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. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1860493f-80f8-44e0-9a02-bf763c6224c1.jpeg

  • whereitsat@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 days ago

    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.

    • Dymonika@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 days ago

      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…

    • Isthisreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      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

    • Taldan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      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

  • Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Jesus, someone wasn’t paying attention. That Paper Mario OST goes for around $450 USD

    Also, RIP(most likely)

    • bthest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Are you serious? There was also an original Metal Gear Solid soundtrack in it’s original cardboard case.

      • Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 days ago

        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

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      It’s a church thrift store, so your first sentence is like you’re telling on the staff to the boss.

      • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
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        7 days ago

        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…

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        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.

          • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
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            7 days ago

            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.

    • hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Guild Wars: Factions can still be played, if the cd key hasn’t been added to another account.

      The Star Wars Galaxies cds can be used to get started with SWGEmu, too.

    • __hetz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      The Half Life GOTYE can probably be installed and played no problem. The CD key is probably already bound to a Steam account, otherwise that’d be another way to play it and easily have all the updates.

      Starcraft/Brood War and Warcraft are all still playable as far as I’m aware. ActiBlizz hadn’t killed off old school Battlenet last I’d checked. Private servers are also still a thing for classic blizzard games. Same goes for C&C. Private servers a’plenty. PVPGN was still the thing for Blizz games (up to a certain patch because they changed some server side stuff) and Westwood Online games. There’s also a separate project specifically for Red Alert games whose name escapes me. Also the OpenRA project.

      The last flight sim I played was Red Baron II/3D, back in the Sierra Online and MPlayer days (pre GameSpy Arcade), but I’m familiar with IL2. Been a few years since I checked in on it but it had a fairly active player base and modding community. VFWs (Virtual Fighter Wings) were a thing in that and in Microprose’s Falcon 4.0 where some players took it very seriously and were quite skilled at formation flying and such. I still have my copy of Falcon 4.0, 3 ring binder manual, map and all. Wasn’t good at it but I was always amazed at how technical it was.

      Baldur’s Gate 2 should still run. Same for the original and Icewind Dale, if they’re hiding in the box somewhere. I installed those from CD a while back and they worked fine.

      I should probably try in my Deck next. Dollars to donuts I bet they’d work - I’ve installed other games on it from CD just for shiggles. Truth be told, Linux is probably preferable for a lot of older games since a lot of work has gone into wine/proton explicitly for compatibility. A lot of really old Windows games, that are unplayable on Windows today, run amazing on Linux.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Aw, man I played the heck out of F.E.A.R. It was a great scary game, and the online multiplayer with all the modded maps was great. Wish the 2142 servers were still up. There was an attempt by a group to get the game running without EA’s servers, I tried to get it running but it didn’t work for me.

    • bthest@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Thrift stores won’t even set them out anymore. They go straight to ebay.

      Look for the ones that are run by a church or charity. They’re less greedy and profit motivated. They get tons of retro professional music equipment from churches updating their media stuff.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        8 days ago

        They go straight to ebay.

        This annoys me so much. Our culture became a weird mix of nostalgia-hoardy and desperation to make a quick buck because most jobs are next to worthless anymore.

        Everything became a speculative scarcity-obsessed stock market good, and it sucks.

        That’s one thing I enjoy about digital stuff: All you need is one good hard copy in existence, and somebody can replicate and archive it for generations to come. “Piracy” really is preservation in this case.

        • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          7 days ago

          It’s always been my dream to stumble on a beaten up 1200 turntable or a fixer upper Moog at a charity shop, but I think miracles like that stopped happening once all the normy resellers could just scan all the electronics with their phone and snatch up the good stuff.

          • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            7 days ago

            Don’t lose faith. I saw the turntable last December as it was being paid for. I was there minutes too late, but apparently it had been on the sales floor for weeks.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I had that chassis on a dell xps 420 way back when. Interesting internal design.

    some banger games there too

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        It had a tool-less door but a reversed internal layout, you open the right side panel (when looking from the front of the system)

        there were tool-less releases for the HDD bays and disk drives, and it featured full-length brackets for add-in cards, with a sort of locking mechanism clamping over.

        It also had this weird display on the top. you could play solitaire on it if you wanted.

        bizarre little thing.

        • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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          8 days ago

          It had a tool-less door but a reversed internal layout

          same as a few dimensions we still have sitting around here… they’re “BTX”, the failed successor to ATX form factor… it had some neat ideas, but would need a little tweaking if it were to support a ‘modern’ pc platform today.

        • rmtworks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          It was called Windows SideShow I think. I’ve been eyeing an XPS 420 because I’ve never had a system with one before.