Games Stolen From You

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Imbarkus

As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
My son had this group of little neighborhood dudes he had been inviting in for a few weeks, playing Guitar Hero and stuff. One of them had been eyeing the shelf real hard. We moved and after I set everything back up I discovered three cases with the discs gone, GTA:Vice City, Timesplitters: Future Perfect, and Guitar Hero 3. I have since replaced the first two. GH3... meh...

Colin was a friend of my son's when they were like 7 or 8, and he would come over all the time and play the games. He got really obsessed with Zelda: Oracle of Seasons on Gameboy and sure enough some time later it turned up missing well after we had lost touch with the kid. I recently replaced it.

Dorian was a neighbor across the ward who borrowed my copy of Shadow of Rome because he said his copy would always freeze at one point, and he never could finish it. He took forever with it and I had to ask him repeatedly to get it back. When I did I took a quick look at the disc which looked unscratched and went about my merry way.

Years later, after becoming a lot more cynical about human nature, in fact just a couple of months ago, I went to check that disc out more closely. Sure enough a big scratch in the top printed metallic layer, so that you could see light through it. $12 for a replacement for me, eternal damnation for your ironically religious soul I guess Dorian.

I guess all told I've been lucky so far, knock on wood.

It feels like War of the Worlds on XBLA got taken away because it was delisted one week before I actually went to convert and buy the demo. DRM of the future, "first world robbery," might make the stories above seem even more quaint and retro than they seem to me now, looking at what I typed.

But I bet there's some good stories out there about when your shit got straight-up jacked.
 
Castlevania symphony of the night on PSone..some one, clearly a gamer with refined tastes broke into my apartment..only stole that, and 20 dollars off my shelf..hurt my heart mang.
 
Not me but my sister stole and sold my brother's rare game collection. Just off the top of my head he had sealed copies of Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Metroid Prime Trilogy. Lots more.
 
One of my friends borrowed MK3 for Playstation and I had forgotten to ask for the game back for a year. Then he just sold his playstation along with my game. I should've gotten some money for it but I let it slide.
 
When I moved from Texas, I had a box full of games stolen which included all of my DS games (about 20) and half of my Xbox games. Stealing sucks.
 
A so called friend of mine asked to borrow my N64 and Mario 64. Once he left my house I never saw him again. That a**hole didn't even pickup my phone calls.
 
I took GTA San Andreas to a friends house to play it. I stopped speaking to him not too soon after and never got it back from him and had to buy a replacement copy.
 
When I was very young me my family went to Butlins and left my oldest teenage sister in charge of the house for the week. When we came back there were 7 people sleeping in my parents bed after a good old night of boozing and I found my entire SNES collection missing, never did find out who took them.
 
Was about 8. Moving to Portugal, forgot bag rucksack in McDonald's in a London airport I don't know which one now. Go back 2 mins later, it's gone, ask staff they say they don't know about it...

Shit load of SNES games gone, toys gone... Sacked, some fucking punks saw my bag and took it.
 
Someone got into my apartment and stole all my GBA games and 40 bucks. A few years later some dude was painting my apartment. After he was finished, I noticed my copy of Bioshock was gone.
 
Red Blaster said:
my copy of twisted metal 1 circa 1997

sean you duplicitous asshole, give it back to me
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For some reason I hear this in Silky johnsons voice.
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Megaman X when it first came out on SNES. I was so pissed because I wanted to go home and show it off to my friend who was a diehard Genesis fan.

Console wars were serious business back then.
 
In my neighborhood some kid would always steal games from my friends during school. He even stole one of my GBA games. But one day he took my NBA streets Vol 3 during the last day of school, I went to his house and made his aunt give it to me(she wasn't shocked).
 
Command & Conquer: The First Decade. Not really stolen, but borrowed and scratched to hell. Was a gift from my parents like 5 years ago or so. After asking for a replacement I lost contact with him.

Skyward Sword. Also, not really stolen, but I lent it to him and he lost it, I never saw it at his place ever. Son of a bitch later tried to steal my girlfriend, too...
 
Had a "friend" in middle school who decided to steal my copy of Pokemon Yellow and Fire Emblem. I knew it was him because when I confronted him about it he acted completely different and tried to avoid me. A classmate also told me he saw him do it. I managed to take his copy of FE from his bag later that day.

Still want my copy of Yellow back...
 
NoirVisage said:
Castlevania symphony of the night on PSone..some one, clearly a gamer with refined tastes broke into my apartment..only stole that, and 20 dollars off my shelf..hurt my heart mang.
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Same here. One of my brothers' buddies stole Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and the original Tomb Raider. It pissed me off because I had to replace my original print Castlevania with a Greatest Hits version.

Also, I lent my nephew a copy of Super Mario World for the GBA. His mother then lent it to her boss' kid thinking that it belonged to her son. I never got that game back.
 
weeeeezy said:
A so called friend of mine asked to borrow my N64 and Mario 64. Once he left my house I never saw him again. That a**hole didn't even pickup my phone calls.
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O_o I would only let friends borrow games but lol the entire console, bummer to hear that , what a douche

My cousin stole my copy of mario kart 64 and mario party 1, smh
Let my friend borrow smash melee and I never got it back due to forgetting then he gave it to my other friend lol
 
Leant my Ltd. Edition GC wind waker to a friend, who promptly went backpacking to Australia never to return :( particularly bummed as it was the one with ocarina of time included.
 
My college dorm got broken into once.

Guy stole a PS2 and some accessories and some games. A Gamecube and some accessories and games.

But the dude left a 360 and everything related to it just sitting there. Never understood that crook.
 
