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[Chuck Berry]

Wanted

Got

Ball is in

Parking Lot

Would you like to play

Again?

You have selected

No

 

[RAIDEN1]

I can't believe you were still gaming on an Amiga in 1994.

Well yeah, I mean PCs weren't exactly cheap...and that was the last year I think before I switched over

 

[AGRacing]

In my days, games were rarely bought, they were mostly rented. So, it's not really a game, but it's a traumatic part of my childhood... I'll just leave these two pictures...

P.S - I got my Game Boy, but it was much later, as a New Year's gift, and it was a Game Boy Color. So, story has a happy ending.

There were many victims of this grift , unfortunately.

 

[LectureMaster]

Wanted:

Got:

 

[nush]

Wanted, Commodore 64 or Spectrum.

Got, used Tandy TRS 80 with a box of copied games.

 

[6502]

I finally got:

But my arse of a little brother kicked my Nes breaking it. I had to wait till Christmas for a replacement Nes and after much nagging and agreement the shop stopped stocking it and instead I got :

This to play on said little shits Master System instead.

Next Christmas my older brother had turned into a total c*nt so instead of getting a me MD or Saturn, he was bought a Psx and I had his hand me down snes. Which after he got bored of his demo disk and Fifa the twat suddenly had to play Krusty Super Fucking fun house (which he had years prior) and I had to share. This was the sort of spiteful greedy shit that bastard would do.

Needless to say this terrible parenting continued and led to both of my brothers becoming utter failures in life whilst I do not speak to any of the family.

 

[Artistic]

Asked for this:

Got this instead:

Initially was upset until I played Halo:CE on New Years 2002. Life changed from that day.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Asked for this:

Got this instead:

Initially was upset until I played Halo:CE on New Years 2002. Life changed from that day.

Nice surprise!! Halo was such a magical experience back then.

I'll never forget walking around Walmart with my dad a few months after the Xbox came out. They were really really hard to find in my area at the time and they had one left in stock.

I showed my dad and without hesitation, said "well let's pick it up then!" I couldn't believe it! I wasn't expecting getting an Xbox for a while, since I had a PS2.

Without my dad even asking, I ended up waking up early to shovel snow and clean off the cars all winter to make up for it and show my appreciation. It was 100% worth it

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

The Bubsy 4D thread got me thinking: We've all had that one game we begged for as kids and never got. We would get a substitute game, instead.

Either our parents or grandparents didn't understand what we meant, couldn't find it, or some dude at the store talked them into something "similar."

What I Wanted

What I Got

This was my birthday gift. I smiled and said "thank you," but inside I was dying.

Yo! Noid was awful. It had weird mechanics, random difficulty spikes, and just…why was the Noid even a thing?

I'd fire it up when friends came over, hoping it would somehow be better, and it never was. We'd last 10 minutes before switching to literally anything else.

You know, I never got Royal Rumble. Still mad about it. Goddamnit.

What substitute game or toy crushed your dreams as a kid?

I got socks instead of literally any video game. I would have taken a $.99 used licensed game from GameStop but I guess that's too much compared to socks.

 

[Mobilemofo]

I mean there are constant beatdowns during hockey matches so in a way he fullfilled your request

. It's true. The most fun part of that game was the handbags at dawn fights.