Kehehe... Hey, does anyone have any interesting stories about renting games?
At one rental store around here back around '96, they had Tobal #1...
For about a week. I don't know what happened to it, but it vanished before I could even rent it. When I asked the dude working the register at the time, he didn't even reply to me. Asshole.
The same store also carried a cigar-box original Resident Evil, which had a yellow post-it note on it which read, "If your Playstation has a sensitive lens DO NOT RENT!!" or something. Curiosity killed the cat, I suppose. The game seemed to be a bad pressing or something, because I could never get past the dining room. The game always crashed on the door loading screens.
Anyone else have any interesting rental stories?
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Blah2004-12-24 18:12
I rented Pesterminator as a kid, turns out its a somewhat rare unlicensed game, based on the Western Exterminator logo (also seen on Mossimo shirts. The guy holding a mallet behind his back and about to smash a rat). Speaking of mallets, Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout is a severely underrated game, featuring Bugs wielding a mallet of unyielding destruction.
Yeah, i would always rent games and forget to return them, The most notoriously late game of mine (1 year, and 2 months) was Yoshi's Story, man i just set it down and forgot about it. However, the worst rental is yet to be told, for in my room, right now, sits a copy of Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, that the good folks at Hasting's lent out to me 4 years ago.
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omg lol2004-12-24 21:59
there was this game for the nes called Empire Strikes Back i TRIED to rent for like 2 or 3 monts, someone must have stolen it because it would never come back.i would call on a daily basis to know if it was there. one day the b!tches said yes we have it, so i walked 10 minutes in the freezing rain to get there and be told oops the box is there but we dont actualy have it and having to go back emptyhanded in the freakin freezing rain again. some days after they removed the box from the stand and i never heard of that game till emulator, but it was too late boohoo. sad story.
oh and there is this one instruction manual from the F117 NES game ive never returned. i forgot it home and they never asked for it so i just never returned it.
how much did you pay for the 1year and 2 mont game Blah ? what happened ?
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Otacon2004-12-25 10:22
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Oh, dude. At this other rental place around here, there were always games "missing" for little to no reason. Persona 1, Pocket Fighter and Namco Museum volume 4 were ALWAYS "gone". Freaking lame, because I REALLY wanted to play Pocket Fighter, and I never have due to some cheap stealing fuck.
And I also pretty much assume that they were either stolen, or permanently rented out by the store owner's kids.
Interesting story with that last one, Namco Museum 4, as well. I rented it like twice, back in '98/'99. Then suddenly, it became victim to "the curse" and was permanently rented out.
The thing here is that eventually, the carry box for some racing game was placed behind it, making the illusion that NM4 was available to rent. It actually fooled me once and I almost rented the racing game.
Whether the thief or store owners themselves placed the box there is anyone's guess. Later on in '99 there was a sign that said something about customers being fined for mismatching cases to games.
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Fnordulicious2004-12-26 0:50
I used to (NES days) rent from a local video shack that didn't give a damn about games. None of the twenty-nothings working there even cared about arcades, you could tell they hadn't even played Pong or Pacman. So I would rent games all the time only to find out that the rental case had a completely different game in it. Of course, rents weren't even going to bother going back since they wouldn't look for the right game anyway, so I played a lot of really bizarre games that nobody ever heard of back then. One favorite was a *billiards* (not American pool, but billiards and snooker) that was super funky with strangely shaped tables and horribly complicated physics. It had the wackiest controls that depended on multiple direction and button combos and precise timing, all hard to pull off on the NES pad. I rerented it a couple times but it disappeared that year. Sigh.
What really pissed me off was the number of games I rented which turned out to be SMB/Duck Hunt or worse yet plain Duck Hunt. Once I rented three games and all three were SMB/Duck Hunt!
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SMAP2004-12-26 4:11
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Awesome, someone else who played F-117 Stealth Fighter, or whatever that thing was called. I still get the music stuck in my head once in a while...
God, I'm old.
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OMG LOL!uNJUZNN.ZE2004-12-26 10:39
>7 i can't remember THAT far it was way back in the days but i think ill load up an emulator just to try the music =)
music of old games were so cool, i posted a site in the music section with remastered song from consoles but it used all its bandwith for this mont :(
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Anonymous2006-12-23 10:49
mrreeeow nekoneko
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Mighty the Armored Dildo2008-10-08 21:29
Heh, back in the early NES days, Super America (the gas station chain that got bought out by Speedway) had VHS and NES rentals. I remember stealing a few games from them, like Dragon Warrior and Pinball Quest. Well, not REALLY stealing, but paying the $3 or whatever it was rental fee, and never returning the game. Me and a few friends kept doing this for a while, and never got caught. Reason was, the asked for no forms of ID when you filled out the rental agreement. Put down a fake name, fake address, fake phone number, and you got yourself a (nearly) free game!
Wonder why they stopped doing rentals after less than a year, lulz.