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In the trash at the thrift store (lemmy.world)
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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

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[โ€“] 44 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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!

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  • [โ€“] [S] 9 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Mom tossed out all my early 90s legos by mistake including all my older brother original 80s sets (including the train set).

    I had two or three of the big pirate ships, the pirate castle with the soldiers and glow in the dark ghost, the space shuttle+launch pad, the marina with the red crane pieces that are super rare, the fucking awesome ice planet explorer dudes with the bright orange visors and antennas.

    And...fuck me...this really hurts I had almost of the the undersea explorer series, the dudes with submarines and the shiny silver knives, coolest lego sets ever made.

    I think this is why I dumpster dive. I'm still looking for them.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I share your lego trauma.

    Mine didnt throw away my lego, they just dumped them all into one box.. then threw away the boxes and the manuals, which.. to me at least, was worse. I'd have prefered if the legos had been thrown away in addition to the boxes and manuals.

    and they did it while i was a kid and still actively playing with them.

    I cant even remember what lego sets I had anymore, outside of like.. one big set. So I cant even search for manuals online.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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