Games Stolen From You

Also, my friend thinks that I stole his PS2 memory card. But I just forgot where I put it (I found it now). If you ever read this message, I did not stole it dude.
 
I don't let anyone borrow games/dvds/etc anymore and haven't for over 10 years. I was tired of loaning stuff to people and either A. Not getting it back. or B. It getting returned in a condition much worse than I loaned it in.

I have only had a couple games straight up stolen and both were from the same person. This was when I was kid and the games were the Warcraft 2 Expansion Set and either Heretic or Hexen - I don't recall which.
 
At some point just before starting college, I made the idiotic decision to keep all of my games in a single CD case. I began console gaming on the PS1and built up a pretty nice library well throughout the PS2 era and had a handful of GameCube games.

Fast forward to spring semester 2009, the end of my freshman year, and the case vanishes from my apartment.

Highlights: Megaman Legends 1 & 2, Megaman X4-6, Megaman 8, Dark Cloud 2, Final Fantasy 7-12, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Beyond Good & Evil, Okami, Odin Sphere, all PS1 Crash Bandicoot, all PS2 Jak and Daxter, MGS 1-3, a whole host of JRPGs, and all the other games my memory has blocked out so I don't feel any worse than I still do today.

Thank the universe I didn't also keep my Wii games in there.

Tl;dr: My entire PS1, PS2, and Gamecube collection.
 
I lent a friend Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow on PS2 and never got it back, because I moved from the UK to the Philippines. lol

She also has my Trauma Center for DS, and I think I accidentally took someone else's with me.
 
Having a sizable collection has always made me a target for thieves.

Let's see, there was the time I had a new friend over to my place. He had brought up how boring he thought RPGs were, so I tried to convince him otherwise by showing him my copy of Final Fantasy 2 (4) on the SNES. He liked it and started asking all kinds of questions about the game. We played for a while, and he left later that evening. Took me until the next day to notice the game was missing. He denied taking it when I confronted him, but it was obvious. Stopped talking to him. Luckily, this was in early 1995, so replacing it with a used copy was still pretty cheap.

More recently, about four years ago, we were in the process of getting ready to move from California to Colorado and I had my Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, 360, and Wii games all in DVD shipping boxes out next to the TV. The relatives of our roommate were over packing his stuff and there was a lot of traffic through the place with many people.

That evening I sat down to play some Dead Space on the 360, when I noticed it wasn't in its spot in the box. Further digging around revealed that I was also missing Devil May Cry 2, the Ocarina of Time/Master Quest pre-order disc, and the Gamecube versions of The Two Towers and Return of the King. It was a really bizarre given that the thief had open choice of around 400 games including many newer or more rare titles but apparently picked those ones. The Gamecube games were all in a row, so I imagine they took that group by just grabbing a handful. But DMC2? Dead Space? In boxes that were packed with assorted games?

During the move, I had to leave a chunk of our personal belongings. Simply not enough room in the van for everything. So I arranged to have a friend keep it in his place until I could make the return trip to pick it all up. Among the things left were my entire NES, Genesis, Sega CD, and Jaguar collections.

Of course it didn't take long for this friend to reveal his true stripes and claim that since I wasn't there anymore, he was taking ownership of everything. I'm in the process of trying to replace the collections, but it isn't cheap and it's been piecemeal at best. Still fewer have any materials like boxes or maps/manuals. I had complete boxed copies of stuff like all six Mega Man games, all four Dragon Warrior games, all three TMNTs, all three Ninja Gaidens, all three Castlevanias, Contra and Super C, the original Final Fantasy, both Lunar games on Sega CD, both Mutant Leagues, Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and many others. Some 100+ games total. Just thinking about it fills me with rage.
 
My Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey was stolen back in 2nd grade.

I progressed a lot into the game, and brought it with me to school so I can play it after school. It fell out of my pocket and I knew who took it. So I searched in that person's bookbag and found it. Teacher caught me and forced me to put it back since I have no proof that it was mine.

It was over 10 years ago when that happened, but it still bothers me.
 
Most of my GC library (including Ikaruga, MGS: TS, SSBM, MK:DD, and Paper Mario: TTYD) and my Wii U library (everything I had except TW101 and SM3DW). Done most likely by a couple of people who were close to the house, probably to support a coke habit (I'd hope not though).
 
