Your most embarrassing or pathetic trade-ins

[bangtango]

Hope this topic hasn't been done, I ran a search or two and came up empty.


Pretty much all of us have traded in games at some point, either to a pawn shop, a rental store or some other game store (Funco/Gamestop/etc) that takes in used games.

I'm not asking what games you regret trading in. That topic has been done a hundred times. I want to know the worst crap you have ever traded in, either for cash or credit. Stuff that a sensible person would have just taken to Goodwill or even thrown in the trash. Maybe you were desperate for store credit or cash. Maybe you just didn't have any shame or better judgment at the time. Maybe you just traded in some crap last week and knew better but were hoping you could squeeze by with a little junk.


Good candidates for this thread include:

-Games with food/drink stained labels, manuals or boxes
-Disc only copies of motocross, skateboarding or wrestling games
-Playstation 1 or 2 demos and magazine discs
-Cart games held together by tape
-Disc games covered with stickers or sharpie writing
-Heavily scratched disc games
-Loose boxes or manuals, minus the games
-Back issues of gaming magazines


I put this in Classic Gaming because you can go back to any era you want, no limits here.

Your story will be even better if a shop owner either scoffed at the stuff you were trading in or refused it and told you to take it home.


Myself, I don't have any great stories. Once I traded in a Genesis game without a label (I knew it was Sonic 3 for Genesis) and the owner said "Dammit, kid. I haven't even got a Genesis system in the shop right now to test it on."

There is actually a lady in my town who runs a second hand shop and she takes in disc only PS1 games and demos. She doesn't have any problem doing so, which means I won't count those games.