/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5399427
I stole Frogger for GBA (the top down adventure one, not the sidescrolling shitty one) from my mom's friend's son one time when we were at their house. He never noticed and I have no regrets because I appreciated that game much more than he did.

>>5399427
I downloaded a game from a romz site

>>5399448
Yeah, okay.
OP here, let's keep the discussion relegated to physical items.

>>5399452
>piracy is not theft
Say that to Nintendo

>from a store
yeah you know I love those empty boxes
>from a friend
no, I’m not THAT disgusting of a person

>>5399427
Found a complete Master System at work in a storage closet, 2 controllers, phaser gun, couple games.

Never stole a game from a store.
However, I did accidentally "steal" a game from a friend. I borrowed a game from him, and sometime later he moved suddenly. A few years later he committed suicide, so uh, yeah.

No, I was raised right.

>>5399459
Nintendo has no fucking idea what games I own physically

Do magazine demo discs count?
Besides that? No. I've had shit get "permanently borrowed" before, so I wouldn't do it to any of my friends.

Only game I ever "stole" was keeping a bootleg Sonic 2 I rented from a local video club.
I don't know why I never bought Sonic 2, I had 1 and 3 (also bootlegs), but this nearby video club had Sonic 2 and it was often available so I rented it a lot of times. I always returned it late and paid the extra days. One time I kept it for like a whole week, and when I went to return it, the store was closed and never opened again. The guy called my house and said he'd come pick it up or something, but he never did.
I don't think he minded much.
I don't know where the cart is now.

>>5399427

Nope. Much too valuable.

The most I have ever stolen was a box of cookies for like $1.50. However I nicked one of those several times.

>>5399464
>yeah you know I love those empty boxes
This may be hard for someone who grew up with Gamestop to understand, but once upon a time games were just sitting out on shelves, shrinkwrapped and complete, without even so much as a lock to stop you from picking them up unsupervised. Also, OP said vidya-related item, so it doesn't have to be a game.

>>5399601
>A few years later he committed suicide, so uh, yeah.
It's all because that game went missing.

>>5399650
You're right. A life without Stuart Little on the PS1 isn't really worth it.

Did end up doing a permanent trade unintentionally. Swapped theme park for mystic quest with a friend, then a week later our group of friends had a big falling out that ended up with everyone backing either person A or B. Ended up in a different group to the game swapping friend and we both mutually never spoke to each other again for the remaining 2 years of school. I was satisfied with the result even if you can reasonably describe theme park as the better game.

I sold girl scout cookies. Stole $4 from the pedo sap when he could've bought Keebler grasshoppers.

>>5399427
more like nigger general

Once I went to a N64 party with a limp control stick and came home with a perfect one, I didn't even realize it occurring. Other than that no, but there was no real opportunity for it, I think I would have if I could.

Once I kept a friend's cartridge since they never asked it back from me and I liked the game, I figured if they didn't remember where it was why say it. I somehow got very guilty over this and gave it back with apologies and excuses.

Oldfag here. When I was younger I worked at a KB Toys at the mall. That store used to get robbed blindly by all the employees.

We had this assistant manager who was borderline retarded and people used to take advantage of him opening the store.

>Store opens
>Retarded AM goes to the video game section to do daily count
>Missing 6 Playstation games, 2 N64 games, and 4 Dreamcast games
>Retarded AM says "Something is not right? The count is off?"
>Retarded AM proceeds to recount a few more times while employees are smirking behind him
>After a few more counts an employee says "Hey retarded AM, don't you remember we reorganized the game shelf this morning. Thats probably why your count is off."
>Retarded AM says "Oh yeah, I forgot. That makes sense!"
>Proceed to work a full shift with retarded AM like nothing happened.
>mfw we do it all over again the next time he closes and opens the next time

We had a couple of good hauls. One guy made off with a case of 6 playstations for xmas one year.

>friend brings over his Atari one day because we were getting into retro gaming at the end of highschool
>Leaves it here with the intent that we'd mess around more with it that week
>Never do
>It's been over half a decade and I still try to give it back to him every once and a while
God damn it Kyle. come get your fucking atari

I borrowed Gex 3 from a friend as a kid, forgot about it, then he moved away and I forgot to give it back to him (and he never reminded me that I had it). Hope you’re doing alright, Adam.

>>5399427
Read that as
>perhaps you sneed from a friend

>>5399427

Eons ago I had Extreme G for N64 and a friend of my younger brother had F-Zero X. We swapped cartridges and I found is game to be far superior. I was bent on keeping his cartirdge, hoping that snot nosed kid would eventually forget about it. A year or so passed, and I came home from school to play me sum 64. I noticed the cartridge was missing and in its place, my original game returned. Asked Mom and she said that my brother and his friend were here to get F-Zero X back. Got out of that one without repercussions but damn I wanted that game. Felt like that other kid didn't deserve it, since he barely even touched his console.

I was a dastardly creep back then.

>>5399427
It was never proven but I suspect some family members of mine that they stole some games when they visited our home.
On the other end of the spectrum I was borrowing some games from a friend of mine last year and even though I didn't return it to them immediately he just told "whatever, just bring them back when you feel like it". I returned most of them except for Goldeneye because I wanted to finish that (I was stuck at the jungle level with Xenia) but I never ended up doing so and after he had a friend over and remembered I still had that one at home he called me to bring it back, which I finally did when I came over at his house. I never stole any game otherwise.

>>5399741
>Got out of that one without repercussions

Repercussions for what? It wasn't a steal but a trade. And as long as he doesn't ask to trade back...

I've taken a couple demo disks out of PCgamer before. Also helped keep lookout for a friend while he stole cool boarders from Kmart or wherever. We were obvious as hell about it, but we got lucky and got away thanks to the Christmas rush. Other than that I've never been much of a thief.

>>5399741
Certainly you've gotten a copy of your own since then. It's a 5-buck title these days.

>>5399427
Never in my life, but two taffers stole games from me. I noticed my copy of Denaris was missing from my collection of 300 C64 tapes. Months later I was at his house, and there it was sitting on his shelf, the cheeky bastid.

