Secret Gaming Stash/Games You Won't Let Anyone Borrow

[ReggieHadoken]

One of my friends thinks I have a secret stash of games that I keep tucked away somewhere at my place. I told him I pretty much keep everything out, even my games that were tough to find like Soul Blazer. I'd considered keeping some of those games seperate from the rest, but I don't see the harm in pimping the old gaming collection.:wonder:

There are also some games I will never let anyone borrow, no matter how close or tight we are. I've let some people borrow my games and the cases have come back looking like they were used for target practice. Some of my friend's games that they've loaned out to people have come back with a million scratches. There are various reasons why I won't let some of my games be borrowed.

So what's your take?

[P@nToM]

Far too many Times I'v let a friend borrow a game, and they either end up losing it or we lose touch and I end up forgetting the game for awhile.

So from now on, I base it on how much I can trust the friend and how responsible he/she is.

[Raziel321]

My brother always had control of the games growing up in the game stages ( id ont play much any more) but my cousin lent out Shenmue when it first came out and it had 2 discs. My other cousin who borrowed it was like 4 years younger same as me lost disc 1 when he was at sixth grade camp for a week. My older cousin brings it up to this day 6 years later how my younger cousin lost shenmue 1 whenever my younger cousin makes a mark about pertaining to trust/borrowing stuff.

[axeman61]

Just about all of them. My bad borrowing experiences have steered me away from the whole practice.
I let my cousin have games I'll never play though.

[PsychoSquall]

I let a friend borrow my Shining Force 3. It's been 2 or 3 years now, and I'll probably never get it back.

[Weeks]

I'd never, ever let a friend borrow my Chrono Trigger. I'd let him borrow my DS with Advance Wars before I'd let him borrow CT

[Stevie White]

No one will ever touch my copy of Radiant Silvergun. My precious.

[thepeopleschamp]

My special edition Shining Force 3 and Panzer Dragoon Saga games. Hard to find and sell high on Ebay. Nope, will never do it again ever since back in the day one of my friends borrowed my SNES final fantasy 3 and the said he lost it, only to find out from his girl that he pawned it. The friendship was never the same even though he apologized and paid me what it was worth. That's some low shit.

[SNkNuT]

My special edition Shining Force 3 and Panzer Dragoon Saga games. Hard to find and sell high on Ebay. Nope, will never do it again ever since back in the day one of my friends borrowed my SNES final fantasy 3 and the said he lost it, only to find out from his girl that he pawned it. The friendship was never the same even though he apologized and paid me what it was worth. That's some low shit.

that is some low shit. :sad:

anyway i'm pretty picky about who's borrowing my games and most likely i don't let anybody touch my RPG's. but then again it's HARD to say no to a friend but sometimes you have to say NO you can't borrow it.

[Infested Jester]

I don't hide any of my games, I just tell people they can't borrow anything, fuck em.

[Weecho]

I have a friend that keeps wanting to borrow Valkyrie Profile. He can keep dreaming cuz its never gonna happen.

[Ouroborus]

suikoden 5 (sealed)
tekken 5 (sealed)
suikoden 3 (sealed)
wild arms 3 (mint condition)
shadow hearts 2 (mint condition)
ffx2 jap version (gift from my mom when she went to hong kong)

[JackTenrac!]

Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis
Donkey Kong

...that went well.

[ReggieHadoken]

My special edition Shining Force 3 and Panzer Dragoon Saga games. Hard to find and sell high on Ebay. Nope, will never do it again ever since back in the day one of my friends borrowed my SNES final fantasy 3 and the said he lost it, only to find out from his girl that he pawned it. The friendship was never the same even though he apologized and paid me what it was worth.

Whoa. I so would have wanted to clock that dude it it were me, but you were a good man about it.

Anyway nobody borrows these:

Zanac
Gunac
Final Fantasy Tactics
Phoenix Wright
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Soul Blazer
Ikaruga
Katamari Damacy
We Love Katamari
WipeOut XL
WipeOut Fusion
Ridge Racer Games

There are more but I'll stop there.

[eddymasta]

suikoden 1/2, Castlevania SOTN, xenogears, Tales of Destiny... Yeah, I guess those are about it

[Kyoujin]

I've had far too many things lost from lending them out to casual aquaintances, I never really lend anything out unless they're a really close friend. Even then, I'm pretty apprehensive.

[Million]

Nothing can be borrowed from me...especially not CD/DVD things like albums, movies, or games. Discs will always come back scratched to hell, no matter who you let borrow them. Piss on that; sharing is nonsense. I'll "share"....only if it's a game that ended up being a huge disappointment, resulting in me not even caring if I got it back.

