/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4303056]

>had a bunch of N64 games.
>Really enjoyed online comedy in relation to classic video games (old JonTron esque).
> Was gonna try my hand in making content that isn't a let's play gameplay, but written and directed.
>Mom throws out my N64 and games because she has a history of bipolar schizophrenia.
>Lost all my N64 games.

At least I got my gamecube and ps2...

What were your "You threw out/sold my _____" moments. Caused by Sibling, Parent, friend, or pet.

[Anonymous No.4303082]

Please leave.

[Anonymous No.4303085]

>>4303082
:(

[Anonymous No.4303091]

Saved an old IBM from my middle school when I was young, used it to play DOS games and spent many nights lit only by the glow of the screen, trying to puzzle out how to beat Leisure Suit Larry.
My mother threw it out while I was gone for a week, when I was 16. When asked, she said "you never used it".

[Anonymous No.4303092]

>>4303056

When I bought my gamecube I left my N64 aside. I had like 50 games for it. Then I moved to college and a few year later I felt nostalgic about my N64 (and the GC was shitty anyways). When I asked my mom about it, she told me she gave it to my uncle. Then I asked my uncle about it just to find out he traded it for a PS2 with no games. My N64 collection would be worth a lot nowadays. I had to buy everything back.

[Anonymous No.4303105]

>>4303091
I'm not old to have had an IBM. I could only imagine the excitement of having one and being amazed at the what it does at such a young age.

>>4303092
I feel you, anon. It still stings from time to time.

[Anonymous No.4303117]

>>4303056
My brother sold our PS1 and the entirety of our game collection for a copy of Rainbow Six 3 on Xbox and a subscription to Xbox Live. I was pissed.

My ex stole all of my game collection (NES, SNES, N64, GC, Virtual Boy, Genesis, Sega CD, Saturn, DC, Gameboy, DS, Game Gear, Sega Nomad, PS2, Xbox) and sold it and used the money towards getting herself a car. Long story short, we broke up.

[Anonymous No.4303118]

>>4303105
By the time the IBM fell into my hands it was antique, covered in cobwebs at the back of a computer lab in my school at the time. At personal cost I managed to convince the principal to let me take the unused old thing, and spent the rest of that year learning how to type commands and get games which were shareware by that point to run. There was a magic feeling you'd get when you weren't sure if you'd done it right, were too ignorant to really understand what you were doing, but the screen flashed and you saw the game into pop up in the darkness, an old story that had been waiting around for someone like you to uncover it again.
I miss that IBM, but at least I gave it one last good run at the end of its life, after years of moldering away untouched for years, ignored and abandoned, it had one final romp of use, and was loved.

[Anonymous No.4303128]

>>4303117
I would of broke up there face.

>>4303118
Poetry.

[Anonymous No.4303216]

>>4303056
I feel ya bro.

My mom is also schizophrenic. I had a gorgeous big box pc collection that she just decided to trash one day.

This was 15+ years ago. Still so fucking mad about it.

[Anonymous No.4303241]

>>4303056
>Was gonna try my hand in making content
>JonTron esque
>Mom throws out my N64
tfw the world is a better place because of your moms mental problems

[Anonymous No.4303269]

>>4303241
Don't be mean.

[Anonymous No.4303273]

I sold some stuff to gamestop years ago, including all my N64 bomberman games.

Later I found out what Second Attack was worth. Ever since then, I don't sell anything unless I'm sure I'm done with it.

[Anonymous No.4303359]

>>4303241
OP here. I found his older content to be exceptionally entertaining, when he was more centered in video games. I don't see why I shouldn't do it. I don't expect anybody to watch it, but it's always fun working on projects like that. Gets those creative juices flowing

>>4303273
Oh dear.

[Anonymous No.4303732]

>>4303056
>I want to be like Jontron
there's a boatload of video game related content on Youtube and you'd be just piling on more of the same

make something original instead of looking up to people who are failures

[Anonymous No.4303754]

>>4303117
I want to murder your ex

[Anonymous No.4303765]

Your mother saved us all.

[Anonymous No.4303784]

In 2001 I was given a GameCube as a present for my 9th birthday from my parents and older brother. The first game I ever received was melee. Over a period of about 10 years, I amassed a nice collection of games that I purchased solely brand new and kept in immaculate condition with manual, cover art, everything. I had all the classics -- Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Double Dash, Sunshine, Sonic Adventure 2, even the more obscure and rare stuff like Phantasy Star Online, Gauntlet Dark Legacy and Fire Emblem. Probably around 50 or so games in total.

At the time, I had all of my shit set up in the basement, with all of my games on a shelf below the TV. I was cleaning the shelf, so I took all the games down and temporarily sat them on the floor, but before I finished cleaning my mom called me upstairs. I went upstairs to see what she wanted, and accidentally left the door slightly cracked.

In the 2 or so minutes that I spent talking to her, my dog (who pissed on everything) managed to make his way into the basement, find the stack of games that I had sitting on the floor next to the TV, and piss on each and every last one of them. The game discs still worked, but all of the manuals, cover art, etc. were permanently ruined.

I came down, saw it, and practically pissed myself.After that, I felt dead inside and just ended up selling the discs and never bought them back. I still consider it one of my biggest fuckups in life.

[Anonymous No.4303785]

>>4303082
this

[Anonymous No.4303796]

>>4303091
I still have this computer in my closet.

