Topic: This was suprising

[MANTI5]

So I walk into a Walmart today and head over to electronics. I find Brawl nestled snuggly behind the protective glass door and ask for it to be placed in my possession. I pay for it and head home anticipating great things. Upon opening the SEALED case that was LOCKED BEHIND THE GLASS DOOR, I find



A blank CD and also no manual. Someone took the game disk and manual, replaced it with a blank CD, and resealed it. Thankfully they exchanged it for me, and I made them open it up before I left, but they were all pretty surprised.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

WHAT DOES NINTENDO THINK WE ARE

[Dasmos]

You stole the game, right? That's genius.

[GoldenPhoenix]

More fun than SSE? I think so.

[MANTI5]

No, if I were the stealing type I wouldn't tell them how I was stealing so it wouldn't work again.

[DAaaMan64]

smash boards likes this version better

[walkingdead2]

when the original game boy first came out i saved up my money and bought double dragon.  when i took it home there was a wood block in it.  i took it back to target and my mom had to complain for a while before they believed us.  what sucked even more is they were all out of double dragon so i had to get the teenage mutant ninja turtle game. (i think thats what i got... either that or one of the final fantasy games that really weren't final fantasy)

[Mario]

I hate when stuff like this happens because it's impossible to prove you didn't thieve them yourself. How did you avoid that?

[walkingdead2]

well i dont really remember.  it was (man this is sad to say) almost 20 years ago. (dammit im getting old)

[RABicle]

A nice friend of my mother's once posted me a game. World Cup 98 for Gameboy. It was because we were living in a third world country and had no tv at the time.
I open it up and there is NO GAME inside. There is a manual, which was really thick and heavy enough to give the impression that the box also contained a cartridge.

But yeah, being in a foreign country, there was nothing I could do.

[Kairon]

A nice friend of my mother's once posted me a game. World Cup 98 for Gameboy. It was because we were living in a third world country and had no tv at the time.
I open it up and there is NO GAME inside. There is a manual, which was really thick and heavy enough to give the impression that the box also contained a cartridge.

But yeah, being in a foreign country, there was nothing I could do.

That... SUCKS.

[GoldenPhoenix]

A nice friend of my mother's once posted me a game. World Cup 98 for Gameboy. It was because we were living in a third world country and had no tv at the time.
I open it up and there is NO GAME inside. There is a manual, which was really thick and heavy enough to give the impression that the box also contained a cartridge.

But yeah, being in a foreign country, there was nothing I could do.

That... SUCKS.

Speaking of getting blank DVD, I wonder if Kairon could tell the difference between a RW disk and one of the myriad of 3rd party games?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

RW's have the Nintendo Seal of Quality.

[Kairon]

RW?

[KDR_11k]

Nintendo games (I think all games for their consoles, not just first-party ones) come in a special wrap that has "Nintendo" written on the little string you pull to open it. Don't buy a game if it has a different wrap or none at all.

[NWR_pap64]

RW?

Re-writable disc, if I am not mistaken.

[Kairon]

Nintendo games (I think all games for their consoles, not just first-party ones) come in a special wrap that has "Nintendo" written on the little string you pull to open it. Don't buy a game if it has a different wrap or none at all.

Little...string...?

[MANTI5]

I don't know of any little string on any games I've bought before, but after I opened "Brawl" I did notice the plastic was indeed different. It was thinner and had seams.

[King of Twitch]

Weird. My parents got me Golf for NINTENDO Game Boy and gave it to me during a long cross-country drive but when I opened it up it was full of shredded paper.

This other time I bought an awesome new game and when I brought it home, I learned I had to ship the system to a certain company to repair it just to play the game 

[decoyman]

This is the saddest thread ever. Just think about all these little kids getting games, and instead they get wood blocks (wha-??), shredded paper, thick manuals, and sometimes just nothing at all. I count my good graces that something like this has never happened to me.

[walkingdead2]

whats even more sad is just when you understand how poor i was growing up and how few games i was able to have.  i was able to get the problem fixed and so were most of you.  but for the guys who didnt... man im sorry.

[vudu]

This other time I bought an awesome new game and when I brought it home, I learned I had to ship the system to a certain company to repair it just to play the game 

What the HELL game was this?

[Smash_Brother]

What was on the disc?

It was porn, wasn't it?

[KDR_11k]

Nintendo games (I think all games for their consoles, not just first-party ones) come in a special wrap that has "Nintendo" written on the little string you pull to open it. Don't buy a game if it has a different wrap or none at all.

Little...string...?

Well, a thin stripe of plastic that you can pull, it tears through the wrap, opening it for you. Ah, right, IIRC the games I imported didn't have those, made opening them a real PITA.

[King of Twitch]

This other time I bought an awesome new game and when I brought it home, I learned I had to ship the system to a certain company to repair it just to play the game 

What the HELL game was this?

I'll give you three guesses