[The_Cheat]

I lend everything to my friends, including consoles. It's not that I don't care for them though; all of my friends can keep my things in good condition. As long as I'm not using it at the moment (a la Guitar Hero + PS2), everything else is up for grabs.

[catchafire]

I sold a part of my prized collection a few years back. I sold my nes w/ about some 40 games. However, I never once thought to sell my snes games. Nope, those are definately not going anywhere.

[MeanGreen]

Sin And Punishment N64
Gitaroo-man Ps2
Radiant Silvergun Saturn
Border Down Dc

[FatalFuryD]

My hentai games. No one but yall know I even play those. hurr

[H_Magnus]

My whole DC collection is off limits.

[Boleslaw]

my friends and i have a thing going where we lend any/everything and it stays in pretty good condition, these are people ive known for at least 10 years now though and its only like 1 or 2 friends, the only real rule is to remember to return everything before you move or something along those lines just to keep everything in the correct inventory

i once borrowed a friends zelda 2 (best zelda game ever imo) for about a year and a half, which i of course returned when he actually felt like having it back, some sort of stigma with zelda 2 i guess

i have trouble lending out Star Ocean 2, just because i guard it with my fanboyish soul

but in the interest of showing others how awesome i think the game is i am lending it out today...

[MagnuScruB]

ever since i lent out jungle force on sega genesis and they said they lost it, i let people stop borrowing games. i also finally got back my mario all star on snes only to find that he wrote his name all over it and claimed that it was his and i never let him borrow it. i told his mom and she made him give it back to me.















i was 11

[Einlanzer]

i only let ppl borrow capcom fighting evolution since its the only game i dont play.

[DarkGiygas]

earthbound

[Kyo Kusanagi]

I used to be really liberal about loaning games, even game systems, out to friends. Every single Playstation 1/2 disc I own is now damaged except for recently-purchased games or Final Fantasy Tactics because of this. The new rule: They can only borrow cartridge-based games.

No stash.

[marn]

My Valkyrie Profile is gone... :(

[Brutal-R]

I lent Mario Kart to a friend and then he claimed to have lost it. About 6 months later he had it but made out that it was somebody elses. Took it anyway.

Never lend any CD/DVD games to anybody. They always come back scratched badly to the point of unplayable, or they get lost or the cases get fucked. Oh and people tend to use discs as drinks coasters. Dreamcast cases have to be the most brittle ever. Nothing beats Genesis cases.

[ReggieHadoken]

My Valkyrie Profile is gone... :(

*Turns on radio*

Everybody hurts somemtimes...:sad:

[AL the great]

i lend games to my friends and vice versa all the time. we all lend each other's rare games like earthbound/rpgs.... but i only really hang out with a group of friends that i've known since 1996.

it's nice to have grown up with your friends. another thing is like lets say one of our comp parts break we lend each other comp parts too.

[Jenova_KMFDM]

I feel i can help this thread out.

1 Year ago this month. I let my girlfriend borrow Breath of Fire 3. The game was in perfect shape. No scratchs on the case, the cd was clean, everything was perfect. My girlfriend starts playing the game.. she got to the point where you are about ready to cross the ocean... then she sorta stopped talking to me about it. She didn't update me on how she was doing in the game. About 3 months pasted.. i knew something was fucked up. I asked her how is the gaming coming along. She stold me she was stuck..:confused:
I got worried.. because nothing in BOF3 was really that hard. She isn't a bad gamer either. So i was like.. could i get the game back.. i've been wanting to play it (even tho i've beat it 3 times and had no reason to play it again) She said yeah...
I go to pick up the game.. she still hasn't told me the truth.. By now I already know this game is gone.. I'll never see it again. I was so :annoy: . She still to this day said she "lost it"

I've never let her borrow a game since.


She asked to borrow Castlevaine SOTN... I simple said if you take it up the ass you can. Shut her up pretty fast.


Never let anyone borrow a game that means something to you. Because even if it's someone u love and trust, It will never come back the same as u gave it to them.. or if it even comes back at all.

[Kalypso]

I've been trying to borrow valkyrie profile from a friend (He constantly raves about how good it is), but no go.

[AL the great]

Jenova_KMFDM:

dude that sucks your girl lost your game. personally i dont see how anyone girlfriend or friend could borrow a game and "lose" it as an excuse to keep it/sell it off.

Kalypso:
you're not missing anything special. valk profile is ok. and arent they re-releasing it for ps2 and psp in the near future anyways?

[FighterX]

No one will ever touch my copy of Radiant Silvergun. My precious.