I had the majority of my PS1 and N64 games stolen back in 01-02. Stuff like Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Tony Hawk 2, WWF No Mercy. So many great games gone.
 
If we are counting as "stolen"even games borrowed and never received back, then I would have a very long list.
The one that hurts more is probably my original boxed copy of Planescape Torment.

I guess it's part of what made me so willing to embrace the digital market on PC from the beginning.
"Oh sorry, you'd like to try it? Bad luck, I can't borrow shit, I have my games on Steam/GoG".
 
I'm on the other side of this stuff. I had a friend who would bring over his SNES and N64 games to play at my house, even if I had the same game, because he liked to keep his progress all the time and usually had more stuff unlocked than I did.

So eventually he moves away, and a few years later I realize I somehow have TWO copies of Super Mario World, DKC2, and Diddy Kong Racing. One is mine of course, but the other carts all had either 100% saves or very close to that. I felt really bad about it, but I didn't hear from him again until years and years later, in college, when I stumbled across him on Facebook and I have no idea where the games are anymore anyway.
 
The Smurfs for the GameBoy, they pretended they lost it, even though I saw it occasionally laying around their house. In return I stole their copy of Darkwing Duck for the GameBoy. Suckers.

And Final Fantasy 7, I never even got to finish it. And I have no clue who took it.
 
A PSP 2000, one of the silver ones. Went back to a piano black 3000. Forget what game was in the slot...fortunately I was mostly digital at this point. UMD might have even been empty, hated the noise of that thing.

Oh yeah, and a copy of Lunar Knights that was "borrowed" and "I thought I gave that back". Rebought it, don't really want to replay the whole thing. Just got sick of having the case and no card.
 
The only game that got stolen from me was Pokémon Ruby. A guy in elementary school took it with him and it was gone for several weeks, until I saw him playing the game one day, noticed it was my save file and called him out. Actually, I'm not sure if he stole it or if he just took it one day, but since he never bothered to ask me if it was my game based on the save file's name, I assume he hoped I wouldn't notice.
Funnily enough, a few weeks after that I lost the game again and thought he had taken it again. He said he didn't and I had no choice but to believe him. I got my parents to buy me the newly released Pokémon Emerald as a substitute. A few years later, the game turned up in out car boot. Oops.

Other than that, I've been fairly lucky. I may have lent some PC games to a few people that I haven't got back, but honestly I don't know nor do I care. And I'm pretty sure I still got some PC games that other people lent me that I lost contact with since. So we're even. :P
 
Let my friend borrow Battalion Wars 2 for the wii many years ago. After a few months I ask for it back he just says sorry man I needed some money and I sold it. I got incredibly pissed so much so that letting friends borrow games now is something I don't do a lot, and I obviously stopped talking to that asshole. Still didn't get a new copy of the game either.
 
During one move, the movers stole a few of my PS2 games such as Resident Evil 4 and the Ratchet and Clanks. They would like hide them under all the paper and stuff and take it back outside into the front of their truck. I actually saw one of the games drop out, but at the time I assumed they were just going to pack it outside i guess.
 
A childhood friend of mine stole stole Driver 1 from me when we were young. We played it together often and we were pretty sure he did it, but had no concrete proof. He denied it for months and then one day when he and his family were visiting, he somehow managed to find it in between the sofa cushions.

We had flipped the house upside down looking for that game and had checked the couch a few times. At least I got it back, even if the case was cracked.
 
Ezalc said:
Let my friend borrow Battalion Wars 2 for the wii many years ago. After a few months I ask for it back he just says sorry man I needed some money and I sold it. I got incredibly pissed so much so that letting friends borrow games now is something I don't do a lot, and I obviously stopped talking to that asshole. Still didn't get a new copy of the game either.
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The fuck is wrong with some people?
 
Left a copy of Silent Bomber by an openwindow and took a nap. Woke up to find it gone.

Had a party and only invited friends. No one came who I didn't know and also like. Next day my Gameboy and Pokemon Red were missing. I never found out who took it. That one was especially shit.
 
Someone Stole my copy of Def Jam: Fight for New York and my copy of San Andreas.

I have yet to get Def Jam back, but I plan to buy it at Play N trade.
As for San Andreas i own it digitally on the ps3 and xbox 360.
 
A kid borrowed my Mario 64 and Bomberman Hero and then moved the next week. I got fuckin' scammed! Years later, I replaced them on the Wii's VC
 
Armored Core 2: Another Age. Stolen by the guy who's actually my best friend now. He borrowed it, and I forgot he had, so when I asked him if that was my copy he told me "nope". A year later we laughed it off and I just gave him the game.

Fracas said:
Not me but my sister stole and sold my brother's rare game collection. Just off the top of my head he had sealed copies of Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Metroid Prime Trilogy. Lots more.
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Holy crap no. There would have been blood if it had been me.
 
I had a copy of Pokemon Gold that I know the neighbor kids stole from me. There's not a whole lot to my story aside from that but this thread made me remember it. It was...the last time I truly cared about Pokemon.
;_;
 
Casey Hudson stole my Mass Effect 3 ending from me.

A friend burrowed a link to the past for SNES. That was 14 years ago. He hasn't returned it yet.
 
Someone from inside my house stole my Pokemon Silver with a complete pokedex. It happened before even Ruby / Sapphire were released.
 
Let my cousins borrow my Pokemon Emerald as a kid. It 'mysteriously' got placed in the microwave and flushed down the toilet before being retrieved and colored silver with a marker pen. 10 years on and said cousins still can't look after things >.>
 
I don't call it stolen but my cousins didn't return bloody roar primal fury and now im struggling to make it work on dolphin :(
 
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