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Games Stolen From You

I loaned my copies of BioShock and Fallout 3 to two separate friends and I've not seen them since. Who can blame them, though?

The more stinging one was when I bought a copy of Klonoa 2 from some dude on the web and it never arrived. Sure, this probably counts more as stealing my money but I could only think of the game from that point on.
 
Milennia said:
Just recently lent a infamous second son to a friend in exchange for another lent game, he then proceeded to ask my constantly when he could come pick it up, i said sunday, so he came and boom... Sorry bro i don't have yours with me.

Still hasn't returned it, despite me asking a few times, he is really forgetful but asking each day when he can come pick up his game yet give me a hard time when returning mine is a dick move no matter how you look at it,
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Shoulda told him you're holding onto his game til you get your game back. Isn't that kinda like the unspoken mutual rule when borrowing games like that?
 
I loaned My Pokemon Red to a friend in the 1st grade and I never got it back. Until like a few years later, his parents were having a garage sale and I bought it back. it still had my name on it and everything.
 
Haven't the Sony Fanboys been saying Sunset Overdrive was stolen from them?

Too soon?

I KID, I kid!

I had the bright Idea when I was a kid (5th grade? 6th?) to run a 2600 cartridge trading service. I kept strict records of who traded what to who among the kids in my homeroom. Then one day, I notice that my copy of vanguard was not in the list anymore no record of who it went to at all. started taking the list home instead of leaving it in my desk. Salright though, on pure suspicion I made off with the kid who I suspected's copy of moon patrol.
 
Oh I have another one!

Dated a girl for a while in college. She was living off campus about 45 minutes away when we broke up. Couple days later she messaged me saying she had my DS lite (she got it for me for my previous birthday) and that she'd return it if I brought her her keyboard (musical instrument). Seemed pretty chill about it so I drove up there that night.

She opened her door, I gave her the keyboard, she said thanks and slammed the door in my face.

After some words exchanged through the door she told me to just leave because her new boyfriend was coming over. I said I'd be waiting in my truck for my DS, so I got back in my truck and waited. Ten minutes. Before the police showed up.

They were relatively cool about the situation. I explained to them what was going on, they went up and talked to her, and then they told me that she said the DS was her property and that was that so i had to leave because when it comes down to a man's word against a woman's with no evidence in play they always side with the woman. This is not my attempt at societal commentary--this is what the police officer said to me.

She sold the DS to a kid in a Radio Shack for ten bucks the next week.
 
I'm never getting over this one. :(

Having played every other game in the Legend of Zelda series, I was so excited when Skyward Sword came out. Even more hyped, since the Wii version of TP was oddly one of my favourites in the series. I didn't have have enough money for Skyward Sword when it finally did come out, so I avoided spoilers like the plague until I was able to buy one of those Wii motion plus add ons and the game that next summer.

My bloody brother gives it to his friend so that said friend can sell it for £7 or so to do god knows what. I don't think I've ever been so mad at anyone in my entire life, lol. I still have never had the chance to play Skyward Sword.

I swear, it's karma from when he let me play his Pokemon game as a kid, and I used his master ball on a Grimer because I thought it was a Ditto... which I thought was a rare Pokemon because of the anime.
 
Milennia said:
Just recently lent a infamous second son to a friend in exchange for another lent game, he then proceeded to ask my constantly when he could come pick it up, i said sunday, so he came and boom... Sorry bro i don't have yours with me.
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He probably lost, destroyed or intends to keep your game, and wanted to make sure he got his back first so you couldn't use it as leverage. At least, when I've seen/experienced behavior like this in the past that's usually what is going on.
 
Not really stolen, but kinda on topic.

My older sister used to borrow my SNES games and her son (then 4 years old, now he's 17) pealed the label off my Super Mario All-Stars cart. I don't remember getting this game back at all, but I remember that a couple of years later she had a new copy of SMAS with an untouched label. I honestly never knew what the fuck happened to the original cart.

One of my friends used to bring his PS2 controller to play PS1 games at my parents' house. One day he couldn't find it, I honestly thought that he had lost it on his way back or something. Twelve years later I found the PS2 controller in the basement in some random box. I felt so bad!
 
I could never prove it, but I'm certain a friend of mine took my glacier blue gba and Yoshi's island while he was over once.

also, I let my uncle borrow my snes and most of the games for it for whatever reason, and later found out his roommate went and sold it all for drug money...took years to recollect the collection, wasn't a big lot, but it was filled with heavy hitters like dkc2 and lttp.

also, not stolen technically, but I lent a friend my copy of prototype and intended on getting it back, but I began college and moved for it and after a certain point we lost touch with each other...I'm not too broken up about losing prototype, but I am miffed about not being contacted by my friend ever since.
at least I got a free digital copy of prototype one when I bought prototype 2, so that's a small consolation.
 
