Those 'Sad Days' in your Computer Owning/Gaming Life.

mrdbristol said:
Typing in pages of programming ( in Basic ) from a ZX Speccy magazine to find it didn't work ! ( They would usually apologise and correct it next issue/month )

Waiting about 8 years ( well it seemed like that ) to cassette load a game , only to knock the table at the last minute and have to start all over again.
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lol, we used to have that but ended up gaffer taping our speccy to a board so it wouldn't move! We also used some nail varnish on the tape recorder's vol knob to mark the exact volume needed to load games, no more trial and error for us :p

I still have a zx spectrum book at home, one of these days I will buy a speccy again and spent hours poring over the code ;)
 
Sort of gaming related:

Just over three years ago finding out a guild mate had died in a car crash, though I never meet him in RL Id regarded him as one of my closest friends and miss talking to him about life and gaming. He died on my 22nd Birthday.

RIP Snarak :(
 
My Dungeon Keeper disc was in French... This was just after it had come out so I took it back to the shop and got another. French again. Repeated that a few times then just gave up. My Deeper Dungeons ended up being English but because the original was French, the sound was French.. But the writing went English...
 
Speding about £800 on an Atari Jaguar and CD addon to find out 3 days later atari had decided to fold it and make new further games..

:) but you live and learn.
 
First game I ever played was Xenon 2 on my Dad's Tandy 90 when I was a kid (before the x86 days).

Took me ages to get to the end, and then it crashed in the same place every time, just before the final boss. Annoyed me something shocking, and I wrote to mirrorsoft to complain / ask for a way around. But since Robert Maxwell had just taken a rather long swim, mirrorsoft shut down and weren't supporting it :(

Oh well, I played it again on the Amiga 500 a few years later with much better graphics and a joystick.
 
agnes said:
the day i got warlord on a WoW char in a low populated server then 2 weeks later the pre TBC patch was released
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Haha, well I could have said the same about "you guys". I did the whole PVP thing when it just came out basically, and before it was made easier to get ranks cross server bg's etc. Took months of absolutely doing PVP 24/7 just to get to rank 8 back then.
 
When Commodore screwed up development post A1200/A4000 leading to inevitable bankruptcy in 1994.

Witnessing the steady decline of software/hardware, I had to buy a "pee cee" in 1997 or get left behind in computing history :(

Still have my A1200 though, and it's LANed up to 8 meg ADSL via PCMCIA no less :D
 
that elite bug that screws your saves over
you know the one I'm talking about
sodding MONTHS of gameplay down the tubes.
 
Like everyone else has said, loading tapes for games especially the ones where you had to stop the tape, play the level and then start the tape.... worst thing with this was having to wait around staring at the coloured lines on the screen.

Pretty much every game I have bought without playing a demo.... I think ArmA was the last.. :mad: Damn the pre-order systems!
 
firing the BFG in DOOM and it running at about 0.3 fps :rolleyes:

Turned out compaq had sold me a 486 system badged as a pentium 120 however said 486 on the chip, LOL
 
How about this.

I sold a copy of Radiant Silver Gun for the Sega Saturn to a Game Shop for £5 only to find out 2 days later it was highly collectable and fetching around £100 on the Bay. :(

I've also done a Format and Re-install a few times totally forgetting to backup save games each time.

The Battlefield series selling out to EA

The early demise of the greatest console ever the Dreamcast

My 1st XBOX 360 Dying and me sending it back and losing all my game saves.

These are just off the top of my head
 
eracer2006 said:
firing the BFG in DOOM and it running at about 0.3 fps :rolleyes:

Turned out compaq had sold me a 486 system badged as a pentium 120 however said 486 on the chip, LOL
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That remids me of my first ever PC it was suposed to have been a Viglen 486 DX40 but actually turned out to be a 386 with some kind of upgrade that made it appear to be a 486 but never really had the same speed.

I remember installing Windows 3.11 from 8 floppies it took me about 6 hours :eek:
 
Turrican on my Amstrad CPC464.

For some odd reason I would occasionally get my CPC games through mail order in the back of mags like Amstrad Action.

I ordered Turrican after reading the review (and seeing just how stupidly good it also looked on 16bit systems).

It took weeks to arrive. When it did I was ecstatic. However, after a couple of loads the tape went 'dodgy'. Just stopped loading data correctly.

Sent it back, all parcelled up. I believed at that point it would take a lifetime for them to inspect, and send me a new one. It did.

Seemed to take more than a month. When I finally got the new tape - the same thing happened, it broke but this time immediately. I think I cried for quite some time.
 
Buying a Videologic 'Apocalypse 5D' graphics card only to find out that, a) it was **** and b) the chipset wasn't compatible with the vast majority of games :(
 
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