what is the stupidest thing you've doneregarding video games

[ganonbanned]

for me, by the time i was 8 years old i had 5 NES consoles, 15+ controllers, loads of periphals, and about 100 games that i had all gotten for free. my cousin collected NES when it was the best console around, and he gave it to me when SNES came out. i gave about 20 games to a friend (which he gave back to me about 2 years ago) and sold the whole lot to some kid for $65. what do i buy with it? kirby: crystal shards with the strategy guide. dammit, kirby.

[Kid Ice]

Traded a Vectrex for a 16K expansion cartridge for my Vic 20. At the time they were roughly equivalent in value. Guess which one is worth more now. :monkey:

[scooby105]

I've just broken joysticks and pads and such.

I rarely sell my videogames and when I do, it's for profit.

[mills]

please dont ask


when i was 17 (about 98-99) we were moving out of the house I was born in, we were trashing alot of things. One of the things I trashed was a boxed, mint, complete, barely used turbo grafx 16 with turbo booster, bonks revenge, ardyne, and keith courage. Becuase "it's old and we don;t use it anymore"

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[Dangerboy]

Went to clean up a (then) very expensive PSX Blue Debug unit, took it all apart, cleaned it, and when I went to reassemble it, couldn't figure out where the CD Drive Socket on the board was.

Because I had yanked it off with the cable when I removed the drive.

And then the RAM chip fell off it. >_>

[ganonbanned]

please dont ask


when i was 17 (about 98-99) we were moving out of the house I was born in, we were trashing alot of things. One of the things I trashed was a boxed, mint, complete, barely used turbo grafx 16 with turbo booster, bonks revenge, ardyne, and keith courage. Becuase "it's old and we don;t use it anymore"

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my god kid that almost pisses me off more than the NES thing that i did .

[jajaja]

I had the box of Bart VS The World in a drawer for years. When i started collecting i tried to look for it, but couldnt find it. Im not sure if someone have thrown it out or if its stored somewhere. The box was also SCN code (Scandinavian release) which isnt that easy to find. Sure, only 1 box, but still sux hehe.

[CYRiX]

For me, the usual "As I was a kid I didn't say my nintendo games' boxes".

[dunkoff]

I sold my N64 w/ atomic controller, Zelda OoT Gold, Goldeneye, and a few other games for something like $25 at a yard sale.

Everything was mint CIB :(

I also sold my SNES with Secret of Mana, FF2, and a bunch of other games (mostly hard to find RPGs) at a flea market. Again, everything was CIB. :(

It's guys like me, that keep the "look what some dumbass sold me this weekend!!!!!111!!!" threads going :embarrassed:

[Speedy_NES]

A fellow collector recently asked me to test my Game Axe Color to check something on my screen. I was under time pressure so I didn't want to get some batteries, instead I wanted to try it with the NTSC NES AC Adaptor...and blew the screen. I've heard it's probably something else that is blown and can be fixed, but I don't know much about technical stuff, so now my Game Axe doesn't work.

[Jumpman Jr.]

Throwing out all of my old empty N64 boxes (abour 25 or so) because they were taking up too much space in my room. I literally started collecting video games 2 weeks later and realized that I shouldn't have thrown those boxes out. :angry:

[odyeiop]

I had the box of Bart VS The World in a drawer for years. When i started collecting i tried to look for it, but couldnt find it. Im not sure if someone have thrown it out or if its stored somewhere. The box was also SCN code (Scandinavian release) which isnt that easy to find. Sure, only 1 box, but still sux hehe.
I had a similiar thing happen, but with Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Tetris and Ironsword. Pisses me off that I was that stupid back then =P

[suppafly]

I had a GBA that had dust in the screen. So I opened it up and tried to clean it with a spray using for cleaning monitor screens.

The spray ruined the GBA Screen inside (it went dark). I threw away the GBA.

