I remember a friend of mine traded in one of my favorite N64 games Body Harvest into Gamestop. I only found out because I found it in Gamestop. I recognized the scuff on the cartridge so I went back home and took the ps2 games he let me borrow and traded them into Gamestop to buy it back hahaha.
Nice to see Robman back! I actually never lent games to anyone in my childhood. I really loved my video games and didn't want them missing or stolen. Also paying for replacements would of been a nightmare.
Man I always feel great watching your videos your conversations and reactions to things are so genuine and entertaining it just brightens my day a bit.
Kids can be little shits. Had a kid steal my Pokémon red that I “lost” at his house. I love when you lend something to someone and ask for it back they try to make you feel guilty? Like how can you make me feel guilty for something that is rightfully yours?
I had one of my "friends" steal 3 Genesis games from my backpack at school, and he would later make fun of me asking him about it with no shame. "Where's my T2??? T twoooooo! Huhuhuhuh" D-bag..
I had a good friend in high school or so I thought, who was a skater friend of mine that I ended up lending my NES games to play during Easter vacation back in 90' I told him not to lend them out to anyone one else. So he ended up lending the games out to his neighborhood friend and cousin whom lived down his street. After a week after Easter vacation was over, I tried to get them back and he told me he lent them out to the neighborhood friend down the street and then when I confronted him about getting my games back he told me they were stolen from his house. I lent out 17 NES games except for two Super Mario Duck Hunt and Pro Wrestling, later I found out it was a plan between my skating friend, his neighborhood friend and his cousin to steal my games and thats when I learned the lesson to never lend out any video games to anyone except family members, only my brother.
I completely agree, I've always taken pride in looking after my games, having countless titles in my collection that were over 20 years old (from the day I bought them) and still in mint condition, 3 days with a friend and without fail they would be trashed.
My copy of Castlevania SOTN went missing. It was the fully black disc version with yellow lettering. Got it as a gift when it was released. I lent it out to a friend, and the friend ended up saying that I didn't lend it to him. A while later he must of felt bad because he said he was trying to find me a copy to buy to replace the one I had go missing even though he wasn't the one who lost it. My friends and I all knew he really did lose it and or sold it for alcohol and/or drugs. Years later it isn't replaced and he is in prison for trying to sell a 17 year old girl who had psychological/mental development issues.
Man, hearing Johnnys story about how he got guilted into paying for games he didn't lose reminds me of some dirty shit an ex friend pulled on me when I was younger. As a kid I had a sleepover with 2 other buddies and 1 of them always had a thing for borrowing games and never taking care of them. He asked to borrow FF 7, 9, Legend of Dragoon and Digimon World. I denied all of them saying I'm playing through each of them. That must have pissed him off cus after the sleepover all those games were missing. Fast Forward about 5 or so years later when we were hanging out at his place (I know what the fuck was I thinking) I found this leopard print CD case and fucking inside were all the discs to the games I mentioned except Digimon World. I was in shock and when I kept questioning why he never showed me he had these games and never played them. Piece of shit told me his sisters boyfriend bought em at a flea market.I seriously hope someone reads this and if they see any similarities between the friend in my story and someone they know right now, save yourself the pain and just drop that asshole.
10:38 Little does anybody know Johnny actually was the perpetrator that broke into Robman's locker and smashed his copy of DJ Boy. Too Satanic, Johnny, too Satanic.
I know it's way in the past, but the bullying against Rob really sucks. Dunno how else to put it and I know we can't eradicate it completely. At least you had/have a good friend like Johnny. Never leant my games and haven't had them come back. I do still have a friend's games, so I'm the bad guy here. Though, I'm sure I've mentioned it to him.
Unfortunately bullying is a necessary evil. It creates stronger more resilient adults. The more you try to bubble wrap people the more frail they become.
JazGalaxy or it could be just human nature and shit just happens. I was bullied relentlessly growing up and it made me more resilient mentally, physically, emotionally and even socially. Like I said it’s a necessary evil.
Had a friend who bought his friend over to my house after school to play my new nes game. Later that night I realized it was missing. I was so young and innocent that I did not understand stealing and thought it was misplaced, and I'll find it later. A week later, at school other classmates were talking about going to play the "game" at house of the classmate my friend brought over. That was when I lose my childhood innocence and became a victim of thief. My friend realized what had happened to my game and went with me over to the thief's house to confront him. Did not get it back. My friend ended his friendship with the thief. Months later the thief moved to Chicago. I like to think its because no one wants to be his friend and risk their games to his sticky fingers. I loved that game, but hate that that is the memory I have of it.
REALLY GOOD ADVICE, don't let people borrow your things. I'm not even sure how half the marks get on them. What people must be doing with their own stuff. It would take me time and energy to do what people do to things (even books) over the course of a day (or even hours). NOTHING sounds bad about saying that from where I'm sitting.
I rarely had any problems lending games to people. But here's my experience: - My best former childhood friend was notorious for borrowing new games from me, arguing that at least he could play them since my mother and stepfather could be strict. And then he'd be " _sick_ " so I couldn't come by and play with him.Aside from this, he'd also misplace certain games and then think it wasn't mine but rather someone else he had borrowed it from. The last two things he borrowed was my Starship Troopers DVD and The Raven Project and Resident Evil 2 Dual Shock Edition ( _PS1_ ), years ago. Games I'll never see again since I cut contacts with his stupid ass. - A Classmate who I lent something to, and then when I got it back it was just cartridge alone, all smudgey and shit and I wondered WTF. Well I found out why when I decided to come home to him and saw the state of their home... Just..... No. The best lesson I learned however was, never borrow from someone. And if you do, expect the wares beforehand. This is the reason why I've refused to play Alundra for the past 20 years. This kid back when we were 13 was bragging about how it was the best game ever and wanted me to play it, so I said sure. He brought it to school in a plastic fucking demo disk holder, the disc was scratched beyond belief and I asked him What the hell man?? No No, he said. It'll work. It just looks bad. So I borrowed it home - No, it didn't work. And then I forgot about it. And then he started to nag about getting the game back. And I kept forgetting it, and he started getting violent about it and even brought his dad into it. So when I finally brought it back - in a better case mind you - he came up to me next day and demanded that I buy a new copy for him. Even though I refused, I really had no choice. I had to buy that fat fuck a new copy, with disc, and manual, and I gave it to him at school and I told him " _Next time you asshat, bring a proper CD case and not a game that's fucking scratched just to make others buy you a new game._ " He did not appreciate that but after that, we never spoke again. And that's the story why I have refused to play Alundra. ADD: On a second note, I used to have around 20+ PS1 games. I brough thtem with me to my first partner because of the little brother had a PS1 and wanted to play it. After we broke up, I let him keep them all because I couldn't stomach the idea of ever going back to that house and facing my ex after all the emotional pain I was given.
I think this is a result of we having shifted into a parallel dimension. My copy of Metroid Fusion disappeared. I don't know where it went. I have all my GBA-games in one pouch, and it's not there.
