Who here has gotten Video Games somehow for FREE?

-I got the Model 2 Genesis that brought me here for completely free, with copies of Sonic 2 and Aladdin, from a girl in my 9th grade English class. I'm pretty sure she liked me. :P

-My friend randomly gave me a copy of Earthworm Jim 2 for SNES once.

-Having family rocks. My uncle gave me his Atari 7800 with 10 games, and I had a cousin that randomly mailed me his NES, with 4 controllers, a NES Satellite, Tetris, Contra Force, and the Nintendo World Cup/Super Spike VBall multicart, and SNES with Contra 3.

-I bought a ton of Lemmings stuff from a guy at my Lemmings forums and he threw in some free stuff I didn't ask for: Lemmings for Mega Drive, a single-floppy Amiga budget version, the ZX Spectrum version, and a Japanese strategy guide for the Super Famicom version.

-Once I borrowed Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire for the N64 from a friend. I forgot I had them, and years later I found them, and now he's moved away. I guess those count as free.

Now that I think of it, yes! I did get a game for free once.

I ordered Super Street Fighter II X for the Dreamcast from some Japanese dude on eBay once. Once it arrived, it had a little extra surprise inside: a Japanese promo copy of Toshinden for the PS1, complete with hilarious Engrish promotion text on the cover of the manual. I should upload a photo of it sometime, it's wonderfully silly.

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Oh, and let's not forget I won my Xbox 360 in a contest. It's a limited edition PGR3 version too, one of only 100 in existence. It didn't come with any games though, other than Hexic HD which is always free.

I wish I'd gotton a game for free...

However, I did get a free router from a friend a month ago. It's only about a year and a half old, and his family got a new one and they were going to throw this one away. My friend asked, "Hey we're going to thow this away, do you want it so you can use Xbox Live?"... You can tell what my answer was.

Although, my internet provider, mediacom, won't let me use it unless I fork out a monthly fee... Oh well, I should of expected hidden fees. It's the year 2009, of course some asshat buisnessman wants to make his wallet fatter on me trying to use a product that wasn't made by him. :?... Happens all the time, and I'm not the only one going through it, so I'm not even going to bitch/piss/moan.

Oh, I could easily type down shit i've found all day. But when it comes to Video Games, it might not be all that much.

My little brother turned in his gamecube so they could fix it, couldn't find the receipt, so they paid for a new one. They found the receipt back at home, and I got it, + the broken gc, turned it in for reparation, and then it was mine.

Does it count if I got back my Mega Drive with some games, that I sold to one of my mothers friends when I was very little? years later then, anyhow.. i got that.

Bought a few Mega Drive consoles for the games and gotten the units for free aswell.

Found a whole lot of pc-games on my previous city dump, well, doesn't make sense, but the city dump in MY previous city. There. Sorry, but still have a hangover.

And then there's all the other electronics i've gathered throughout the years in various places.

I've never been quite lucky winning games on the other hand.

I freaked out when I saw an old video game store I was so happy. Looked around in it for about 20 minutes then told him I wanted a sgea genesis 2, he went ahead and knocked off ten bucks on an original genesis then I asked him why nes went up in price and he went ahead and gave me a racing game and a second controller for it, it was pretty sweet. If it wasn't so far away id love to go back.

Sega sent Virtua Fighter Remix for free! :)

It's not a free game, but Sega sent a $100 check and a free (Dreamcast) keyboard, because I was a subscriber to Seganet.

I know i've gotten free games and stuff in the past but more recently got a free V3 Playstation 2 from work, just had to clean the lens and works fine.

I might be getting a free 65" TV from work as well, will have to fix it first though.

About ten years ago, a cousin of my dad's that was into PC gaming gave me a few of his games that he didn't want anymore- Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, Wheel of Time, and Daggerfall. I wish I still had some of them, or a computer they might work on.

I won a toy lightsaber in a Soul Calibur tournament a few months ago, and I traded that on ebay for some Gen games, if that counts.

Not sure if this counts, but when I was five, I lent my copy of Aladdin to a friend who, as I recall, only had an NES. He later claimed to have broken it, and me being a stupid ass five year old, didn't care. So either he was equally dumb and broke the Gen cart trying to stick it in an NES, or he got away with a free game. Lucky him, considering he moved away shortly afterward.

My mom's boyfriend had an old copy of the Seventh Guest that he gave to me when we moved in with him. It won't work on my newer computer, so I might end up selling it.

my uncle gave me ridge racer revolution on ps1 and my cousins gave me a load of n64 games

I can't really think of any completely free stuff other that that I got from relatives, like my grandparents' 1977 Atari VCS ("heavy sixer") complete (paddles ac adaptor joysticks) and a few games, and maybe a couple of out NES games. I can't rememer if we traded a freind for the 2 N64 rampage games, or they just gave them to us. (I seem to remember him just giving them when we bought Glover from him).

I missed getting my uncle's Atari 2600 stuff (ended up giving it to good will last year, even though he's only bought it on ebay ~2001 -said a lot of the games wouldn't work... and gave me no heads up), however he said he still thinks he's got a SMS II with a few games and I seem to remember a loose 32x tossed in and either a couple 32x or genesis games as well. (I had no idea what it was last time I saw it, so I wasn't sure)

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Originally Posted by gamevet

Sega sent Virtua Fighter Remix for free! :)

It's not a free game, but Sega sent a $100 check and a free (Dreamcast) keyboard, because I was a subscriber to Seganet.

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Oh yeah! I got both of those deals as well. I also think I got Christmas Nights for free or $5 at the most, US edition.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

Oh yeah! I got both of those deals as well. I also think I got Christmas Nights for free or $5 at the most, US edition.

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Sega hooked me up with Double Dragon, Reggie Jackson Baseball, and Power Strike for Master System. I sent in UPC's, they sent freebies. Joy!

My friend gave me Battletech, Super Street Fighter II, and F22 Interceptor for free.

I got a US copy of Christmas NiGHTS (plus sleeve) in exchange for writing a paper about cocaine for one of my friends, don't know if that counts. Recently, another friend of mine gave me a complete copy SaGa Frontier for PSX because he didn't like it. One man's trash, as the saying goes.

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Originally Posted by Black_Tiger

I wrote letters to NEC/TTI back in the day and a response I received towards the end of the Duo's run included a Lords of Thunder t-shirt and Dungeon Master Theron's Quest. It seemed pretty obvious that they chose that game because my letter had listed the games I owned and that RPGs are my favorite. If I didn't already have it, they likely would've sent me Dungeon Explorer II.

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Now this is the kind of story that really warms the heart. It's nice to know that some companies do care about their userbase. Sure, they were probably going under at that time, but they still had the option to sell the game at a loss instead of giving it away for nothing.

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Originally Posted by Why-Disciple

My mom's boyfriend had an old copy of the Seventh Guest that he gave to me when we moved in with him. It won't work on my newer computer, so I might end up selling it.

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You can use ScummVM to get Seventh Guest running on modern PC's. I've tried it with my copy, needs a little fiddling but works just fine!