Correctomundo said:
Having a sizable collection has always made me a target for thieves.

Let's see, there was the time I had a new friend over to my place. He had brought up how boring he thought RPGs were, so I tried to convince him otherwise by showing him my copy of Final Fantasy 2 (4) on the SNES. He liked it and started asking all kinds of questions about the game. We played for a while, and he left later that evening. Took me until the next day to notice the game was missing. He denied taking it when I confronted him, but it was obvious. Stopped talking to him. Luckily, this was in early 1995, so replacing it with a used copy was still pretty cheap.

More recently, about four years ago, we were in the process of getting ready to move from California to Colorado and I had my Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, 360, and Wii games all in DVD shipping boxes out next to the TV. The relatives of our roommate were over packing his stuff and there was a lot of traffic through the place with many people.


That evening I sat down to play some Dead Space on the 360, when I noticed it wasn't in its spot in the box. Further digging around revealed that I was also missing Devil May Cry 2, the Ocarina of Time/Master Quest pre-order disc, and the Gamecube versions of The Two Towers and Return of the King. It was a really bizarre given that the thief had open choice of around 400 games including many newer or more rare titles but apparently picked those ones. The Gamecube games were all in a row, so I imagine they took that group by just grabbing a handful. But DMC2? Dead Space? In boxes that were packed with assorted games?

During the move, I had to leave a chunk of our personal belongings. Simply not enough room in the van for everything. So I arranged to have a friend keep it in his place until I could make the return trip to pick it all up. Among the things left were my entire NES, Genesis, Sega CD, and Jaguar collections.

Of course it didn't take long for this friend to reveal his true stripes and claim that since I wasn't there anymore, he was taking ownership of everything. I'm in the process of trying to replace the collections, but it isn't cheap and it's been piecemeal at best. Still fewer have any materials like boxes or maps/manuals. I had complete boxed copies of stuff like all six Mega Man games, all four Dragon Warrior games, all three TMNTs, all three Ninja Gaidens, all three Castlevanias, Contra and Super C, the original Final Fantasy, both Lunar games on Sega CD, both Mutant Leagues, Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and many others. Some 100+ games total. Just thinking about it fills me with rage.
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Just cant trust people.
 
My best friend at the time, who was sort of going through a kleptomaniacal phase or something, probably stole my copy of Final Fantasy Tactics and tried to steal my copy of Final Fantasy IX before I caught him. It was an awkward moment. He asked if I wanted him to leave, I said yes, we made up after a period of time I don't remember being very long. We're still friends today.
 
Lent a good (long distance) friend both Viewtiful Joe (GCN) & Paper Mario: TTYD.
Repeatedly asked for them back. Barely a word in reply, never saw them again.
Still frustrates me thinking about it. Loved those games.
 
Let my brother borrow Resistance:FoM, a couple days later his house gets burglarized and it gets stolen along with his PS3, a couple of laptops and his 46in Samsung.
 
A long time ago in the late 90's, my friend stole my silent hill then gave me it back with a shitty blockbuster sticker on it saying he got it from them. Even though he obviously stole it.


I lent someone Metal Gear Rising and Motorstorm 3, and they never gave them back so they're pretty much stolen.

I'll probably never see those games again.
 
Lent a long distance friend God of War 3 and never got around to play it a second time.

The same goes with GTA 4 Complete edition. My preeeeeecious...
 
I still remember having Spyro 1 and 2 stolen from me by a friend's brother. He tried to play dumb as if he had no idea what happened to the discs, but it was obvious in hindsight. Not much I could do about it at that age. >_>
 
The definitive blow in the last console war was struck in 2009 when someone broke into my house, stealing my ps3 but leaving the xbox 360 next to it unmolested. Good taste, I'd say.

Cunt then went on psn and bought a tonne of burnout paradise dlc before I discovered the theft the next morning ( again displaying unimpeachable taste ).
 
When I was a kid I took everything people told me at face value, the idea that they didn't care about my things or were lying to me didn't cross my mind. So when my sister asked me if her boyfriend could borrow my genesis for the weekend, I said it was fine because I was always over at my cousin's place on weekends.

Of course, it took two months to get it back and they returned it mostly broken (connector for the RF adapter was wonky) and with a few missing games.

