Has a young relative of yours ever seriously screwed up one of your games? · 10:56pm Feb 13th, 2017
It's never happened to me, but it did happen to my sister a while back. She was about eleven, and was in love with Nintendogs. She was very attached to one pup in particular -- a husky named Lucky. She treated that virtual pooch like he was her own.
Now, one day, our aunt comes visiting and she brings along our six-year-old cousin, who asks my sis if she can play Nintendogs. She agrees, but gives her very strict instructions to not do anything with it except play with the dogs.
Oh yes. You know where this is going.
Later on, after the aunt and cousin have left, I can hear my sister, and she is pissed. Like, really upset. Sure enough, the cousin had sent Lucky to Data Heaven.
It might be paranoia, but that memory is what drove me to put a parental lock on every game on my PS4 except LittleBigPlanet. I'm taking no chances with young and dumb kids, flesh and blood be damned.
I've had plenty of things deleted, unfortunately. I have 2 younger brothers and back in the day I would wake up to find my Pokemon deleted or Advanced Wars. Or back when the 360 came out I had a 100 hour character written over as well. Of course this was all the same brother, the other one had more sense than him. x-x
Full 100% completion clear of the original Breath of Fire on SNES. Level grind to 99 for everyone and all. And my cousins saved over it.
I'm ashamed to admit, I kind of WAS that kid. It was Final Fantasy VII. Though my brothers lucked out. Turns out my gaming skills weren't good, nor sophisticated enough to understand the RPG mechanics, plus the monsters kind of creeped me out (yeah I was a wimp). Though they did let me play around in the arcade part. That was fun.
I didn't have a younger relative who saved over my games.
I had an older sister who would intentionally delete my games from the PS2 memory card just to piss me off.
What my younger half-brother did was break the camera from the stand of my eye-toy, smash my controllers and once tried to stab my PS2, all because he couldn't get past a particular stage in Jak 2. You better believe I made sure he had a lump the size of a tennis ball on the back of his head AND made y mother buy replacements, which to clarify, I live with, and was raised by, my grandmother.
My WORST experience with someone fucking with my games though... You remember how the PS1 and N64 had those bulky reset buttons?
Well, my grandmother had a friend over, who brought their kid along, and I don't know what sort of sugary shit this kid had been eating, but their hands were sticky as all fuck. So the brat starts glorming all over my N64 and PS1 and chucking a hissy-fit because I wouldn't let him play Crash Bandicoot with me (Little bastard didn't seem to understand the concept of Single Player Only), so he starts jamming his sticky fingers into everything he can on the console, causing the rest buttons to become stuck in, the dust-shields on the N64 cartridge slot to get stuck in, the PS1's power button AND the PS1's lens slider.
I have long since managed to get my N64 working and un-sticky since then, but my PS1... She's gone.
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Thankfully, I got a PS2 for Christmas that year, and that was only a few weeks after that incident, so it wasn't long before I was back at the PS1 games.
My sister once took my Gamecube back with her to college. Haven't seen it since.
My little sister once overwrote my pokemon Emerald. So much progress... my precious Rayquaza... gone! And then she WASTED a Master Ball on, of all things, A Tentacool!
Losing Nintendogs data is the worst