I feel bad for Rob having to go through all that bullying as someone that has dealt with it quite a bit myself I probably would have hung out with him as a kid. Johnny, you're a good man for helping him out when you did.
I learned this rule a while ago but the worst thing that has happened to me was when I started Uni, living in a student accommodation, one of my flat mates brought a N64 to the living area, me being nice when I visited back home I brought some of my games.5 people were living in my flat, people from other flats would come and go and one day I realised I lost my Zelda OOT. I was so angry and trying to track down who came and who could have taken it. Like Mario Kart 64 means so much to Johnny, Zelda was a Christmas gift back in 1998, completed 100% and it meant so much to me. I felt awful that I had to re-buy my the cart itself again as I know some horrible person just stole my copy. The only thing I can say I still own the original box and manual. But as you said, never ever lend out video games, movies. It might make you seem you have trust issues which I guess I do because of not only of the Zelda story but other things in the past that has been lost or stolen. But in the long run you would not regret it.
dude. I want to say I saw this 'Jeff' commenting on your nintendo story video. The comment looked pretty legitimate and he was expressing major regret.
I love it when Rob is on the show. While I am sure I have "lost" a few games over the years, I can't recall what ones. I do remember some of my movies and cd's walking out of my house somehow. One game I did lend out was Ultima The Black Gate for PC. A friend borrowed it for the map and book and then moved a month later without ever giving it back. I have not seen him since and this was 1992. I only got to play that game for 5 hours, as there was no way to get around the copy protection at the time if the book and map were gone.
When I was a teenager, my parents switched over to cable from regular TV and my Sega Genesis didn't work with the new cable setup. I thought for a while that my Genesis was broken (I was stupid), I decided to lend my 16 games to my cousins until I can get my console fixed since I was not playing the console. A year and a half later I finally figured out what was wrong with my Sega Genesis, I simply was hooking it up wrong to the new cable system and that is why the video wasn't displaying, I found this out while trying to hook up my new N64 console to my TV setup and following the manual from the N64. I was so happy to finally get my Genesis back up and running again, I just had one game still to test it that my cousins didn't want, plus I bought a few more for dirt cheap at my local game shop. I called them up to ask for my games back and they were acting kind of funny on the phone, but they told me to stop by whenever to pick them up. I show up and they gave me like 5 games and then they made an excuse that they didn't know where the other ones were at the moment, but they will look for them. I looked at the games and like 3 games were mines, but the other 2 were not, after asking them what the heck is this and them trying to convince me that was my game, I had to go because my mother was leaving. What made me so mad during the car ride home was the fact that each and every game I have for my systems since I was a kid I had to work my butt off for and my cousins never had to do that so to them it was just a game or a bargaining chip to trade with their friends to get a better game, but to me, it was a token of my accomplishments and hard work. This back and forth of asking for my games went on throughout High school, with me receiving some games back that were mine and them giving me other games that were their friends and telling me it is a good title that was better than what I originally owned and that I should just take it. I found out later they traded my games and sold some of them for money, I never lend a game out to friends or family for that reason anymore, if I want a game I go out and work for it.
My deepest condolences. Out of curiosity, how exactly did you have to work for these games? I was lucky to get 2 games per console growing up. I didn't get any allowance.
I remember lending a few Sega Mega Drive games to a friend during High School, when I got them back the boxes were crushed, the plastic cart inserts were crushed and in many pieces and one game had the cart label ripped off....never again.
My story is rather sad and upsetting. I lent this kid I did not know very well my copy of Final Fantasy 7 and Army Men Air Attack. The kid came back later to return them but, my copy of Final Fantasy 7 only had the first disc so he lost the other 2 discs plus the disc I did get back had pink nail polish all over the back of it. I was so mad and I asked his parents to pay for it which they said they would but, I never got paid because a week later they moved away and I never saw them again. Also the Army Men game no longer worked after I got it back from the kid even though the disc looked fine. That is how I learned to not lend games unless I really deeply trust someone and I have known them for a long while.
There are several that I have no idea where they went. -star wars ep1 racer -Toy Story 2 -a n64 cartridge case -super smash bros melee -Phantasy Star Universe -ratchet and clank tools of destruction -borderlands -borderlands 2 The odd thing is with the disc games I still have the cases/manuals for them and I never lent those out
I never had anyone do anything shady. Everyone I knew did a 1 for 1 when borrowing someone’s else’s games so you always had one of their games to play while yours was loaned.
I 100% with this statement "Never lend out games or take games into the public". When i was a kid around 13 i took my new golden zelda gba sp to school and it got stolen from my bag. I lent a bunch of gamecube games to a friend and a few weeks later i asked for them back and he told me a power surge destroyed all the games i lent (I knew he sold them). But there were times when i was like 13/14 where i was the one who "borrowed" games and took golden sun 2 from a friend's house without telling them.
I remember it took me about 12 months to get a game back from a kid on my street at the time. I'd loaned him Die Hard Trilogy on PS1. I heard many rumours that he had loaned the game to different people around the village but could never prove it. He'd mysteriously not answer the door any time I'd call up to him or his parents would say he wasn't there. Thankfully I did get the game back - fully intact - in the end. The second game I loaned the same kid (long story, my brother practically guilted me into doing it) came back with the box in bits. Apparently "they didn't know what happened" to it. I heard months later that his baby brother had stood on it. Lesson more than learned. I never ever loaned out a game again to any one.
My mom used to mark my nes cartridges with a gold pen with my first and last name. It’s actually kinda nostalgic seeing the few OG cartridges that I have left from my childhood with that nice gold signature.
Sadly, I left my N64 and all my games at a friends house after a super smash sleepover, then his older neighbors came by during the week and took everything. I was about 14 at the time and the neighbors were the cool older 18 year olds. I wish I had a dude like you Johnny to help me out when I was young. RIP N64 games haha.
Oh. You are such a good friend Johnny. I mean, you really love your friend for getting back his games. :) I had bad experiences in lending people stuff. Specially back in the day when cassette tapes were a thing. Some I never got back because people who I lend it to, lend it to someone else without my permission, treating it as if it is theirs. Some tapes were really beaten up. You know those little brochure-like prints inside the tapes, where the lyrics are on? One of my tapes had a really messed up copy of it. The case was broken, the paper was torn to pieces. It really made me feel bad for it. Til this day, I remember who did it. That really did it to me about lending people stuff. I don't bring my books, cassette tapes, VCDs at school anymore because of those bad experiences.
I let someone borrow Tales of Destiny back around 2002-2003 and they had it for almost 4 months. The person only wanted to play it for a few weeks and I kept asking about it and he said, "I can't find it.". So, I had to call his house and his parents answered and I finally got my game back with no scratches or tears on the manual, thank goodness.
in 5th grade on last day of school this kid wanted to play Super Mario hops 3 on 3 and i kept on saying no but i lent him the game over the summer he moved to a different school and i never saw the game again, i still have the box and everything but not the game and the box sits in my collection and haunts me to this very day
For some reason, a lot of our friends growing up would come over and just leave games at our house. Granted we had our friends over all the time, but even when we would say "Hey you left your games here" they would just tell us to keep them there because they knew they were safer at our house. Needless to say I still have about 10-15 games that aren't mine.
