23rd October 2013, 8:42 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Well sorry for our computer company not giving us Sam & Max too... that's where we got MM: DOTT and Indy Fate from (as well as Rebel Assualt). And with two LA adventure games I didn't see much need to buy a third then...
On the subject of missing games (not sold, lost). I know I've mentioned it before, becuase it happened a couple of years ago, but I'm still really annoyed that I managed to lose six games, presumably all at the same time (since all were in the same place in paper sleeves, not the plastic cases...)
Indy Fate I really miss (I never finished it! Hard...). MechCommander Gold I beat and hadn't played in a while so that's not quite as bad (though it'd be nice to still be able to play the fun multiplayer mode and I never beat the expansion (included on the Gold disc), so I do wish I hadn't lost it...). Worms Armageddon I don't mind so much because I still have the very similar Worms 2 (you really only need one of Worms 2/Armageddon/World Party, they're nearly identical...). Death Rally I beat but it'd still be great to have because it's a very fun racer. Incoming was a fun, if simplistic, action/flying game. Sure, it runs too fast on my computer and wasn't the greatest game ever made, but it's fun once in a while and I was hoping that someday I might actually finish the thing... Ultim@te Race Pro is an okay racing game. But it has only four tracks ("sixteen" with the weather effects, mirror, and reverse modes), has no campaign (only single races here...), and won't run at all on my computer, so this one I minded losing least. Fun arcade racing, but there's not much there... and it doesn't work on my PC anyway
So yeah, today, I was at my moms' for a while (had an appointment, watched the Red Sox game with them, they won it... :) )... and while I was there... I noticed that she'd FOUND THESE MISSING GAMES! Yes, they hadn't been lost at college, as I'd been assuming for over a decade now (those games vanished some time during the '02-'03 school year). Instead, they were in a box under my moms' computer desk. Now, note: I think she bought the house in '04, so that box has to have been moved there without anyone looking in it, I think. I could be wrong about that, but still, it proves that no one had looked in that box in a decade... Anyway, the box had these papersleeve games, a couple of programs (Encarta '95, MS Works, Windows 3.11 + DOS 6.22, Canon Creative...), and a bunch of random scraps of paper (for use as scrap paper). Yeah.
Now, I know I definitely did not put those games in that box. I first noticed them missing at college and thought they'd vanished there. Well, apparently not! No one has any idea how they ended up in that box, though. It's quite the mystery. So yeah, crazily enough, I now have all of these missing games again. And they are all there, in their original sleeves: Micro Machines 2, Death Rally, Incoming, Ultim@te Race Pro, MechCommander Gold, Civilization II Gold Multiplayer Edition, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Worms Armageddon. Plus as I said I took that DOS 6.22+Win 3.11 disc. Amazing, just amazing.
Of those games, I repurchased Indy & the Fate of Atlantis a couple of years ago (digital download), because it's awesome. Incoming I bought on GOG with Incoming Forces (its sequel) also included this year I believe, though I mostly got it for the first game. I have another copy of the Civ II MGE, I believe... I think this copy (from a 4-pack of strategy games) was a double. Worms Armageddon, Death Rally, and MechCommander Gold, though, I haven't played since losing these discs. Ultim@te Race Pro and Micro Machines 2 I downloaded a while back in order to play them again, but it's really, REALLHY awesome to have the actual discs again! So, so cool...
And plus, the Red Sox won too, and my glasses were fixed. So yeah, it was a very good day. They only way it could have been better would be if that box of floppy disk games had been there too... ah well. At least I can play all of those games even without the discs, since I have them installed... that was not the case for most of these games! So yeah, in many ways this was better than finding that. Amazing. I never, ever thought I would see these discs again. I guess that's what you get when someone does a once-in-a-decade-level cleaning? :)