I’ve heard people say it is therapeutic to reflect on your actions and interactions with others.
So relieve that mental burden and let us know the retro game(s) you took/borrowed and never gave back. Or let us know the game(s) that were taken and never given back to you.
Are you still friends with that person? did you confess to them or call them out? How do you feel about it now? Did you make out like a bandit in today’s retro economy? Spill the beans!
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I have three occasions:
I ‘worked’ all summer doing chores so that i could buy RPG Maker 3 for the PS2. Once I received it i had troubles figuring out how to play it. it didn’t come with a manual so a friend offered to make me one by playing it. I believed him and gave him the game. Shortly after, my dad lost his job and we moved. I never got to truly play the game that I had worked so hard for that summer. I was very young and i do not talk to that friend at all. However, that memory stays with me and I’m still pretty miffed. perhaps i would have found an early passion for game development! who knows!
I apologize to my good friend who I accidentally sold his copy of harvest moon 64 before i left for university. I fessed up years later, and he just laughed. still good friends to this day.
I apologize to a childhood friend’s brother for borrowing both Alundra and Alundra 2 on PS1. Even after 22 years I still have them and keep them in my home office waiting to return them someday. I don’t talk to the friend, but I have been trying to reconnect. to make it more difficult, I’m pretty sure his brother moved to Japan and i don’t want to pay postage.
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I think i got $25 for harvest moon at the time, and I don’t think the Alundra games are all that sought after these days. Same for the loss of Rpg maker 3, but I remember paying at least $45, and I felt that missing as a tween! If anything I’m in the hole or broke even.
When I was in like first grade, my parents got us a Super NES, which I took to a friend’s house to play, thinking it was the same thing as a regular NES (just “super,” y’know?). I spaced and left it behind... and never saw it again.
I don’t even know who the friend was anymore, tbh.
When I was in fourth or fifth grade, a teacher did this thing where you could earn bonus points during the year and later spend them on prizes. I had a lot of points and so got to make my selections early, and I got a bunch of gaming magazines because I liked to read them, even though we didn’t have a modern console. Some other kid in the class, whom I do remember, got annoyed at this and stole them from my locker. I think I found out, because I remember that he explained it was because I wasn’t even a gamer - I didn’t have a PlayStation or Dreamcast so obviously (in his mind) it didn’t make sense for me to take those magazines. Sorry for being poor, I guess? I’m pretty sure I got the magazines back, because I remember reading them, but I’m not positive.
First situation I blame myself more than them. Second one I’m still annoyed when I think about it.