BTW that was a GBA I paid 120 Us for....as soon as the GBA originally came out

[mailman187666]

i let a friend borrow my saturn with about 25+ games (one of which was guardian heroes @_@ ) because he lived by himself and didn't have money to afford games. When he moved out he left everything there and the trailor he was in got demolished aka never reviving the games again. The only reason i let him borrow it was because it was not being used. Oh boy do i wanna kick my own ass for that one.

[fishsandwich]

In 1990 I let a friend borrow my 5200 and 30+ games that I'd had since the 5200 came out. We lost touch and I never saw it again.

I had kept all the boxes and instructions for the games separately and found a huge bag of them in the attic in the mid 1990's. I pitched them in the trash.


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[Jeff-20]

While modding a US Genesis, I needed a japanese cart to test the newly installed region switch. I went by all my common Japanese carts and used my rare mint Pulseman cart because I wanted to play a really good game first. (Gotta celebrate a good mod job)
For some reason I cannot remember, I took the game circuit board out of its plastic case. Everything worked! I played for a few minutes, dropped the system off my work table. It lands face down, breaks the Pulseman board in two! Now I can play all MD/GEN games except the one I want. . . Pulseman. :hmm:

[Slate]

Here are my mistakes, Numbered in the order i regret them the most:

#1: Passed on a COMPLETE STAR WARS RACER BUNDLE N64 With like 20 games for $30! Not only that but some games that were included were Conker and Super Mario 64!! Instead of buying this AND the genesis that hey had, I only bought the genesis! ARGH!

#2: Passed on a boxed SNES for $30 - because it was missing Super mario world and i didn't know if it worked, Plus the fact thet Salvation Army doesn't take returns didn't help.

#3: Passed on a boxed NES for $35 - Whatever package it was, it included duck hunt.

#4: I taped a pokemon poster to a door, Some years later i tried to take the tape off, the poster is ruined.

So, what do i learn after these experiences? (Not counting ruining the poster) Never get spoiled by buying games for next to nothing!

[fishsandwich]

Oh I forgot... Target was blowing out their old SNES Zelda bundles for $25 each (this was about 6-7 years ago I imagine.) I bought one and left the other 6 there.

Idiot.

[Muscelli]

i sold my mint condition borderdown for 30 dollars

[PSerge]

Dumbest thing I ever did was to trade in all my NES games back when the PS2 came out.. I had about 100+ games, MegaMan 1-6, Zelda, mostly quality games... Now years later I am working on repurchasing all of them... Dummy me.

[kentuckyfried]

Years ago I bought a mint looking Atari Asteroids Cocktail arcade game, as was, for 15$!

All it needed was a single fuse to get working :)

I never got around to fixing the lock and the door with the PCB swung open, crashing to the ground and apparently breaking the PCB.

So I sold it to someone for next to nothing, and the bugger got it working!

ArrggghhhhKaarrmma!!!!

[diskoboy]

Let my dad sell my Atari Fire Truck arcade game.

He got $50 for it (in perfect working order) and to add insult to injury, I never got the money. (I owed it to him - hence me selling my game)

Just pisses me off he only asked for $50. Lesson learned.

[Octane06]

Wow, I've had a lot of blunders over my short life...

-Giving up my Genesis for a Nintendo 64 becasue my parents would only allow me to have one console at a time. Since then I've gotten another Genesis and am trying to rebuild, so this isn't that bad now.
-Trading in my copy of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX for a very small amount of credit to a Funcoland.
-Lending several Game Boy games to a friend and never having them returned. Ok, so I did this to him too, but only with one game, Lion King for SNES.
-All the countless boxes and manuals I've thrown away through the years. I have now vowed never to do so again.

There's probably more, too.

