Disheartening moments when you found out that your videogame didn't work.

When the PS2 sometimes used to freeze and my memory card data was corrupted I was annoyed. My 360 freezes a lot when I play Lego Marvel Superheroes. Apparently this happens on all versions of the game though. Oh and I've got a copy of Star Wars Starfighter that doesn't work that I've never been able to play. I still have it just in case it can get fixed.
 
I remember when my DS broke. Well it didn't break per se, it just lost the ability to charge. Which sucked first of all, because I was in the middle of playing the first Professor Layton game. I am still in the need to finish that. Then to add to it, about a week later, one of my friends gave me Black 2, since he got bored of it or something like that. And then I realized that I had nothing to play it on, and I was heartbroken.
 
I bought a used cartridge of Megaman Battle Network 3 and it was really giltchy. Everytime I put my DS down, the game would freeze. Sometimes my DS screen would say "No cartridge in the GBA slot". But worse of all, one day, I started the game and the title screen only gave me the option of New Game, my save file erased itself.
 
I can still remember when Chopper Command stopped working for my family's old Atari 2600, and then the system itself stopped working for all the games. Very sad - and my idiot father then threw out all the perfectly good games with the defective console, which still pisses me off to this day.
 
Oh man, hearing stories of perfectly functional games being destroyed or thrown away always bums me out.



Back when I was like 9-10 years, a local game shop sold us a Japanese import version of Sonic Adventure, which of course didn't work on our US dreamcast. I really wanted to have that stupid game, too.
 
i went to look over my old pokemon games a few years ago (yellow and gold), so i played yellow first to see some of the things i did and just dick around. but when i popped in gold on my gbc, and i press start, i stared blankly at the screen when i saw my file was gone (the clock ran out). it was pretty sad cause i spent probably 300 hours on that game just doing random shit and the feel when it was all gone was depressing
 
Some older games that didn't work anymore were Mario Kart 64 and Sonic Heroes

I used to play Mario Kart 64 with my brother all the time, it was the game that we'd both play for hours every weekend, even though he was 16 and I was 6. So it broke one day and my parents threw it out. I cried over it because I was a kid that didn't like having things tossed out.

Sonic Heroes was the first game I personally owned on the PS2, the rest were all my brothers from when he owned it. I played it a lot and it was really difficult for me when I was younger but I kept at it unlike most of the other games I owned. I got to the last boss of the Rose side, got to the Train stage for both Sonic and Chaotix and I think I got to the Metropolis stage for Dark. Then it got fucking scratched so it only worked sometimes and would freeze at other times. I got it 'cleaned' but that ended up breaking it completely because the disc wouldn't even get read anymore. I was so pissed off that day, I never beat it fully for any of the teams.
 
Ritsu Tainaka said:
i went to look over my old pokemon games a few years ago (yellow and gold), so i played yellow first to see some of the things i did and just dick around. but when i popped in gold on my gbc, and i press start, i stared blankly at the screen when i saw my file was gone (the clock ran out). it was pretty sad cause i spent probably 300 hours on that game just doing random *bleep* and the feel when it was all gone was depressing
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Is it when the clock runs out that the game stops saving? My Gold game never saves but it was given to me by my cousin.
 
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