

i think he did what was fair. he asked repeatedly about the price and they said $10 was fine so he paid $15......could have paid $20 and i'm sure it wouldn't have made him a difference. it's what made them happy. and i wouldn't take any less than $20 to fix any computer. I don't care what's wrong with it. if it's family it's free unless it gets very elaborate, but everybody else should pay atleast $20. my time isn't free. Figure they're going to pay any pc place atleast $50 an hour to do the same thing so if you charge them $20, it's far less than they'd ever get charged elsewhere. but you have your beliefs and i have mine, just sharing.

[Ed Oscuro]

i think he did what was fair. he asked repeatedly about the price and they said $10 was fine so he paid $15......could have paid $20 and i'm sure it wouldn't have made him a difference. it's what made them happy. and i wouldn't take any less than $20 to fix any computer. I don't care what's wrong with it. if it's family it's free unless it gets very elaborate, but everybody else should pay atleast $20. my time isn't free. Figure they're going to pay any pc place atleast $50 an hour to do the same thing so if you charge them $20, it's far less than they'd ever get charged elsewhere. but you have your beliefs and i have mine, just sharing.

If you're fixing PCs to supplement your income, I could see doing this. In any case you are saving them money so there you go. If I get a PC to fix up I also do stuff like install Spybot S&D on it, tweak a number of things...but in this case I should add that I had the thing for about a month before I could get it finished, lol.

Anyhow, I'd hate for people to ignore what RedEye was saying in the face of all this: Sure, you can get these games, but for goodness sake have some decency.

[Retsudo]

...I think that not taking care of your games is more of the type of person you are, not your age.
Absolutely.

Yeah, you got a good point there. You would be surprised how many grown people dont know how to properly clean a cd. Some of it is just plain ignorance to certain things.