>Load up your favorite game
>Select continue
>It says no save data found
>Check memory card
>Younger sibling formatted it, erasing hundreds of hours of play time
This was the worst thing in the universe back in the day. What are some of your retro horror stories?
>playing final fantasy 3
>haven't saved in over an hour
>parent yells at me to go to bed
>OK let me just find a save spo...
>no now, flips light switch
>Whole room is connected to that switch
Holy shit it still makes me mad thinking about that. And it happened more than once too.
>>3009097
>Got a great Pokemon party, with 8 badges
>Shows friend Pokemon
>He deletes save file so he can start from the beginning
>He's no longer a friend anymore
>He's no longer alive
>>3009097
Fuck, that sounds infuriating. Thankfully my parents knew a little about gaming and didn't do this to me
>>3009089
I had a friend who had won a Mew from a local Pokemon convention back when the game was like brand new in the USA and the local winner would get a Mew.
We heard of a trick doing transfers over the Gameboy cable where if you both start the transfer and then turn the gameboys off at the same time, both of you would get the pokemon being transferred (the flip side is, if you messed up and shut off at the wrong time, both of you could lose it.)
We tried it and it totally worked. I became one of the people with an original tournament Mew. Best feeling in the world.
I have kept my Gameboy and all the old games in a case. I was telling someone about it and went to show them a year back, and my blue game was missing from the case. In it's place, my little brother's red game. Of course, he was like 8 at the time and now that he's in his 20's, he has no idea what happened to that game.
FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU
>>3009134
Little siblings are suffering
> 15 years-old
> RE3 on pc
> trying to beat the game 9 times to unlock all the prologues
> fifth run
> hurr durr gonna play without saving cuz im a badass
> get to the part were Carlos is playable because jill got infected
> bitten by a zombie and now im in caution
> gonna heal later
> enter hallway and face a Hunter
> let it get closer so i can kill it with less bullets
> starts running, jumps and slices carlos' head off.
Didnt know Hunters could decapitate you when in Caution status...
>>3009113
>the save file is connected to his very life force
If only he knew
>play where in the US is Carmen Santiago
>save game on last Stage
>brother and mom beat it for me while I'm gone
>miss ending and can't go back to previous save
>very pissed and play the whole game over again
>save on last stage
>tfw they fucking did it again
They couldn't understand why I was so mad at them
>>3009089
>start game
>save gone
>have to load backup
>30 seconds of my life i'll never get back
>Mom doesn't understand the need for controller packs.
>Mom doesn't understand why I don't play half the games she gets me.
>Pokemon Stadium
>My Blastoise against opponents Charizard.
>His last pokemon against my last
>Bus is coming any minute
>Motherfucker used FIRE SPIN 'til I died.
>Missed bus.
>Father put a cigarette out on my forehead.
