The worst thing that can happen to you in a video game

[leapinlew]

Worst thing is when I shoot my own ship in Galaga

Second worst is when I kill the last bad guys in Mr. Do by dropping fruit on them and there is a diamond inside the fruit that you can't get

 

[05SRT4]

Getting super far on Super Mario Bros 3 on the Nintendo and your little brother rages at you and slams the bedroom door which then freezes the system!!

[brad808]

Power outage. So frustrating.

Sent from my Nexus 4

[lilshawn]

looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

3am?! where'd the last 12 hours go?

[JDFan]

Getting killed right as you enter a load door where the game auto saves over your one and only save game !!!

[Louis Tully]

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[EssexMame]

Approaching Elite commander status (13 right-on commanders needed, 12 achieved) in Elite only for the save tape you'd saved your commander on to no longer load and it's back to the beginning. I never did make it, I think I got to about "Dangerous" which was enough playing hours in itself.

[Le Chuck]

Three levels into Dodonpachi, "Hey honey can you..."

[mamenewb100]

Finally beating the Turbo Tunnel level in Battletoads for the NES, only to realize that was the easiest level for the rest of the game. :0

[Dawgz Rule]

looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

Without question, this.

[Unstupid]

I take it none of you have seen Tron!   

[Hambo3]

Going for a high score then the wife decides to start to tell you all about her day at work!

[Gray_Area]

Power outage. So frustrating.

-grimaces-  Dude. It's called a UPS.

looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

Without question, this.

Never mind that I don't have one, but I don't get this one.

Going for a high score then the wife decides to start to tell you all about her day at work!

You're a guy, you don't multi-task as well. Or, you're not doing the guy thing and surreptitiously saying 'oh, yeah' now and then.

It's easier for me because I have all kinds of  'mmm's ' in normal conversation, when I *am* paying attention.

[Cynicaster]

Being on a roll in Donkey Kong, and making a dipchit mistake, like missing a jump on the elevator stage.   

The random levels in Missile Command that start with those annoying cruise missile things that dodge your shots.    

[nakeworks]

Playing Mortal Kombat 2 on the Sega Genesis trying to get to 300 (or was it 500?) consecutive wins to get to the Pong hidden game then falling asleep (with game on pause) and dreaming that the game over heated and burned your house down so you wake up and turn it off.  30 wins shy of 300 

[jimmer]

Thinking you are looking good for your hi-score and then shooting your last human, and knowing you've got 3.5 waves of space to survive.

[mgb]

When I go to Fun Spot and I get there right at opening.
I play Gyruss and get high score.
I think I played a pretty good game and then people show up. There goes my high score.

[Malenko]

I was running a multi hour endurance race on Forza 2, paused the game with about 5 laps (10 min-ish) to go. My girl sat down on the controller unpausing it, sending my car into the wall. I ended up trying to finish the race with a busted car (I HAD a huge lead) ended up coming in second, got passed on the final straight away but my car was too busted and slow to hold the CPU off.

[ark_ader]

Playing DOT and snapping the base of my USB joystick due to unnecessary roughness.

[Vigo]

I was running a multi hour endurance race on Forza 2, paused the game with about 5 laps (10 min-ish) to go. My girl sat down on the controller unpausing it, sending my car into the wall. I ended up trying to finish the race with a busted car (I HAD a huge lead) ended up coming in second, got passed on the final straight away but my car was too busted and slow to hold the CPU off.

Had a similar experience yesterday. I was playing Majora's Mask. Made about 3 hours of progress and paused the game on day 3 so I could prep dinner. My kid managed to find the controller I hid from him and unpaused the game. By the time I got back to my game, day 3 already ended, everything was destroyed and I had lost all my progress.

[05SRT4]

I know its going to be a fast pounding when I start a round of Dota2 and when I do a quick mic check im the only one that speaks English...... GG

[Fursphere]

Playing Final Fantasy X2

Holy chit that game was horrible

[mgb]

Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone

[Kier]

Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone

I may literally die laughing at that. Too funny.

[mgb]

Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone

I may literally die laughing at that. Too funny.

I'm guessing, you know the game.

[WindDrake]

Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone

Augh. I remember finding that one, too. Nice!

[Xiaou2]

In the Sega Gen. days when I was a kid, you couldnt easily rent or return a game.  So, a bad game, was an expensive curse.
You felt compelled to TRY to play it, as much as you hat it...  just to try to justify its lofty expense.

 Sadly, I had amassed quite a number of garbage carts, and wasted time suffering with them.

 One of the worst, was air diver.  Followed by Technocop.  Probably selectively forgetting a few others.  Out of like 52 games... I think I only really enjoyed and replayed like 7 of them.


 One 'so-so' stinker game was the Megadrive version of Alex Kidd.  I played it all the way to the last stage, pretty much bored & disinterested..
and all the sudden, my Genesis overheated, and locked up!  So many hours of work,  down the drain.    >.<

 
 Most of my worst moments came from the Sega Master System games.   They were brutally unforgiving.   One split second off, and you couldnt make the needed long jump in Shinobi.     