I quit lending movies, game, or CDs back in the day because my friends would never give them back and after I track most of them down they always be damaged.
I'm 23 years old when I was younger I remember lending games to friends all the time and trading games with friends and sometimes you never got those games back lol. Now watching my 14 year old brother I think those times are over since everything is all digital now
The only thing missing for me is from when I was a kid, and those are my game boxes for my original NES collection, about 10 or 15 or so like my Kirby, Life Force, New Zealand Story, Captain America and more, but just the boxes, I do still have the manuals, I always kept those separate. I am convinced my mom threw all the game boxes out when I was still young because she probably thought "Why keep empty boxes?" Even though she denies this completely. I know what you did, mom! I NEVER FORGET!! It did take me about 15 years to recuperate my Smash Bros 64 from a friend, but I got it back! Glad I never lend out boxes or game cases, it's still in mint condition today thanks to that.
When you lend out, keep the case and put a note inside saying who has it. That way when it's returned you'll be foreced to see the note and get rid of it, and there's no chance of forgetting you lent it becaise you'll always go for the case.
I had a friend who I thought I was really good friends with and he asked to borrow some GBA games and the system for a little bit since he lived next door. He borrowed Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Zelda Four Swords and some other ones and he took them with him when he went to Job Corps without telling me. Needless to say he said they were stolen and never repaid me for them, I dropped him as a friend not too long after that. I also let one of his friends who was my friend at the time borrow my Gamecube along with some game or games I don't remember and I think he ended up selling it for drugs or something so I dropped him as a friend too and since then I've learned to never lend out my games for ANY reason.
I lent my Mega Drive with all the games to a friend of mine. When i asked for it back, he said he lent it to another friend of his, and this hypothetical friend took it to another city. Neither to say, we are not friends anymore. It's been more than 15 years ago and i'm still mad when i remember about it. NEVER lend your games, especially when you are young and don't have the means of pressure.
When my son was 3 years old I gave him my ps2 and games (about 600). A couple weeks later I was asking him which ones he liked and he told me his mother had taken all of them from him and sold them without so much as giving him any of the money she got. That was a lesson for me, I never borrowed games to anyone but it had never crossed my mind that people would steal from their own children.
GOD Johnny, the wierdest thing just happened. As soon as you mentioned you lost your Resident Evil Zero, I turned around to look at my Gamecube collection and.......Resident Evil Zero is missing!! *cue X-files music now*
maybe...just maybe....we never even had it in the first place! And the game existing in physical form was just figment of our over-active imaginations that was developed from playing too many video games! And our memories of playing the game are simply an amalgimation of all the difficult bosses and terrors we experienced from cheap deaths. And thats why it is called Resident Evil "ZERO"...because, like the number, it represnts nothing, emptiness, the non-existent...it doesn't exist. "ghasp" Wow....did i take my meds today?
this has happened to me a lot living in a small town growing up, basically i dont like thinking about how many games i've lent out and never got back or just went missing it'd be a collection in of itself
I solved this one but it drove me nuts for hours. I had an old and used copy of Skyrim for my Xbox 360 someone gave me, one day it goes missing I am looking through all my game cases and all my games, check the console, look all over the house, ask about it to everyone in the house. A few days later my daughter tells me she was cleaning up and threw it in the garbage because the disc was all scratched up. It worked but it was damaged when I got it. I told her I wasn't mad but next time, just put the game in the box I keep my games in.
I lost two games, Super Mario Bros 3 and Goldeneye. I was a teenager when I lent them to friends. Unfortunately SMB3 was lost during my friend's house fire and the other was lent to a friend who ended up moving a few months later. The good news is that both are fairly common releases so I was able to re-acquire them for cheap.
I lent Majora's Mask to one of my brother's friends 20 years ago... I knew I wouldn't see it again. Most recently, I found out that my copy of Super Mario Land was missing. This one pisses me off, because it was my very first video game.
When I was 12 or so my evil parents convinced to me that I was too old to play video games and so I sold almost my entire collection of n64 and ps1 games 😩
So many bad memories of school bubbled up, watching this video. Trying to get back my copy of Sonic & Knuckles from an older guy who I only knew from the school bus. It took months, and the cardboard case was all torn and bent when I got it back. Never got my copy of V-Rally 2 back from a guy I didn't really like all that much. On the last day of school, we were allowed to bring our consoles, and I brought my PS2 and Vice City when it was still new. The disc came back scratched and unusable. Glad to only hang around with people I trust, these days.
I borrowed my ps2 game collection (20+ games) to my best friend when I bought the ps3. When I asked him for the games, he said he had given them back to me already. I couldn't believe the whole situation. Especially if you won't play them, don't borrow your games! It kills friendships.
I moved in with a buddy of mine, this was about 5 years ago, and my 3DS went missing, as well as a bunch of my older DS games. He swore he never took them, and I searched his room when he was gone and didn't find them. We figure that someone must have broke in and took them, as some of his stuff was missing as well.
I lent my original Wii to my sister who has 4 kids. Eventually had to ask for it back as she never seemed to want to bring it herself. Got it back and the Wii remotes wrist bands were all coloured in with permanent marker and the console block was all scratched. Never lend to FAMILY or friends ever.
Had an old neighbor kid come over and snag a few of my NES titles. I wasn't able to find them until they had a garage sale with some of MY games on their table. I told his dad he stole them from me and he called me a liar.
I rarely traded games when I was young and it was only with my closest friends that I knew I could trust. Didn't really have randoms coming up that I hardly knew asking to borrow games back then.
I'm from Brazil and my Castlevania Simphony of the night for ps1 is gone. I don't know what happens Someone came into my game room and stole the cd. I've tried to imagine who it might be, but I never found out. Very sad.
for a short time i lived in Saskatuan Saskatoon and had brought all my old nes games with me, and when i moved back home to Nova Scotia i shipped them all home in 2 big boxes, which yes i put insurance on ..... but it just wasn't enough only one of those 2 big boxes made it back its not like they were all rare games or anything but they were games i kept because i still loved em so i get the money from the insurance and that was around same time nes games started climbing in price >.> it was not enough to get em all back so i didn't even bother sadly. anyway great episode keep up the good work.
I was in middle school (we called in junior high school back then) when the Sega Genesis came out. I had 2 friends at school that I would trade games with, for weeks at a time. Our trades went off without a hitch, and it was probably because we were mutually serious gamers, so we understood the importance of taking care of each other's stuff! It was a convenient thing too, because my parents didn't have extra money to buy games at any time like some of the more fortunate kids. We (my brother and I) would sometimes get a few bucks on weekends to rent games (or I would skip buying lunch a couple days a week to have game rental money on Friday...lol). Otherwise, we would have to wait until Christmas for our parents to buy games. I would never lend anything out without getting one in return, and now as an adult, I wouldn't lend out any games period, unless it was a cheap one that I could easily replace! I wouldn't borrow anyone's games, either. The cool thing about being an adult is just being able to go out and buy the games that I want at any time.