The second time, some rough lads that I stopped hanging out with months before knocked on my door and asked to borrow my Super Mario Kart. They had a girl with them so I crumbled and let them take it. I know they must have sold it.

I bought Super Probotector from a kid and we agreed to 10 quid, but I only gave him 5 and never paid the rest, so I supposed it evens out in the end.

>>5399756
That's what I was thinking too. "repercussions", "got out of that one"... but can't you also say you forgot? Something's not adding up there.

>>5399741
>back then

>>5399764

>Certainly you've gotten a copy of your own since then. It's a 5-buck title these days.
Sure did. Back then those cartridges cost still40$ or so but worth it.

>>5399756

>Repercussions for what? It wasn't a steal but a trade. And as long as he doesn't ask to trade back...
I didn't specify that we just borrowed our games to each other. It wasn't a permanent swap.

>>5399771

>That's what I was thinking too. "repercussions", "got out of that one"... but can't you also say you forgot? Something's not adding up there.

"Repercussions" as in the kid's Mom throwing a fit at mine for stealing it. You know the kind of overprotective raging Moms, not even the excuse of forgetting would fly. I got out of that one unscathed.

>>5399427
When insurgency 1 came out i was lurking a nobody twitch streamer play it, just after adding it to my steam wishlist.
A freindo of his appeared in chat and the streamer said was hyping it to him and then pasted in an activation code in chat for him. Well my steam client was already there. Sorry dude, opportunity strikes and all that.

Once when I worked at a local game store with no cameras I found a demo PS3 in the back buried in the back of the storage area when I was cleaning it up. Said fuck it and took it. Turns out it was a fully back compatible 60 gig model but with a 160gb HD in it.

>>5399427
I borrowed Grandia for PSX for a friend but I think I let someone else borrow disc 1 from me to check it out but I never got it back. So I just have the case with the soundtrack somewhere, I feel terrible about it to this day.

I stole a friends FF3 for GBA and I still regret it. havent talked to that guy in 10 years so I will probably never tell him, but I‘m really sorry.

I grabbed some of my friend's pokemon cards because the fucker stole mine first
He stole some holographic cards and I stole some normal and less rare than the ones he took
Then he returned most of mine saying he "found them somewhere" like a month later, I kept the ones I took since the only one he didn't returned was my favorite

>>5399427
Yeah, I stole my friends chaos from the chao garden.

Steal no. Once I let some kid borrow a few issues of NP in exchange for letting me borrow Metroid 2, and he moved away. Other than that, my friends and I just copied that floppy alot. DOS was the best gaming era just because you could give copies to your friends with ease. Anytime we got a new game we would make copies of the copyright protection stuff in the manual or whatever, and then get together on fridays at someones house and copy the game for everyone. Once someone got Island of Dr. Brain, we all had Island of Dr. Brain. When someone got the full version of One Must Fall 2097, we all got it. The switch-over to CDs put a stop to that.

>>5399427
I have Chaos Legion and Dungeon Siege that I borrowed from a friend and never gave back. He moved off to college and eventually sold all of his old games beyond the current gen, so I have no regrets that I've kept them.

Speaking of that, the guy loved Ogre Battle 64 quite a bit, as did I, and I wound up buying my own copy which he tried to steal, thinking it was his since he lost it in his messy room. Thankfully, I signed all my 64 carts on the inside of the cart opposite the contacts, which while it didn't 100% convince him that I didn't do it right then, he eventually relented and found his own copy after a few days of searching. Never got an apology though.

I used to steal all the time It was so easy. Back when I was a poor kid I had to if I wanted games it was the only way to get them. As an adult I know know stealing is wrong and that every time I do that I make God sad.

>>5400536
Well that's vague. Give us the juicy details. What did you take? How did you pull it off?

I stole a couple Starcraft serial numbers from boxes. Kept getting banned from using map hacks.

Stole my friend’s copy of Super Star Wars.
Then stole his Boba Fett card.
Then stole his first kiss

>>5399706
With employees like you it's no wonder the place went under.

>>5400541
I used to steal GBA games from the old department store as a kid like Minish Cap, Pokemon, Super Mario World, and Pokemon Pinball. On the opening day I stole a GBA SP. Then I used to boost Magic and YuGiOh cards for weed and anime figure money. I'm glad I'm past that awful stage of my life.

I'd usually just open the game's box and take only the cart home. I'd usually stash it in my waistband or a side pocket of my vest. Then when I got bolder I'd just walk in with a shopping bag, load it up with booster packs and boxes and just walk out. Honestly I have no clue how I thought that was a good idea but selling the cards for money was basically m job back then.

Freindo gave me back my RETAIL BOXED copy of crysis last week. Hes had it for about 6 years.

>>5400546
Gay.

>>5400604
I could be a femanon.
I hope against hope that's a femanon.

>>5399427
From stores? Never.
From rummage sales? All the goddamn time. It's how I got Paper Mario, F-Zero, Twisted Metal 2, and Metal Gear Solid.

>>5400635
all terrible games and you should be ashamed. nah kidding

>>5400631
>A real, live femanon
>Here on /vr/
Never fucking ever. The girliest we've got is some tranny motherfucker.

>>5399427
Dragon Warrior OG manual as a seven year old, Earthbound strategy guide as an eight year old. That's about it

>>5399427
only one i remember, but i stole a few games and dvds from target. penthouse from the borders next door too. stopped when pulp fiction gad a second antitheft device inside the case and set the door buzzer off.

>>5399628
what kind of bootleg?

>>5400635
stealing from regular people, but not from the Waldens

>>5399468
Where do you 'work'?

>>5399741
>Breaking the cardinal rule of no swapsy backys

>>5400697
Settle down there, Robin Hood.

>>5400686
Did they catch you when it went off or did you just haul ass?

>>5399602
>inb4 quadriplegic living in wilderness with no friends

>>5400546
How'd my dick taste?

