My friend back in the 90's he had a good job, he was older had left school, and he bought pretty much EVERY PC game worth buying. We'd drive down to the town and he'd grab 2-3 games a week. One time, that was System Shock 2. And even though my friend was older, and a big guy, he was TERRIFIED of horror things. Movies, games, etc. He was like a kid in that way. He had a Pentium 2 400 and a pair of VooDoo 2's, his rig wasn't the issue with SS2. It was the wrench wielding zombies that were the problem. So he played the first 20 minutes or so before quitting the game and uninstalling it. Made some excuse about "don't like the controls..." or something. But I knew he was scared. So I borrowed the game and he let me keep it. Big box version. Still got it! Amazing game! ANYWAYS fast forward about 8 years and, once everything had migrated to STEAM etc, my friend called me and asked if I wanted ALL his old games, all those games he'd bought over the years, on floppy and CD etc because he was gonna throw in the trash. HE HAD ALREADY thrown some in the trash! Unfortunately! But I got pretty much his entire collection. Some classics in there, from 1994 - 2001.
Who man, what a story 😲 I think you should appreciate your friend giving all of his things to you :) And hope by now your friend conquered the fear of ghastly and horrory things :P
@@as1ren Thing is man, I TOLD him on the phone that many of them were worth money. See he has a great job and plenty of money, so to him it's not something he'd considered. To him they were relics of 15 years ago taking up room in his wall cupboard. But I told him "Sell them on eBay! Many are worth money! Make something back!" but he didn't seem bothered. He just said come and get them. And no, he's still a pussycat at heart. But he had a daughter and that kind of mellowed him out.
@@TheVanillatech Interesting that he didn't hold even any emotional connection to those games :D I mean for me its a kind of nostalgic thing and I just love to see those big boxes on my shelf :) But yeah I guess time changes many things and so can change the perspective of the value of the material things you once deemed in high praise and value :) Haha, well he's got a daughter now and that must be his most precious thing :)
@@as1ren Yeah having that kid changed him (for the better). He became a real family man, I think it was all he ever wanted. Plus he was always one for the latest thing. He'd buy a top end PC (prebuilt) for £2500-£3000, I mean a monster every time, pretty much top end everything. Then he'd keep it for a few years and the second a game jittered or jerked, usually 2-3 years or so, he's sell it to his brother and buy a new one again. He didn't play "old" games, like I did. He always wanted the latest games, the latest hardware etc. Also by then, he'd bought the newly released Playstation and was getting into console games in the living room as well as playing on PC upstairs in his spare room. But I was also surprised that he'd thought of me and offered me the games. I'm sure he meant it as me having an ability to PLAY those games, even though I'd already downloaded pretty much every game in existance on every platform from the web. For me it was nice to own them, all immaculate condition, and I displayed them around my PC for a while. But they've spent the last decade (almost) in boxes in the entrance hall near my tools! XD
@@TheVanillatech Well hearing that, your friend really must have had a LOT of financial assets to be able to afford all that latest tech :) I never had the opportunity, nor my family's support to have those things. I received a ps2 with one game, and that was all. I can afford the games only now that I am an adult, those which I could not have as a kid and wanted them to play :) Other then that, I am glad that your friend found the happiness of his life and you got a good share of his childhood games, so both happy in the end :) ps. at least put those big boxes on a shelf or somewhere for display :p
I still own 7 boxed games: Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Deus Ex, The curse of Monkey Island, Warcraft 3, Myst 3, Sid Meier's Civilization 3. And I still regret having thrown away in those days GP3, Commandos, Pharaoh, Starcraft and Warcraft 2
