So I recently found a game (which I won't say what it is, because I'll most likely be throwing it in the for sale section) and let's just say it's value is in the 100s. Now I thought I had lost it and was mad for ages thinking I had done something stupid with it but luckily I got it back and I'm wrapt. But I wanna know if anyone else has any similar stories, where for some reason they lost a valuable game, peripheral or something or found a valuable thing they thought they lost.
When I was moving once, I put a box of Playstation games into my friend's pick up truck. The truck got stolen (with my stuff in it!!). I didn't have anything super rare in there. Suikoden II was the most valuable thing in there, that I know of. He eventually recovered the truck, with my stuff in it, however, it had rained a lot in the meantime, and most of my stuff was ruined (it was in the back of an open bed truck). The disc works fine, but the manual is ruined and the disc doesn't look so good anymore. To be honest, I probably wouldn't sell that game anyway, even if it was still in good condition & I could get top dollar for it.
Lost the Border Down mousepad that I got when I preordered the game for about 5 years. It turned up a few weeks ago. Not a game, but I am glad to have it back.
Nothing of great value. I did lose a GBA link cable once. It was the one from my childhood. Couldn't find it and assumed it was trashed years ago and bought a new one. Then a few months after I lost the new one. A month or so after losing the new one, I cleaned out my closet and found the old one and about a week later found the new one blending in with my Wii-motes (white cable). Now I have two. Good thing I have enough GBA's to use them with. EDIT: Forgot about this. My sister lost the G&W collection DS game. I miss it if only because it wasn't retail.
I lost the disc of DoDonPachi Daioujou for PS2... I still have the box with everything in it in mint condition, but the game DVD is gone forever Particularly since I moved after I lost it and I didn't even find it when I packed all my stuff. Really upset about that as DDP DOJ is one of my alltime favorite games :[ Now I gotta spend another $40 sometime... sigh
When I was young, lost my teddy bear in Peru (used to live there for a couple years). Called the hotel we were at and they shipped to us in Canada. That is what I call 5 star service. I've also left him on a bus, in a different hotel and in a rental car. Still got him! I one time went thrifting and found a Versace bracelet valued at about $5000. Bought it for $15, they thought it was a fake. Birks confirmed it was legitimate. That feel when I got the phone call with the value...
one time when I was like 7 we were stuck in a traffic jam on a chicago freeway, and we were like at a standstill. I looked out the window and saw a N64 cartridge. I made my dad stop the car by telling him I was going to throw up, and I jumped out and grabbed it. It was pokemon stadium and I have it to this day.
I lost my copy of Pokémon Yellow many years ago. At least I think it was lost; it's possible that I sold it and just forgot about it. It's not particularly valuable, but I wish I still had it. I suspect it might be hidden among the stuff I have left at my parents' house, but I've searched all over for it and it's nowhere to be found. I'm also missing my Earthworm Jim 2 Genesis box, though I'm pretty sure that one was thrown away or else destroyed somehow many years ago.
Nothing gaming related really but things that stick out in my mind are - My GF leaving her diamond ear rings in the safe in Jamaica; somehow this was my fault and still is to this day! £20 note when I was 13 which I had to take to school to pay for the next year school jumper (my Mum wasn't best pleased). Only key for my last car which ended up costing me around £250 for a replacement and 6 days without a car because the main dealer in my area is useless.
I found some He-Man figures buried in a beach that wasn't visited a lot, when I was like 7 or 8 years old. I still have them. To this day, I don't know what happened to my Fallout 3 disc. But what kills me, absolutely, is what two "friends" in junior high school did. One "borrowed" all my Commodore 64 discs and stopped talking to me when he became "popular" in high school. I found him recently and asked about my C64 discs, and he stopped contact. He doesn't even like videogames, so I guess he trashed them. Another one, borrowed my famiclone carts, and to this day he claims he returned them, when he most certainly did not. Fucker. And a friend in college borrowed some NES carts of mine, and never returned Super Mario 3. "No, that one was mine". She did give me like two others that were hers, but not my Christmas 91 SMB3. And recently, a former student said her mother was going to bin her brother's old NES stuff, and that she'd rather give me the lot of it. I expected a famiclone and some carts. I got Megaman 2, Dragon Warrior 2, 3, and 4, Final Fantasy, Ultima, two copies of Zelda 2, and a boxed and complete Zelda. And a complete NES, with four controllers. And a weird pirate Adventure Island that doesn't work. So, so good.
I was given 20 odd NES games back when a video store stopped renting them and I and thought I had given them away since at the time they didn't interest me. Then about two years ago I found them sitting in the corner of my basement. I'm also surprised at how many of my old NES boxes and instructions that survived and I've found in various drawers and boxes.
I've got a good one, not too valuable an item(s), but a good story nonetheless! My brother and I used to love playing Super Mario Bros Deluxe on the GBC. One day when we were driving home from our guitar lessons at Daddy's Junky Music, my brother noticed he lost his copy of the game, or so we thought. First, we drove back to the music store to look for it and ask the staff if they had seen it. No luck. Our parents offered to buy him another copy, but, we really wanted to act "grown up" and told them we'd save up our own money and buy a new copy together. Obviously, we were kids at the time, so it took us a little while to raise the $30. About a month later our Dad drove us to buy another copy at our local Best Buy. We actually bought their last copy. So, we then headed back for the car, we opened the rear passenger door and guess what fell out? An extremely faded label copy of Super Mario Bros Deluxe lol!!!!! It must have been hidden where it could get sunlight but we couldn't see it!!! Haha!!!! WE all laughed and decided to keep all three copies to remember the story, turned out it wasn't a bad idea, adds a nice touch to the collection, don't ya think????!!!!
When I was younger (10ish), I lost a lot of my Gameboy games, and my beloved Gameboy Colour when my basement flooded, the gameboy stopped working and we tossed it, but I don't know what of the games, the only game that survived was Hyper Lode Runner. Lost Pokemon Yellow, Super Mario world, and a few other great titles. Oddly enough, I found my original DMG two years ago, and it works well.
two years ago I lent someone a copy of Little Big Planet 2 that I had gotten for free, he never gave it back but I don't really blame him because I had forgotten about that until reading through stories in this thread
I lost my copy of Street Fighter Collection for the PS1, still a tad pissed about it I played the hell out of it as a kid... it fetches for a decent price from what I've heard. Other than that I've lost THPS3 for the PS2 ( this was around the early PS2 days, a douchebag classmate never returned it over the fact that my friend didn't give back a DVD to another guy... what a load of shit... never had the chance to confront the guy afterwards as he moved ) and a complete Super Nintendo that I found when I had a short lived hard rubbish collection job.
Well I actually didn't lose it myself, but rather the post office lost it for me, I bought an NTSC-US/JP NR Reader from another member here around March 2012 and sent it to me to Uruguay by ship, since it came from Sweden, but it never showed up , I still regret it until this day. In all my online international transactions I only got 3 lost in transit, this being the worse.