I had a friend who wanted to trade games for a little bit, like barrow each others games, he gave me Mega Man X and I gave him Yoshi’s Island both for SNES and after he left I could not get ahold of him ever again, I tried texting him wanting to get it back, but he completely ignored me. I was so pissed off at him for the longest time, eventually I gave up and told myself it wasn’t even worth it. Nobody will ever borrow a game from me ever again.
My story is pretty simple, when I was a kid I was super obsessed with Mortal Kombat and it was around the PS1 era. I had MK Trilogy, MK4, and I think either MK Mythologies or MK Special Forces. This friend of mine that I played with asked to borrow them after I brought them over to his house so we could play some games. He wanted to train and get better and to just play them, we lived in the same apartment complex so I was like...well okay I don't mind. I didn't hear from him in a few days and when I go to see if he's around so I can get my games back I find out that he moved. I didn't know he was moving and I never heard from him again. I learned a valuable lesson that day! I lent someone Disgaea 1 on the PS2, every time I asked them about it they said they hadn't finished it yet, and eventually I believe we just kind of stopped hanging out together and I never got it back. The final game I lent out that I did get back...like 2-3 years later was Persona 3 the original on PS2. I let a girl from work borrow it because she really wanted to play it. It's a long game I understand it would take a while to get through it. Eventually I ended up moving, I had her added on facebook I believe. Even though it took forever I did get it back it might have been 4 years later for all I know she just sent it to me in the mail. It was in worse shape then when I lent it to her but by that point I wasn't too concerned about it due to having bought both Persona 3 FES, and Persona 3 Portable on the PSP. My advice if you are going to lend out games, make sure they are super super close friends who you absolutely trust.
Around 2002-2003 I had lent two friends a few of my PS1 JRPGs. One guy’s name was Demetrius and the other was John. At the time I was heavy into Everquest and had my ps2 so I didn’t care for PS1 games. The fact that they liked JRPGS made me pumped and wanted them to try out a few of my games. This was in Jersey and by the time I moved back to NY I forgot about them. The games were Jade Cocoon, Final Fantasy Tactics, and the one that hurts the most...Suikoden 2.
I used to share a house with some siblings, and one of my nephews friends stole some games from me. I caught him when he came over one night for a sleep over and he had accidentally brought over one of the games. I knew it was mine because he didn't realize I had put a custom cover on it. After that I put a lock on my door.
That was a cool story how you got Ron's games back. I also have that same policy about not lending out games, movies, or comics and books. I was burned twice back when I was younger. After I first got my NES a guy from my school, a friend of a friend, wanted to borrow all my Atari 2600 games. It was about 20 games and I foolishly let him borrow them cause I was focused on my NES. He moved away and I never got them back. Another time I lent out Mega Man parts 2-6 to some friends of mine I really trusted and never got them back. After getting burned twice I never lend out things anymore.
I had my copy of Silent Hill on PS1 up and disappear about six years ago. Finally this year I was able to replace that lost copy. It still pisses me off to this day that it was lost.
So when we had our first kid, I put all my console games into storage at my moms house because we had tiny apartments where had not place to keep them away. After I got them all out of storage. Everything was there, except one game, my Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Gold Cart, Still have my box and manual however (I store my carts and boxes separate), but not the freaking game. Still have no idea what could have happened to it. I literally was racking through my brain for nearly a year trying to figure out what may have happened to it because OoT is my favorite game ever. My wife got me a replacement cart for my next birthday as a surprise gift, because she is wonderful.
When I was in high school I lent out my PS1 (which had been modified to play Japanese games) along with 3 imported Dragon Ball Z/GT titles, Final Fantasy 7, and who knows what other JRPG's from my collection. This was during the PS2 era, and I was less attached to them since I was busy playing newer games. I had let my best friend borrow them, and after several months later I asked for them back. He just kind of got quiet and told me that he had pawned him off at a pawn shop. I was so pissed. I'd gone through so much trouble getting that console modified and collecting those games, which were brand new when I'd bought them.
I remember a friend of mine traded in one of my favorite N64 games Body Harvest into Gamestop. I only found out because I found it in Gamestop. I recognized the scuff on the cartridge so I went back home and took the ps2 games he let me borrow and traded them into Gamestop to buy it back hahaha.
And Body Harvest of all games? Your friend is a monster.
He drew first blood
You did the right thing.
savage Bob haha. Make some more retro anime vids please!
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Them feelz... with that story of John getting his games back for bullied Rob. True bros do this for each other!
Lovely to see that friendship
It's so great to have the two of you together. Thanks for sharing this friendship.
Can we please get someone to create an animation of Johnny going to the underworld to get Rob’s games back?
The one dislike must be from the Taka guy...
Nice to see Robman back!
I actually never lent games to anyone in my childhood. I really loved my video games and didn't want them missing or stolen. Also paying for replacements would of been a nightmare.
You deserve more than 175k subscribers, thank you for the show!!!
Deserves more than 264k too.
@@yittmashups More than 311k
Man I always feel great watching your videos your conversations and reactions to things are so genuine and entertaining it just brightens my day a bit.
Honestly who would mess with Rob now??? He's a big dude!!
It's not always about being big.
Ahh. I'm just fat. It doesn't count.
Big, small, tall, short... we're all the same after a nutshot. Lol.
I wouldn't piss him off but I am small with no martial arts training
Rob totally stole all the N64 games :P
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Kids can be little shits. Had a kid steal my Pokémon red that I “lost” at his house. I love when you lend something to someone and ask for it back they try to make you feel guilty? Like how can you make me feel guilty for something that is rightfully yours?
NICKY MGTV that sucks man, I feel your pain, exact same thing with me and my Pokémon Yellow
I had one of my "friends" steal 3 Genesis games from my backpack at school, and he would later make fun of me asking him about it with no shame. "Where's my T2??? T twoooooo! Huhuhuhuh" D-bag..
I had a good friend in high school or so I thought, who was a skater friend of mine that I ended up lending my NES games to play during Easter vacation back in 90' I told him not to lend them out to anyone one else. So he ended up lending the games out to his neighborhood friend and cousin whom lived down his street. After a week after Easter vacation was over, I tried to get them back and he told me he lent them out to the neighborhood friend down the street and then when I confronted him about getting my games back he told me they were stolen from his house. I lent out 17 NES games except for two Super Mario Duck Hunt and Pro Wrestling, later I found out it was a plan between my skating friend, his neighborhood friend and his cousin to steal my games and thats when I learned the lesson to never lend out any video games to anyone except family members, only my brother.
Johnny went full WICK to get Rob's games back and doesn't remember.
