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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That’s my formative years in a box right there.
Formative years come with micro transactions and subscription paywalls now. Single player games that require internet. And games that shut down when the corporation deems it unprofitable.
Wow how it must suck to be a 20s kid.
our backs hurt
Name something doesn’t hurt. That would be surprising.
My pinky, cuz the diabetes has made it numb some days.
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 knee hurts
You ain’t too poor to stretch and bend, homie.
But at least we had fun
Yeah, that’s someone’s personal collection right there.
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)
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.
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
You mean was in the trash and now with you, right? Right?
Most likely that’s the “sweet” in bittersweet.
I’ve never found any cool retro tech at a thrift store 🥲. Nice score
Well that’s your problem, you should be looking in the thrift store trash
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.
That’s some good shit!
I had that chassis on a dell xps 420 way back when. Interesting internal design.
some banger games there too
Was that one of them where the side kinda swiveled open?
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.
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.
It was called Windows SideShow I think. I’ve been eyeing an XPS 420 because I’ve never had a system with one before.
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.
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 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.
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.
They’re printed on the case, for StarCraft anyways
I mean StarCraft is also free
This has got to be nostalgia bait 😭
Can any of these be played as it today? I wonder if there is DRM that is obsolete.
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.
no way. I thought all the GW servers had been shutdown.
Its in active development. We got a content update last month
And playable on Steam Deck and mobile too!
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.
is that Sim Gooner?
man I loved that game.
Any Sim game is a gooner game with enough mods and elbow grease.
is elbow grease more lubricating than cankle creame?
Someone passed away.
Idk maybe jail? Hopefully because they wouldn’t give law enforcement private BTC keys they memorized hiding money they earned scamming white collar criminals and megachurch pastors and selling shrooms on the darknet?
This makes me wish we had more church/charity thrifts in my area. The only one we have is where I got a DSi, a copy of Rollercoaster Tycoon and an expansion, and my copy of Oblivion GOTY. And, as far as I am aware, the rounding up to donate to Christian education isn’t going towards controversial things, so I don’t mind shopping there.
If you are looking for better deals, these types of places are better… until they either get bought out or some big yt thrift reseller finds the place and suddenly it’s always full of people buying out everything in order to make a profit.
Check those hard drives for wallet.dat files before reformatting them…
The PC says windows vista?
