Bitter sweet because I’m pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP
It’s church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff they do sell.
The others that were piled up in the bottom of the box. Some of the discs had fallen out of the cases and sleeves but they all seemed fine except for one: Half-Life GOTY disc got a few tiny fatal cracks. A lot of software and bargain bin games have been excluded.
There were two discs that go with two joysticks I have. I have a sidewinder somewhere but couldn’t bother looking for it for the pic.
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This made me sad. Hope bro is okay
Seeing this reminds me that, when I moved out on my own back in the '00s my mom held onto EVERYTHING from my 80s-90s childhood and practically hermetically sealed it in my old room, except for things I’m actually nostalgic for.
Big box pc games and cartridges? Garbage. GI Joes and Star Wars figures and Legos? Sent to spoiled baby cousin. 500 lbs of worthless nonsport trading cards and water damaged comics? Just like you left them, honey!
Mom tossed out all my early 90s legos by mistake including all my older brother original 80s sets (including the train set).
I had two or three of the big pirate ships, the pirate castle with the soldiers and glow in the dark ghost, the space shuttle+launch pad, the marina with the red crane pieces that are super rare, the fucking awesome ice planet explorer dudes with the bright orange visors and antennas.
And…fuck me…this really hurts I had almost of the the undersea explorer series, the dudes with submarines and the shiny silver knives, coolest lego sets ever made.
I think this is why I dumpster dive. I’m still looking for them.
I share your lego trauma.
Mine didnt throw away my lego, they just dumped them all into one box… then threw away the boxes and the manuals, which… to me at least, was worse. I’d have prefered if the legos had been thrown away in addition to the boxes and manuals.
and they did it while i was a kid and still actively playing with them.
I cant even remember what lego sets I had anymore, outside of like… one big set. So I cant even search for manuals online.
Erm…but the manuals are all online, though? So, I feel you, that it would be cooler with the actual manuals, but still having the bricks…is cool, I guess.
I cant even remember what lego sets I had anymore, outside of like… one big set. So I cant even search for manuals online.
I was in a kinda similar position. Browse Lego sets of that time, a lot came back to me that way.
Just reading this makes me irrationally angry. I’m sorry for your loss.
A lot of stuff happened after I left home. Ten years later came back to find my Mega Drive in a shed that had a rotted out floor and had sat in there for at least a decade of winters.
It still turns on.
When I moved out of my parents house, I couldn’t carry a bag of stuff so I left it to pick it up a few days later. Inside the bag was a Sega Genesis, my PS1, all the cables, and a bunch of games for both. I also left a plastic bag full of stuff to the local secondhand store. My mum wanted to take it to the store for me, so I made sure to tell her it’s the plastic bag, not the other bag. Well, the other bag wasn’t there a few days later. She’d gotten confused and brought the wrong bag.
Nooooo! Hopefully you made some broke kids very happy, at least.
Probably not. More likely some old nerd wanting old stuff. It was like 10 years ago, so they were practically relics. Just makes it sadder really though.
This person has gaming taste quite similar to mine
Jesus, someone wasn’t paying attention. That Paper Mario OST goes for around $450 USD
Also, RIP(most likely)
It’s a church thrift store, so your first sentence is like you’re telling on the staff to the boss.
My beta deck MTG cards went to a thrift sale.
No idea where they went after.
No I’m not salty.
When I find my 500 bitcoin thumb drive in the landfill I’ll just buy them back…
Hopefully you’ll find my thumb drive with 5 bitcoin on it while you’re at it…
Took me a second reading to understand your tone. For a second I thought you were just being an asshole. Then I read it again, and went OOOOOOHHHHH.
So for anyone who just skims things, Tikiporch isn’t being an asshole. They actually made a funny joke. Like Splinter did in the first TMNT movie. Except TikiPorch forgot to end with “HA HA HA!!! I MADE A FUNNY!!!”
Also, I want pizza now. No reason.