Didn't learn my lesson there, I wanted to participate in our school's fundraising fair and our booth was set up with some video games. I brought in some of my genesis games for it, but I couldn't stay until the end of the fair and they said they'd give me my games the next day at school. I ended up getting back two of them but nobody seemed to know what happened to the rest. So at this point I had almost no games left with a broken console, so I kinda lost track of what happened to it...pretty sure my parents gave it away or something. I was most pissed off at losing Rocket Knight Adventures in particular.

Couple years later I was doing a lot of babysitting for my parents' friends, I was 12 or 13 at the time. Anyways, the couple in particular had a couple of horrible hellspawn that gave me no end of trouble, but I agreed to go since it would be late at night and I'd mostly just be watching the house until they got back at like 1AM. I brought my game boy, which was actually the only game system I'd ever bought with my own money. I was so tired when they got back that I forgot it there, and when I went back the next day to pick it up those kids had hidden it somewhere. I believed the parents when they said they'd 'look for it', but in retrospect they probably didn't give a shit.

Worst part is, I never got paid. Took their word that they'd 'give it to me next time'.

Anyways, those incidents taught me some valuable life lessons, mainly to never trust any motherfuckers near my shit.
 
Correctomundo said:
Having a sizable collection has always made me a target for thieves.

Let's see, there was the time I had a new friend over to my place. He had brought up how boring he thought RPGs were, so I tried to convince him otherwise by showing him my copy of Final Fantasy 2 (4) on the SNES. He liked it and started asking all kinds of questions about the game. We played for a while, and he left later that evening. Took me until the next day to notice the game was missing. He denied taking it when I confronted him, but it was obvious. Stopped talking to him. Luckily, this was in early 1995, so replacing it with a used copy was still pretty cheap.

More recently, about four years ago, we were in the process of getting ready to move from California to Colorado and I had my Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, 360, and Wii games all in DVD shipping boxes out next to the TV. The relatives of our roommate were over packing his stuff and there was a lot of traffic through the place with many people.

That evening I sat down to play some Dead Space on the 360, when I noticed it wasn't in its spot in the box. Further digging around revealed that I was also missing Devil May Cry 2, the Ocarina of Time/Master Quest pre-order disc, and the Gamecube versions of The Two Towers and Return of the King. It was a really bizarre given that the thief had open choice of around 400 games including many newer or more rare titles but apparently picked those ones. The Gamecube games were all in a row, so I imagine they took that group by just grabbing a handful. But DMC2? Dead Space? In boxes that were packed with assorted games?

During the move, I had to leave a chunk of our personal belongings. Simply not enough room in the van for everything. So I arranged to have a friend keep it in his place until I could make the return trip to pick it all up. Among the things left were my entire NES, Genesis, Sega CD, and Jaguar collections.

Of course it didn't take long for this friend to reveal his true stripes and claim that since I wasn't there anymore, he was taking ownership of everything. I'm in the process of trying to replace the collections, but it isn't cheap and it's been piecemeal at best. Still fewer have any materials like boxes or maps/manuals. I had complete boxed copies of stuff like all six Mega Man games, all four Dragon Warrior games, all three TMNTs, all three Ninja Gaidens, all three Castlevanias, Contra and Super C, the original Final Fantasy, both Lunar games on Sega CD, both Mutant Leagues, Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and many others. Some 100+ games total. Just thinking about it fills me with rage.
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Even that pissed me off.
 
None, my games rarely ever leave the room. I don't know that many people that play games so I don't lend any thing out very often.
 
Off the top of my head. I let someone borrow my copy of infamous 1 and it still hasnt been returned. Two more games in the franchise released since then. I don't even bother asking about it anymore.
 
Not stolen, but a cross borrow that never got returned, I moved away : /

My Harvest Moon 64 for his Street Fighter Alpha 3 on Dreamcast.
 
ITT: people who have scumbag 'friends'.

The closest I've ever been to having a game stolen from me was when I took my Gameboy and Pokemon Red with me to a friend's house, and he wanted to keep it because I was further in the game than he was. It was all cool though, I helped him get past the Safari Zone in his own game since that was where he was stuck and that was that.
 
My brother used to have some "rough" friends when we were younger. He'd invite them over and games would disappear and since it was more than one of them over at one time, we could never pin it on any of them. Here are some I can think of:

Mario bros. 3
Mario 64
Turok
Waverace
Star Fox
Ocarina of Time

The N64 games were only about a year old or so at that point. I was devastated.
 
