I have a Japanese Marvel vs Capcom 2, I paid $1.00 for and it has no manual, only the disc. Yet finding an import game in a bookstore made it feel special. I might have it buffed out.
I have a Japanese Marvel vs Capcom 2, I paid $1.00 for and it has no manual, only the disc. Yet finding an import game in a bookstore made it feel special. I might have it buffed out.
It's a 100-way tie with all the Genesis stuff I bought from Blockbuster in the summer of '99 that was covered in stickers and price tags. I hate that stuff but for 50 cents each, I wasn't going to miss out on such a bargain even with the flaws.
I have lots of beat up Genesis titles as well, but hey, they work.
in disc based games, I have an import Marvel vs Capcom 1 Dreamcast that I got when it was first released and it is beat to hell, I'm not sure if it still works or not. A shame, I love that game. Also, Street Fighter Alpha 3 also on DC, it's got some scratches that aren't that bad, but the fucker won't play anymore. I used to play that all the time with buds for the dramatic battle mode.
I have a bunch of bare SNES carts, but I don't care that they're incomplete. I'm insanely OCD about my Genesis stuff though, and any incomplete game I've gotten over the past year or so gets a custom insert printed from Copy Max and a manual off eBay or a game forum. I've managed to complete a ton of games that way.
All my disc games have boxes, but my copy of Keio Flying Squadron for Sega CD is missing the manual. Shit still makes me nuts.
Probably Pokémon Red. My mom gave away a lot of stuff without asking when I left for college, but I still have that game at least. I think the label has been rubbed off the cartridge. I remember playing it at school and kids acted like I was too old for Pokémon, even at age 11. Dumb kids not knowing how to be kids. So, the reason would be sentimental. I really really wish I still had Pocohontas and Claymates, I'm sure those would be in terrible condition.
Probably any number of PC game CDs from the early 90s. I used to not take very good care of them, probably leaving them outside of their cases more often than not. I don't think any of them are actually unreadable, but I'm not sure I'd want to try running Space Quest IV directly off of the CD now - seek times would probably be pretty unbearable.
I don't know when it happened, but over the years I've had SSF4 I've let it get seriously beat the fuck up. Honestly I'm surprised it still plays. I went to visit SSJN like 5 months ago and try to get it resurfaced, but he wasn't there and I think the noob he left taking care of his store screwed it up even worse, it looks like hell. Regardless, it plays like a champ, regularly.
I also have Stratego, but the pieces are missing stickers and the board is all beat up, I have no idea why I haven't thrown it away.
Pffft. I used to have about a dozen N64 games that were nothing but circuit boards. We disassembled them at work to clean up the shells, and they somehow got ruined or tossed out. I kept the PCBs, but they started getting flaky after a while, so I gave them to a friend. It's a shame, too, since they were all really good games.
I spilled water on my DC Project Justice and the booklet and case inserts are all wrinkly and then it was super rare and I couldn't get a replacement and it looks so bad and I love the game so much =[
I spilled Coca-Cola on my Nintendo 64 "Cruisin' USA" cartridge. It happened the exact day that I got the game and the Nintendo 64 for Christmas. I tried wiping the coke off right away, but the acid from the coke totally were several holes in the sticker on the cartridge. Needless to say, the game is in horrid shape...and yes, I know, Cruisin USA is a shitty game, but that's part of it's charm. I would never sell it.
I also have a copy of Mega Man 2, with a fucked up instruction manual. I was just a young kid, eating barbecue chicken, while reading the black and white Mega Man 2 instruction manual. Oops. To this day there are Barbecue fingerprints all over that manual. haha.