So I'm a fucking kid, and my family got an N64, and I love the hell out of it. Every birthday, it's established that I get one N64 game as a present, usually whatever I have my little kid eyes on. One game for birthday, one game for Christmas, tough shit rest of the year, I'll take it.
So 1998 hits, birthday is coming up, the details are sketchy but somehow the hype for this game Forsaken completely takes over the adults in my life. I might have been visiting aunts and uncles, and/or there was a trendy commercial, but I wanted another game and the people with the money to buy gifts were VERY motivated to get me Forsaken instead. Forsaken was so fucking good, how could I not LOVE it? I'm a stupid kid, so I don't stand up for myself.
So I get Forsaken. Within 2-3 minutes of playing it, I'm fucking devastated. It's exactly as stupid as I thought it would be, I hate it, I was right to hate it, birthday ruined. Cried to my parents and credit where it's due, my mom goes full Karen bitch to Toys R Us, manages to get the $60+tax back for an opened video game and buys me whatever game I wanted. I think it was Yoshi's Story WHICH FUCKING RULED.