FutureMark updated Shattered Horizon with a bunch of shitty bullshit which made the already small playerbase stop playing the game entirely. Since i cant play the game anymore i consider it stolen
 
Someone stole my entire collection of portable games (GB-GBC-GBA-DS) out of my car several years ago. I bought a lot of them back, but it still cost me hundreds of dollars and of course all my files.
 
Only game I can recall being actually stolen was my Skies of Arcadia many years ago at the hands of two of my cousins. I had showed them the game and they really liked it and once they left to leave to go home (they lived in another state) I realized the game was missing.

Come to think of it I've had several pokemon games go missing over the years too, I always assumed it was my own irresponsibility but I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were stolen
 
Once in 6th grade I got accused of stealing a girl's copy of Dr. Mario for Game Boy.

I learned about this since out of nowhere she came up to me in tears, surrounded by her friends, and called me a "big fat liar."

This was apropos of nothing, so I had no idea what was going on. Eventually someone told me that they had ascertained that I was the culprit based on the following:

- Someone asked me, "Do you have Dr. Mario for Game Boy?"
- I said, "No."

Therefore, since I didn't already own it, that was motive to steal it.

(Was some other kid. Girl never apologized, or for that matter said word one to me ever again...)
 
Consoles:
Gameboy (Original Brick system) (Little brother gave it away to his friend without my permission)
PSP2000 (Thieve broke into my apartment)
PSPGo(Ditto)
PS3 80GB (Ditto)

Games
MGS4 (Same as above)
Devil May Cry 4 (Same as above)
Valkyria Chronicles (Same as above)
Ridge Racer 7 (Ditto)
 
Man, I remember this bad memory X(. I brought my DS to school (was in 5th grade at this point) and it had Mario 64DS and Kirby and the Amazing Mirror in it. The copy of Mario 64DS was 100% (and considering I played it on the original DS with that D-Pad.....I was proud of it :D).

.....Stupid me left the backpack open when getting a book or something and before I knew it....the DS and the games were gone X(. Never found out what prick took it, but my grandmother replaced the DS and Mario 64....but never re-bought that Kirby game :(.

I hated that school, so I guess it was just some more bad luck on top of getting picked on to deal with :l.
 
GTA III, GTA Vice City both stolen by different people and my GTA SA was held hostage for a solid year and a half. When I got that GTA SA copy back the plastic was blatantly knifed through about 90% of the plastic straight down the middle, so it had like flaps. And they must have literally used my disc as a coaster because the disc was unplayable, with some scratches so deep that they had to be intended. - I've still never finished GTA III. Thankfully my cousin let me borrow his copy of Vice City... Nonetheless, I don't lend out video games to anyone.
 
Mupod said:
When I was a kid I took everything people told me at face value, the idea that they didn't care about my things or were lying to me didn't cross my mind. So when my sister asked me if her boyfriend could borrow my genesis for the weekend, I said it was fine because I was always over at my cousin's place on weekends.

Of course, it took two months to get it back and they returned it mostly broken (connector for the RF adapter was wonky) and with a few missing games.

Didn't learn my lesson there, I wanted to participate in our school's fundraising fair and our booth was set up with some video games. I brought in some of my genesis games for it, but I couldn't stay until the end of the fair and they said they'd give me my games the next day at school. I ended up getting back two of them but nobody seemed to know what happened to the rest. So at this point I had almost no games left with a broken console, so I kinda lost track of what happened to it...pretty sure my parents gave it away or something. I was most pissed off at losing Rocket Knight Adventures in particular.

Couple years later I was doing a lot of babysitting for my parents' friends, I was 12 or 13 at the time. Anyways, the couple in particular had a couple of horrible hellspawn that gave me no end of trouble, but I agreed to go since it would be late at night and I'd mostly just be watching the house until they got back at like 1AM. I brought my game boy, which was actually the only game system I'd ever bought with my own money. I was so tired when they got back that I forgot it there, and when I went back the next day to pick it up those kids had hidden it somewhere. I believed the parents when they said they'd 'look for it', but in retrospect they probably didn't give a shit.

Worst part is, I never got paid. Took their word that they'd 'give it to me next time'.

