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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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 😵😭
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.
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.
KOTOR!
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.
Damn, there could be some precious RAM in those PCs!
Take the box, burn the store
EDIT: I actually skimmed over the fact that its run by the church, but someone apparently already took offense and downvoted me 🤣
It’s not your fault they didn’t construct additional pylons.
Baby Jesus is mad that the Gordon Freeman and Jimmy Raynor demons made you want to do evil deeds.
Ts Looks so cool, im envy 😔
Check those hard drives for wallet.dat files before reformatting them…
The PC says windows vista?
Rip. Probably some really valuable stuff in there. Take it all.
With the PC to play it it seems.
Jesus, someone wasn’t paying attention. That Paper Mario OST goes for around $450 USD
Also, RIP(most likely)
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
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.
Shaggy’s straight from the freezer slice has nothing to do with it, I assure you
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.
C&C Generals AND Half-Life? Whoever is nostalgia baiting with this is using some high quality bait.
It’s a boxfull of extremely fine 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
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.
My knee hurts
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
