ever lose or misplace a valued game?!

[Nunzio]

Damn that's nuts.

I had my mother take away my NES when I was about 8 after getting in trouble. We got it back but a few games and out NES Advantage were missing. Only last year after she cleaned out her closet did I get them back.

Tough grind! I remember when my parents used to take away my consoles/games. I guess the logic was that I would go outside and become an enterprising junior gang member like all the other kids in the neighborhood.

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

The one big thing that I am missing right now is my manual to Albert Odyssey for the Sega Saturn. This manual had been autographed by Kelly Knight who worked for Working Designs. I got the manual before the game and I can't for the life of me find it. What sucks even more is that I just moved to a new house so who knows what happened to it.

JY

[Bablefish]

I had just bought a copy of Discworld 2 PSOne which cost me $50, I was telling of my purchase to a friend. He had previously borrowed Discworld 1 and I did not have any problems. Well any way just 2 weeks after he borrowed my game he vanished without a trace. I heard later he had been arrested on auto theft charges. I was lucky that the place where I previously got the game had an extra copy and it cost me another $50. After that I will not lend my games out to anyone period.

[jerry coeurl]

I usually make sure I know that someone isn't a terrible thief before I lend them games. I've never had any problems.

[Deo]

I remember losing Jet Grind Radio in 2002 and finding it sometime in 2004 inside my Suzuki Alstare racing case, now I just have to find Suzuki.

[FoxHound]

I keep a excell spreadsheet with my game inventory. It helps when your collections starts to get big

[Mr. Ksoft]

Not really valued games, but I have lost two Mario games on separate occasions only for them to turn up a ridiculously long time later.

-Lost Super Mario Land for six years. It showed up buried in the bottom of a box full of computer manuals.

-I also lost Super Mario Advance 2 for about two years and found it wedged underneath one of the seats in my dad's van.

[Baloo]

Oh yeah. The whole event only took a few hours. My old man came up to me with her and she held the cart out and said (non-believably) "Belmont, I'm very sorry I took your game". I was forced to accept her apology, but like I said I got back at her with Doom later on.

Well, she didn't really call me Belmont, but for the purposes of retelling childhood memories on the internet, my name is Belmont de Souza.

Simon Belmont? Heh.

I lost Pokemon Pinball and TMNT both for GBA.

Lost a black 256 Gamecube memory card because I decided to bring it with me to give to a friend and ended up losing it.

Lost my original DS and 5 games (Mario Kart DS, Madden 2005, Animal Crossing, Nintendogs, Super Mario 64 DS, Metroid Prime Hunters demo) in a game case, had the DS and the games in it, either I lost it somewhere or my father ended up doing something with it, we never did find out how that got lost. All I ended up with was the charger and the boxes for the games, and I just sold the boxes for the games for $1 each except for Metroid Prime Hunters demo, which I managed to get free from a friend.

[gamevet]

And no, no kid sister here. I did have some maintenance guys in my apartment working on the bathroom some months ago... I really don't think they would have taken Sega Master System games over PS2 games though!

My wife used to call the maintenance guys every time something went wrong. I told her that wasn't a good idea and I believe the maintenance guys would take breaks in my apartment, because my neighbor was asking about our stereo being cranked up, when we weren't even home.

Sure enough, they were cleaning up an empty apartment next door and made it look like someone broke into my apartment. They took my N64, PSOne and Dreamcast. They loaded all of it into a super large duffle bag I had in the house and snuck out the patio sliding door. I was lucky though, because they left my Saturn collection alone; I would have been super bummed had I lost Panzer Dragoon Saga, House of the Dead or Shining Force III.

THe funniest part was that they ran off with a bunch of empty game cases, because I stored the CDs in a multi-CD case.

Luckily I had great insurance, a pile of reciepts and a list longer than what was actually stolen to make up for the deductable.

[gamegenie]

Yes, till this day I don't know what I did with Duke Nukem 3D for Game.com, lost it back in 10th grade a decade ago.

[segagamer]

I recently realized that I have lost the game disc to the Dreamcast game Yu Suzuki Game Works. After I bought the game, I separated the disc from the book, and put it in one of the extra DC games I had at the time (probably Tennis 2K2 and not Shenmue) instead of its own jewel case. One day, I decided to sell both of the extra games on Amazon and must have not realized it at the time that I had the Game Works disc inside the Tennis 2K2 case when I sent it to the buyer. I bet the buyer was surprised to have found an extra game (wonder if he knew how to play JP games on his US Dreamcast console). I almost ended up buying another copy of Game Works, but ended up burning my very own copy instead (and saved myself $80+ USD). I could not believe I was careless with my games and did not bother to double check the games before selling them.