You guys have amazing on screen chemistry!
Always fantastic to see Rob Man!
I completely agree, I've always taken pride in looking after my games, having countless titles in my collection that were over 20 years old (from the day I bought them) and still in mint condition, 3 days with a friend and without fail they would be trashed.
so glad you and rob are doing episodes together more now, he really brings a lot to the show
Testament to the 'dont lend your games to friends' - A friend of mine lent me Half Life for the PC back in 1998. I still have it.
My copy of Castlevania SOTN went missing. It was the fully black disc version with yellow lettering. Got it as a gift when it was released. I lent it out to a friend, and the friend ended up saying that I didn't lend it to him. A while later he must of felt bad because he said he was trying to find me a copy to buy to replace the one I had go missing even though he wasn't the one who lost it. My friends and I all knew he really did lose it and or sold it for alcohol and/or drugs. Years later it isn't replaced and he is in prison for trying to sell a 17 year old girl who had psychological/mental development issues.
Dustin Gibbons how do you sell a girl?
He kidnapped her and was selling her into illegal sex trafficking ring..
Dustin Gibbons bloody nora
I can link a news article about him, part of me wishes it says, also stole and sold Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Dustin Gibbons haha just edit his Wikipedia and include the atrocity
Man, hearing Johnnys story about how he got guilted into paying for games he didn't lose reminds me of some dirty shit an ex friend pulled on me when I was younger. As a kid I had a sleepover with 2 other buddies and 1 of them always had a thing for borrowing games and never taking care of them. He asked to borrow FF 7, 9, Legend of Dragoon and Digimon World. I denied all of them saying I'm playing through each of them. That must have pissed him off cus after the sleepover all those games were missing. Fast Forward about 5 or so years later when we were hanging out at his place (I know what the fuck was I thinking) I found this leopard print CD case and fucking inside were all the discs to the games I mentioned except Digimon World. I was in shock and when I kept questioning why he never showed me he had these games and never played them. Piece of shit told me his sisters boyfriend bought em at a flea market.I seriously hope someone reads this and if they see any similarities between the friend in my story and someone they know right now, save yourself the pain and just drop that asshole.
It's not stealing when you steal back your own shit, just saying. ;)
10:38 Little does anybody know Johnny actually was the perpetrator that broke into Robman's locker and smashed his copy of DJ Boy. Too Satanic, Johnny, too Satanic.
I know it's way in the past, but the bullying against Rob really sucks. Dunno how else to put it and I know we can't eradicate it completely. At least you had/have a good friend like Johnny. Never leant my games and haven't had them come back. I do still have a friend's games, so I'm the bad guy here. Though, I'm sure I've mentioned it to him.
It's been 19 years for me, trust me, that still hurts, stuff like that doesn't go away, not when it's actual bullying.
Unfortunately bullying is a necessary evil. It creates stronger more resilient adults. The more you try to bubble wrap people the more frail they become.
RetroDeath 19 years... Man up friend. No shit you get bullied if you're this weak.
JazGalaxy or it could be just human nature and shit just happens. I was bullied relentlessly growing up and it made me more resilient mentally, physically, emotionally and even socially. Like I said it’s a necessary evil.
Had a friend who bought his friend over to my house after school to play my new nes game. Later that night I realized it was missing. I was so young and innocent that I did not understand stealing and thought it was misplaced, and I'll find it later. A week later, at school other classmates were talking about going to play the "game" at house of the classmate my friend brought over. That was when I lose my childhood innocence and became a victim of thief. My friend realized what had happened to my game and went with me over to the thief's house to confront him. Did not get it back. My friend ended his friendship with the thief. Months later the thief moved to Chicago. I like to think its because no one wants to be his friend and risk their games to his sticky fingers. I loved that game, but hate that that is the memory I have of it.
Do you remember what game it was?
What game it was?
man videos like these remind me how cool the robman/johnny friendship is. A real inspiration!
WOW! Johnny is really a decent friend! Very kind of him to help out Rob & recover his games!
REALLY GOOD ADVICE, don't let people borrow your things. I'm not even sure how half the marks get on them. What people must be doing with their own stuff. It would take me time and energy to do what people do to things (even books) over the course of a day (or even hours). NOTHING sounds bad about saying that from where I'm sitting.
Dude getting those games back like that was super fucking cool I’ve always liked your genuine ness and you’re a super real dude
I lend all my ps1 games when I was 12, and never got them back. The guy's now in prison.
Shanoa because of this? :b
Always glad to see our man Rob in the show. :)
I rarely had any problems lending games to people.
But here's my experience:
- My best former childhood friend was notorious for borrowing new games from me, arguing that at least he could play them since my mother and stepfather could be strict. And then he'd be " _sick_ " so I couldn't come by and play with him.Aside from this, he'd also misplace certain games and then think it wasn't mine but rather someone else he had borrowed it from. The last two things he borrowed was my Starship Troopers DVD and The Raven Project and Resident Evil 2 Dual Shock Edition ( _PS1_ ), years ago. Games I'll never see again since I cut contacts with his stupid ass.
- A Classmate who I lent something to, and then when I got it back it was just cartridge alone, all smudgey and shit and I wondered WTF. Well I found out why when I decided to come home to him and saw the state of their home... Just..... No.
The best lesson I learned however was, never borrow from someone.
And if you do, expect the wares beforehand. This is the reason why I've refused to play Alundra for the past 20 years.
This kid back when we were 13 was bragging about how it was the best game ever and wanted me to play it, so I said sure.
He brought it to school in a plastic fucking demo disk holder, the disc was scratched beyond belief and I asked him What the hell man??
No No, he said. It'll work. It just looks bad. So I borrowed it home - No, it didn't work. And then I forgot about it. And then he started to nag about getting the game back.
And I kept forgetting it, and he started getting violent about it and even brought his dad into it. So when I finally brought it back - in a better case mind you - he came up to me next day and demanded that I buy a new copy for him. Even though I refused, I really had no choice. I had to buy that fat fuck a new copy, with disc, and manual, and I gave it to him at school and I told him " _Next time you asshat, bring a proper CD case and not a game that's fucking scratched just to make others buy you a new game._ " He did not appreciate that but after that, we never spoke again.
And that's the story why I have refused to play Alundra.
ADD: On a second note, I used to have around 20+ PS1 games. I brough thtem with me to my first partner because of the little brother had a PS1 and wanted to play it.
After we broke up, I let him keep them all because I couldn't stomach the idea of ever going back to that house and facing my ex after all the emotional pain I was given.
Too satanic John, too satanic...
-Mr. Shimizu
John, you should do a video on your history with skateboarding
Yes! I second this. that'd be awesome
Agreed! To me, skating and retro gaming go together.
Yeah!
I never forget my fallen heroes. Their loss caused my hoarding problem in the first place!
AWESOME topic, HCG I loved this episode!! Sweet shirts btw.
I think this is a result of we having shifted into a parallel dimension.