EXACTLY. That's at the top of the "Don't even ask" list. Bright side is that not many people have a Saturn anymore....well....from that perspective it's a bright-side. :sad:

I have 3 people that I consider more like brothers/sisters than they are friends who I would loan just about anything to, but that title is strictly hands-off.

[ReggieHadoken]

Jenova_KMFDM, that sucks. She should have offered to take it in the butt for losing it or whatever happend to it.

Raidiant Silvergun is the prequel to Ikaruga, is it not? If i had that, the only way it would leave my apartment is if it were handcuffed to me.

[9TNine]

I don't really loan my stuff out much anymore, too many bad experiences with shit coming back beat up or not coming back at all. I've got so many beat up PS1 games (they all work though still, as far as I know) and lost SNES games. I also started taking a lot better care of my stuff. I NEVER leaved disc's flipped upside down on a desk or anything, shit always goes in it's case. Having to buy shit twice is expensive.

When I do loan something out, it's only to people that I feel are also as careful as I am, and will return it to me in the same condition. Same thing with borrowing stuff from people, of course. If I do borrow something from someone, I do my best to keep it in the same condition.

-9

[FighterX]

Radiant Silvergun came first gamewise. Ikaruga doesn't even begin to compare to the awesomeness of R.S.

Come to think of it, my entire Saturn and DC collection is off-limits.

I learned my lesson early a long time ago.

- Back in 5th grade, I loaned a "friend" of mine a "How To Draw Transformers" book that had Mindwipe and Rampage. Man, I LOVED that book. I loaned it to my "friend".....how about he traded it for another "How To Transformers" because he thought his other friend's book was better....he thought he was doing me a FAVOR! I cursed him OUT.....I used every word my little elementary school mouth could remember and THEN some.......and the funny thing is, my mom was right behind me when I did it, but I didn't care! I was HOT. I thought I was going to get the beating of a lifetime, but the only thing my mom said was, "see what I told you about lending people your stuff?" I didn't even get a whupping for it.

I mean, I can see a CHILD doing something like that, but there are grown-ass people that still loan YOUR stuff out WITHOUT ASKING. I don't understand how people can be that rude.

When I do loan something out, it's only to people that I feel are also as careful as I am, and will return it to me in the same condition. Same thing with borrowing stuff from people, of course. If I do borrow something from someone, I do my best to keep it in the same condition.

-9

Before I began to loan items out to my inner-circle of friends, I observe how they handle their games and possessions. If I go to your house, and you've got games all out of the case, upside-down on a table, out of case in a stack, or if you have a bunch of people going through your house, 1/2 of whom you don't know because they are your "roomie's friends", there's no chance in hell I'm leaving my things around you for a second.

To give you a clue as to the extent of my "obsession" for taking care of my things, In storage (at my mom's house back home), I still have all of my original Transformers from the 80's, in perfect condition with all labels and all weapons intact, and 98% of my CD games are scratch free (the other 2% were purchased used). We didn't have much coming up, and I was always taught to appreciate and take care of what you have, because there are many others who don't have anything.

Heh, don't think I'm some sorta compulsive space-case. You just gotta know how to have respect for other people and their things.

[Riot Guard]

I don't hide any of my games, I just tell people they can't borrow anything, fuck em.

lol, there's the spirit. I remember when kids would be like let me see that or can I look that for the night and give it back to you at school. Those were the kids you could just about guarantee that you were not going to get the game back.

[PopTardO]

well this isnt games but no one will ever borrow my 24 dvds....

[FighterX]

Oh, and you know, I never really did answer the question of the thread.

No, I don't have a secret stash. They ask, I say no, end of conversation. Having to hide YOUR own shit is lame.

lol, there's the spirit. I remember when kids would be like let me see that or can I look that for the night and give it back to you at school. Those were the kids you could just about guarantee that you were not going to get the game back.

Memories! LOL!!

"See that for the night." Promptly followed by, "my brother isn't done watching it yet".

[9TNine]

Before I began to loan items out to my inner-circle of friends, I observe how they handle their games and possessions. If I go to your house, and you've got games all out of the case, upside-down on a table, out of case in a stack, or if you have a bunch of people going through your house, 1/2 of whom you don't know because they are your "roomie's friends", there's no chance in hell I'm leaving my things around you for a second.

Exactly. There's a guy where I work who is a collector of some games, so I know he tries to keep his stuff in great shape, so I feel more comfortable with loaning him a dvd or something since I know he'll be careful not to trash it. I've been called anal about it before, but I don't care. I don't want to pay another 50 bucks for something I've paid for once already. If I somehow manage to scratch a cd or do something to something I own, at least then it's my own fault.

