our backs hurt

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.

It's a church thrift store, so your first sentence is like you're telling on the staff to the boss.

Are you serious? There was also an original Metal Gear Solid soundtrack in it's original cardboard case.

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

They're printed on the case, for StarCraft anyways

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.

The PC says windows vista?

Just reading this makes me irrationally angry. I'm sorry for your loss.

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.

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.

Most likely that's the "sweet" in bittersweet.

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.

It's a boxfull of extremely fine quality bait.

Heck yeah! I still read my game manuals. Its enjoyable and teaches you some secrets. And the backstorues are fun. Its like reading album liner notes. Yet another art gone forever.

Ah yes, as if the 2 CD PC Paper Mario box would have a manual.

With the PC to play it it seems.

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.

Well that's your problem, you should be looking in the thrift store trash

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?

Same. Are you around 35 years old? :D

Seriously, there's nothing in the photo that isn't like a total banger. Dude had good taste.

Was that one of them where the side kinda swiveled open?

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...

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.

Any Sim game is a gooner game with enough mods and elbow grease.

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.