>>5400635
Shit man, stealing from stores is more ethical than from normal people

>>5399427
I lived a few states away from my cousin as a kid. One time he visited, he brought Chrono Trigger (which had pretty much just come out). I played it a few hours, thought it was so dope. I had just got to The End of Time and they were gonna leave! He put it in his bookbag and when he wasn't around I took it out and stashed it in the drop ceiling in my mom's bathroom. They left and surprisingly I never heard anything about it. Karma's a bitch tho, it ended up getting stolen from me a little later on at school, the same exact way, outta my backpack.

>>5399427
I never did but I had my SMB3 stolen by my adult cousin and her kids. I didn't want to loan it to them but my mom made me do it. Luckily when they denied I ever loaned it to them my parents bought me another.

Also my good friend borrowed like 20 PS2 games and never returned them, turns out he did a niggerish thing and sold them to gamestop. He got like $25 for the whole lot, gave me $25 but I would have much rather had my games.

>>5400832
Do it, pussy.

>>5400832

Murder is worse than stealing.

a friend of mine gave me his Master System and copy of Wonder Boy on the promise I would give him $20. It's been nearly 15 years and I still haven't paid him.

I worked at eb games years ago and stole from there

>>5399464
>yeah you know I love those empty boxes
Depends on the store.

This was about 15 years ago but I stole a shitload of stuff from Target / Kmart type stores. They used to keep complete console games in little plastic hard cases on the shelf. I'd just pry them open with a screwdriver / multitool (that I'd stolen earlier from the store haha) in a changing room or quiet corner. Probably stole 20+ that way, plus a bunch of memory cards, PC game codes, even controllers. Thousands of dollars worth all up.

Finally got caught stealing GTA 3 funny enough. Got let off with a warning, parents were pissed, never even thought about doing it again.

Was doing it for the rush more than anything, now a productive normy member of society. No real guilt, felt really stupid when I realised how bad the consequences could have been (was on a scholarship at a fancy school and could have lost it).

This thread is a good reminder of how many scummy people there are around. Stealing from corporate CEO's deep pockets is arguably unethical, but friends stealing from each other and from random people? Bloody degenerate.

borrowed FF6 (FF3US) snes cart from high school friend. got obsessed trying to level every char to 99 close to the end, but got bored and abandoned the game (never actually even finished it). then graduated high school and lost touch so never returned it. probably still collecting dust somewhere at my parent's house

>>5400551
with management that bad, they deserved it.

>call friend to see if he wants to come over for pizza and play vidya
>he says okay
>when he comes over, we play some games on my SNES
>mom calls for a pizza
>play vidya for an hour or so
>pizza finally comes
>mom brings the pizza to the dining room table
>friend looks confused when she brings two plates to the table
>asks me why he doesn't get a plate
>tell him that he was only coming over for pizza and not coming over to eat pizza
>he looks even more confused
>says he has to go to the bathroom
>mom tells him where it is and he goes
>close to finishing our pizza
>wonder where my friend is
>think he's having stomach problems
>finish pizza and go to my SNES to wait for him
>see that my SNES is gone along with a couple games
>the faggot stole them
>never talk to him ever again

>>5401060
Wait why didn't you give your friend any damn pizza you shitlord?

>>5400631
>I could be a femanon.
You might be but that has no bearing on >>5400546 being totally gay and he needs to kiss me next

>>5400950
You have no idea.
One of my best buddies, who I knew for years I thought was really trustworthy kept stealing videogames (originals - not pirated versions) from me, everytime I invited him into my house. And then kept reselling them, with his parents none the wiser. It was back in the 90's when original retail games were expensive as fuck. Motherfucker was so clever, I would've never guessed it was him - I noticed they were missing, but I legitimately thought my mother kept hiding videogames from me to stop me from playing them - she was known to do that. It was when he tried to steal my Collector's Edition of Baldur's Gate I finally caught him. Asshole was lucky he was a minor and our parents were good friends, cause I wanted to call the police, there and then. His parents agreed to cover the costs of stolen videogames.

>>5401068
^this

And no I've never stolen a vidya gam.
/how about castlevanier I can gam share with you

>>5400635
>From rummage sales? All the goddamn time. It's how I got Paper Mario, F-Zero, Twisted Metal 2, and Metal Gear Solid.

People like you deserve bread and water in jail. You'd throw away 10 times that much on scratch tickets, but you won't give a fraction to someone who may need the money?

>>5399448
Copyright infringement isn't stealing. Do you really think Jesus would be angry if I could clone bread loaves and give them to the needy?

>>5399706
^cunts like this are the reason why video game companies insist on high prices for their consoles and game even years after release.

>>5399427
I don't know if this is considered stealing but I used to borrow games with one of the friends I had as a kid all the time, we'd swap a game each for a while in order to maximize the collective pool we had going. During one of these swaps we got into a big fight because he was acting way too much like a dickhead taking things too far all the time so we ended our friendship right there. I wanted my game back though since he still had it so I went to his house one last time to get it back. Now his brother answered the door and when I asked for my game back he just gave it to me and closed the door, I don't know if he knew we swapped or not but I ended up with both games in possession. I was still mad at my friend and having his game didn't sit well with me so I ended up selling it. He never came looking for it anyways.

>>5399427

Textbook revenge.

I had OoT and loved it. Also had a friend with different taste in vidya games (he was more of a WWF/Soccer game guy, let's call him WWF guy). One day I lent him OoT just so that he tries something else than sports. Time passed, eventually I forgot that he had it and resumed RL.

Couple years later I suddenldy remember I had OoT but couldn't remember who had it. Went full Ace Attorney on all my friends, WWF guy included but nobody seemed to have it.

Another year passed and I visited WWF guy, we talked and he remarked that his neighbor got OoT a couple years ago, even though he wasn't the Fantasy game type. I got suspicious and we went there, investigating. Turns out the neighbor kid had MY OoT because WWF guy gave it to him. I could prove it was mine because one of the save files still carried my name. I snatched the game back and took off, swearing to get back at WWF guy.