But yeah, everything's on the shelf to be seen and if you ask if I have it I'll say yes or no, but asking to borrow it? Gotta prove to me that you can do that first.

-9

[Superking]

Kalypso:
you're not missing anything special. valk profile is ok. and arent they re-releasing it for ps2 and psp in the near future anyways?

Remake/Port for PSP, but a VP sequel for PS2.

[AL the great]

Remake/Port for PSP, but a VP sequel for PS2.

i c.

[Naslectronical]

Nobody, but nobody, touches any of my space shooters, shoot 'em ups, or beat 'em ups.

Gradius
Axelay
Contra
Dodonpachi
Starfox
Silpheed
Radiant Silvergun
Ikaruga
Street of Rage
Dodonpachi
Batsugun
Darius Gaiden
Astal
Psyvariar
Gunbird
Zero Gunner
Border Down
Double Dragon

[Ezgamer]

Unless its a person I can trust my my life with, I won't let anyone barrow any of my games because last year, I lent my GTA 3 and Vice City to one of my "friends" for a week and on the monday it was due, all I got was the scratched up gta3 cd. Not even the case or the gta:vc. So I beat the shit out of him and got a week of BC (Internal Suspention where you have to do an assload of work to get out).

[Okame]

I don't think I've ever had anyone ask me if they could borrow a game, but if anyone asked to borrow my copy of Vandal Hearts, they'd have to leave me a kidney as collateral.

[Mr. Bastos]

I don't hide them I just don't let anyone borrow them I had quite a few bad experiences. Too many times have I let people borrow games and they've come back sratched or just not as good as when I leant them out, I don't know why but when I leant out my copy of Super Mario RPG I let him borrow it with the box and everything, that shit was in perfect fucking condition and when I get it back the manual is missing, the box was smashed and the bastard saved over my game!

I also remember I let a "friend" borrow my copy Xenogears because he said he never played it and I insisted that he needed to play it. Anyhow a month later, he just moves away without giving it back. I saw him a year or so later and he tried to act all cool and shit, he says to me "Hey man!" I was just like, "Where the fuck is my xenogears." But it didn't matter to me by that point cuz I had already replaced it.

Though there are a couple people I woulld allow to borrow my games, cuz I know they know how to take care of shit from looking at how they keep their own collections. Though that rarely happens cuz they generally already have everything I have.

[CarpeNoctumXIII]

I don't let anyone borrow anything that is mine anymore, too many bad experiences. But, there is one game I will never, ever, ever let anyone touch, and that would be Vagrant Story. My favorite game ever, and I still play it, so HELL NO. I had people ask me before...but no.

[FighterX]

Nobody, but nobody, touches any of my space shooters, shoot 'em ups, or beat 'em ups.

Gradius
Axelay
Contra
Dodonpachi
Starfox
Silpheed
Radiant Silvergun
Ikaruga
Street of Rage
Dodonpachi
Batsugun
Darius Gaiden
Astal
Psyvariar
Gunbird
Zero Gunner
Border Down
Double Dragon

Have you ever played G-Darius on PS1? If not, you should track it down. Superb title.

[GGL-steve]

I don't lend out stuff I'm not willing to give away.

I gave away my dreamcast, and my PS2 a while back since it was pointless to keep them (when I can emulate both of them easily).

As time goes on I find I care less about the actual console system when I can emulate anything at will :/


I keep sealed copies of some stuff around just for old times (mostly nes/snes stuff)

[Yasashiyama]

I still have a friend's Super Mario RPG (SNES) since 1996. Guess I won't be giving it back now.

[ReggieHadoken]

Have you ever played G-Darius on PS1? If not, you should track it down. Superb title.

I bought that back back in 2000. Payed $10 for it brand new. No one has ever borrowed it and no one is ever going to. Best Darius game, IMO.

[Chozen1]

ggl i figure you use chankast for DC but PS2? I have yet to see good emu for that. b-sides, chankast is yet to be all that great though unless you've tweaked it to ur own liking i suppose.

[PsychoSquall]

I've lended out my Radiant Silvergun to people, because I trusted them that much. One of them takes really good care of things such as games, and the other was nice/crazy enough to let me borrow his Valkyrie Profile in the past.

One ex-friend of mine was borrowing an anime tape of mine, and said that his girlfriend had lost it months later. Years later, I talk to his gf (now his ex) and she tells me that her losing the tape was utter BS. Her word is far more reliable than my ex-friend, because he was a compulsive liar. What a fucker!