 Winner of Worst Moment? 


 On Maze Hunter 3D,  there was a Winter / Ice Level.   You had to run 2 steps forwards, then immediately go diagonal 1 block, then immediately jump over a 2 block distance chasm.  You often couldnt time the diagonal right... or didnt time the jump right after it.   You coldnt walk, cause you needed the running speed.   You couldnt stop or reverse, because it was ICE.. and you drifted right off the edge.

 This was like the 2nd to last level, very deep in this very slow moving game ... so losing all your men on this part... was CRUSHING !!!   I finally went out and bought an Epyx handheld controller for the C64, that worked with the master system.  It had a joystick with real microcwitches in it.. and was far more accurate than the SMS Pad.   My success rate went from like 20% to 87%.

 
 2nd Worst?

 
 Maybe the day I played so much Master System (Astro Warror),  that my thumbs were on fire from the lightest touch.  Took like a week to fully recover.    heh

[Gray_Area]

Hey, I'm still waiting on this one!  ??

looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

Being on a roll in Donkey Kong, and making a dipchit mistake, like missing a jump on the elevator stage.   

Hah hah, yeah. Or just jumping early before a lone barrel - nay, right before the ladder to Pauline! - and getting it. ---fudgesicle---.

When I go to Fun Spot and I get there right at opening.
I play Gyruss and get high score.
I think I played a pretty good game and then people show up. There goes my high score.

As I like the game and I'm pretty good at it, I like stuff like that. I like to see how people play it.

My girl sat down on the controller unpausing it...

My kid managed to find the controller I hid from him...

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone

Jeez, really? I don't know the game, but I wouldn't at all think Pac.......

[Dawgz Rule]

Hey, I'm still waiting on this one!  ??


Quote from: Dawgz Rule on May 31, 2013, 04:42:24 pm
looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

For me it typically is a time when my wife wants to do something and I give her the "I'll be up in a minute" only to find that the minute turned into hours. 

[lilshawn]

 Maybe the day I played so much Master System (Astro Warror),  that my thumbs were on fire from the lightest touch.  Took like a week to fully recover.    heh

My SNES D-pads where shiny after I bought Street Fighter II. Wore that + shape right into my thumb. So...much...HADOKEN!

[mgb]

Playing Wii music and....
   Well, just playing Wii music.

My daughter just had to have it so I blew $50 on it for her to play it once.

I guess one day when I need coffee money, I can sell it to game stop, they have me $1.50 for PappaRappa.

[Well Fed Games]

This is a fun, modern one: buying a working retail game and having a patch/add-on completely break it. I am looking at you, Borderlands 2! (good news: they eventually fixed it)

[Kier]

Allowing your young kid to play Beat 'em & Eat 'em on the Atari, thinking its a Pac Man clone

I may literally die laughing at that. Too funny.

I'm guessing, you know the game.

I plead the 5th.

[SNAAKE]

unavoidable deaths..you know it AFTER you die

and nemesis chasing me around all over the place 

[leapinlew]

In the Sega Gen. days when I was a kid, you couldnt easily rent or return a game.  So, a bad game, was an expensive curse.

Ha! No doubt. I remember, standing there, reading every word on the box, studying the pictures and hoping it wouldn't suck. I remember the disappointment I felt when I put in my freshly purchased Adventure cart in my Atari that I got for my birthday. I picked it myself at K-mart. I mean, look at the box:


So much promise...

I forced myself to play it and eventually learned to love it. It's now one of my favorites on the atari. The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me. Oh, and that damn bat...

[lilshawn]

my horrible 2600 purchace:



i'm sad now.

[Vigo]

my horrible 2600 purchace:

Wow, those don't quite look like cars....they remind me of something else.... 

My most recent (but yet entertaining) frustrating game has been surgeon simulator:


(Heads up, NSFW for the commentary language)

[eds1275]

looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

Without question, this.

Never mind that I don't have one, but I don't get this one.

[/quote]

With most women, when they go to bed without telling for some reason you are in trouble.

[Gray_Area]

Hey, I'm still waiting on this one!  ??


Quote from: Dawgz Rule on May 31, 2013, 04:42:24 pm
looking up and realizing it's dark and the wife has gone to bed.

For me it typically is a time when my wife wants to do something and I give her the "I'll be up in a minute" only to find that the minute turned into hours. 

I have been in a marriage-like situation, and having to deal with her issues and fix her mistakes was a huge turn-off at times. In the deepest of those instances I'd just totally ignore her. But if I was crazy about her...and I didn't have to fix her ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---....and I didn't live with her.....I'd be turning it off right then and hauling ass upstairs.

With most women, when they go to bed without telling for some reason you are in trouble.

Oh. From what I've heard, if you don't go to bed at the same time you're in trouble.

my horrible 2600 purchace:

I remember that game. Too easy to blow the engine. A non-game game. That ranks up there with E.T.