Last flashback: A while later I snatched his Wrestlemania 2000 during a courtesy visit and never gave it back. Lied to his Mom when she called to ask about it. By that time I've sold it to the game store.


TL;DR - Idiot friend gives borrowed game to neighbor, pretends he didn't do anything. Anon stelas his game and sells it in cold blood.

>>5399427
>let a Mexican friend borrow a game
>week later says he lost it somehow (didn't even say sorry, he just tried to blow past the subject when asked)
>he hid it under his bed as if nobody would think of checking there
>he tore up the manual so he could hang the pages/cutouts on his fucking wall with glue
Looking back I wish I slugged him before storming out, what a little fucking shit. I pretty much never let people borrow anything from me ever again after that.

>>5401060
>tell him that he was only coming over for pizza and not coming over to eat pizza
This has to be fake, no fucking way lil donnie's mom would actually let that fucking happen.

Shoplifted a Sonic & Knuckles cart from local vidya rental place. 1996ish

Worth it

>>5400905
lock this guy up and throw away the key

Chinese electronic store down the block from me use to sell bootleg GBA games for dirt cheap. Not really stealing I guess but I think my dad did. He would come home from work with random GBA games not in the box and sometimes consoles that looked suspect.

Never intentionally, but I was the poorest among my friends and most would let me borrow games from time to time. I have maybe 5 or 6 games that I think aren't actually mine but games I borrowed that were mutually forgotten about.

>>5401143
The law disagrees with you jesusfag

>>5401583
No, the law concerning video games agrees with me, anon.

>>5401143
Your analogy is stupid because nobody holds a copyright on bread.

>>5400692
It looked like this

>>5400885
has anyone from /vr/ murdered a person?

>>5401815
Yeah, you when you play me at Primal Rage. Now grab a controller, bro!

>>5401815
This is /thievery not /confess

I was working in blockbuster UK when it went under so I bought a shit load of broken consoles for literal pennies and swapped them with the working ones in work

>>5401815
Yes.
But it was only that one time, I swear.
My psychiatrist tells me I'm getting better.

>>5401906
What about that type you hit a cyclist on the way home? You knew he was never getting back up and drove off.

>>5401216
>wrestling = sports, not fighting
Holy fuck, kill yourself. Note to N64 fans: those games are literally why the console was "so popular" in North America.

>>5401919
Well, yeah. I made sure he's not breathing.
I wouldn't leave him there alone to suffer.
That was a good deed.

>>5401931
Different anon here. One time I was at a game exchange where one dude had like 5 dozen N64 sports games, priced at a dollar each. And wouldn't you know it, there were several wrestling games in there. I bought a couple of those along with Ken Griffey Jr. That was a good day.

>>5401149
>high prices of used games
>developers/publishers making even a penny on said games
100% of that money is going to the reseller, fuck him. Reselling games is scummier than downloading ROMs.

>>5401060
Owned, you Jew, bully fucktard.

>>5401940
How kind of you.

>>5399706
>>5399741
>>5399758
>>5399809
>>5400546
>>5400635
>>5400905
>>5401246

>>5401961
Oh, wow, too bad you were one of those before you came outta your mom, crackbaby.

>>5401965
t. literally a nigger

I didn't, but a friend often goes to retro conventions and switches games out against reproduction cartridges while the seller isn't looking.

>>5401992

pretty clever

>>5401972
If you were born addicted to crack, that's as nigger tier as it gets.

>>5401992
IMO, repros are way more impressive (and in all actuality, are more rare) than real carts.

>>5402169
>something being currently produced on a regular basis is more rare than something which hasn't been produced in decades
???

>>5399427
I used to steal games from the store in the mall then return the next day to sell them back to them occasionally, I did always feel bad though

I stole a bunch of n64 games from this other dudes house when I was about 18 cause he used to always smoke weed with me but drop me off before going to parties, I felt like I needed revenge for always being left out, sadly that collection was lost to time

>>5402178
Do you think there are a million repro carts of <insert title with original print run of 1000000>? Can you play a translated (or even original) version of <insert Japanese exclusive title> on your SNES?
>they're being made today so they arent cool and are so easy and cheap to make, anyone can do it!
Literally what you sound like.

>>5402179
t. heroin addict

>>5401060
You deserved it cunt

>>5402194
t. Former employee who was dumb enough to buy his own store's games from junkie

>>5401223
>let a Mexican borrow a game
Anon...

>>5399427
On the last day of my summer job, I stole an entire 486 PC (only missing the case) to play old DOS games. Funny story, I asked just for the CPU (I was allowed to take it) but my boss was busy and wasn't around for me to ask about the mobo, RAM, graphics and audio cards and power supply. So I kind of just... took it. He probably wouldn't care though, considering how he seemed to give it to me just so I could leave him alone. He's a busy man.
I still can't believe I didn't get caught considering I was taking the parts literally behind the backs of other guys working there when they were distracted for a few seconds, and no one noticed that near the end of the day my backpack was a lot heavier than at morning.
I don't even regret it though, It'd just end up in the trash anyway.

>>5399713
I think he doesn't really want it if he doesn't seem interested in getting it back.
I appreciate your honesty though.

>>5399427
I stole the Sims 2 Dvd Edition right off a shelf while walking out of a GameStop.

Absolute zero fucks was given by anyone. Well, since no one watched me do it.

>>5402408
Completely ethical. You stole not only from gamestop, but EA too. A 2-for-1 strike for righteousness.

>>5399628
OMFG the guys who own a rental business and calls people to get their VHS's back... I f'n forgot about that shit.

I can't say that I have, at least not on purpose.

Closest thing to it was that some kid sold me a gameboy color, metroid 2, and tennis for $12 dollars, but it ended up being his brother's gameboy. They let me keep it because the fat little hog walked down to McDonalds andspent all his profits immediately so I couldn't be paid back. I felt a little bad but the guy really didn't seem to care about vidya.

I guess I borrowed an EarthBound strategy guide and just never bothered to return it before losing contact with the guy who lent it to me.

