The rarest game I (accidentally) own: Metal Gear Solid 3

Are you stupid? Are you dumb? These are only two of the many insults you probably wish you could call me right now. What the hell am I talking about? Snake Eater is like, 7 bucks, right? Well, yeah, duh, I'd know. I have two of them.So, what's the difference? Why is one of the two apparently so valuable? Well, if you flip the evil one over, carefully ignoring my ugly IPad case being reflected onto it...

...What am I supposed to be looking at? Um, the disc, pinhead. Look. Read that ID there. The disc's PDS Number. It's 011965A1. If you're a dweeby little loser, then you'll know that it's wrong. Basically, this is not the game it was printed as- a wolf in sheep's clothing, if u will. It's a misprint. Ohhh, gasp! How could this be? Fuck, man, I dunno!! I didn't ask for this. I didn't haggle thousands of dollars for this piece of junk on eBay. It simply came upon me. Like a blight. A curse. An omen. Like all the other adjectives for bad things. Not to hate on the little guy so hard, but this mistake, this bastard son of the assembly line or the printing press or wherever they made him, haunts my every waking breath. Because it's actually a copy of ESPN NFL 2k fucking 5

I put this disc in with a grin on my face, eager as FREAK and EFF to play MGS3. I bought this thing at the local Goodwill a few weeks prior, thinking it was one of the best finds I'd had yet there. God, how wrong I was. This disc brought me to my highest only to pummel me right back down to my pathetic, foolish place. I was so naïve to trust Goodwill. Just this once, for one beautiful moment, I wanted to believe. Fucking finally, a game that isn't CoD or RockBand or something. I've won. Oh, how gullible I was. I paid the $5 and left the store that day thinking I hit a jackpot, but, in reality, I had invited evil into my home, something that will sit on my shelf, its beady little eyes following my every move as I try to sleep, for the rest of my days. Horrid thing. HORRID THING.

Anyways, enough of the theatrics, let me talk more about what the hell this thing is. Like I said, it's a misprint. As in, someone at the printers fucked up and got away with it. What a villain... birthing this monster... they probably had no idea the evil they released unto the world that day... SORRY I JUST CAN'T HELP MYSELF anyways Uhm. Well. There's not much detailed stuff I've seen online about PS2 misprints in particular, except for this old website that kind of sucks. If you scroll down a bit (or just hit ctrl + f and search for Metal Gear Solid 3 like a smart person), you'll see that, somehow, I am not the only one. Someone else out there has felt the same shattering pain as I- An innocent soul, fooled into playing ESPN College Hoops 2k5 instead of their glorious yaoigame. So, if this shoddy evidence is to be believed, there's at least SOME sort of documented connection between the printing of Snake Eater and ESPN games. Same factory or whatever, I bet. So that just makes my case all the more plausible. 

I understand that it'd be hard to believe I really own this given that I'm not a big collector and all that, and the sheer odds of this kind of situation even happening. So, feel free to check out this... reddit... post...BLEGH... I made in desperation. I seriously underestimated how many people were on that sub. So. There's a Lot of comments. Very scary redditors... don't provoke them, just try to be as quiet as possible and they might not see you... shhhh... Careful... 

ANYWAYYSSS Just wanted to share something cool I have... and I know I was disgustingly hateful to the poor thing, but I DO think this is super awesome to own, and I AM aware that ESPN NFL 2k5 is a very well-regarded game that I should play anyways, even if I DO have a bias against sports games... I still have a lot I'm curious about with this thing, though. How DOES this happen? Can this thing even be appraised, although I'm not especially interested in its monetary value? It almost feels like I SHOULDN'T have this. I feel like I've taken in an exotic animal I can't care for. What do I do with this thing. What if I lose it? I'm not sure. But I will Do my Best. I'm like the stupid eraserhead baby tiktok trend with this little disc. I'm carrying the burden of this horrific, monstrous thing, but I will care for it like my own anyways. Evil as Fuck Metal Gear 2k5 Football Eater I Love You.

Ignore that I just edited this. And, remind me to not use Imgur. OK BYE