[BudaFuka]

Star Ocean 2..., I only let my friend borrow my Xenogears because he let me borrow his Final Fantasy Tactics.

[FighterX]

I bought that back back in 2000. Payed $10 for it brand new. No one has ever borrowed it and no one is ever going to. Best Darius game, IMO.

Nothing like an Alpha Beam Battle, is there? :D I got it when it first came out back in 98'.

That game is bloody awesome - everything is so well designed. I like how you have a choice of split paths in every stage. The scenery for many of the stages is jaw-dropping, like in that one stage in which you're dog-fighting and a comet is flying on the background - at one point, I think you fly through the tail of it. The capture-ball system is brillance. And when you capture the mid-boss of each stage, they have special attacks you can do with a special controller command.

Brillance. This game is currently in my "rotation of the week".

[GGL-steve]

ggl i figure you use chankast for DC but PS2? I have yet to see good emu for that. b-sides, chankast is yet to be all that great though unless you've tweaked it to ur own liking i suppose.


Most modern EMU's depend on how good your computer is. Granted if you have a dated PC even chankast (and the dreamcast was weak as hell) will have issues, if you have a modern updated PC ps2 and xbox, gc, and now even xbox360 games are easy to run... PS3 will be a cake walk to force.


a large portion of what your emu can/can't do depends on the hardware you have. Emulators (like PC games) list the minimum specs for the damn thing to run, and not what runs it text book perfect.

A huge portion of making an EMU work correctly is tweaking it on your own for your specific hardware layout. But keep in mind, even the xbox360 ps3 are several generations behind current PC tech. So even for them it's like running nes games on an snes. The key is knowing what does what, and how to alter it.

[AL the great]

I don't lend out stuff I'm not willing to give away.

I gave away my dreamcast, and my PS2 a while back since it was pointless to keep them (when I can emulate both of them easily).
)

ps2 emulation is not good

[FistsofFury]

-Had to buy a new Earthworm Jim 2 like 8 years later.
-My Final Fantasy VII. Gone forever
-My Ninja Scroll.

[FighterX]

-Had to buy a new Earthworm Jim 2 like 8 years later.
-My Final Fantasy VII. Gone forever
-My Ninja Scroll.


All three are causes for the death of the loanee....how did those stories go?

[Lantis]

I haven't borrowed anything ever since high school. The only time I played (and finished)RE 2 was when I borrowed it in exchange for my Parasite Eve....and even then, I got it back on the last day of high school. I seriously thought I was gonna lose it back in the day (although the idea of keeping RE 2 wasn't so bad).

A bad borrowing antic happened in 8th grade when some friend lost my copy of SSF II for the SNES. He did buy a new one, though....

[FighterX]

I got it back on the last day of high school.



Talk about a close call.

This reminds me - has anyone here ever had anyone try to borrow something from them during the last week of school? :rofl:

[Lantis]

I haven't, but I do have a FF II (FF IV) copy which isn't mine (I borrowed it and never gave it back). :wgrin:

Too bad the battery is fucked up and will erase all the files if given the slightest motion. :bluu:

As for secret stashes...I guess you can say that all my NES/SNES/Game Boy/Atari games are "secret" since they are stowed away somewhere in a closet back at my mom's house.

[FighterX]

I haven't, but I do have a FF II (FF IV) copy which isn't mine (I borrowed it and never gave it back). :wgrin:

Too bad the battery is fucked up and will erase all the files if given the slightest motion. :bluu:

Sounds like karma to me! :wonder:

[Kikosho]

Anyone ever loan someone a game or something when you thought you wouldn't possibly want to play it anymore, but once you've let someone borrow it you want to play it? Then you think about it more and more until you finally get it back only NOT to play it. That used to happen to me all the time.

[FighterX]

Yeah, that used to happen! LOL, you get it back, and you just set it down and forget about it.

How about this - do you have a friend that loans stuff out to one particular person, but talks shit about them? I have a friend who loans a mutual friend things all the time and the mutual friend always manages to either keep it longer than he's supposed to, and he has to go hunt him down to get it back.

He talks SO much shit about "I'm not lending MY stuff out anymore blah blah", but then, when I talk to him a few days later, he's loaned our mutual friend something else and the process starts all over again. I got tired of telling the guy to stand up for his own stuff.

I mean he talks SO much shit about it, and then when it comes down to saying no to this guy, he just....can't.

[Calcal]

One of my friends in the 6th grade saw a classmate with Final Fantasy Tactics and asked if he could borrow it for that day and give it back tomorrow. My kept it for years then finally sold it, I dont think the guy he borrowed it from even opened the game.