>>5399427
Stole Metroid, Zelda, Dinowarz and a few others from the $20 bin, way back in the day.

Also fucked over BestBuy, multiple times by exchanging all the broken PlayStations I've owned over the years for new ones. Damned shitty Sony lasers. Did the same to Walmart with my GameCube. Fuck those chains.

My mom stole Yoshi (the NES puzzle game) from Bradlee's when I was a kid. Took me a while to realize she stole it because she had kept it in her purse and never took it out for check-out. One of the few things my mom ever put herself on the line for for our (her kids') sake.

>>5402447
Do the scratch and sniffs still work?

>>5402508
Didn't have them. The guide was in pretty beat up condition, and was even missing a page. funny enough, it was the only page I ended up needing. I got stuck in Moonside and the page for that part of the game was missing.

Jacked my copy of legend of mana from the public library.

>>5402657
The fuck kind of public library has video games? This concept is new & mindblowing to me.

>>5402661
Not him but the public library in my town rented out video games as well. Mostly PC games and some handheld stuff (AFAIR they still rent out 3DS games around 5 years ago) and it wasn't a huge selection compared to rental stores or chains but it wasn't that odd to rent other stuff than books like movies and music CDs at a library. I haven't been at my town's for years so I have no idea how much of that is still going on.

>>5402661
My small hometown public library had PC games a couple decades ago, at least.

>>5399427
I rented RPG Maker from Blockbuster video and told them I had lost it, when the truth was that I couldn't find a copy to buy anywhere. Manager didn't seem to give a shit, I payed $15 and it was business as usual. In retrospect it wasn't really worth it since I never actually finished making a game.

>>5401602
It doesn't. And neither do the rules. 18+

>>5401748
food can't be copyrighted

>>5401931

>>wrestling = sports, not fighting
Holy fuck, kill yourself. Note to N64 fans: those games are literally why the console was "so popular" in North America.

Here's another note dumbass, read the entire post before you type. One sentence later I said that the dude might wanted to try other things rather than sports games, which includes wrestling. And those games are the reason the console was so popular? Yeah, right... of course it wasn't because of the wide variety of Action/Adventure/Platformers.

>>5402678
>rented
You had to pay? kek

>>5402757
This is where you're wrong. Video games exist specifically to give kids/manchildren shit to kill time doing. You didn't kill yourself of boredom, hence the game did it's job.

>>5402865
He probably meant it as "loaned". At least I hope that's the case.

>>5402854
Do you not know how greentext/quoting works? Wrestling = sports is what YOU implied, and the fact of the matter is that those games = fighting games. I also made the point that the WCW/WWF games sold more than Smash Bros.

>>5401092
What a scumbag. Glad it was sorted out in the end.

>>5399602
>raised right
>ended up here
keep telling yourself that buddy

>>5400996
>with a lock that fragile, they deserved it
>with a bicycle that unchained, they deserved it
>with muscles that weak, she deserved it
anon...

>>5401583
>>5402782
Piracy literally isn't theft.
> Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft. For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property.
This isnt just some semantic difference, there are tangible differences since you the copyright holder suffers an intangible and usually theoretical loss.

>>5402661
The madison public library has current and last gen games. I have pokemon lets go pikachu on hold

>>5401748
However, the genetically modified wheat used to make that bread is patented, my friend.

>>5402782
Lying is not cool, anon. Stop lying.

>>5401748
>can't understand analogy
>calls others stupid

Never change, /vr/.

Years ago I bought an Ethernet hub because my dumb ass thought it was a router from Walmart and went back to exchange it the same day with receipt and they told me they wouldn’t give me a refund or exchange so I stole the most expensive router they had. Fuk that noise. It was even unopened. Guilty? Hell no, I still don’t understand why they refused to do an exchange when it’s commonplace at every Walmart I’ve ever been to.

>>5402964
They're not the same thing or to be more precise, they're not always the same thing. Piracy has led to losses in the past, especially on home computers and handhelds like the DS and the PSP. What makes matters more complicated is that different laws make it more challenging to keep media available for all regions, which was a problem back then especially with console games and now still is because of digital services. One of the reasons is that people could buy games cheaper in areas where they're not as expensive in those where they were supposed to buy them, which in turn would lead to lost investments for localizing a product (that's not strictly just translation but can be anything related to release anything from outside related, for example laws).

Most of the time people pirate stuff and look for a fallacy to justify their behavior because even if they are poor while 'they' are rich or even if it wasn't available from the start because it never had an official release there or never will be because of licenses or because a game would be too expensive to buy a copy from nowadays (take a look at the Panzer Dragoon Saga thread for an example). Even if there's some merit in those arguments sometimes, it is still technically illegal and you are still not entitled to pirate any media and that doesn't change just from societal changes, it needs to be changed through law itself before it would become legal (or 'less illegal').

Now don't misunderstand me: I'm not saying you're bad for pirating stuff and I've done it as well in the past for both games and other stuff like books, movies, TV shows and music. If you wanna do it regardless of what the law says then I can't really persuade you not to. Just wanted to bring in some nuances to the point that piracy isn't theft - which sometimes is the same.

>be in elementary school
>there's some kid in the class with no friends
>I'm like the only person who talks to him occasionally because he has a shit ton of NES games and lets me borrow them
>one day he tells me that he's moving to another state the next week
>ask if I can borrow a bunch of games to play them one last time
>he lends me like 10 games and makes me promise to bring them back by that Friday
>"forget" to bring them to school with me
>never see him again
>still have the games

Guess writing your name on them with sharpie didn't help, Adam

>>5403829

>>5399427
Stole a Fallout 3 Preorder vaultboy keychain off someones pencil case back in high school, when their classroom was empty.

They probably loved it.

I'm a terrible person.

>>5403756
My buddy and I bought a modem from Staples, popped it open and took the components out. Then we crushed a Sprite can and stuck it in the case and returned it. They didnt even double check that bitch.