Had a cousin over for dinner and he stole my copy of Pokémon Diamond, the fiend. I'd have just let him have it if he asked nicely for it.
 
For whatever reason, I'd only ever redeem my Humble Bundle games that I wanted to play at the time, never the whole package. At one point someone managed to compromise my HB account, and they redeemed all of the unredeemed games (I forget the number, over 30 games). They even got the ones from the Origin HB, because I had only used Dead Space 3 out of it at the time.

I guess it turned out a lot better than some other "stolen" stories, because HB support was excellent and replaced all of my keys in under 48 hours, hassle-free. Very good support! But lesson learned, now when I buy a HB I redeem all of the games ;)
 
When I was 15, someone who I had considered a very good friend throughout Jr. High borrowed my Zelda Masters Quest game for Gamecube as well as Zelda Collector's edition. After about a month I asked if he could bring them to school the next day.

The next day he said how he couldn't find them and how he would find them later. After a week or so I kept hearing the same story. Then once he told me how he cleaned his entire room and they weren't there but how they would be sure to turn up.

I slept over at his house soon after and noticed how his games and movies were all perfectly organized, I knew something was up. By chance that morning I dropped my glasses and they fell under the bed, and sure enough under his bed it was perfectly clean besides my two games sitting there. He was obviously hiding them from me and when I told him I located the games his face got all red and I could tell from the look on his face that I discovered his plan.

Worst part about it all is that he knew Ocarina of Time was my favorite game.

Shortly after he tried to get in with the popular crowd based on advice from his neighbor by being dicks to his actual friends (since we were nerds), including my main circle of friends. It didn't work and he lost all his friends in the process. He got what he deserved.
 
I believe the month Kingdom Hearts DDD came out (or after, can't remember), my mom let an old friend of hers stay over for a while, due to marriage problems. Dude had a history of drug use and theft, but had been through rehab years ago, so he we gave him the benefit of the doubt. He was very friendly, talkative, taught me how to drive. Seemed like a good dude all in all. Well, about a month and a half later, I come home one day from work, happen to glance over to my Wii collection to see Mario Galaxy 2. Skyward Sword had been laying in plain sight, with SMG2 laying underneath and I hadn't touched it in weeks due to DDD. After digging through my shelf, I found SS, RE4, and DKC Returns gone. A few games from my PS2 collection were jutting out, and you could faintly smell tobacco. My mom's friend smoke cigars.

So yeah, haven't seen him in 2 years. Got RE and DKCR back though :D
 
I had a coworker steal a copy of dead space from me w few years ago. Figured once you were an adult you didn't really have to worry about that anymore but I guess not.

Only time I've been really upset about a game being stolen was my copy of Pokemon Silver for GBC. Level 99 ho-oh, lugia, entei, raikou, suicune, and tyrannotar. That took me countless hours of grinding, I was furious.
 
A friend (Which is not anymore) sold my Star Ocean The Last Hope after I've lent it to him. He said he needed money. I was so frustrated. Hopefully I've found a cheap version on PS3 (Around 15$)
 
Someone stole my copy of Zelda Majoras mask. :( I have no idea who or when, but it is stolen.
 
We got robbed a few years ago. I feel like such a dipshit afterwards. Woke up to my door open and thought it was my friends fucking with me so I screamed, "Thanks, assholes!" and slammed my door, going back to sleep. I woke up to discover that it wasn't my friends, but a thief. I guess he broke into my room, realized I was asleep, and bailed.

He ended up getting away with my one friend's MacBook, Xbox 360 Slim, a bunch of games (though they didn't take the Bioshock I lent him for some reason), and his gaming headset. My other friend got his laptop jacked and his Playstation 3, which had my copy of Suikoden II inside of it.

I wish I weren't such a lazy ass. I wish I would have noticed something was off and beat the guy down with a baseball bat. Just thinking back on it, I'm a horrible friend. I still feel terrible about it to this day.
 
I had a few games stolen from me by a "friend" when I was in high school. Pokemon Red, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Wrestlemania 2000. Also loaned Final Fantasy VII to another friend who kept forgetting to return it. Moved away and never saw him or my game again.
 
I lent my friend my copy of Suikoden 2, he then lent it to his sister and then his cousin. Never saw it again after that.
 
akidnamededdy said:
Oh I have another one!

Dated a girl for a while in college. She was living off campus about 45 minutes away when we broke up. Couple days later she messaged me saying she had my DS lite (she got it for me for my previous birthday) and that she'd return it if I brought her her keyboard (musical instrument). Seemed pretty chill about it so I drove up there that night.

She opened her door, I gave her the keyboard, she said thanks and slammed the door in my face.

After some words exchanged through the door she told me to just leave because her new boyfriend was coming over. I said I'd be waiting in my truck for my DS, so I got back in my truck and waited. Ten minutes. Before the police showed up.

