Good-bye to gaming...for now. A long saga comes to a sad close.
 

I usually play a lot of GBA games and some PS2 games(but mostly GBA).

To make a long story short, I ended up losing both my Indigo-colored Game Boy Avance and my platinum SP because my mother was hell-bent on me not playing video games....

She made me "donate" the consoles to some eight year old I have never met who is the nephew of this guy who goes to my church.

I also had to give up all of my games (I did, however, manage to save TMNT 2k3 and TMNT 2 Battle Nexus, along with Metroid: Zero Mission. I had to trade Street Fighter Alpha 3 for it because my original copy of Zero was "donated").

It kind of pisses me off seeing as she bothered me about being "addicted" to gaming whenever she actually saw me playing one, which wasn't that often. And the first punishment for anything had always been to take both GBAs away.

I still have my PS2, but I use it mostly as a DVD player. Now the looming threat is to get rid of that as well and I can't get a job yet so I wouldn't be able to get another for at least the next six months.

It's been about three weeks since this occurred, but I finally had to vent it somewhere. I feel cheated. The SP was one of the last gifts that my now deceased father gave me.

...wait...what?!

I can sort of understand why she did it...but...why? You said yourself that you don't try and play games 24/7. Maybe because games are such a special part of you (and not a big part), your mother used the threat of taking them away as a punishment. Why has me confused is why she got you to give them away like candy on Halloween. It's just crazy...no wonder you feel cheated.

Do your best to hold onto that PS2. Tell her the facts if she tries to give it away like your other games; that you need it as a DVD player. I don't know if you have another DVD player in the house, but hopefully that will buy you time to convince her not to get rid of it (or convince her to not get rid of it at all, actually). Hopefully she won't try and just take your gaming collection away instead of the PS2.

That sucks. Time to think about moving out I guess.

Your mom sounds stupid, and casually playing a GBA or PS2 every-so-often isn't exactly gaming. You're either very young, because you can't afford to just buy your own stuff, or a mamma's boy. I choose the latter because it makes me laugh more.

Dinny, did you just really post the word "arsehole"? That's fantastic!!! :lol:

Marty, your mom sounds like a religious nut or just a general douche. I know several that fit your description. When you hit the right age, I would seriously think about moving out at the first opportunity if gaming is important enough to you (which it doesn't really sound like it is). You'll likely never make any headway with her.

I'm sorry to hear that, especially about your sp being one of your last gifts from your father. Maybe it's a sign of the gaming gods to move onto better things. DS?:D

Why would your mom do that (re the SP) anyway? That's got sentimental value. Why the heck would she just give something like that away? I as person of faith find these over reactions to be insane, that is if that's why she's doing it. I mean why take from you to give to another kid if video games are so bad? Seems like what's good enough for the goose should be good enough for the gander. (Never thought I'd ever use that turn of phrase. *scratches it of his list of obscure expressions.*)

Go back to England, Frenchie!

I'm sort of "in between..." young enough where I can't move out, but I am guaranteed a job at the place where I do volunteer work in about a month (when I turn 16). I can't exactly get a job till the summer though.

I will most definitely buy a DS or another SP then. No reason not to.

I'm just glad I kept my TMNT games....:P:P:P

And as for my mom...she can't take away what she can't find. It shouldn't have to be that way, but whatever.

Buying your own systems is the way to go. I bought my own Gamecube so when my Mom would try and ground me*Which was only once I can recall* I told her to go f*** herself when she tried taking my Gamecube. My logic was "I paid for it tough s***." Funny thing is I didn't even play it when I was grounded.

I may sound like a brat but what she grounded me for provoked me to act that way. I had left my Teacher Aid class*So I missed nothing but sitting there playing Mr.Driller on my DS* to go see my girlfriend perform in a play that was only during that period and she called for me for some dumb reason and couldn't find me so they bagged me for cutting even though I told my teacher where I was going to be.

Long story short she grounded me for two weeks because of that, so I gave her crap for it because there was no reason for her to be calling for me anyways and like I said I had asked if I could go. Jokes on her though I cut tons of times after that without asking and never got caught. It felt hypocritical for her to even get on my case about it since I never did it more then three times in one class per-semester*Because four was a detention* and I never cut math because I suck at math. She dropped out so her getting on my case about it just made me laugh.

Whoa, sounds like you've got mommy issues.

I can buy a normal GBA for about $25 now...and if I save my forthcoming Christmas money, who knows. I already have about $8.

BTW Spits, you mom seems a lot like mine.

My Mom is actually a really cool person, just sometimes she can be a tad annoying. I know when I should be punished and when I've done something wrong but she fails to realize how much like her I am so when I'm punished when I don't think I deserve to be I'll keep doing it as my own form of vengeance.

She really lucked out since my family has a history of drinking and drug abuse and I've never even smoked before. I'm the only one in the family to not have soiled themselves by my age. They all started smoking when they were 12 and drinking at 16. Both sides. I never gave her crap or trouble so when I was in trouble I think she made a bigger deal out of it then she needed to because she never had to punish me often or at all for the most part.

Everything is as it should be.
 

I "lucked out" as well, I just got a red SP "under the radar" and I just beat Metroid Zero Mission for the fifth time. This time I got it in under two hours and I got a very...interesting surprise at the end.

EDIT: It seems that no matter what I do, I can't get Samus to wall jump continuously up one wall. Is there something that I am doing wrong, possibly??

BTW, I just beat the game in an hour and fifty five minutes with about 55% items. The ending I got was rather...interesting.

[Ai's Note] Don't make threads for something trivial like that when you already mentioned the same game in another thread.