Itchy point

[Meat Puppet]

I was playing some game on some console yesterday. I got up to a level and kept dying because I couldn't get past a certain point. The checkpoint was only just a few steps away from the certain point I kept dying on. I played it to tears.
Try and try again, I couldn't do it. I got so angry, that I ripped out my bazooka and blew a hole in the console, and ran around my house kicking the walls in and swearing. It ruined my whole day and made me angry.

Today, I thought I'd give it one more try, and passed the point with ease.

Has this, or anything similar, ever happened to you guys?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Happens all the time, and not just with video games. It's one of those things, you know.

[Dr.K]

The most notable example I can think of is Abe's Oddessy. That game was RIDDLED with bits like that. Got there in the end though.

[Reign]

Yep.It happens with all the games I play. I was working on getting the best ending in a certain game. I done all it told me to do but every now and then, I seemed to leave the smallest thing out. Due to my boredom, I kept doing the same thing over and over again to view what I was working for and left it for months...but in the end, I managed to do it in one go and ended up with one of the best endings I'd ever seen but then suddenly got bored after viewing it once Gaming is a thing that's there to just annoy you when all you need is a break

[Dreddz]

Happens to me all the time
Maximo cracked my controller

[Shoeberto]

I recall Metroid Prime 2 being a controller breaker.

[Luc]

That happened to me a couple of times on the Splinter Cell games.

[Meat Puppet]

mine's tetris

[Mo-Nercy]

Aw, hell yeah. I broke my Logitech turbo controller and Sony DualShock2 that way. Now I can only play games that accept a standard PS1 non-analog controller.

[Rase]

This recently happened to me when I was playing Super Metroid. I was stuck on Phantoon.

[Xander]

Kinda. I think that the more worked up you get about not being able to do something, the less and less you can do it each time. There was a bit in Wind Waker which really wasn't that hard but because I got kinda worked up about falling off some platform a couple of times, I kept messing it up everytime. Then I just calmed down, tried again and did it with ease. I get mad easily when I can't do stuff though. >=|

[Chris]

It happens all the time, but I've learned how to avoid such situations.

[Meat Puppet]

Would that be to never play video games?

[Chris]

No...NO!
But I just learned not to stress over such trivial matters.

[chionos]

in and out of the gaming experience
yes