My copy of Metroid Fusion disappeared. I don't know where it went. I have all my GBA-games in one pouch, and it's not there.
themblan same with my copy of Metroid Fusion.
Can never have enough Robman in your videos!!!
It feels nice to have Rob Man back on more episodes.
These stories sit right at home with me. Now as an adult, no one enters my game room without me there. Always locked.
I feel bad for Rob having to go through all that bullying as someone that has dealt with it quite a bit myself I probably would have hung out with him as a kid. Johnny, you're a good man for helping him out when you did.
I learned this rule a while ago but the worst thing that has happened to me was when I started Uni, living in a student accommodation, one of my flat mates brought a N64 to the living area, me being nice when I visited back home I brought some of my games.5 people were living in my flat, people from other flats would come and go and one day I realised I lost my Zelda OOT. I was so angry and trying to track down who came and who could have taken it. Like Mario Kart 64 means so much to Johnny, Zelda was a Christmas gift back in 1998, completed 100% and it meant so much to me. I felt awful that I had to re-buy my the cart itself again as I know some horrible person just stole my copy. The only thing I can say I still own the original box and manual. But as you said, never ever lend out video games, movies. It might make you seem you have trust issues which I guess I do because of not only of the Zelda story but other things in the past that has been lost or stolen. But in the long run you would not regret it.
Nice to see you again BDT87!!
HappyConsoleGamer I’m still around just not making content. P.S if you didn’t know/hear, I am now living in Japan.
dude. I want to say I saw this 'Jeff' commenting on your nintendo story video. The comment looked pretty legitimate and he was expressing major regret.
When I loan to a friend I put the disc in a blanket case.
I love it when Rob is on the show. While I am sure I have "lost" a few games over the years, I can't recall what ones. I do remember some of my movies and cd's walking out of my house somehow. One game I did lend out was Ultima The Black Gate for PC. A friend borrowed it for the map and book and then moved a month later without ever giving it back. I have not seen him since and this was 1992. I only got to play that game for 5 hours, as there was no way to get around the copy protection at the time if the book and map were gone.
When I was a teenager, my parents switched over to cable from regular TV and my Sega Genesis didn't work with the new cable setup. I thought for a while that my Genesis was broken (I was stupid), I decided to lend my 16 games to my cousins until I can get my console fixed since I was not playing the console. A year and a half later I finally figured out what was wrong with my Sega Genesis, I simply was hooking it up wrong to the new cable system and that is why the video wasn't displaying, I found this out while trying to hook up my new N64 console to my TV setup and following the manual from the N64.
I was so happy to finally get my Genesis back up and running again, I just had one game still to test it that my cousins didn't want, plus I bought a few more for dirt cheap at my local game shop. I called them up to ask for my games back and they were acting kind of funny on the phone, but they told me to stop by whenever to pick them up. I show up and they gave me like 5 games and then they made an excuse that they didn't know where the other ones were at the moment, but they will look for them. I looked at the games and like 3 games were mines, but the other 2 were not, after asking them what the heck is this and them trying to convince me that was my game, I had to go because my mother was leaving.
What made me so mad during the car ride home was the fact that each and every game I have for my systems since I was a kid I had to work my butt off for and my cousins never had to do that so to them it was just a game or a bargaining chip to trade with their friends to get a better game, but to me, it was a token of my accomplishments and hard work. This back and forth of asking for my games went on throughout High school, with me receiving some games back that were mine and them giving me other games that were their friends and telling me it is a good title that was better than what I originally owned and that I should just take it. I found out later they traded my games and sold some of them for money, I never lend a game out to friends or family for that reason anymore, if I want a game I go out and work for it.
My deepest condolences. Out of curiosity, how exactly did you have to work for these games? I was lucky to get 2 games per console growing up. I didn't get any allowance.
Don't be such a baby.
Strike First. Strike Hard. No Mercy
Bullfrog Jay lending out games does not exist in this games room
NO GAME MASTER
3:27 I know that feeling...man that sucks
An action RPG about Johnny tracking down Rob's bullies and getting his games back would be fuckin awesome
Always great to see Rob
I remember lending a few Sega Mega Drive games to a friend during High School, when I got them back the boxes were crushed, the plastic cart inserts were crushed and in many pieces and one game had the cart label ripped off....never again.
My story is rather sad and upsetting. I lent this kid I did not know very well my copy of Final Fantasy 7 and Army Men Air Attack. The kid came back later to return them but, my copy of Final Fantasy 7 only had the first disc so he lost the other 2 discs plus the disc I did get back had pink nail polish all over the back of it. I was so mad and I asked his parents to pay for it which they said they would but, I never got paid because a week later they moved away and I never saw them again. Also the Army Men game no longer worked after I got it back from the kid even though the disc looked fine. That is how I learned to not lend games unless I really deeply trust someone and I have known them for a long while.
There are several that I have no idea where they went.
-star wars ep1 racer
-Toy Story 2
-a n64 cartridge case
-super smash bros melee
-Phantasy Star Universe
-ratchet and clank tools of destruction
-borderlands
-borderlands 2
The odd thing is with the disc games I still have the cases/manuals for them and I never lent those out
I created a spreadsheet years ago. It just got to that point.
I never had anyone do anything shady. Everyone I knew did a 1 for 1 when borrowing someone’s else’s games so you always had one of their games to play while yours was loaned.
I 100% with this statement "Never lend out games or take games into the public". When i was a kid around 13 i took my new golden zelda gba sp to school and it got stolen from my bag. I lent a bunch of gamecube games to a friend and a few weeks later i asked for them back and he told me a power surge destroyed all the games i lent (I knew he sold them). But there were times when i was like 13/14 where i was the one who "borrowed" games and took golden sun 2 from a friend's house without telling them.
I remember it took me about 12 months to get a game back from a kid on my street at the time. I'd loaned him Die Hard Trilogy on PS1. I heard many rumours that he had loaned the game to different people around the village but could never prove it. He'd mysteriously not answer the door any time I'd call up to him or his parents would say he wasn't there. Thankfully I did get the game back - fully intact - in the end.
The second game I loaned the same kid (long story, my brother practically guilted me into doing it) came back with the box in bits. Apparently "they didn't know what happened" to it. I heard months later that his baby brother had stood on it.
Lesson more than learned. I never ever loaned out a game again to any one.
My mom used to mark my nes cartridges with a gold pen with my first and last name. It’s actually kinda nostalgic seeing the few OG cartridges that I have left from my childhood with that nice gold signature.
Sadly, I left my N64 and all my games at a friends house after a super smash sleepover, then his older neighbors came by during the week and took everything. I was about 14 at the time and the neighbors were the cool older 18 year olds. I wish I had a dude like you Johnny to help me out when I was young. RIP N64 games haha.
I laughed imagining Johnny going on a sidequest, talking to every kid, doing detective work and bringing those games back to Rob.