>>5399427
>let a friends barrow your game.
>they never return it.
>alternatively they return it but the game is scratched to hell
FUCK YOU PIECE OF SHIT GIVE ME BACK DK 64
Learned this lesson to many times. Never be nice to people you cant trust anyone. People are assholes never waste your time being nice to anyone they will treat you like a doormat. Stand up for yourself and tell people to fuck off.

>>5403920
>Learned this lesson to many times. Never be nice to people you cant trust anyone. People are assholes never waste your time being nice to anyone they will treat you like a doormat. Stand up for yourself and tell people to fuck off.

You're not wrong, but for some reason I let a reckless friend borrow Zelda I and II and not only did I get them back in perfect shape, he honestly thought they were real gold the whole time. Life is weird. Actually, I lent a shitton of games back in early '90s and I think no one ever screwed me over because they knew the "free rentals" would be over.

>>5401060
based retard getting owned, well deserved. no wonder you turned out such an asshole with a mother like that

I found a red Game Boy Pocket on a picnic table at a park when I was ~5. I left it there for about an hour until it was time to leave, and since there was no one else at the park when we were leaving, I took it.

That's the closest thing to stealing I've ever done, but I've had plenty of people attempt to steal games from me. A kid down my street tried to steal my Mom's copy of Paperboy on the Genesis, but she had her name written on the back in white sharpie so it was easy to convince the little shit's parents that it was actually hers. And another kid down the street tried to make off with my copy of Pokemon TCG for the GBC. He would have gotten away with it too if I hadn't been in the middle of playing it, I went to play it immediately after he was leaving and it wasn't in my GBC, my mom made him and his brother come back inside and turn out their pockets to prove they hadn't stolen it.

Never thought I'd feel obligated to make this post on /vr/ but fuck it.

I had to see a psychologist 2 years ago because I developed really bad kleptomania.
I've stolen a: Sega Saturn, PS2, GameboySP, Sega Game Gear, 2 Gamecubes, 3 Wiis, and 3 PSP in my life times.
As for games: Power Stone 1&2 (DC), Brave Fencer Musashi (PS1), Chrono Trigger (SNES which I didn't even own), Sonic Adventure 1&2 (DC&GC), Phantasy Star Online ep1&2 (GC), Strider 2 (PS1), Tomba (PS1), Blasto (PS1), Vectorman (SG), Nights into Dreams (SS) Burning Rangers (SS).
And that's just off the top of my head. I usually hit Flea Markets and Retro Game stores. I hate the fact that I'm really good at stealing especially since store clerks assume I'm just an innocent little white boy and think I'm like 19 when I'm really 24. I've never gone to jail for this and I feel guilty all the time but what I know I can get away with always tops that feeling. I have a huge problem and a baggy windbreaker that makes stealing so much easier.
I'm sorry /vr/.

>>5403829
u r a genuinely bad person

>>5404243
That's more lost & found - Finder's keepers. Like I found a PS1 disc of Dance Dance Revolution in the grass outside of a Bob Evans And quickly traded it for Mega Man Legends but I don't count it as stealing either.

>>5399427
I stole some pokemon cards of my cousin

Not exactly theft, but when I was a kid my mom took me on a rare trip to Toys R us to pick out a game. Being a dumb little child, I picked Tiny Toons Adventures: The Great Beanstalk. It was the only copy.

"Are you sure anon? This game looks... stupid."
"Yes mom! I love Tiny Toons!" (I didn't have cable so no, I couldn't even watch the show and certainly didn't have feelings about it, but I loved Looney Tunes and not being able to watch it made Tiny Toons all the more alluring.
In case you didn't know, that game sucks. But being that I only got one or two games a year, I was determined to try to enjoy it. I beat it within like two hours, and the whole experience was miserable. By the end I was so disappointed by the length and quality of the game my mom picked up on it and said "This game doesn't work properly, let's go return it."

She took me back to the store and told the clerk that the game didn't load properly (it kind of did take an unreasonable time to load the title screen) and that we needed a new one. Since they didn't have any more the clerk looked at me really sympathetically and told me I could just pick out another game. I instantly saw Legend of Dragoon brought it to the register. They did an even swap despite LoD being significantly more expensive and I spent the next few months of my tiny childhood getting my socks absolutely blown off by that game. My friend and I would always pretend to be Dragoons when we played outside we loved it so much. It remains a favorite to this day.

>>5400354
You don't belong in this world.

When I as 10 or 11, I went to visit a friend of mine to discover him hanging out with this older kid that had a shady reputation. Shady guy had a whole bunch of PS1 games that we tried out, and I was hooked by Megaman Legends. After playing it for a long time, he remarked that if I wanted it, I could just have it. I reluctantly agreed, thanked him, and later took it home with me.

Many years later, I met a new guy at school and got to talking about Megaman games with him. Without him knowing about my previous fortune, he mentioned that he had once owned a copy of Megaman Legends until the same shady person had visited his house and stole it.

I returned the game, and we became good friends.

>>5404535
And then you fucked amirite

>>5399427
I sometimes steal advertising lithographs/posters/etc. I'll just tell the lady at the counter the guys at the video games department gave it to me.

>>5403013
Madison Wisconsin?

>>5399427
One of my classmates lent me a Gameboy game midway through may. (I forget what it's called but it's an airplane game and you land on bases similar to Top Gun). He kept asking for it back but I lied and told him I forgot to bring it. When you borrow a game and summer vacation starts that came becomes officially yours.

>>5399628
you probably got the sonic 2 beta cartridge

>>5399809
Delightfully devious

>>5404535
You're good people, anon.

>>5401223
What fucking game?

>>5401143
based and redpilled

>>5404583
Was it Turn and Burn? I used to have that one too but I never really liked to play it. It had neat cover art at least.

stole a gba cartridge from a friend
I was fucking poor and had no videogames or even a gameboy to play on
my mother was a bitch who searched through all my stuff and found it and I just went "uuhh idk maybe someone snuck it in my bag" and she told me it's ok for her to throw it away and I said whatever as she did
my friend's pokemon
it does trouble me to this day because even though he was upper-middle class and probably got another one, I remember him being upset over losing his mons
I'm pretty sure he was on the spectrum, which I didn't realize until much later

I've considered using a save editor to recreate his mons out of my memory and put it on the used cartridge I bought as an adult and look for him if he still lives in the same city and return it to him but that probably wouldn't go well since his mons were more dear to him back then and he's already gone through all stages of grief. He could just use a save editor himself if he really wanted to anyway.
I wish I'd stolen from a store instead. I gladly pirate and seed shit but the one physical game I stole still hurts me.

