Do you lend your games?

General and Gaming > Classic Video Games

<< < (3/11) > >>

aliensstudios:

--- Quote from: azure on June 20, 2016, 12:09:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: aliensstudios on June 20, 2016, 10:50:32 am ---I'll lend titles to friends who I know will take care of them. I lent a Nintendo DS Lite and some games to my friend's younger brother and he lost a few of the games and damaged the system. There are certain titles I won't lend if they're valuable too. I'm a major freak about titles I've bought brand-new as well and usually don't lend them out. If it's a disc based game I'll keep the box and manual and just lend the disc in one of these:

For any cart games I lend I use the NES clamshell cases like these:

Overall though, I'd feel comfortable lending games to anyone on this site because everyone is a collector and (presumably) takes care of their video game titles. I'll lend controllers and system accessories too because they're hard to ruin/damage. I don't mind people touching rarities/valuables in my collection as long as they've cleaned their hands. (I've got hand-sanitizer in my game room for a reason)
A couple of weeks ago, I was at work and my brother had a friend over, they got drunk and his friend spilt beer on my N64 shelf. Thankfully it didn't get in any of the carts (because they have pin covers on them) or damage the labels. I know it was an accident, but it upsets me when people don't take care of my things. Bottom line, if you take care of it your things and I know you'll take care of mine, I'll lend you games, If not, I won't.

--- End quote ---
I do the same thing when lending out games, the case/manual just has a chance of getting damaged in my mind.

--- End quote ---
Yup, I lent a game a while back and my friend's sister chewed on the spine of the case and left a booger on the manual. I kid you not.

kashell:
That is so damn disgusting.

doafan:

--- Quote from: ctracy87 on June 20, 2016, 09:23:40 am ---I've learned to follow the philosophy of "Don't let someone borrow something that you will want back".
--- End quote ---

Never saw it this way but this is so damn true use to do this in the past and am still crying for so many titles that I had lost because of this, some of them I managed to purchase them again but still and maybe will never going to have at my collection Demon's Crest for the SNES, Mega Man V for the GameBoy and Felix the Cat for the NES, wish a painfully death to those mothafuckas that I lend these titles.

bikingjahuty:
Depends on who it is. I lend stuff to my brother occassionally, but usually place a max number of games he cam borrow at once. Typically it's no more than two games at a time.

aliensstudios:

--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on June 20, 2016, 01:53:17 pm ---Depends on who it is. I lend stuff to my brother occassionally, but usually place a max number of games he cam borrow at once. Typically it's no more than two games at a time.

--- End quote ---
I don't think I'd lend to any of my three brothers unfortunately. They just don't take good care of things. If I did lend it, I'd have to watch them the whole time

Navigation

 Message Index

Go to full version