We love games, but like everything we love, from puppies to chocolate milk, it has an expiration date.

Sometimes the CD gets scratched to the point it no longer works. Sometimes a cartridge battery finally gives out. Maybe the server for your favorite online MMO gets pulled. Regardless, some games we have just expire, despite our best efforts to keep them alive, whether that involved rubbing scratch remover on a disc (does that stuff really work?) or blowing into an NES cartridge (I don't know if that works, but everyone did it).

So, which games are in your gaming graveyard? What games do you love that gave up the ghost?

For me:

Silent Hill (PS1) - Dammit, I love this game. I would still be playing it from time to time, but my copy (that I bought used) just had too much damage. I managed to get a few playthroughs out of it, but it just won't work for me anymore.

Final Fantasy VIII - Disc one got damaged. Sadly, that makes the other three discs pretty much as useful as coasters (though coasters are kind of useful). I managed to find a replacement, but it my original copy is dead.

Legend of Zelda (NES) - The internal battery works... and then doesn't work. It's flickering on and off. Sometimes my save data is there when I boot up the old console, and sometimes I see nothing but a new menu screen.

Koudelka (PS1) - Apparently, my friend didn't know that throwing discs around like frisbees and losing them under the couch isn't the best way to keep a game working... Found a new copy, but the game was hard to track down.

Anyone else have some dead games?