They were relatively cool about the situation. I explained to them what was going on, they went up and talked to her, and then they told me that she said the DS was her property and that was that so i had to leave because when it comes down to a man's word against a woman's with no evidence in play they always side with the woman. This is not my attempt at societal commentary--this is what the police officer said to me.

She sold the DS to a kid in a Radio Shack for ten bucks the next week.
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Lol. Should've warned the next bf (assuming there was one) that she's kinda nuts.

Man these stories are good entertainment.
 
there was this kid in elementary school, Jordan Taylor, who lived in my neighborhood and was generally the biggest pain in the ass to everyone at school. but, because his total obliviousness to how much everyone disliked him knew no bounds, and because of my parents, i was often forced into spending time with him. usually in front of my house because i never let him come in.

well for MONTHS Jordan would pester me about borrowing WWF Royal Rumble for the SNES. i refused. for months. then at some point my mother (or father) got wind of this and essentially forced me to lend it to him because i wasn't really playing it anyway.

the following year Jordan moved out of state. with my game.

goddamnit Jordan.
 
Nonentity said:
I was showing some neighbors my copy of The Lost Vikings for the SNES. There was a new kid who was hanging around with them who they only knew as "Speedy". This kid asked if he could look at it, and as soon as I handed it to him, he booked it down the sidewalk.

My parents ended up calling the cops but I never saw that copy again. Thanks, "Speedy".
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Woody Invincible said:
My first girlfriend "borrowed" my gamecube and games before leaving on a "trip" to see some family. Turned out she was skipping town and just wanted to steal it. :(
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In 1998, my brother stole my PlayStation, and my copies of Twisted Metal, NFL Gameday 98, and Deathtrap Dungeon.

He left my memory card, Tomb Raider II, and Final Fantasy VII.
 
Mentioned this in a previous topic but some of my "friends" at the time used to play stupid pranks, a bunch would come over and hide a tv remote so that you couldn't turn the tv on once they had all left and other random stuff.

I was building up a grand playstation game collection around the time and the game of the moment was Gran Turismo. I have always been picky with who i would lend things to as nobody takes better care of things than me (call it OCD, but 99.9% of my disc based game collection is still in "brand new" condition with no fingerprints or scratches on the underside of the discs).

Anyway one of them goes gee you've got so many games i'd like to take GT home and play it......... i said "what do i look like a video shop ?". Videoshop's in Australia (aka Blockbuster for America and elsewhere) had become the perfect place to try games before you buy them elsewhere - you could rent them for 1 night, 2 nights, 3 nights, 5 nights or 7 nights. I said it in a way that would mean NO you can't take it.

However soon after they left i discovered the game had gone (these are the kind people i was hanging out with that were "malicious" but their "malicious" is meant to be funny, even though it's stressful and almost cruel to others). I knew they had taken it without me saying it was ok to. Once my dad found out at the time he went over there to get it himself as he considered it stolen property.

They crapped themselves when he rocked up to one of their houses and gave the game straight back.
 
Kinda relevant to the topic. I "bought" a copy of MGS2: Substance, MGS3: Subsistence, a few Prince of Persia games, and some Phoenix Wright promo shit from game strategy guide writer Zach Meston here back in 2007. Hilariously enough, this was after I was ripped off by another forums user attempting to buy MGS2: Substance before that.

And, by bought, I mean he ripped me off for 60 bucks. His LinkedIn profile shows him working as a Realtor now. Wonder if he can pay me back the money he stole from me yet...
 
Had WWF Attitude and my PS1 memory card stolen from my house. I never found out who took it for sure but I have a feeling who it might have been. He went to jail for something else a short while later, so I just let it go.

In hindsight it's not so bad considering how shitty the game was.
 
None, me and my neighbors growing up we shared all our games, its was either at his house or mine.

I never got any games stolen from me and this was before the internet, so thats all us kids had when the sun went down.
 
My entire Nes collection, including Final Fantasy, Mega Man 2, 3, and 6, Ducktales and Ducktales 2, TMNT 1-3, and all if the Nintendo 1st party games. The only game I had left after that was Top Gun...

Silent Hill black label was borrowed by a coworker who turned around and moved overnight and never showed back up to work.

Carmaggeddon and Dune 2 by kids in my youth group when I was a teenager.

Most recently, my boss, who is also a very close friend of mine, borrowed Uncharted 2, and his wife misplaced it, and he has no clue where it is now. This was over a year ago, and I've resigned myself to just having to replace it.
 
Someone once took my GBA and copy of Pokemon Crystal... found Crystal buried at my "friend's" house and never saw my GBA again. Fuck him, haven't seen him in like 10 years.