>>5404785
Stealing from a faceless corporation is more or less harmless and forgettable. Hurting a friend will haunt you for a lifetime.

>>5399427
The old Walmart that has since closed had a big bin full of GBA games that never sold. It was a mostly Barbie horse racing or those stupid cartoon carts. They had a few copy of a pac man comp. And I clawed my hand into the cardboard parading and Palmed the cart.

It was for sale for like 5 bucks but I feel better stealing it. I was like 19 maybe even 20 years old at the time. I played it and even enjoyed the puzzle game it had.

>>5399706
>Steals shamelessly
>Calls it hauls
>6 Playstations stolen, no big deal
I hope you get what you deserve and learn from it, friend.

>>5401965
>Thief getting pissed off because someone calls him a thief
Good one.

>>5399427
Truthfully I have never stolen anything from a store. I'm not trying to brag, I just always knew it was wrong and my parents taught me better.

>>5399427
Kind of, I rented Mario Superstar Baseball and never returned it, but Blockbuster went out of business soon after so I just kept it.

I stole hundreds of blizzard cd keys from walmart to hack in those games. You will never know the feeling of killing 7 hardcore characters at once in D2.

>>5401060
Kid who lived down the street from me had a Mum that did that sorta shit.

>Be hanging out after school at his place
>dinner time
>even though im still there he gets McDs
>I get nothing more than a glance,

>>5400979
Funny you should say that, my best friend from school still has my copy of FF6 he borrowed. I really should get that back some day.

A lot of my pc games were shoplifted growing up. My dad was a cheap ass so despite us always having a top of the line computer I was rarely given allowance and would get maybe one game on christmas and my birthday. I was never taught any better either since he would always sneak us into places or watch like 3 movies after paying for one pair of tickets at the theater.

Let's see what I can remember of the games I lifted...

Half-Life
Diablo 1 & 2
Rainbow Six
Rogue Spear
Thief: The Dark Project
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
The Sims
Baldur's Gate 2
Sacrfice

It was so easy since none of those department stores seemed to expect some 12 year old kid to slice open a big box pc game and make off with the insides.

>>5405832
>You will never know the feeling of killing 7 hardcore characters at once in D2.

I disapprove of theft, but that is funny as clown fucking. Corrupt based.

>>5399437
>Just because you appreciate something more doesn't mean you deserve it over the person who owns it.

>>5406340
>being a complete failure at being a greedy selfentitled millennial

>>5400012
>>>5399427 (OP)
>I borrowed Grandia for PSX for a friend but I think I let someone else borrow disc 1 from me to check it out but I never got it back. So I just have the case with the soundtrack somewhere, I feel terrible about it to this day.
>soundtrack

Grandia didn't come with a soundtrack what the fuck are you talkinga bout

>>5399706
you sound like a nigger

>>5399427
I once stole a PS2 game ... tried it in my house and the game didn't work.


I never confessed it, but the other day I gave the seller extra money for no apparent reason and I left quickly before he could say anything.

>>5401992
Your friends a madlad, has he been caught or noticed? Might be tricky to pull off if the seller is near you but than again those places can get pretty crowded with people so it is possible

>>5407790
>Your friends a madlad

You misspelled nigger. Those costs get passed down to everyone else and stealing from the owner is evil too because they have a right to make money to survive. How would you like someone to walk up and take the food out of your hands off your plate as you were eating it?

>>5405423
He called them a degenerate, not a thief. The point is, that poster was also a degenerate homosexual and born a drug addict.

>>5399706
>employees robbed store blind with no remorse
I'm going to say it, I'm going to say the N word.

>>5402757
That wasn't stealing, you basically paid the price to "replace" it minus the initial rental fee. I used to do that all the time and never once got in trouble because they had it in their rental contract that it was allowed. It just inconvenienced them a bit if it was a brand new in demand game.

I would open games to put into the displays, and would put the cartridge or disk from the old one in my pockets, taking them home to play them, but always taking them back to work my next shift.

>>5407909
t. every Gamestop employee ever.

>>5401060
get rekt fucker

>>5407912
It was a Sears with very low electronics sales. I miss that job.

>>5407930
Heh, it read like a Gamestop jibe. And eh, you always took the games back, so it wasn't stealing...once you brought them back. However, looking at other anons here, you're practically a saint.

i stole some game informer magazines in high school after class ended

>>5407824
They were too niggardly to purchase the games?

>>5405930
>I was never taught any better either since he would always sneak us into places or watch like 3 movies after paying for one pair of tickets at the theater.
Do you think he minded that you were stealing or was happy that he didn't have to pay for your games?

>>5407824
>implying like a nigger could get a real job or come up with such a plan.

>>5408843
>>implying like a nigger could get a real job

Affirmative Action, anon; blacks get jobs or being black, even if they're unqualified. Years ago Radio Shack woudln't even give me a chance, even though they needed someone knowledgeable, they jerked me around and then nothing. A week later I need something and the new nog employee was happy as a pig in shit to not know how to help. "I dunno dat shit! *big smile*" /"Thanks!" *leaves store forever* *store goes out of business*


P.S. the nog quit just two weeks after getting what would have been my job. Thanks, JFK.

>>5408843
>>implying like a nigger could get a real job

Affirmative Action, anon; blacks get jobs for being black, even if they're unqualified. Years ago Radio Shack wouldn't even give me a chance, even though they needed someone knowledgeable, they jerked me around and then nothing. A week later I need something and the new nog employee was happy as a pig in shit to not know how to help. "I dunno dat shit! *big smile*" /"Thanks!" *leaves store forever* *store goes out of business*


P.S. the nog quit just two weeks after getting what would have been my job. Thanks, JFK.
P.P.S. I really needed anything back then.