[Xexyz]

Throwing away my NES boxes back in the day is not a big goof to me. However, chucking all my N64 boxes, GBC boxes, and over half of my GBA boxes 2 months prior to becoming a collector really pisses me off! :angry:

[SolidZach]

Throwing out all of my old empty N64 boxes (abour 25 or so) because they were taking up too much space in my room. I literally started collecting video games 2 weeks later and realized that I shouldn't have thrown those boxes out. :angry:

the same thing happened to me a couple years ago, I was going threw my old room and I just decided to throw all my old boxes away. Big Mistake!

[Jibbajaba]

Well, I guess I haven't done TOO many dumb things. Like everyone else, I of course regret throwing away NES and GB bozes, but that's not that big of a deal. The only time I ever got rid of a system is when I gave away my Genesis. It was well after I had bought a Playstation, and my mom knew a married couple that were pretty poor, so she was giving them old clothes and whatnot, and I gave the husband my Genesis with all my games (which was like maybe 5). Later, I missed the Genesis because I wanted to play some Starflight and Buck Rogers, but I just re-bought the stuff when I started collecting. Can't say I really regret doing that though because my mom told me that the guy really enjoyed the Genny and played it a lot.

Sometime in the early 90's I bought a copy of Mega Man 6 from KayBee for like $5. Wish I had grabbed more, but that was probably the only $5 I had to my name anyway (I was in high school).

Biggest regret would have to be this: a locally owned game store in my hometown had several NIB Jaguars and Sega 32X systems, which they were selling at $25 each just to get rid of them. This was in 2000 I think. Maybe 1999. So I bought a Jaguar. Knowing what I know now, I would have bought all of both of them. Right when I started posting here, I traded the Jaguar, still MIB but played once or twice, for a CIB TG16, so I don't feel too bad about that one. I wish I had picked up at least one 32X though, but at the time I didn't have a Genesis for the reason stated above.

Everyone has stories like this. You never know what is going to end up being valuable down the road, and even if you do, most of us don't want to spend the money. I'm sure that 5 or 10 years down the line, a NIB PSOne will go for alot more than the $50 that they could be had for recently, but how many of us stocked up on them to resell them in the year 2011? Not me.

Chris

[Mark III]

My most recent was finding a bunch of old PC games while moving to a new home. Not having room for them I ended up throwing away all the boxes and manuals. Later after moving I found all the discs and brought them down to work to throw them in the $1 bin. While most were worthless there was a couple star trek games, some older Ultima's and a quest for glory anthology, that if thrown up on ebay would have easily netted me a couple hundred bucks.

[Nesmaster]

said it before and I'll say it again: Complete bubble bath babes. $50. :(.

[WhiteHenDecapitator]

I was pissing around with my Sega Saturn, had the top half of the console off and the power cord plugged in...

I was trying to remove the CD spindle thingy (that holds the CD on), I could only get it a little ways off. So I decided rather than break it I would just put it back where it was...

Well I ended up pushing it past its original location and had the metal center rod of the spindle spike into the motherboard, it sent a massive jolt through my thumb and into my body! It was quite a shock I tell you!

Lesson learned!

[Cambot]

I lent Super Mario All-Stars to a high school friend back in the day (94-95), and I did so fully aware that his brain had long since been replaced by mostly bong resin and cobwebs.

Yeah, he lost it.

[rbudrick]

Once every year the department of public works guys from our town has a trash pickup service to come around and pick up trash you can't get rid of on your own (old TVs, washing machines, brush from dead trees, you name it). Some time between '92-'94 we had a massive tree in our yard cut down and it was divided into about 20 logs that were about 2.5-3 feet long and about 18-30 inches wide. They were heavy as hell, weighing several hundred pounds each. This story takes place within the same year or so.

You have to move your trash to the front of your yard so the trucks can come by and take the stuff. Well, I had spent a few hours that morning rolling these huge logs over to the front of my yard. All the while, this one DPW guy drove by every few minutes and looked out his truck at what I was doing. Just looked, drove by, didn't say a word. Anyway, I get down to the very last log and this time he stops and says to me while smiling, "We can't take those because they are not less than 6 inches wide." I was BULLSHIT. He knew damn well what I was doing there all day, and he pulled that shit on purpose. He waited until I moved the last log to that side of the yard to tell me. I damn near broke my ass moving those things and I was completely exhausted from doing it.

