Mine is a tale of treachery and deceit. I had a friend back in the late 80's who I used to trade games back and forth with, Nes, SMS, etc... he got a TG16 and lived next door to me and invited me over to play some games one day. Like normal I would go and play and he would come to my house to play as well. There was a store called video wave that opened up in my town and he told me I could get a TG16 with the CD, I was blown away, "a CD game" I said, I have never heard of such a thing. So I went to video wave that day and talked to the owner, he told me they take trades, I was like that's great. I went home and gathered all that I could think of that would make a good trade, Nes deck and games, SMS deck with games. The scumbag store owner and I came to an agreement and I gave nearly 90% of my stock for this one system. I got it home only to find that I couldn't play the cd based games because there was no system card, at this time the system was brand new so the cd system card was a costly piece. I went back to the store and confronted the owner telling him he made a bogus deal and the system was not complete (the power brick was broken with a corner of the plastic hacked out too) but the system worked. He said he would get the card for me and finish the deal. A few weeks went by and he kept telling me it's coming, it's coming. Two months go by and still no system card, now mind you there was no syscard 2 or 3 yet this is just the base syscard 1. I got tired of waiting and went to his store asking where my card was. Now I knew he kept his stock in the bathroom of the place and after telling me no system card yet, so I tell him I need to use his bathroom, and start to scope out the room to see if he has a system card. No system card but I see Andre Panza kick boxing (ehhhh) so I stick it in my pocket :-) and head home. A few days later the cops are at my door asking me if I knew anything about it, I said yup I took it and until this douche keg gets me my system card he is not getting it back, the cop asks him if its true that he owes me a system card, he says yes, the cop looks at him and tells him I was not returning the game until he gave me my system card. All in all I know what I did was wrong but I was a kid at the time but the cop seemed to side with me so to hell with it. After about 3 more weeks I finally get my system card and return his shitty game and my cd revolution begins.