Most of the time the games that I let people borrow come back fine except for a few exceptions. Let a friend borrow 3rd strike I dont know why I might have had MGS3 at the time or something. When I get it back it barely functions, depending on who you choose or what stage its on it wont load or will take like 5-10 minutes so I need a new CD. Oh and I have a skipdoctor or whatever but I think had the wrong spray which messed up the CD more.

Let a friend of a friend borrow Worms Armageddon and I borrowed Xenosaga. Except I got bored with it and gave it to my friend who he see's his friend more often than me. Well the person I lent the game to his house got broken into and most of his games got stolen including mine.

[Riot Guard]

I remember back in like 3rd grade I let this thug kid borrow contra. My mom found out and made me go over to this kid's at like 8:30 in the hood and ask him for my game back. She was one of those mothers that would write their kid's name on the cartridge in case it got stolen. The most embarassing part was that she came to door with me and this dude's mother immediately whooped his ass in plain view when he handed over the game. I'm still amazed I didn't get jumped in the bathroom the next day.

[ReggieHadoken]

Nothing like an Alpha Beam Battle, is there? :D I got it when it first came out back in 98'.

That game is bloody awesome - everything is so well designed. I like how you have a choice of split paths in every stage. The scenery for many of the stages is jaw-dropping, like in that one stage in which you're dog-fighting and a comet is flying on the background - at one point, I think you fly through the tail of it. The capture-ball system is brillance. And when you capture the mid-boss of each stage, they have special attacks you can do with a special controller command.

Brillance. This game is currently in my "rotation of the week".

Ah, so I see someone else realizes the greatness of G. Darius. Whenever I mention this game, it's like I'm talking to myself. I think it totally blows Einhinder at the window as one of the best SHMUPs on the PSX. And the scenery is tight. I love that stage where you're flying and this huge petradon just swoops down. When I played that level for the first time and I saw that thing I was like "Oh snap!! I'm gonna die!!!" Imagine my surprise when I saw my ship hadn't been torn to pieces. :rofl: Don't know the track that plays on that stage but it's tight. My fav song out of the whole game.

[FighterX]

Ah, so I see someone else realizes the greatness of G. Darius. Whenever I mention this game, it's like I'm talking to myself. I think it totally blows Einhinder at the window as one of the best SHMUPs on the PSX. And the scenery is tight. I love that stage where you're flying and this huge petradon just swoops down. When I played that level for the first time and I saw that thing I was like "Oh snap!! I'm gonna die!!!" Imagine my surprise when I saw my ship hadn't been torn to pieces. :rofl: Don't know the track that plays on that stage but it's tight. My fav song out of the whole game.

Speaking of the devil, I flew through that stage yesterday. I think that I ended up taking the ground path, and I fought some of those daddy-long legs types mechs. And I HATE Tripod Sardine (either version), the boss of that stage.

One of my other favorite stages is when you're flying in space through what appears to be a destroyed satellite/spaceship graveyard. And one of the best parts is that one of the split paths takes you into what you think is a dead ship, but ends up being a huge weapon - you make your way to the end JUST as it begins to power-up and you have to high-tail it out of there before it goes off.

I like with the bosses fight amongst themselves before one of them wins and battles you (some stages).

[Saturn]

I loaned a cousin my copy of Super R-Type for SNES way back in the day. He ended up loaning it to our other cousin. Then that cousin pawned it and the first cousin moved out of state.

I'll really only loan certain games to certain people. There are only around 2 people I would loan out any of my Sega Genesis games out to and a few of my cherished SNES games (EarthBound, Final Fantasy VI (3), etc.) Also, I would NEVER loan out any of my classic NES games to anyone either.

[BruceLB]

You guys really should start having higher standards for friends. I have people I hang out with, and then I have people I would actually consider my friend. And we borrow shit from each other all the time. Sometimes even for months at a time and stuff always gets returned the way it went out.

[Akuma4Real]

I'd never, ever let a friend borrow my Chrono Trigger. I'd let him borrow my DS with Advance Wars before I'd let him borrow CT
Oh wow i love CT that much. I didn't let my friend borrow it, so he stole it from me :sad:

[Kayin]

You guys really should start having higher standards for friends. I have people I hang out with, and then I have people I would actually consider my friend. And we borrow shit from each other all the time. Sometimes even for months at a time and stuff always gets returned the way it went out.
QFT, I can definitely say the same.

[FighterX]

You guys really should start having higher standards for friends. I have people I hang out with, and then I have people I would actually consider my friend. And we borrow shit from each other all the time. Sometimes even for months at a time and stuff always gets returned the way it went out.