>>5408843
>>implying like a nigger could get a real job

Affirmative Action, anon; blacks get jobs for being black, even if they're unqualified. Years ago Radio Shack wouldn't even give me a chance, even though they needed someone knowledgeable, they jerked me around and then nothing. A week later I need something and the new nog employee was happy as a pig in shit to not know how to help. "I dunno dat shit! *big smile*" /"Thanks!" *leaves store forever***** *store goes out of business*


P.S. the nog quit just two weeks after getting what would have been my job. Thanks, JFK.
P.P.S. I really needed anything back then.
P.P.P.S. OK I went back just once more. Duh. Needing specialty electronics in a shitty city is a bitch.

Left my friends house with his Super Mario 64 DS cartrdrige in my console. Noticed later but purosefully never told the friend justifying it to myself for similar reasons to the first reply to OP. I "appreciated it more" and my friend had more money and nice things at the time he was playing his PSP all the time when he got it.

Still not cool and I have stayed good with the friend and told him years later and apologized and offered to make it back up

>>5408875
Radio Shack sucks dicks. Back when I was a kid I applied for a job and went to interview with the regional manager, who was a smug power tripping cunt. The fucking asshole is lucky I didn't punch him in the face, cause believe me, I wanted to bust open his skull.

>>5409012
What did he say and do that really got you? But yeah, power-trippers are always smug, which is odd since they usually have no real power outside of hiring/not hiring someone. Like parking enforcement douches. They think they're cops, and they hate it when someone point it out. I told a PE faggot that I'd kick his ass if he got near me. Heh. He then threatened to call the real cops.

>Went into a GameStop about ten years ago.
>Realized the display case for the used GBA games was unlocked
>Proceed to grab FF6, LoZ, & Pokemon FR/LG.
>Walk out like a boss
>No regrets

>>5409012
Back when it was still in business, I needed a CR2025 battery which they charged 6 bucks & change for. I find out just a few weeks later that the computer superstore near me charges a third that price. Rarely have I felt so ripped off as then.

I personally don't remember much of it it but it came up the last time I visited my family and were talking about some old times.
>winter
>be 4/5 yo
>go to store
>see SNES big box games
>grab Mario Paint and another one (nobody remembered what it was)
>Mario Paint on the front side but zipped inside the jacket
>other game was under my jacket's back, sitting on my pants' waistline
>go out
>when at car, mom opens my jacket and sees Mario Paint
>telling me what bad thing I did (with a very stern voice)
>dad completely chill saw other game under jacket
>asks me which game looks more fun
>choose Mario Paint
>dad goes back with other game, apologizes to the employee and comes back
>get to keep Mario Paint

>>5404525
It was the Tails chao that I stole. I did some kind of memory card swap. He never mentioned it to me.

>>5400894
>not Hasta la pasta

>>5404324
Thanks again for games, Adam

Back when I was 8, I finally got to play Vice City for the PS2, yeah not retro, fuck off. My friend comes over to play it, because that's what we did. I'll refer to him as Nignog. We play it. Nignog leaves, and after awhile I notice it's missing. He lives right down the street and after I spent 30 minutes looking for it in my own home, I decide to check his. He and his white family (kek) left, so I sneak in the back door, which wasn't locked. I go into Nignog's room, and begin searching there, and after 10 minutes of searching.. viola! It's there under his bed. I remember getting a devious idea, which was to take the game back and some of his shit as well, because I was a little asshole. I go into his closet and find a NES with a gray zapper and all the hookups and whatnot. All in a nice box too. Naturally, I take that. I find an original DMG-001 Gameboy and take that too. Finally, I end my raid on a box of N64 carts in his "dad's" room, but only end up taking Paper Mario and Smash. I wish I would've taken everything, but for some reason I didn't. I left afterward, and we never spoke again until my senior year. We talked in shop class, but he doesn't remember me at all. It's for the best, I still have everything I took.

>>5407804
Thieves are inherently degenerates, so it's basically a case of "Hey, I'm a prostitute but not a slut!"

>>5399427
Marge, is lisa at camp grenada?

>>5401060
>>5405847
I had a friend who's dad was like that. Really goddamn stingy about feeding any of his kid's friends, contantly saying shit like "I didn't realize we were running a soup kitchen around here". His mom was cool as fuck, though. Kept his dad from starving us out during sleepovers.

My old boss' wife's company's work truck was going to be sold so they dug around under the general disorder and filth in the back of it and produced a dusty old Genesis, which I gratefully inherited and placed in a plastic storage bin under my bed. Closest I can come to stealing vidya items, as even the boss said it was probably his son's. This is only about five years ago.

Yes. My local goodwill started pricing their fucking games at $7.99-$9.99!!! I was happy to buy them for $1.99. Then they raised their prices to $2.99... ok... Getting on the verge of price gouging, but fine... but then they started pricing games far above that so I just started stealing them. Fuck goodwill and their price gouging bullshit. I was taking so much that they put it back at $2.99.

>>5403905
>fallout 3
>high school
anon, global rule 2

>>5405847
Anyone ive known like this was a bit 'off', im pretty sure theyre missing some part of a normal brain. My friends and I use to just eat at each others place all the time.

>>5407567
>millennial memeing

>>5410254
Fucking moron

>>5410294
>>>/v/

>>5399427
Playstation games, double of everything I stole for my friends at school

>>5410286
Zoomer memes are focking braindead

Stealing shit from your friends... that is so /vr/, lol.

>>5402947
projecting

>>5411078
It's just kids being kids. Testing boundaries and learning about the world, social dynamics, and consequences firsthand.

>>5399427
The Wherehouse (anyone remember that chain?). Madden '93 Championship Edition for Genesis.
They wanted too much for a used copy, so fuck 'em.

>>5411435
The thought of stealing something from a friend was something that never crossed my mind even as a kid. If I ever wanted something I'd ask to borrow it.