[Anonymous No.4303976]

>>4303056
none, didn't knew I was so lucky, but my whole family are horders. Got the biggest highquality pron collection also... also lucky pron game dev I am

[Anonymous No.4304029]

>1998
>14
>Broke, need weed
>Trade SNES with 20 or so games for 2 grams
>Wasn't all that upset after the fact

>19
>Junkie sister and her boyfriend stay with me for a couple years
>Have PS2 sitting in the closet of the room they're using
>After a few months I decide I want to play some Tekken and go looking for it
>Check the whole house
>It's gone
>A few weeks after giving up on my search sisters boyfriend buys a PS2 and wants to show me that Final Fantasy Vincent game
>Later learn he stole my PS2, pawned it for heroin, then when he came up on extra cash he bought a PS2 for himself, rather than to replace the one he stole from me

>29
>Have another PS2 with maybe 10 game sitting around
>Let friend borrow it since he just got a new place and doesn't have cable/internet or any entertainment
>Also let him borrow my bike
>One week later he leaves the bike in someones backyard and it gets stolen
>2 weeks later he gets 6 months for shoplifting and apartment manager takes all his property and sells it.
>I found out a month too late

[Anonymous No.4304156]

>>4303732
>JonTron
>failure
He's pretty successful on YouTube, in spite of his comments earlier this year. He's got 3 million subscribers and has resumed putting out videos. Even if you don't like his content, you can't deny the large amount of influence he's had on internet culture in the last 7 years or so.

[Anonymous No.4304307]

>>4303732
It wouldn't be a carbon copy of course. He is a major influence. There is influence, then there is copying.

[Anonymous No.4304312]

>>4304029
Jesus. You couldn't catch a break.

[Anonymous No.4304329]

>>4303091
JESUS CHRIST. That reminded me of that one guy on /g/ who had his mom throw out one of the original IBM 5150s his grandpa used when he worked for IBM in the 60s. I just fucking hope that was a ruse.
https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S54318263

[Anonymous No.4304436]

>>4304329
NOOOOO!!!

[Anonymous No.4304501]

>>4303784
I'd have beat the living fuck out of my dog. Not kill it, but enough to give it a limp for the rest of it's life. Or mistreat it so it dies "naturally" to others around.

[Anonymous No.4304502]

>>4303784
Dogs are the fucking worst.

[Anonymous No.4304527]

>have autistic younger brother
>would overwrite my banjo-kazooie saves
>had to speed run them over the weekend or else it happens again
>never got to finish gruntilda's part
>mom threw away n64 after moving to a different house

>friend comes over
>he's not from a well-to-do family
>first time encountering pokemon on a gameboy
>let him play my silver with every pokemon in it
>he overwrites it
>mom throws away my gameboy after moving to another house

fuck it

[Anonymous No.4304529]

>>4304527

to add, where do you guys get roms for n64? most of the sites i went to don't have banjo-kazooie and i would like to finish it before i fucking die.

[Anonymous No.4304531]

>>4304529
romdepot
archive.org

[Anonymous No.4304673]

>>4303269
>don't be factual
Why not?

>>4303359
You shouldn't do it because it's cancer and every time you click on one of those videos a kitten dies.

[Anonymous No.4304710]

>>4304673
There's an audience for everything. I'm sure if people like it, it will get views, if not, it won't, and channel will die.

[Anonymous No.4304734]

>>4303784

That's why I don't like male dogs. They piss everywhere. I've only had female dogs so I don't have this problem.

[Anonymous No.4305143]

>>4304734
So how many bitches do you pull on average?

[Anonymous No.4305226]

Thankfully, the only thing that ever got thrown out were Game Boy / Color / Advance boxes. My parents knew I was a true blue vidya autist and wouldn't pull that shit.

[Anonymous No.4305230]

>>4303056
My Grandma gave away my JVC sega cd hybrid thing, kinda salty because they are worth $300 right now. She gave it to my cousins who I don't talk to. Who knows what they did with it.

[Anonymous No.4305719]

>my mom is a hoarder
>forced me to not only keep the boxes and manuals for every game I got, she made sure I didn't tear the boxes when opening them

Probably the only good thing to come out of her hoarding. Thanks mom!

[Anonymous No.4306038]

>>4304502
Only if you don't fucking train them.

[Anonymous No.4306047]

>>4304673
>every time you click on one of those videos a kitten dies
>"factual statement"
It's fine if you don't like the guy, but you're being an ass about it.

[Anonymous No.4306114]

>living with your mom

[Anonymous No.4306119]

>>4306114
>the past doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.4306141]

>>4306114
>he never had a mom

I'm sorry.

[Anonymous No.4306142]

>>4303784
>>4304501
>>4304502
>>4304734
The dog knows your a bitch if it pisses on your stuff. If you can't be a man to a dog then all of your friends, your kids, the women you meet, every one of them is going to see the same smell on you, they're going to know what you are and they're going to treat you like shit and betray you because they know that you can never be what they need you to be. You're their compromise, their failure, their burden, you're the reason they hate themselves and wonder why they don't deserve someone better.

[Anonymous No.4307567]

>>4306047
Never claimed that was a factual statement can't into reading comprehension boy

[Anonymous No.4307572]

>throw out old videogames, which actually turn out to be worth something
>desperately cling to old "collectibles" that are probably worth less than what was paid for them, sometimes even when accounting for inflation

Patents just don't understand.

[Anonymous No.4307576]

>>4303732
Why when he could get 10 million subscribers by being a gay Asian who wants to be Jake Paul?

[Anonymous No.4307580]

>>4304156
Hell, his Flextape video was hilarious, and it's proven now that the Internet no longer gives a damn about SJWs and their horseshit.

[Anonymous No.4307781]

>>4307576
Only normies want to be a Gaysian and wear supreme/ hypebeast dickriding.

>>4307580
Indeed it was.