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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I have spent an embarrassing amount of time playing Syd Meier’s Pirates in my day, and I regret nothing!
recently bought it again on gog. its great fun.
but i guess i am a sucker for pirate and sailing games. in assassins creed black flag, i spent a great amount of time just sailing, listening to shanties…
This is my childhood
Yeah, that’s someone’s personal collection right there.
That’s some good shit!
Is there any mention of an official guide for SimGolf? I have not found anything.
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…
And cheese is swept.
Ramen
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
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
Damn, there could be some precious RAM in those PCs!
Did you buy them to eat them or did you just let them rot in the chthonis of a foidhodor?
Ts Looks so cool, im envy 😔
Wow a bunch of likely unusable junk.
Jeez, this looks nearly identical to my personal collection that I still own. The heck?
Seriously, there’s nothing in the photo that isn’t like a total banger. Dude had good taste.
If it’s like the similar box I still own, it’s a combo of:
I was near broke back then and agonised over most purchases, so natural selection favored the “best games”, and I only kept the boxes/manuals for the best of those during various moves and storage purges. (I even have some older titles, like wasteland, and the Ultima series)
I think most of what I’ve got are things I uh…borrowed and never returned from my brother, friends, and brother in law or copies that were made at LAN parties. Or saved from said brother/brother in law/friends when they were looking to get rid of them.
As the older brother, I have lost many items to the void of my younger siblings. I had to pave the way, lol.
Thankfully my parents were divorced and I could hide the good stuff at my single moms house. ;)
So I still have the stuff I was too selfish to let them loose/break/keep forever.
See, I had to take em so the older sibling couldn’t get rid of them lol like when he sold his entire Star Wars collection of figures and ships and creatures. I kept the AT-AT and Rancor since those were my favorite and I refused to let him sell them for pennies on the dollar.
Lol. I lost my ATAT when I joined the Army at and my mom gave it to my cousin when she decided to move before I got back. He, of course, broke it.
Otherwise it would be downstairs with my 1982 MOBAT (Gi Joe Motorized Battle Tank.)
It was too big to make it in the box with my other stuff sadly.
Damn, that’s heartbreaking.
Same. Are you around 35 years old? :D
when was the last time that you checked that box in the back corner of the closet in the guest bedroom that your parents stay in?
I’ve checked…still there 😛
Take the box, burn the store
It’s not your fault they didn’t conduct additional pylons.
Baby Jesus is mad that the Gordon Freeman and Jimmy Raynor demons made you want to do evil deeds.
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
All the games that had a case or a sleeve/insert had the codes on them. I know some of them won’t work if they’ve been registered before.
I’ve never found any cool retro tech at a thrift store 🥲. Nice score
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.
I have seen 1980’s Technics turntables in church thrift stores.
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.
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.
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.
Well that’s your problem, you should be looking in the thrift store trash
You mean was in the trash and now with you, right? Right?
Most likely that’s the “sweet” in bittersweet.
