the longest time owning a game without beating it

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Whatever year Fallout 3 came out. I think I'm like half-way done, but I get bored by it. Same as Fallout New Vegas.

I've had Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for almost three months and I haven't finished it. Then again, I haven't been playing it much. I've been dividing my time between Alan Wake and some old Sega Genesis and SNES games.

16 years, I say.
To me, Shadow of the Beast is probably the hardest and most annoying game ever in my life. Your punches and kicks are so weak, you need precise timing, the music is boring and you're vulnerable to almost everything. Worst yet, you have to start at the beginning after your own death! I've not even tried the Invincivility cheat, since I just couldn't stand the pain of this abomination.

Super Monaco GP on the Sega Game Gear.

I've been playing this since I was 11 and I am still unable to get enough points to qualify for whatever lies beyond the standard 16 courses.

I had a few games for the original b/w Nintendo Gameboy that I didn't play through until the Gamecube-Gameboy Player was released. I had them about 6-7 years, and they suddenly became fun when I could play them on my HDTV instead of the tiny non-backlit Gameboy screen.

Seven years. I bought a Rainbow Six game back in 2004 that I never finished because it was horribly buggy and not very good.

Thanks a lot

Almost 12 years. I still haven't beaten Donkey Kong 64. I can't beat that stupid mario arcade thing for the second banana

I'm certain there were many old games for the original Game Boy, like the original Game Boy version of Super Mario Land, that I played 15 years ago and still have never beaten. I believe I could regularly make it to world 3 back in the day, and made it to world 4 easily when I tried on an emulator recently (I believe there were 4 worlds in the game, 3 levels each, but don't quote me). I sold all my game boy stuff a long time ago, so not certain if that counts.

In recent times: I made it to the last level of Half Life I about 14 months ago, and just didn't enjoy the Xen part as much as the rest of the game, and quit. Then my hard drive failed, and I lost all my game saves, so if I want to beat Half Life 1, I have to start at the beginning again...

Donkey Kong 64 is the only game in the DKC series that I've collected every single item in for a perfect 100% game. I've got through them all though including the new one for Wii.

I've got old N64 games I never beat, like Donkey Kong 64 and Banjo-Kazooie, but I sold all my NES games when the NES broke. : (

Banjo-Kazooie is so much easier now that I have decent eye-hand coordination. XD

The longest time owning a game without beating it? I would have to say that would be Twisted Metal Black for PS2. I had that game for over 10 years, I got it as one of the first games for the PS2 when I was 12. Twisted Metal games are among the hardest games to beat because the computer is a cheating bastard. For those that don't know, the twisted metal series are a group of games were you use weaponized cars to compete in a tournament to the death. You have to destroy all the other cars in the tournament on ten stages, and fight the occasional boss. The enemy AI is cheap and broken, all the enemy drivers come after you, the human player, and never attack each other, even though it's supposed to be a every man for himself death match. And the enemies have unlimited missiles and other weapons, while the player has to find power-ups lying around. The game takes great coordination and precision to win, and I used to have terrible coordination. So I sucked at the game.

Recently, I decided to pick up and play the game to see if it works to blow off some steam in finals week. It did, and much to my surprise, my coordination has greatly improved, I'm still not great,but now I'm actually winning matches. I can even execute some of the energy weapon combinations like Freeze, Shield,Mine, Invisibility, and Hop with ease. Now I've completed some of the story mode with a few of the characters.

My goal isn't to beat Twisted Metal Black, my attention is on more recent games and not retro, but I did read they are releasing a new Twisted Metal for the PS3 this year, and I will be one of the first to pick it up when it is reduced in price.

I just beat Sonic 2 for the Game Gear last week for the first time. I could never find that last Chaos Emerald, but thanks to the wonders of Youtube, I was able to get it. Then it only took me a bunch of tries to beat that first level boss and get that second level Chaos Emerald, and I finally beat the game without skipping to the last level with that cheat code. So after 17 years, I did it!

I have yet to beat persona 2 for the psx(from 2000) or ff7 1997

I have yet to beat Monster Hunter freedom 2/Unite, and I've had the game or about 4 years. I'm halfway there though.

Theme Hospital. I've had it for nearly ten years and I still haven't completed it. (Yes. I did buy it when I was five!)