A lot of discussions have taken place around Gamespot regarding Pre-orders in the video game industry, from Justin Calverts post in early January about the pre-order madness involved in purchasing star trek online, Analysts discussing abysmal kinnect pre-orders and if you check the forums of any up and coming game, questions regarding the nature of its pre-order bonus.

Rather than throw up some intellectual discussion about the pros and cons of such market manipulation, I simply wanted to ask the people who read this about your nightmares and your greatest moments involving pre-orders.

My greatest Pre-order moment came quite a few years back, a local game store was offering plush toys on the Pokemon red and blue games, I had to wait around because the delivery was late but I went home with the red copy and around 5-6 pokemon plushes which was pretty cool.

My biggest nightmare was GTA 3 which I pre-ordered, went to the store on launch day, stood in the queue before opening, at lunch time I was told they were sold out and I was devastated.

Took me a few weeks to finally get a copy

Care to share your own? Leave it in the comments.