I went inside and got my old mint SNES box, went outside to the rabbit hutch and filled the SNES box to the brim with rabbit shit. I left the bottom flap open and left the box on the ground on the edge where it opens. I also left a big trash bag full of nasty maggotty rabbit shit and poked a bunch of holes on the bottom with a stick so the bag would be unstable and burst open when picked up. I then hours for my master plan to unfold, sitting on my front steps. I waited all damn day until they came around to pick up our trash. Finally, the guy that pissed me off and his team of coworkers came to pick up our trash. With a great stroke of luck the guy picked up the SNES box (I was glad it was not one of the coworkers). He was like, "hey guys, look! A Super Nin-" SPLAT! Nasty-ass decomposed rabbit shit all over the guy. He was pissed. Or shitted, whatever. Luckily, he picked up the trash bag too and it splattered all over his boots. It was a good day's work for me.

Yeah, I was a total dick as a kid. I shoulda just used a regular cardboard box. I guess I was thinking he'll pick it up because it's a pretty, shiny SNES box. But he woulda picked it up if it was just a regular old box of shit too. What a dumbass.

Oh, that and I threw out like 30 NES boxes that day too. What an idiot.

-Rob

[Arasoi]

I think the stupidest thing I ever did was decide not to buy that Castlevania Bloodlines proto on Ebay from a few years ago. It had different stages and everything.

[ROBOTNIK666]

One time, I sold Feet of Fury for the Dreamcast, Qix for the Lynx (both mint condition in the box), and 2 Genesis controllers for $5. :frustrated:

[bangtango]

The only stupid thing I can think of is not playing my current games enough. I already have a good library that should keep me busy but I continue adding games I also won't have time to play.

[Juganawt]

I've got 3.

Selling a boxed complete SNES Street Fighter Alpha 2 for a fiver, then logging onto ebay that night and seeing that they were fetching prices nearer to the £60 mark

Soldering a 21 pin chip into my saturn with an incorrectly watted soldering iron and tearing the legs from the chip, therefore killing the saturn.

and giving away my collection of amiga disks when I got my first ever PC and found they werent compatible :(

[Scrimble]

My mistake was not buying something. I went to a flea market I'd say 6 years ago on the lookout for nes or atari stuff. (that's all I really knew about then) Went to a vendor's table and found a boxed Intellivision demo cart for $5, but not having an intellivision, and not knowing exactly what it was, I put it back down and walked away.

[Push Upstairs]

Snip rabbit excrement box story

Thats pretty funny.



My story isnt so cool.

I sold my NES and all my games, i felt bad about it afterwards and swore i'd never sell off my Genesis and its games.

I've still got the Genesis and all but two of the games i had back in 1994. Oh and i re-bought an NES and games i cherished most.

[jboypacman]

All the trading of games i have done over the years to the game stores.too many games to list that i have traded.got wise and quit doing that this past year.

[aaronpetrosky]

In 97 I sold my complete in box Top Loader and 47 games to my buddy for $15 because I wanted money for N64 games. :frustrated: :frustrated: :bawling:

[fishsandwich]

That reminds me... I need to post my story about the Nigerian scammers.

Short version... I posted some extra PSone games on Craigs List for sale. One person e-mailed me saying they would like to buy all the games at a ridiculous price. They had an address in Nigeria.

One day later I got a TERRIBLE phony e-mail from (fake) Western Union saying I has $1500 held in escrow until I sent the games to Nigeria and I provided proof of shipping. Once they had the shipping numbers then the money would be released to me (yeah, right.)

In the meantime, the scammer sent me a FedEx packing slip for Worldwide Shipping.