Oh. You are such a good friend Johnny. I mean, you really love your friend for getting back his games. :)
I had bad experiences in lending people stuff. Specially back in the day when cassette tapes were a thing. Some I never got back because people who I lend it to, lend it to someone else without my permission, treating it as if it is theirs. Some tapes were really beaten up. You know those little brochure-like prints inside the tapes, where the lyrics are on? One of my tapes had a really messed up copy of it. The case was broken, the paper was torn to pieces. It really made me feel bad for it. Til this day, I remember who did it. That really did it to me about lending people stuff. I don't bring my books, cassette tapes, VCDs at school anymore because of those bad experiences.
I let someone borrow Tales of Destiny back around 2002-2003 and they had it for almost 4 months. The person only wanted to play it for a few weeks and I kept asking about it and he said, "I can't find it.". So, I had to call his house and his parents answered and I finally got my game back with no scratches or tears on the manual, thank goodness.
in 5th grade on last day of school this kid wanted to play Super Mario hops 3 on 3 and i kept on saying no but i lent him the game over the summer he moved to a different school and i never saw the game again, i still have the box and everything but not the game and the box sits in my collection and haunts me to this very day
For some reason, a lot of our friends growing up would come over and just leave games at our house. Granted we had our friends over all the time, but even when we would say "Hey you left your games here" they would just tell us to keep them there because they knew they were safer at our house. Needless to say I still have about 10-15 games that aren't mine.
I quit lending movies, game, or CDs back in the day because my friends would never give them back and after I track most of them down they always be damaged.
I'm 23 years old when I was younger I remember lending games to friends all the time and trading games with friends and sometimes you never got those games back lol. Now watching my 14 year old brother I think those times are over since everything is all digital now
The only thing missing for me is from when I was a kid, and those are my game boxes for my original NES collection, about 10 or 15 or so like my Kirby, Life Force, New Zealand Story, Captain America and more, but just the boxes, I do still have the manuals, I always kept those separate. I am convinced my mom threw all the game boxes out when I was still young because she probably thought "Why keep empty boxes?" Even though she denies this completely. I know what you did, mom! I NEVER FORGET!!
It did take me about 15 years to recuperate my Smash Bros 64 from a friend, but I got it back! Glad I never lend out boxes or game cases, it's still in mint condition today thanks to that.
When you lend out, keep the case and put a note inside saying who has it. That way when it's returned you'll be foreced to see the note and get rid of it, and there's no chance of forgetting you lent it becaise you'll always go for the case.
I had a friend who I thought I was really good friends with and he asked to borrow some GBA games and the system for a little bit since he lived next door. He borrowed Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Zelda Four Swords and some other ones and he took them with him when he went to Job Corps without telling me. Needless to say he said they were stolen and never repaid me for them, I dropped him as a friend not too long after that.
I also let one of his friends who was my friend at the time borrow my Gamecube along with some game or games I don't remember and I think he ended up selling it for drugs or something so I dropped him as a friend too and since then I've learned to never lend out my games for ANY reason.
I lent my Mega Drive with all the games to a friend of mine. When i asked for it back, he said he lent it to another friend of his, and this hypothetical friend took it to another city. Neither to say, we are not friends anymore. It's been more than 15 years ago and i'm still mad when i remember about it. NEVER lend your games, especially when you are young and don't have the means of pressure.
When my son was 3 years old I gave him my ps2 and games (about 600). A couple weeks later I was asking him which ones he liked and he told me his mother had taken all of them from him and sold them without so much as giving him any of the money she got. That was a lesson for me, I never borrowed games to anyone but it had never crossed my mind that people would steal from their own children.
Ok, that's really sad. Trying to help your son by giving him these fun games which could comfort him. And in the end it was all for nothing.
GOD Johnny, the wierdest thing just happened. As soon as you mentioned you lost your Resident Evil Zero, I turned around to look at my Gamecube collection and.......Resident Evil Zero is missing!! *cue X-files music now*
Stll cant find it.
Gush On Games Same here! Haha. I lost my copy of Zero but recently found it. What’s with that game and going missing?
maybe...just maybe....we never even had it in the first place! And the game existing in physical form was just figment of our over-active imaginations that was developed from playing too many video games! And our memories of playing the game are simply an amalgimation of all the difficult bosses and terrors we experienced from cheap deaths. And thats why it is called Resident Evil "ZERO"...because, like the number, it represnts nothing, emptiness, the non-existent...it doesn't exist. "ghasp" Wow....did i take my meds today?
That's deep
Those damn leeches probably took it
this has happened to me a lot living in a small town growing up, basically i dont like thinking about how many games i've lent out and never got back or just went missing it'd be a collection in of itself
DAT FRIENDSHIP BOND!
Made me shed a tear.
I stopped lending out games a long time ago. I would get games back that were missing manuals, cases chewed by dogs and slip covers gone.
I solved this one but it drove me nuts for hours. I had an old and used copy of Skyrim for my Xbox 360 someone gave me, one day it goes missing I am looking through all my game cases and all my games, check the console, look all over the house, ask about it to everyone in the house. A few days later my daughter tells me she was cleaning up and threw it in the garbage because the disc was all scratched up. It worked but it was damaged when I got it. I told her I wasn't mad but next time, just put the game in the box I keep my games in.
I lost two games, Super Mario Bros 3 and Goldeneye. I was a teenager when I lent them to friends. Unfortunately SMB3 was lost during my friend's house fire and the other was lent to a friend who ended up moving a few months later. The good news is that both are fairly common releases so I was able to re-acquire them for cheap.
Oh the stories of landed games, music, movies etc I could write a book just on that topic alone.
I feel this pain. I’m missing quite a bit of my games.
I had a game called Sonic Shuffle that just vanished. Some people don't like that game but I have a lot of nostalgic memories of it.
I lent Majora's Mask to one of my brother's friends 20 years ago... I knew I wouldn't see it again.
Most recently, I found out that my copy of Super Mario Land was missing. This one pisses me off, because it was my very first video game.
When I was 12 or so my evil parents convinced to me that I was too old to play video games and so I sold almost my entire collection of n64 and ps1 games 😩
Ouch! fuck that attitude of theirs, of "you're too old for games", especially pulled on a 12 years old. That's brutal >: (
Same here..at end of this history i'm 31 and still playing...to be honest i've decided to play videogames until the last day of my life xD
I totally plan on gaming a ton when I'm in old folks home! lol. And when the reflexes start going down, then I'll stick to RPGs
FinalBaton This has been my retirement plan since I knew retirement was a thing.
So many bad memories of school bubbled up, watching this video. Trying to get back my copy of Sonic & Knuckles from an older guy who I only knew from the school bus. It took months, and the cardboard case was all torn and bent when I got it back. Never got my copy of V-Rally 2 back from a guy I didn't really like all that much. On the last day of school, we were allowed to bring our consoles, and I brought my PS2 and Vice City when it was still new. The disc came back scratched and unusable. Glad to only hang around with people I trust, these days.