How do I say this.......I don't base my TRUE friends on whether they can take care of their things or not. I hang out with ALL of my friends. Basing your "true" friends on things like that is a bit shallow.

Some of the folks I hang with are the most entertaining, down-to-earth, and best people you'd ever meet who'd give you the shirt off of their back. It just happens that some of them can't take care of their games for shit. Doesn't make them bad people to hang around...just bad people to loan your things to. :lol:

[BruceLB]

How do I say this.......I don't base my TRUE friends on whether they can take care of their things or not. I hang out with ALL of my friends. Basing your "true" friends on things like that is a bit shallow.
I don't base my true friends on the ability to take care of their things. It's their stuff if they don't care if it gets messed it's not my place to tell them anything.

But I do base them trust. To realize that lending them something was a sign of trust. That while they might not care about their stuff, I might, and I trust them enough to figure that out and make the little extra effort to take care of something that is not theirs.

And I don't see how you can have a friend who would give you the shirt off his back but wont do something as simple as not fuck up something you lent him.

[G.O.T]

NO one will ever ever ever touch my copies of Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, LB2, MOTW (mint), Legend of Legaia, Guilty Gear 1, or Castlevania: SOTN. Well actually nobody is gonna use my games anymore since someone stole my sf alpha 3. Ill kill who ever took it.

[Return of Shiki]

Yeah, I don't understand the whole "Let your so-called friends lie, steal, and NON-STOP ASSRAPE you" mentality.

I guess it's because

a) I don't have more than a couple of acquantances I would actually hang with

b) I would only lend out something I know that in the worst-case scenario would not be that hard to find and buy to replace

and

c) In any case that a person takes my game and never gives it back, or otherwise ruins or causes wanton destruction to the mint condition of my game gives up his right to either having a solid facial bone structure, a functioning spinal cord, and/or the original shape of his testicles.

d) Stealing or destroying the following possessions of mine is just cause for instant death:

1) Suikoden 2 (PSX)
2) Valkyrie Profile (PSX)
3) Star Ocean 2 (PSX)
4) Chrono Trigger (SNES)
5) Final Fantasy 3(US) (SNES)
6) Harvest Moon (SNES)
7) Lunar: Silver Star (PSX)
8) Lunar: Eternal Blue (PSX)
9) Arc The Lad Collection (PSX)
10) Shining Force CD (Sega CD)
11) Popful Mail (Sega CD)
12) Shining Force 3 (Sega Saturn)
13) Shining The Holy Ark (Sega Saturn)
14) Street Fighter Collection (Sega Saturn)
15) X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (Sega Saturn JP)
16) Marvel Super Heroes (Sega Saturn JP)
17) Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter (Sega Saturn JP)
18) Albert Odyssey (Sega Saturn)
19) Disgaia (PS2)
20) Suikoden 3 (PS2)
21) Phantasy Star 4 (Sega Genesis)
22) Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PSX)
23) Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodia (GBA)
24) Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Calibur (N64)
25) Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast)
........Actually, you know what? There's too much more to list, so I'm not going to bother. Just everybody stay away from my stuff...:nunchuck:

[VI The Sixth]

Final Fantasy 3 for SNES
Tetris Attack for SNES
Street Fighter Alpha 2 for SNES

Oh man.. I wanna play some tetris attack now ^_^

[Shin-RoTeNdO]

I stopped lending games out a looooong time ago. Living in the barracks as a Marine or any other service sucks. That person can go on 'leave' (vacation), get sent to the field, get out the service, get stationed somewhere else, or lend it to someone else. It's a practice to own a 'Log Book' of games/cd's/dvd's that you lend so that way you'll be sure to track them down and get it back. 100% fool proff, but anyway...

My son loves Halo2. So it got to the point where I bought him his own damn xbox w/Halo2 and some other games from a Marine who didn't play much or hardly at all (to help out, she was a female)

He doesn't touch my xbox or Halo or any other games because he knows what's up. I'll whoop that ass. I let my kids play my jap saturn and plan other fighters with arcade sticks, because there is no way in hell they'll be able to break them. Only thing I have to worry about is dirty or sticky handprints... which they don't play unless their hands are clean anyway and they don't play or touch my shit unless I'm home and watching them.

Other than that... I'll never, ever, ever, lend out my SNES Squaresoft, or PSX Squaresoft collection. Even if I do own 2 or 3 of the same game(s). Followed by Enix, Capcom, EA, etc...

Now I'll lend out joysticks and coverters, but software is off limits.

[FighterX]

I don't base my true friends on the ability to take care of their things. It's their stuff if they don't care if it gets messed it's not my place to tell them anything.

