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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by bold_atlas@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@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.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

is that Sim Gooner?

man I loved that game.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] chocrates@piefed.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't SC2 come out like a couple years ago?

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

This is my childhood

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Ts Looks so cool, im envy 😔

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, there could be some precious RAM in those PCs!

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] arran4@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone passed away.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's some good shit!

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Man MP FEAR was so amazing. The AI was ruthless too.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Oh my god, who would throw these away?? Some of these are genuine vintage treasures!

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[–] LemmyZed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Red Alert 2 😵😭

[–] Gerald@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

Pirates!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can any of these be played as it today? I wonder if there is DRM that is obsolete.

[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] hendu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Superorbit@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

KOTOR!

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, the memories

So many LAN parties playing C&C Generals. Those were the days.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Did you buy them to eat them or did you just let them rot in the chthonis of a foidhodor?

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