I borrowed my ps2 game collection (20+ games) to my best friend when I bought the ps3. When I asked him for the games, he said he had given them back to me already. I couldn't believe the whole situation. Especially if you won't play them, don't borrow your games! It kills friendships.
My Sega CD Lunar case disappeared with the back insert, all I have is the manual and disc now. I can't figure it out for the life of me!
I moved in with a buddy of mine, this was about 5 years ago, and my 3DS went missing, as well as a bunch of my older DS games. He swore he never took them, and I searched his room when he was gone and didn't find them.
We figure that someone must have broke in and took them, as some of his stuff was missing as well.
I lent my original Wii to my sister who has 4 kids. Eventually had to ask for it back as she never seemed to want to bring it herself. Got it back and the Wii remotes wrist bands were all coloured in with permanent marker and the console block was all scratched. Never lend to FAMILY or friends ever.
Had an old neighbor kid come over and snag a few of my NES titles. I wasn't able to find them until they had a garage sale with some of MY games on their table. I told his dad he stole them from me and he called me a liar.
I rarely traded games when I was young and it was only with my closest friends that I knew I could trust. Didn't really have randoms coming up that I hardly knew asking to borrow games back then.
I'm from Brazil and my Castlevania Simphony of the night for ps1 is gone. I don't know what happens Someone came into my game room and stole the cd. I've tried to imagine who it might be, but I never found out. Very sad.
I lent some Atari 2600 games to a kid my age who lived down the street. I went to get them back a week later, and he had moved house.
for a short time i lived in Saskatuan Saskatoon and had brought all my old nes games with me, and when i moved back home to Nova Scotia i shipped them all home in 2 big boxes, which yes i put insurance on ..... but it just wasn't enough only one of those 2 big boxes made it back its not like they were all rare games or anything but they were games i kept because i still loved em so i get the money from the insurance and that was around same time nes games started climbing in price >.> it was not enough to get em all back so i didn't even bother sadly. anyway great episode keep up the good work.
I was in middle school (we called in junior high school back then) when the Sega Genesis came out. I had 2 friends at school that I would trade games with, for weeks at a time. Our trades went off without a hitch, and it was probably because we were mutually serious gamers, so we understood the importance of taking care of each other's stuff! It was a convenient thing too, because my parents didn't have extra money to buy games at any time like some of the more fortunate kids. We (my brother and I) would sometimes get a few bucks on weekends to rent games (or I would skip buying lunch a couple days a week to have game rental money on Friday...lol). Otherwise, we would have to wait until Christmas for our parents to buy games. I would never lend anything out without getting one in return, and now as an adult, I wouldn't lend out any games period, unless it was a cheap one that I could easily replace! I wouldn't borrow anyone's games, either. The cool thing about being an adult is just being able to go out and buy the games that I want at any time.
Flashback to the 90s with Rob t-shirt thats awesome
I had a friend who wanted to trade games for a little bit, like barrow each others games, he gave me Mega Man X and I gave him Yoshi’s Island both for SNES and after he left I could not get ahold of him ever again, I tried texting him wanting to get it back, but he completely ignored me. I was so pissed off at him for the longest time, eventually I gave up and told myself it wasn’t even worth it. Nobody will ever borrow a game from me ever again.
My story is pretty simple, when I was a kid I was super obsessed with Mortal Kombat and it was around the PS1 era. I had MK Trilogy, MK4, and I think either MK Mythologies or MK Special Forces. This friend of mine that I played with asked to borrow them after I brought them over to his house so we could play some games. He wanted to train and get better and to just play them, we lived in the same apartment complex so I was like...well okay I don't mind. I didn't hear from him in a few days and when I go to see if he's around so I can get my games back I find out that he moved. I didn't know he was moving and I never heard from him again. I learned a valuable lesson that day!
I lent someone Disgaea 1 on the PS2, every time I asked them about it they said they hadn't finished it yet, and eventually I believe we just kind of stopped hanging out together and I never got it back.
The final game I lent out that I did get back...like 2-3 years later was Persona 3 the original on PS2. I let a girl from work borrow it because she really wanted to play it. It's a long game I understand it would take a while to get through it. Eventually I ended up moving, I had her added on facebook I believe. Even though it took forever I did get it back it might have been 4 years later for all I know she just sent it to me in the mail. It was in worse shape then when I lent it to her but by that point I wasn't too concerned about it due to having bought both Persona 3 FES, and Persona 3 Portable on the PSP.
My advice if you are going to lend out games, make sure they are super super close friends who you absolutely trust.
Around 2002-2003 I had lent two friends a few of my PS1 JRPGs. One guy’s name was Demetrius and the other was John. At the time I was heavy into Everquest and had my ps2 so I didn’t care for PS1 games. The fact that they liked JRPGS made me pumped and wanted them to try out a few of my games. This was in Jersey and by the time I moved back to NY I forgot about them. The games were Jade Cocoon, Final Fantasy Tactics, and the one that hurts the most...Suikoden 2.
I used to share a house with some siblings, and one of my nephews friends stole some games from me. I caught him when he came over one night for a sleep over and he had accidentally brought over one of the games. I knew it was mine because he didn't realize I had put a custom cover on it.
After that I put a lock on my door.
I can’t think of any games that have gone missing but my favourite t-shirt went missing about six years ago and I still miss it
That was a cool story how you got Ron's games back. I also have that same policy about not lending out games, movies, or comics and books. I was burned twice back when I was younger. After I first got my NES a guy from my school, a friend of a friend, wanted to borrow all my Atari 2600 games. It was about 20 games and I foolishly let him borrow them cause I was focused on my NES. He moved away and I never got them back. Another time I lent out Mega Man parts 2-6 to some friends of mine I really trusted and never got them back. After getting burned twice I never lend out things anymore.
Sorry for the typo I meant Rob not Ron.
I had my copy of Silent Hill on PS1 up and disappear about six years ago. Finally this year I was able to replace that lost copy. It still pisses me off to this day that it was lost.
So when we had our first kid, I put all my console games into storage at my moms house because we had tiny apartments where had not place to keep them away. After I got them all out of storage. Everything was there, except one game, my Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Gold Cart, Still have my box and manual however (I store my carts and boxes separate), but not the freaking game. Still have no idea what could have happened to it.
I literally was racking through my brain for nearly a year trying to figure out what may have happened to it because OoT is my favorite game ever. My wife got me a replacement cart for my next birthday as a surprise gift, because she is wonderful.
When I was in high school I lent out my PS1 (which had been modified to play Japanese games) along with 3 imported Dragon Ball Z/GT titles, Final Fantasy 7, and who knows what other JRPG's from my collection. This was during the PS2 era, and I was less attached to them since I was busy playing newer games. I had let my best friend borrow them, and after several months later I asked for them back. He just kind of got quiet and told me that he had pawned him off at a pawn shop. I was so pissed. I'd gone through so much trouble getting that console modified and collecting those games, which were brand new when I'd bought them.
What a great show, every episode is so relatable