I went home, dumped the NASTY catbox contents into a plastic bag with a bunch of used Q-tips and snotty tissues, boxed it up, taped it up tightly, and sent it to Nigeria.

I wish I could have seen that scammer's face when he realized he's paid good money to have me ship him a box of cat turds.

[alec006]

Broke my Sega CD by pulling the drive out trying to get the disc,it was the damn ribbon cable! :bad-words:

[ozyr]

As most people have done - selling of part of my collection - then years later totally regretting doing so. I've sold many a rare game and after years, wish I still had them...

[StakeRaiser]

Selling off all my original NES stuff, not even for a new system, just to get rid of them

I just wish I had my first system and first two games (Legend of Zelda and Wizards and Warriors) complete that I had back then

[lordnikon]

By and large the stupidest thing I have ever done:

When I was 14 years old I traded in Lightening Force / ThunderForce IV, towards...

Cosmic Carnage for the 32X

TF4 is one of my favorite games ever, and my favorite shmup of all time.

At the time I think I just had no choice. When you are young and don't have a job, you can only get so much money from mowing lawns. I wanted to try a variety of video games, and was a big 32X player at the time.

Years down the road I finally reaquired Lightening Force again.

[racecar]

back in the late 90's( 97 or 99)
complete chronotrigger(snes) or sonic 2 for $5.. in a garage sale.. i only had about $5 in change
guess which one o picked :(

[Retsudo]

Trading in a bunch of good PS1 games in at EB to get Socom 1 with the headset. Back when it was 60 bucks. Not 1 of the games were a greatest hits. Games like Tekken 2, Ace Combat 2, and Resident Evil 1 2 and 3.

I did buy all of those games back, but some of those games had great artwork on the disk.

[ProgrammingAce]

I accidently started collecting video games... man was that a mistake... Haven't been able to quit yet... = (

[scorch56]

"What is the stupidest thing you've doneregarding video games?"

That's an easy one for me.. happened years ago.

I started spending a helluva' lot more time collecting them than I do PLAYING them.

Starting to think it's time to get back to my roots.

[Balloon Fight]

Went to clean up a (then) very expensive PSX Blue Debug unit, took it all apart, cleaned it, and when I went to reassemble it, couldn't figure out where the CD Drive Socket on the board was.

Because I had yanked it off with the cable when I removed the drive.

And then the RAM chip fell off it. >_>

Ah, I remember that day in #vbender like it was yesterday.

Probably the dumbest thing I've done was seeing COUNTLESS new Valkyrie Profiles at a local EB, and passing on them all.

[Ed Oscuro]

Yesterday I passed up a loose Mario Kart and Mario's Time Machine at the thrift for $4 each. Then I went and checked eBay just for the price on Time Machine...by the time I realized what Mario Kart is going for it was long gone.

Didn't have either game so I shoulda bought 'em anyway.

But at least I traded back in that damn N64 I thought had an expansion pack in it (I forgot for a moment what the expansion pack looked like...oops)

[TheReturnofCaptainFalcon]

A copy of Saturday Night Slammasters for the SNES. I loved that game but the computer frustrated the hell out of me. I mean REALLY! Long story short, I couldnt get past this one character over and over I lost, so........microwave high.......60 seconds.

[jdc]

Dumped a fairly sizeable Dreamcast collection in favor for the then-new PS2. Luckily, I've re-amassed a nice library since and have several low-mileage Dreamcast consoles and brand new peripherals. Luckily I live in a small city where the Dreamcast is super easy to find in the wild. My 5 yr old son seems to like the Dreamcast over any other console at the moment. He's discovered Pen Pen TriIcelon. LOL

[dunkoff]

I can't belive I forgot this one!

A couple of months ago I dumped $3000 on a sizable lot of NES stuff. It was a pretty good deal, and I intend on selling a bunch of it to try to make some of the money back. That's not the stupid part.