Kinda glad most of my games are on Steam now, worst comes to worst I just need a new computer. But from what I understand, people don't really take computers because they're hard to sell now thanks to tablets and smartphones being most people's connection to the internet.
 
This dickhead former friend of mine stole Super Smash Bros from me when I took it over to his house one time. I'd been there the whole day and we'd only been playing Smash in the morning, so I had forgotten about the cartridge and when it came time to leave in the evening it just slipped my mind and I didn't take it with me. He just denied ever having it and then turned out to be a real piece of shit after that.

This isn't really stealing, just bad luck. I also left a bag with three Gamecube controllers and a copy of Brawl in a taxi coming home from a friend's house one night. Somehow didn't realise for two days and then when I tried to call the taxi company they said there was nothing in the cab. My friend insisted I bring the game and controllers that evening but we didn't even play any games at all that night :(
 
Smash Bros N64.
I bought it into the physics club one day and a week later it was gone.
Wind Waker I lent to someone but that wasn't stolen... I just never saw them again.
 
In 5th grade I invited this kid over from school to play some games. We ended up playing DragonBall GT on the PS1, and he loved it. He loved it so much that he took it with him without me knowing. I actually never got to thank him for stealing it. That game was HORRIBLE.
 
NoSkillz187 said:
In 5th grade I invited this kid over from school to play some games. We ended up playing DragonBall GT on the PS1, and he loved it. He loved it so much that he took it with him without me knowing. I actually never got to thank him for stealing it. That game was HORRIBLE.
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Yeah, but at the time there were zero DBZ games on the market. I remember seeing those imports and immediately buying them. There was hype because there was reason. I lent this guy I knew from HS DBZ Legends and he still has it. He can have it.
 
In the middle of fall as a freshman in high school, house was burglarized. They broke through a window in the backyard. My Gamecube and GBA were stolen, as well as $200 cash that was in my wallet(also stolen). All of my GBA games were stolen, about 20ish.

Luckily for the Gamecube games, I kept most of them in a case for GC discs. The burglars ended up taking a whole bunch of empty game cases and overlooking it. So, I managed to keep most of my GC games with the exception of Metroid Prime and Enter the Matrix.
 
Growing up, one of my nephews used to steal a lot of my crap and his parents would rarely do anything about it.
He'd steal video games from me, old WWF tapes (not old at the time), video game magazines and wrestling magazines.

I was thinking about this before I moved a couple of months ago when I was packing up my N64 stuff and saw how the 30+ games (and memory cards) I have all have my name written on them with marker to try and prevent him from stealing them. It didn't always stop him though.
 
Nights into Dreams and Virtual On for Saturn. Although I got the better deal as I borrowed Sonic Jam in return from him which is worth more. I did try over and over again to get them back but no luck.
 
A "friend" stole my copy of Starfox for the SNES right before he moved.

I bumped into the kid like a year later and when I brought it up he just ran away.
 
Classmate borrowed Crash 1 and 2 from me, then he said someone stole it from him. I was upset, but didn't even had a single thought that he could have lied, even though it sounded sketchy, couple of years later I saw those games at his home when I went for his birthday party. I stopped talking to him after, especially since he started making bullshit stories that he bought those games after to play, with same crack in case as I had on my Crash 1.
 
Another story, even more stupid. I had that friend, we both played Call of Duty. He said he got his disc damaged so asked my copy to play, especially since I stopped playing. Was MW2. Couple of days later he returns me my game, without the case saying he lost it. Mind you, it was limited edition MW2 with SteelBook case. Later I discovered that he wanted to have steelbook and just stole it lol.
 
Back in the 6th grade (2001) , I made friends with a really poor student. He didn't have any videogames, whereas I had a decent amount. I'm not rich by any means, but a combination of getting straight A's and helping my dad out at his business got me the latest console as they would release.

Anyway, I eventually let this dude borrow my Dreamcast along with a nice library of games like Mortal Kombat Gold, Jet Grind Radio, and Soul Calibur. He keeps it for a solid two weeks, it's the middle of the summer now, so I decide to swing by his house and see how my games are doing. His house is vacant, his neighbors tell me that they moved to Brownsville (500 miles away from me). I'm irate, but there's nothing I could do about it because my parents would have whooped my ass if I told them.
 
Sonic 2, Krusty's Super Funhouse and (Possibly) Flashback for the MegaDrive.

We lent them to a family friend, and then they moved back to South Africa. \=,

My games don't leave my proximity now.
 
my good friend was borrowing my ps1 and all my games, i was sort of friends with his cousin too, but he jacked my minidisk player (100% certainty) when i confronted him he claimed to be offended then promotly went to his cousins house and took the ps1 and games too.

he thought i didnt know where he lived, i did, got my console and minidisk player back the same day, let him keep the black eye.

haven't lent out physical copies of games ever since.
 
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