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
Didn’t SC2 come out like a couple years ago?
It came out in July 2010, so almost exactly 2 years ago.
This person has gaming taste quite similar to mine
all that stuff IS trash. abandonware websites have been around since the late 90s. preservation is a cool ideal. i mean, collecting cartridges from retro systems is a just hobby because there’s historical value in the games as physical objects and because you need the system to play them.
PC games? not so much, unless you’re considering them as a complete product with the box and instruction manual and all that. those CD’s aren’t even going to work on a modern computer; you’ll have to fiddle with dosbox or some emulator; so why not just have a digital copy?
this isn’t preservation–it’s mental illness justified with ideas of preservation; most of this haul are trash-worthy CD-R’s with official artwork and a case.
there’s historical value in the games as physical objects
I don’t understand; does this suddenly become untrue just because they are accessible by other means? Especially with what Sony’s been trying to pull as of late…
Bro, you actually went through the effort to type and hit send on this. Maybe try to sit back and relax, not all things need your commentary
Who shit in your cereal this morning?
I can confirm starcraft still works on my computer without emulation
You should talk less about things you know little about. You seem smarter that way
What a shit take
Wings of liberty ? But it just came out like… Oh
Pirates! <my heart melts>
Oh my god, who would throw these away?? Some of these are genuine vintage treasures!
I sincerely hope its a mean spirited wife or child, rather than a clueless widow/orphan.
Inb4 sexism
Wouldn’t it be better the other way around?
Yeah i guess death is preferable my bad
Oh, the memories
So many LAN parties playing C&C Generals. Those were the days.
Removed by mod
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.
Red Alert 2 😵😭
KOTOR!
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 jump 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.
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.
Just reading this makes me irrationally angry. I’m sorry for your loss.
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.