Anyways, those incidents taught me some valuable life lessons, mainly to never trust any motherfuckers near my shit.
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I would have been so pissed and would have kept bothering them till i got it back.
 
Donkey Kong 64. Friend borrowed it about a week before he moved out of town, and was so busy helping his family pack up that he forgot to give it back. Or maybe he just didn't have enough time to. Either way, I went ahead and let him keep it; he was a good friend, and a responsible person who would have otherwise returned the game had both our lives not been crazy then.

I still want to beat that game, even though it's one of the biggest collect-a-thons I've ever played. I don't think it's ever shown up on Virtual Console, though.
 
I had my entire game collection stolen to get pawned off while I was away on business from a acquaintance. Only managed to ever get half of it back. Sadly the part that I cared for most my Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil collection is what I didn't manage to get back along with a few other titles.

That experience really killed my enthusiasm on game collecting.
 
My shithead cousin stole my Paper Mario 2 copy. It took me weeks to realize it was gone because he left the case and everything in place. It wasn't until a family meeting at my aunt's house that I noticed my copy in his room. If he had just asked, I would have loaned to him. But of course, there's always that one family member.
 
Not a video game but my brother had some friends over to my parents house when I was on vacation when I used to live over there, had about $500 worth of Magic cards stolen from my room. There's a couple of videogames I've lost over the years due to poor housekeeping but I don't think they were stolen.
 
Patryn said:
Let a coworker borrow Metal Gear Solid and Legend of Dragoon disc 2. They quit a week later and never saw them again.
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Oh, I lost my copy of Oni kinda like this. I mean, I didn't care and was expecting the guy to steal it anyways, I just thought it was oddly coincidental that he got fired the next day. I hope he had some fun with it at least since it sounded like it was his kind of game.

But yeah this was past the point where I never lent out anything I expected to get back. I also lent 8 bucks worth of PS2 games to my boss (ZOE1 and giants citizen kabuto) and that guy held onto them for months. I'm pretty sure most people beat ZOE1 in under 3-4 hours the first time.
 
When I was 14 I got caught stealing Jordan vs Bird from a Grocery Store. Got banned for life from there. Sucked because I didn't get the game that day.

Had to wait another week.
 
Back in elementary school, I made a new friend (which was a big deal for me) and he would frequently come to my house to play. My brother and I had all of our Game Boy games in a case that was sort of like a small suitcase. Over time, I noticed that some of them were missing. One day at school, he comes up to me to show me his new Pokemon game, with a whole lot of familiar Pokemon and my brother's name as the trainer ID. He said he got he got it (and the other missing games) after trading a kid some Pokemon cards.
 
Several years ago, My sister borrowed my super nintendo with 15 games.
When I got it back from her the only game it had with it was super mario world. She claims that I only lent her that one game with it...

;_;

I lost copies of Mario Kart, Final Fight, Super Mario All Stars and many others.

I never let her borrow anything again.
 
My cousin has Mario Kart 64, but then went through a bunch of shit. Parents separated, moving a lot, etc. so I have no idea where it is now.

And at the time, we temporarily traded games. I got fuckin' War Gods. So not really stolen, but I am still holding that lifetime L.
 
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Bully at school snatched my copy (because I was stupid enough to bring and flaunt it to my friends). Never saw that game again. One of my favorite RTS games ever.
 
onionfrog said:
Several years ago, My sister borrowed my super nintendo with 15 games.
When I got it back from her the only game it had with it was super mario world. She claims that I only lent her that one game with it...

;_;

I lost copies of Mario Kart, Final Fight, Super Mario All Stars and many others.

I never let her borrow anything again.
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WTF...

Well you can always count on family...

Worst my little sister has done is take my Pokemon card collection and trade all the rares holo's for energy card's. Thank god i found out fast enough and managed to get everything back when i went crazy on the kids that tricked her.
 
Lend a friend a modded PS1 "went to get it back a week later" his family cover up for him saying he had moved out and never saw it again.

My cousin`s half brother "douchebag by the of Anthony Galvao" stole my copy of the original Splinter Cell for the gamecube and WWE day of reckoning "sobs"

lastly I lend my complete copy of Resident Evil Zero to a friend in school, had to complain nonstop to get it back. when I got it back I only received disc 1 and it looked like it was dragged through the floor.
 
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