Begging for games you didn't even like

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I didn't always feel bad as a kid, but there were some things that — even back then — kept poking at me.

One thing I tried hard to shrug off, and couldn't, was wasting my mom's money.

My mom was raising a bunch of kids almost entirely on her own and put any money we had toward bettering our lives, so we didn't get much in the way of toys and video games — not without being pests about it, that is.

My older sisters and I would often beg and sweet-talk, and pout (yes, fucking pout), until we got something we liked. I get that we were kids and all, but I still feel horrible about it. Growing up has given me a lot of perspective and made me look in places I'd have rather remained blind to.

One thing I'm still kicking myself hard for happened when we were out for some fun at the cinema, waiting in line to see the second Harry Potter movie (which was, in and of itself, an extremely rare occurrence), and my sister spotted LucasArts' Grim Fandango atop a shelf in a nearby store.

We thought the cover looked fucking boss and began doing the prep work to get Mom to pay the huge price for it, which she eventually did, even through a sad scowl I have never been able to unsee.

And guess what? We couldn't even run the sucker on our home computer — we didn't have enough RAM.

We were fucking geniuses, weren't we?

Having to pretend we loved a game we couldn't even run, coming up with excuses not to play it in front of her, remembering to move the box around just so she wouldn't see it gathering dust... it hurt, man. It hurt a lot.

But it was a good lesson that we all learned the hard way.

I was wondering if you guys had any examples of this sort of thing — or can at least relate to it a little.

Thanks.

 

[Lod 10]

My first console was a brick game with 999 games. I didn't like it. I wanted a 3DS so badly, but I saw my dad's smile and I pretended I liked it to make him happy.Sometimes I wonder, was I a selfish child?And many people my age would give anything for a video game.And I raised a stupid child who only wanted the latest consoles and didn't know how to appreciate the hard work my father had put in.Today I know how hard he worked. Rest in peace. Sorry for this text, Sam.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

No.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Oh it happened to me with Battlefield bad company , bought it and it didn't run.........same thing with Red Alert 3 uprising i needed a serial key from the damn CD.......looking back at it , it was probably in the CD folder somewhere but couldn't locate it cuz i handled this installing stuff entirely on my own

Oh well that was some 2 fine Jordanian dinars gone for nothing!!! I will never forget the bad company situation , i tried to get it to run so hard and i got so far in the attempts to run it but in the end it didn't even boot up!!! I had to take take a gigantic L and come to terms that the CD i bought didn't even matter.......

 

[bombatomba77]

Yeah, I think. I mentioned at some point that I foolishly bought Hydlide, believing it to be an RPG (to fuel my newly discovered RPG jones). Technically I did use my own money to get the game, but I still needed a way to get to the store get it, which required begging my mom endlessly, and within two minutes of reading the manual on the way home I knew I had royally screwed up, but due to my begging and having just wasted the last $20 to my name I had to pretend I loved the game and played it for who knows how long. This was a double bummer because I would have rather been re-playing Final Fantasy for the fifth time, however since my total daily game time was only an hour...

 

[LunaScribbles]

I have an embarrassing one. My uncle had a ton of money he was willing to spend one day and he told me I could have anything from the game store. I was a dumb 14 year old and asked him for a limited edition copy of Beyond Two Souls. I have no idea why I did that because there was a copy of Terraria on PS3 right beside it or the Resistance collection behind it. Well, it was too late. I begged for my uncle to buy it (for some goddamn reason), I played it, got bored of it 2 hours in, and kept it in my shelf gathering dust for around 3 years until I sold it to a friend at around a quarter of what my uncle paid for...

Could've bought literally any game, but I went for David Cage instead.