[jdbailey1206]

It really isn't the worst thing but I always felt incredibly stupid when I got to the end of world 8-1 in Super Mario Brothers and fell in between the holes in the staircase in haste before the flag and castle.

[lordnacho]

When you stop playing and realize how many hours of your life you've wasted played 

[Malenko]

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

How do you unplug a wireless 360 controller?

[wp34]

Ha! No doubt. I remember, standing there, reading every word on the box, studying the pictures and hoping it wouldn't suck. I remember the disappointment I felt when I put in my freshly purchased Adventure cart in my Atari that I got for my birthday. I picked it myself at K-mart. I mean, look at the box:


So much promise...

I forced myself to play it and eventually learned to love it. It's now one of my favorites on the atari. The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me. Oh, and that damn bat...

+1 -- right down to the dragons startling me.  One of my all-time favorites.

[Gray_Area]

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

How do you unplug a wireless 360 controller?

They didn't say what kind of controllers they was using. But if they were wireless, totally no excuse.

...my freshly purchased Adventure cart...The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me.

+1 -- right down to the dragons startling me.  One of my all-time favorites.

I think the dragon in Odyssey2's Quest for the Rings was way scarier. You had to run by it, it blew ---smurfing--- fire at you, which sometimes could be deflected with your sword (warrior) or magic bolt (wizard), and the fire made noise! Plus it looked more like a dragon, rather than a goose.  I don't recall whether you could kill the dragon, though. Maybe. That game was actually pretty involved. It had a board with pieces you moved around, and there was a special key overlay for the keyboard on the Odyssey. We never used it, we just wanted to play the game, but it was pretty advanced in that regard.

[leapinlew]

....un-plug it and put it in a high place. Why am I the voice of reason, here??

How do you unplug a wireless 360 controller?

They didn't say what kind of controllers they was using. But if they were wireless, totally no excuse.

...my freshly purchased Adventure cart...The dragons sometimes still scare me if I advance to a new screen and there is one right there chomping at me.

+1 -- right down to the dragons startling me.  One of my all-time favorites.

I think the dragon in Odyssey2's Quest for the Rings was way scarier. You had to run by it, it blew ---smurfing--- fire at you, which sometimes could be deflected with your sword (warrior) or magic bolt (wizard), and the fire made noise! Plus it looked more like a dragon, rather than a goose.  I don't recall whether you could kill the dragon, though. Maybe. That game was actually pretty involved. It had a board with pieces you moved around, and there was a special key overlay for the keyboard on the Odyssey. We never used it, we just wanted to play the game, but it was pretty advanced in that regard.

No, my dragon was scarier. Your dragon sucks on a suck system so suck it. <smiley face intentionally not inserted>

[Vigo]

Sorry, have not been able to take that freakin' dragon seriously since the Homestar days.



and the quest for the ring dragon looked like a sneezing dinosaur.



I totally call scariest bad guy in an old videogame. It was the SS in the original (2D) wolfenstein. I could be happily picking locks on boxes, opening doors, donning a nazi uniform to fool the grunt level guards, planning out the strategy to take out a couple ignorant Nazis....and nothing but eerie silence. Then out of no where an SS Pops in the room swearing at you in german and in a panic you run into the wall and collapse. Only seconds before he reaches you and you manage to get up, unload most your bullets on him only to have every shot fail from the bullet proof vest he is wearing. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---! Even more panicked, and out of bullets, you sprint past the clueless guards and clear into the next room. Blast the last two bullets at the guard that appears right in front of you. Out of some stroke of luck, the only other guard around is ignorantly watching some random corner and is out of sight. You find a narrow hallway to duck down at the same time the SS enters the room and start hunting your ass down like he is some invincible terminator, and you find you just ran down a corridor with a locked door. With precious few seconds left, you try the keys you took off of a dead nazi, fumbling around, you come to the conclusion that you are too scared and out of time to get the keys to work. With only a few seconds left, you pray you have a grenade on you, Yes! One grenade! You reach in, and throw your grenade in his unthinkable face right as he rounds the corner. Then, the very moment you see victory over the dreaded SS, you realize you are too close to the blast radius and blew up yourself in the process. Screen goes to gray, you're dead. 




(And nobody bring up the fact that the SS is some handless guy in purple footie pajamas. He is super scary you guys.)

[lilshawn]

How about wandering around in final fantasy doing nothing in particular at 4 am...half asleep...the music...is all quiet.. in...cave...you start dozing off...and...you're still walking...then SCRANG! RANDOM FIGHT EVENT!



 

[michelevit]

Your friends ridicule you because  of your dedicated Pause button.
They hit the dedicated ESC button you approach a high score.

[PL1]

Your friends ridicule you because  of your dedicated Pause button.
They hit the dedicated ESC button you approach a high score.

Sounds autobiographical.

That kind of trauma could explain his obsessive anti-pause-button rants in this thread.   

Seek professional help, dude. 


Scott

[Gray_Area]

Ah, lewis.......


@Vigo: and he still looks probably the baddest ass of anything short of Colecovision.