The stupid part comes in where I momentary forgot about my upcoming wedding... I had to tell my fiancee that the wedding needed to be pushed back a bit because I bought games.

That was NOT a good day... (or week for that matter). :snipersmile::oops: <--- me

[Nirvana]

I threw away a lot of old SNES boxes, even though I kept about a handful of them. Thank god I kept the Secret of Mana one and Final Fantasy III ones. But I wish I kept all of them.

Also, I've broken SO many controllers when I was younger when playing Street Fighter. I had such a hard time facing the bosses, and I'd get so frusterated I'd slam the controller on the ground. Boy, I was pretty naive. LOL

[Cauterize]

Sold my copy of Legend of The River King (GBC) back in the day to fund another game :(

If anyone has a cart only copy they want rid of please let me know!

[Daria]

I can't belive I forgot this one!

A couple of months ago I dumped $3000 on a sizable lot of NES stuff. It was a pretty good deal, and I intend on selling a bunch of it to try to make some of the money back. That's not the stupid part.

The stupid part comes in where I momentary forgot about my upcoming wedding... I had to tell my fiancee that the wedding needed to be pushed back a bit because I bought games.

That was NOT a good day... (or week for that matter). :snipersmile::oops: <--- me

...You should be grateful that you're still alive.

[Push Upstairs]

That is an understatment.

[unwinddesign]

Nothing too stupid. I used to trade in my games to the local game store. Stuff like Driver 2, 3 months after it was released. Price I got? $12. Price I could have gotten on eBay? At least $25, most likely. Stuff like that. But then again, an 11 year old can't really use eBay, so I'm not upset about it. Sometimes I think about it, and I'm just like...bah, they run good rip-offs at those game shops...

One other thing. I got a smoke infested Genesis with a ton of games off eBay for pretty cheap awhile back (I think for around $70). Anyway, I don't smoke, and I have no use for something that smells like a chimney. So I decided to sell the things on eBay. This in itself is not stupid. However, I listed a bunch of 1 cent buy-it-nows. Everything sold, naturally, and I came away with $5 apiece for the games, sans $2.50 or so for fees/shipping. However, I could have just listed them at 1 cent starting price, and gotten a bunch more for them. As it was, I made money on the deal, and it launched my internet buy/sell venture, so it's not all bad. Still...think about the last money! Probably $100. LOL LOL

[cyberfluxor]

I can't belive I forgot this one!

A couple of months ago I dumped $3000 on a sizable lot of NES stuff. It was a pretty good deal, and I intend on selling a bunch of it to try to make some of the money back. That's not the stupid part.

The stupid part comes in where I momentary forgot about my upcoming wedding... I had to tell my fiancee that the wedding needed to be pushed back a bit because I bought games.

That was NOT a good day... (or week for that matter). :snipersmile::oops: <--- me

ROFL Ahhh, life has some great turn of events. I'm amazed you forgot about the wedding! I hope you have a date book to keep a record of her families birthdays as well as hers and the wedding date. My god you better remember the anniversary!!!

[cyberfluxor]

Oh ya, forgot to mention my dumbest moment or whatever...

I guess it would be a few months ago when I sold a bunch of games for the SNES I picked up for $1 each and sold to another place for $2-7 per game. I wanted some profit to pay for some gas and it was a bunch of games I didn't already own. It's not that they are incredibly difficult to find, it's just I could have kept them and added a good 10 more SNES games to my collection. All in all though at least I didn't sell them Super Buster Bros, not in a billion years. :D

I ended up trading the Tom & Jerry N64 game that day too that I found for $3 and traded for $9 to pay for a Saturn arcade stick that was REALLY nice.

[walrusmonger]

Sold the sexiest copy of Dracula X for the SNES to someone on these forums for $120 only to see them resell it a week later for $250+ high shipping costs. I didn't want to part, but I needed to and I thought the person would keep it...

that's gotta be the stupidest thing EVER.[/b]