I’m pretty sure pizza doesn’t need this subliminal advertising, it’s amazing.
You’ve probably actually got the causality backwards: pizza ends up in art because it’s amazing.
Shaggy’s straight from the freezer slice has nothing to do with it, I assure you
And cheese is swept.
Ramen
Are you serious? There was also an original Metal Gear Solid soundtrack in it’s original cardboard case.
I only know about the Paper Mario one because I was looking for it a while back and got sticker shock. I’m not sure if the MGS soundtrack is worth anything (but I would bet that it is also pricey)
do a couple ebay searches to get an idea of what people are asking for them
There is nothing in this world at this moment that would make me happier than digging through that box, reading old ACTUAL paper game manuals, and falling back into my early 20s when gaming still felt magical.
Ah yes, as if the 2 CD PC Paper Mario box would have a manual.
That’s the soundtrack for the game. Not the game itself.
Oh, whoops. I am just used to seeing really cursed totally-legit disks.
Wings of liberty ? But it just came out like… Oh
That’s my formative years in a box right there.
our backs hurt
Name something doesn’t hurt. That would be surprising.
My heart no longer feels pain
Hello, fellow Xennial.
Willing to bet anyway
It’s Alf! And he’s back, in Pog form!
That’s a paddlin’…I mean a bingo
My pinky, cuz the diabetes has made it numb some days.
You ain’t too poor to stretch and bend, homie.
My knee hurts
Didn’t SC2 come out like a couple years ago?
It came out in July 2010, so almost exactly 2 years ago.
Check those hard drives for wallet.dat files before reformatting them…
The PC says windows vista?
See some absolute gems in there ngl
CD keys will be a problem for some of those. Were they on the paper sleeve, inside the jewel case, on a sticker in the manual? Who knows? Every publisher seems to have picked a spot at random and losing them makes old PC game collections a minefield of unplayable* discs.
* Without cracks or No-CD patches. Obligatory reminder that piracy = games preservation.
Games shared on the Archive frequently have a working CD key in their descriptions. If you’ve got a disc with no key, it’s a perfect place to check first.
I feel like if it was popular enough, a cracker exists. Complete with awesome 8 but tracker tune
Some of the older ones wouldn’t even need a crack, just a keygen or even a single printed key.
Keygens also have stolen tracker tunes.
They’re printed on the case, for StarCraft anyways
I mean StarCraft is also free
I remember buying Battlefield 2142 when it came out and owning it for years without ever playing it because I didn’t realise it needed internet to even start up the game.
We didn’t get internet in the house until years later.
C&C Generals AND Half-Life? Whoever is nostalgia baiting with this is using some high quality bait.
I owned that same Starcraft copy with the protoss on it. I remember what mall I bought the expansion at too.
Multiplayer over a 56k modem.
It was a simpler time.
Our lives were for Aiur, and so we built additional pylons.
Photon canons and patience until I roll across the map with maxed out carriers
Unrelated to StarCraft, but this triggered a memory from my childhood that I had to go research to figure out what the hell it was, so I thought I’d share.
I got to play StarCraft at a friends house, never owned it until I had a job and bought my own copy of SC2, my version of ‘StarCraft at home’ was “Battle Realms” if I got the game right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHP3xUZ6ifc&t=2793s
I’m pretty sure the Lotus Clan had some corrupting/stealing mechanic that I abused, where I could take over enemy buildings and make my own version of their units. I remember turtling against the CPU players as being incredibly satisfying when I swept over them with their own units.
Might just be every RTS game where you can abuse economy in general when facing CPU players, but rolling across the map is always fun.
It’s a boxfull of extremely fine quality bait.
At least Starcraft II with Wings of Liberty campaign is free to play now. SC2 is still going, new patches still coming out, although with a relatively small community.
I should give it a try with the graphics turned way down. When I first played, there was so much flashy stuff on the screen that I couldn’t see what mattered.
That’s how the pros play, turn down everything except textures. Personally I’m too much a glutton for FX.
