Video Game "Look what I found"

[RCBH928]

I found a boxed Doom II on floppies yesterday. Sadly had I been there thirty minutes earlier I would have been able to get Doom I and Wolf3d at the same time.

Sweet. I came across the CDRom version boxed (For DOS and Windows 95!) a while back. I had only played it on a roomate's PC and then off the Quake disc back in the day, so it was a fun find to have a boxed one.

Do floppies still work? I always had this idea that they won't last long because of their flimsy built.

How many discs was Quake?

[isiolia]

Do floppies still work? I always had this idea that they won't last long because of their flimsy built.

How many discs was Quake?

They aren't exactly the most durable storage medium, but plenty of them still work.

Far as I know, Quake was never distributed at retail on disks. The download is available as 7 disk images (or one single zip file), so the shareware could have been passed around like that, and then registered. The only retail copies I've seen are on a single CD, which has the added benefit of a redbook CD soundtrack (by Nine Inch Nails), and a level editor.

[CRTGAMER]

Do floppies still work? I always had this idea that they won't last long because of their flimsy built.

How many discs was Quake?

They aren't exactly the most durable storage medium, but plenty of them still work.

Far as I know, Quake was never distributed at retail on disks. The download is available as 7 disk images (or one single zip file), so the shareware could have been passed around like that, and then registered. The only retail copies I've seen are on a single CD, which has the added benefit of a redbook CD soundtrack (by Nine Inch Nails), and a level editor.

Same here only seen the CD version. I have 5 1/4" Floppy Disks from the 80s for the Commodore 64 that still load just fine. Though not as durable as CDRs, stored correctly they should outlive you.

[aaron]

i had always heard that magnetic media like that can "de-magnetize" over time. is that true?

[BoneSnapDeez]

I collect Commodore and Tandy games. I have some PC floppies too.

Every floppy that worked when I obtained it still works.

Every dead floppy I've ever tried to load was DOA and I always heard the same story from the previous owner: "oh yeah all this stuff was in a basement/attic/shed for 15 years..."

Temperature fluctuations and humidity will murder floppies.

[vatermuzik]

Haha I passed but it had a Nintendo sleeve so I thought about paying $2 just for that. I think I have a problem because I was legitimately pissy for a good half hour after that knowing that in all likelihood someone beat me to some NES carts. Sucks when you stop by and waste your time so many days waiting for that ONE time when they have something worth buying. I'd say I find something there once every 3 months on average and I'm talking ANYthing worth taking home.

I know this feeling. Showing up at the same place time after time and finding nothing but scraps. Then one day you walk in and notice some new NES carts on the rack; the excitement of possibly finding something good hits you.....until you realize the carts are Play Action Football, Sesame Street and Mario/Duck Hunt. The realization that everything's been picked through, probably multiple times over, hits you. You leave the store with nothing, yet again.

I actually had to stop going to a couple of Value Village stores because of this exact scenario. It's like, if you can't get there first thing in the morning when they open, there's almost no reason to show up at all.

Oh well. Bring on the garage sales!

[KalessinDB]

Too lazy/tired for pics, so this is a "Listen to what I found" rather than a "Look what I found" but man... just when I had given up hope on Craigslist.

Last night I'm sitting in the break room at work, about 11:30, waiting for my shift to start at "midnight" (I always go in a few minutes early, most people do, it's just customary). I see a lot posted at 11pm. "Vintage Video Games - $75" I click into it out of morbid curiosity, expecting the normal "Here's an NES and ALL CORDS, plus THREE GREAT GAMES (SMB/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet), and the **HARD TO FIND ORIGINAL GUN*** (gray zapper)". BOY WAS I WRONG.

Dude's got 2 4-switch 2600's, 5 joysticks, spinner, masssssive pile of games, a Genesis 1, 2 (shitty aftermarket) controllers, 2 (visually at least semi-decent) arcade sticks, an EA 4-player adapter, a 32x, a bunch of games for both Sega systems including Knuckles Chaotix... I IMMEDIATELY email "I'll take it" without even trying to haggle a couple bucks down. Head over to meet him at work at 8am when I get out of work, get my grubby little hands on it and drive home cackling happily.

Have yet to see which 2600 games are new to my collection and which are trade fodder, and to be honest most of the labels on the 2600 games are very rough, but I don't even care. The 32x/Genesis games are in nice shape, albeit cart only. I did a rough estimate of just the cartridges based on vgpc -- I know it's not the be-all end-all, but it's a good starting point -- and came up with approximately $325 worth of software, not even including the 4 systems and various controllers.

For those of you curious about the entire software haul, see below the spoiler

32x
Doom
Knuckles’ Chaotix
Shadow Squadron
Star Wars Arcade
Virtua Racing Deluxe

Genesis
Clue
Ecco the Tides of Time
Eternal Champions
Frogger
Genesis 6-Pak
Mortal Kombat 3
Sonic 1 NFR
Ren and Stimpy - Stimpy’s Invention
Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Virtua Fighter 2

Atari
Adventure
Asteroids x2
Atlantis x2
Barnstorming
Berzerk x2
Blueprint
Breakout
Centipede
Combat x2
Commando Raid
Defender x2
Demon Attack
Donkey Kong x2
ET
Freeway x2
Frogger x2
Frogs and Flies
Galaxian
Golf
Joust
Jungle Hunt
Kaboom!
Kangaroo
Laser Gates
Missile Command x2
Moonsweeper x2
Mouse Trap
Ms Pac-Man
Oscar’s Trash Race
Othello x2
Outlaw
Pac-Man x2
Phoenix x2
Pitfall
Pole Position
Q*bert
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Realsports Baseball
Realsports Football
Riddle of the Sphinx
Seaquest
Space Invaders
Star Raiders
Trick Shot
Vanguard x3
Video Olympics
Video Pinball
Warlords
Word Zapper
Yars Revenge

[Jmustang1968]

Well the lady who sold me all the snes/n64/gb boxes texted me again today and said she had 2 bins of magazines and guides to pick up if I wanted them. I picked them up last night and there was a nice collection of guides in there as well as a bag with 2 Gamecube system boxes.

In the bin were
- a few shounen jump and newtype mags
- some white dwarf mags and a few games workshop books
- 20-25 Game Informers from the late 2000s
- 15-20 Star Wars Insider mags from the late 90s
- 30-40 strategy guides, mostly nintendo games. But some I can remember right now include FFIX, FFVII, DKC1&2, Earthbound, Diablo II, 8-10 pokemon guides from various entries, Breath of Fire IV and so on.

Some of the guides are in a bit rough condition and most have seen some use.

I think I will trash the GIs, SW Insiders, and newtypes unless someone wants to save them.

[fastbilly1]

I think I will trash the GIs, SW Insiders, and newtypes unless someone wants to save them.

Recycle them if you can, many places will take magazines in the newspaper dumpster.

For those looking for a Wii arcade stick, or an arcade stick that can be converted to USB (either by adapter or rewire). Madcatz has the Wiiu Tekken Tag Tournament 2 stick for sale on their site for $50 (mine was $62 after shipping). This is an all Sanwa 8 button layout, styled after the Noir cab. It came out at $160, so $110 off two years down the road is a good deal by me.



I wish I could get four of them, but my Hori Wii sticks still have alot of life left in them.

[Jmustang1968]

I think I will trash the GIs, SW Insiders, and newtypes unless someone wants to save them.

Recycle them if you can, many places will take magazines in the newspaper dumpster.

Hopefully this doesn't make me come off as too much of a prick, but my trash can is right outside my door... I know of no such newspaper dumpster...