Gems you find while cleaning house
Monday, August 11th, 2008 - 9:19pm
As I've mentioned before, I've been helping my folks clean up their upstairs in anticipation of replacing the carpet. This second wave includes my old bedroom and low and behold, I found three jewel cases containing treasures I thought lost for good. They were Mechwarrior 2, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and the soundtrack to The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Find something you thought you lost while doing a little [insert season] cleaning?
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
Found my old grey GB and a bunch of my GB games including Link's Awakening and Kirby's Dream Land.
...I also found Mortal Kombat II for the GB, but I doubt I'll play that ever again
Ironically, my dad kept asking if I had found a GB somewhere because he found this big bag of accessories for it. Alas, no dice.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
"If ads put your sanity to the test
come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
how rock can be commercial-free!
'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
I find my long-lost Baldur's Gate 1 disks while cleaning out a box of old papers and magazines.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Road Rash for Sega Genesis. I wish I could pay it.
Xbox Live: Nei HD | Playstation ID: Nei_GWJ
Last fall I found my old Sega Game Gear up in the parents' attic with Columns, Batman Returns, Psychic World, and Shinobi. Ahh, memories.
ArrMatey - BM Hunter
Actually, I was digging through some stuff in the basement looking for Divine Divinity this weekend and came across a some things I had thought were lost:
Crusader: No Remorse (can't install it though - damn Origin and their effed up memory management schemes)
Warcraft 2
Imperialism
Emperor of the Fading Suns
Quakes 1 and 2
Alien Love Gardener wrote:
Steam ID: tboon
Heh, I never even got that game to run the first time around. Screenshots looked nice on the back of the box though.
ArrMatey - BM Hunter
Huh, it worked for me in DosBox. That game was awesome.
I'm like a flashing lightning and a rolling thunder, I'm like a stepping razor
Yeah, I've got Crusader set up in DosBox. I haven't finished it yet though. I don't know if there's been any updates lately to DosBox, but when I was playing, it wasn't quite able to run at full speed. The slowness was just a tad off-putting.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Yeah it sure was. I just tried to install on XP, in the off hope that it would actually work, but the installer crashes with a GPF. DOSBox next (remember when jacking around with autoexec.bat and config.sys was FUN? {shiver}).
I must admit, though, that I'm a little afraid to install and play it. I mean what if it really sucks and I just remember that it was awesome? What if it was awesome for 1995 (or whenever it was released) but it hasn't aged well? Sometimes going back to old games you really enjoyed is just a sad experience in how much things have changed and how faulty your memory is.
Oh well, now that I've found it again, I guess I'll fire it up and see.
Alien Love Gardener wrote:
Steam ID: tboon
Yeah I keep trying to reload privateer and recapture the experience when I first played but just cant seem to. A lot has changed in a decade and a half....
I found a server in our garage.
*Legion* wrote:
PSN: BoogleGWJ
I'm having a vision of some bum sifting through your garbage, finding a server, and then setting it up in some back alley somewhere.
Once found my old DOS game The Terminator. A great game for its time taking a whopping 2 floppy disks to install! I was really excited until it didn't work. Too close to a magnet all those years maybe.
bnpederson wrote:
Suikoden and Lunar while looking through a box of really old cd's. Now I might just have to get a PS3 to play them again.
"The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train." - Robert Lowell
"Boy exchange is a fun pain in the ass." - LiquidMantis
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I don't clean, as all it tends to unearth are regrets and broken dreams.
/emo
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Oh look, Moonbase Commander. I remember that little gem. Let's see if it runs on a modern computer. (next 5 hours disappear, the rest of the closet remains a mess)
I recently found an old PS1 copy of the Area 51 arcade game. I don't have a light gun that works with it (my backward compatible light gun died last year), but I still have the disc.
Man, that was an awesome game.
L337 is not a word. BA7F is a word.
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I found a screenshot of my first duel in WoW while tidying up my 'pics' folder.
... herald of Piggledy 'Destroyer of Worlds'
Good, now I have to go and install it. And here I thought that that little addiction is done for.
I recently found out that I forgot Castlevania Circle of the Moon in my old DS, buried under piles of games (I now use DS Lite, I lend the old phat one to my girlfriend for Texas Hold Em multiplayer). Three hours later, I was still playing.
You can't take the sky from me.
In a way, Crusader not installing on XP and requiring me to actually do some planning and work to install it was a good thing. At least I was able to (mis)use that time in other ways...
Alien Love Gardener wrote:
Steam ID: tboon
This concept of "cleaning house" intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Duoae wrote:
merphle wrote:
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I found my old SNES carts of Earth Bound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy II&III, Lufia 1 and Lufia 2, Shadowrun, Super Mario RPG, and the greatest game of all time, Cool Spot.
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988