But I do base them trust. To realize that lending them something was a sign of trust. That while they might not care about their stuff, I might, and I trust them enough to figure that out and make the little extra effort to take care of something that is not theirs.

And I don't see how you can have a friend who would give you the shirt off his back but wont do something as simple as not fuck up something you lent him.

Fair enough - I think I misinterpreted your post.

Trust is THE number 1 factor in friendship...again, that's why I have a close circle of people that I know I can confide in/lend things to. People I consider more brother/sister than friend.

I stopped lending games out a looooong time ago. Living in the barracks as a Marine or any other service sucks. That person can go on 'leave' (vacation), get sent to the field, get out the service, get stationed somewhere else, or lend it to someone else. It's a practice to own a 'Log Book' of games/cd's/dvd's that you lend so that way you'll be sure to track them down and get it back. 100% fool proff, but anyway...

My son loves Halo2. So it got to the point where I bought him his own damn xbox w/Halo2 and some other games from a Marine who didn't play much or hardly at all (to help out, she was a female)

I've seen things get passed around like it was nothing when I was overseas - again, people loaning out other people's things - and someone within the chain ends up leaving with the item.

[FighterX]

Yeah, I don't understand the whole "Let your so-called friends lie, steal, and NON-STOP ASSRAPE you" mentality.

I guess it's because

a) I don't have more than a couple of acquantances I would actually hang with

b) I would only lend out something I know that in the worst-case scenario would not be that hard to find and buy to replace

and

c) In any case that a person takes my game and never gives it back, or otherwise ruins or causes wanton destruction to the mint condition of my game gives up his right to either having a solid facial bone structure, a functioning spinal cord, and/or the original shape of his testicles.

d) Stealing or destroying the following possessions of mine is just cause for instant death:


Oh, you know, I'm going to tell you a story about someone I know - their roommate left and cleaned them OUT when they weren't home. Moved out of state, even.

I'll post it when I get home from work.

EDIT:

Here's what I talked about earlier:

Friend “A”. Let's call him John. Probably someone I’d consider to be my best friend here. Good guy. Honest. Hardworking. Has a kid (with whom he and the mother share custody). Organized. Responsible. Works for a well known chain of video game vendors (so you know how many hours he has to work per week).

Friend “B”. We'll say Mike. He knew John through someone else in college. Works for a cable company. Unorganized. Likely to quit a job on a whim just because of one minor situation without having a new job lined up first. Shifty. Childish (all of this I wouldn’t find out until later). I considered him an acquaintance.

John had a dependable roommate for a number of years, but this person got married and moved out. John was by himself (paying a $595 rent) for a few months. Situation was getting dire….I don’t know how many people applied to be a roommate, but he ended up with Mike.

Mike was doing fine for the first few months. He was on time with his side of the utilities and rent. He was in and out of the apartment, a (for the most part) quiet guy, and never bothered anyone. Then, one day he quit his job out of nowhere. He “made friends” with a few guys next door who turned out to be dealing drugs. Even let them into the apartment a few times while John was at work. He quit one cable company and managed to get a job with another cable company, whom he worked with for a few months before quitting (again with no job lined up). His parents came over and CHEWED HIM OUT…and I mean GOOD. John allowed Mike to live there for 1 month until he got back on his feet. Mike somehow managed to find another job out-of-state that supposedly paid big money. Let everyone know, and one day, just left.

John and I are hanging out – I treated him and his kid to dinner, so we decide to go back to his apt and play some Dreamcast game. He realizes that the game is missing. Okay. Cool. Find it later. We go to look for ANOTHER game and a movie…both of them are missing. At this point, we realize what’s going on. Now, the problem is, he has TONS of movies and games that he’s collected over the years, so he doesn’t know what’s missing until he goes to look for it.

Turns out that Mike screwed a few of our mutual friends over. He managed to borrow things from them and never return the things…most of which most likely ended up pawned for gas-money. He began to spend an upwards of $60 of week at a strip club. Maybe more. He now owes John a sizeable amount of money.

To this day, John STILL manages (on a near daily basis) to point out games and movies that are still missing….it’s like a gift that keeps on effin’ him over. He gets an urge to play (random game/movie) and it’s not there. Particularly missing are quite a few out-of-print movies.

Additionally, Mike left John backed up on rent and utilities. And he borrow things from friends and never returned them.

[ReggieHadoken]

Snip



Oh dude, that sucks on so many levels. If I were John and I saw Mike I would mess him up so bad they wouldn't be able to identify that mother from his finger prints. That's why you can never be too careful when loaning your stuff out to people or when living with questionable roomates.