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.
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This person has gaming taste quite similar to mine
Wings of liberty ? But it just came out like… Oh
See some absolute gems in there ngl
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
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.
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.
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
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
Who shit in your cereal this morning?
Oh, the memories
So many LAN parties playing C&C Generals. Those were the days.
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!
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.
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.
I recently bought a new joystick just to play IL-2 Sturmovik and I-War. A great haul, congrats.
Red Alert 2 😵😭
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.
KOTOR!
