Dumbest things you've ever done? (video game related)

[Bradtemple87]

I missed opportunities at sealed copies of games like the first Suikoden or Tales of Destiny II for around $10 each in the Toys R Us or Costco clearance bins

damn.

Yea I always take the time to look in the clearance bins ever since

[god]

Gee, some of these are bad. Kind of makes you feel a bit better about your own idiotic mistakes.

My first one I've mentioned here before, but just under a year ago all these ex-rental snes games popped up in a pawn shop near my work. $5.00 each cart only. I'm unfamiliar with the snes library and could only afford $10.00 at the time. I wrote down the titles and ran back to work to see if any of them were shooters or run n guns. Anyway, I ended up with Super Turrican 2 and X-Kaliber 2097. I left behind Terranigma and only later realised the mistake I'd made. Obviously they had been long snapped up by then. The 2 games I got are worthless in almost every sense of the word.

Next one - in about 2008 the only retro console I had was the Mega Drive. A guy I was working with told me he had a Master System he sold on ebay that was returned to sender. He never heard anything from the buyer and still had it in the box he posted it in. Anyway, I offered to buy it, but he said he didn't want to sell it, but would rather swap it for something. I was pretty excited to be getting my childhood console to play again so I went home, looked around, decided "hey, I never play this PS2".....

So i ended up swapping a fat PS2 (which I had bought with cash from my first job @ $6.28 an hour) with 2 controllers, memory card and Tekken 5, couple other fighting games for... a Master system 2, no RF cable, pins on the transformer totally bent out of shape, a copy of 'my hero' with writing on the box and thats it. I don't know what I was thinking, at the time i probably could have sold the PS2 on ebay and bought a master system with about 12 games, probably a burger for lunch with the change too.

This leads me to my third horror story... I ended up needing a PS2 again and saw one at the markets for $50 with a few games in pretty nasty condition. This was the slim model, and it made a weird grinding sound. I completely destroyed my sister's DVD of Cloverfield and a copy of GTA San Andreas which I had just bought before realising the console was carving deep ring gouges into any disc that went in. I got rid of it and have never owned a PS2 since. I have made countless more bad decisions when it comes to game collecting but those are the 3 biggies.

[Lodestar]

i tossed out about 100 single disc DVD cases kept the art work tho...didn't have room where i was living at the time.

anybody know where to get binder pages that hold DVD artwork and discs?

I did something similar, I threw away all my PS1 jewel cases with the internal artwork in each one. Ended up losing the manuals I kept, all because I didn't like how they looked in a CD storage tower and thought I wouldn't need them anymore with my new CD case. What an idiotic kid I was...I regret that my entire PS1 library consists of loose games.

[gtmtnbiker]

I signed up for this thing called xbox live. Netflix shitathons aside, it's useless.

I just recently signed up for live gold so that I can play online with a couple of friends in a different state. Haven't actually done it yet. I don't have NetFlix, Hulu or Zune so if I don't actually play games online, then it seems like it will be useless.

As for dumb things, I can't think of too many. Here's one: I put in a Viper Extreme GC into my gamecube and it has this usb board with a cable to the chip. I thought the board was just left dangling outside. Later on, I realized that you put the board inside the high speed serial port (where you connect the broadband adapter).

[sheath]

... My DUO/R is effectively my most expensive system at $450 total cost.

WOW. I have never heard of that happening to that extent. I've played burnt disks on a Duo without issue, although I have heard that it really is not recommended. Still, WOW.

Yeah, so I don't use CDRs on any of my primary systems, just in case.

[EVOLghost]

I bought FF7 4 times. And the last copy I bought was the one I sold....

[avrame]

Went to a video game rental store with my family when I was 6 or 7. It was my turn to choose the game my brother, sister and I would rent for the weekend to play. I chose "Where's Waldo" for the NES for a 3-day rental >_<

[miked]

First up, whats goin on racketboy people? Long time no see.

When I was 5 or 6 I took a power adapter(that went to a keyboard, drum machine or some other random piece of my dads music equipment) and plugged it in to the RCA jacks on the side of our NES. It made a sizzle, smoke poured out and it was dead. My parents were nice enough to send it off to nintendo for repairs and all was well a couple of months later, but I honestly think my dad was more upset at the power adapter he had to replace. He still mentions it to this day.

Lending all of my Dreamcast and PS1 games to my brother. I had a PS2 at the time and wasnt playing them anyway. When he returned them to me they were all in a huge cd binder with no cases and only some of the manuals to be found and most of them scatched to shit, including MVC2, powerstone 2, soul calibur, shenmue. Pretty much all the classics ruined.

[ATARI800XLfan]

not really something I did but a fellow co-worker at work. Found out that shortly after I started working there they had decided to get rid of there master system and its twenty or so games. Not knowing that people still collect those types of things they decided to not bother trying to sell it and just throw it all out in the trash, system and all. I also collect laserdisc's and found out from where my mom works that one of her co-workers had a good sized collection and also throw them out, all the movies and even the player. Sometimes I just marvel at people's stupidity.

[o.pwuaioc]

^That makes me sad.