Have you ever played a game (especially handheld) for a few hours and progressed a long way, and then turned off the power without saving accidentally? I do this a lot, and often I don't play the game again because I can't stand doing a certain stretch again. I got Professor Layton for Christmas and just did this with about 20 puzzles' worth of progress and now I can't even turn on the game any more. I once did it with two gyms on Pokemon D/P, and forced myself to sit there for two hours again fighting the same trainers because I really wanted to finish the game.

Does it happen to you, and do you play through the game again anyway?

Usually I stop playing the game for a day or more. Sometimes like you, it leads me to not complete the game like FF9 which i've owned since purchase. :X

like you guys I don't touch the game for days before I retry.

If it's something that's my fault in the game, I'm annoyed, not really angry.

If it's something stupid like I just turned the power off or let the game run out of batteries, I'm pretty angry.

If it's the game that throws a bunch of really hard fights between checkpoints or something like that and I lose at the last fight I'm absolutely livid.

I'd be upset and probably take a break to cool off.

I usually become dicouraged to continue for some days.

I had it yesterday with Lost Odyssey. Somehow my last save went wrong (I'm absolutely sure I saved) and I accidentally forgot to save th eprevious savepoint, so had to redo at least 2 hours. Sucks, but I replayed it right away.

If you just close your DS while playing it holds out for a looong time. I had a red light even closed, without my adapter, but it stayed alive for 16 hours.

I'm usually just like "damnit!" or "[censored word of the day]!" and take a little break and then do it again.

scream at the console and kick it out the windo, only to later bandage it back up and give it a kiss appologising and stating that I wont get angry again... I love you N64

Yes, this one time I was playing Motherload on the computer and I was playing for about 3 hours getting a lot of points I just got right far in it I was at the top surface upgrading getting gas and I didn't save it because I didn't think I needed to because i had the teleporter....so I decided to go really far down this time and didn't realize there was them exploding random places after 6000 feet?? so I hit one of those but I was still alive and it took away a little over half my life.

Anyway I was about to teleport back up and I realized there was (forgot the name of it but it's worth a million points) so I got greedy and went for it, I was about two scares away then BAM! I hit one of those exploding quares 3 hours of my day completely gone....I got angry, got up, walked away and never played it again...