Your Broke-Ass Games

[I.N.producer]

I still have my broken Halo 3 that was lost to scratches, my Pokemon Gold that refuses to save, and a broken copy of Fallout 3 that I have NO idea why it won't work.

Hmmm my Pokemon Blue won't save either, it must be a fault in the construction of the cartridges.

OT: I mourn the loss of my Ribbit King disc. Hot day+ Toffee =broke ass disc
I once opened a new game and it was cracked already, and once I bought a game and it cracked when I pulled it out.

I think it's the save battery dying, not really a fault per se, just a shortcoming of technology at the time.

OT: I had a copy of Pokemon Silver stop saving and keeping time, and I had Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis stop saving. And Tactics Ogre is fairly rare and very pricy for a GBA game made in 2002. I had to buy a new copy off ebay for $35, and that was the cheapest I could find. There were copies for $80. I could have gotten it on a rom guiltlessly, but then I'd probably cheat.

 

[Beryl77]

None so far, except some really old cd's for my SEGA MegaDrive but I was a kid back then and didn't look after them at all.
The only CD which isn't working properly is the Bad Company 2 CD. It often fails to authenticate the original CD. Sometimes I think about cracking it...

 

[Cazza]

I had Need For Speed III shatter in my drive. I lost a good game and a good drive.

 

[BiggyShackleton]

I've had 3 copies of Swat 4. First disc snapped when I pulled it out of the box one day. The second exploded inside my disc tray, I examined the drive after hearing the noise and there was a huge chunk sticking out of the front. Kept that shit as a souvenir.

Apart from that I've had the COD4 disc that can't play Ambush and lent my uncle Tomb Raider 3, never seen it again.

 

[Zeraiya]

Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Damn, that went through the wringer.

It got scratched up like hell, and then one day my friend's little brother, when I leant the game to her, snapped it in half. (Well, one of the disks.)

She promptly bought me another one.

EDIT: Ah yes, and Spyro... back when I still had a functioning PlayStation. It eventually just stopped working because it got so scratched. It is now a coffee coaster.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

CoD:BO, the middle bit has a tiny crack, meaning if it gets played it will apparently snap and explode. so i did what any normal person would do: i attempted to sell it to a friend, neglecting to mention that fact.
[sub]wouldve bloody worked if it hadnt been for another guy who found out it was broken. bastard cost me a fuckin tenner... still got a broken disk.[/sub]
also, i nearly lost Halo 3 to scratches.

shockingly my 360 hasnt murdered the fuck out of any of my games.

 

[Saulkar]

Dead Rising: 360 scratch ring
Prototype: 360 scratch ring
Gears of War: 360 scratch ring
Gears of War 2: 360 scratch ring
Abomination: The Nemisis Project: Brother cracked it with a rolling chair, crumbled it up into small pieces to hide behind the freezer.
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project: Inconsiderate friend of my younger brother stomped it.
Sim City 3000: Younger brother stepped on it.

 

[putowtin]

my best friend and her (now ex) boyfriend brought beatles rock band over, I really don't like dem games but they also brough beer so I said "go ahead, but careful with the disk that's in"
It was Mass Effect 2 and I'd only had it four hours (I cried)