Thread 712419868

What game did you purchase in 1998 that you still own?

I still have Atari games.
Somewhere.
It's probably with my mom's friend's prosthetic arm. In one of those boxes in the garage.

>>712419868 (OP)
All of them.
Freespace, need for speed, rainbow six, swat, tomb raider the list goes on. What's your point?

>>712419868 (OP)
>/v/
>being alive in 1998

>>712419868 (OP)
>steam
>own
lol

I was a baby in diapers in 1998

I was 4 years old and just watched my dad play games

My family and all our neighbors were poorfags who pirated everything. Our PCs were also outdated and we were stuck playing pre-97 MS-DOS games.

>>712419868 (OP)
I still have my Megadrive games from the early 1990s in a drawer. Shame my Megadrive no longer works, I recently hooked it up to play some Golden Axe 2 and it's dead.

Pokemon yellow. Can't save anymore but I still have my cartridge

>>712420450
this, i remember watching my dad play link to the past and square enix games a lot

Star Wars Episode I : The Phantom Menace for PC.

>>712419868 (OP)
Still have all my N64 stuff.

>>712419868 (OP)
I was born that year

ive still got a few mega drive games. sonic 1-3, toejam and earl, BOB. i would have altered beast still if FUCKING THOMAS didnt steal it

>>712419868 (OP)
Probably still got some gameboy cartridges around, but being a retard and a piece of shit I never took care of my things growing up, most my games are just gone

>>712420301
>mom's friend's prosthetic
Go on, tell us

>>712419868 (OP)
I was born in 2006 mashallah

>>712419868 (OP)
I used to spend my pocket money on games, I had hundreds (they only used to be around £5 back in the 90s) when I left home my dad decided they were just old toys and threw them all in the bin, along with all the consoles.

Still have the doom floppy somewhere and an aoe1 disk that broke inside the drive.

>>712419868 (OP)
98? Let me think.

Resident Evil 2. Starcraft.

I technically did buy it, I have a burned copy of the unreleased PS1 game Thrill Kill. It's the version they sent out to magazines to review. It's a free-for all 3D fighting game where like gimps, sadists, and dominatrices beat each other to death. It got cancelled, then repurposed into Wu-Tang Clan shaolin style or some shit.

>>712419868 (OP)
I wasn't even born then old timer.

>>712419868 (OP)
i just pirated all of my games until about 2012 or 2013 when i bought Morrowind on Steam so that'd be the game I've properly owned for the longest

>>712422374
Boring. Sounds weirder than it is. I guess.
>Be like.. 9
>Mom is having a dear friend over, old high school buddy she always stayed in touch with
>Mom and dad sit me down
>"Okay. Our friend is coming. She only has one arm though. Dont stare or make it weird, kay?"
>Nod
>Later that day hear the doorbell
>They all say their hellos and go outside in the back for beer and cigarettes
>Eventually get the balls to come downstairs
>Lean out the Arcadia door
>Just some lady
>With two arms
>She says hello
>I make it weird with "Mom said you only had one arm."
>She waves at me with her fake arm and opens and closes it
>Very simple motorized that just opens and closes
>"Is it strong?"
>Mom and dad trying to chase me off by now
>She picks up a beer can and crushes it like a fucking trash compactor. Like crushes the rim so the top bent in half
>WOAH COOL
>She eventually tells my parents to relax. She's happy to show it off.
>Takes the arm off, she has an elbow and nub
>She shows me the contacts and shows me how it works
>"THAT IS SO COOL"
>Well, fast forward about a year and get a big box in the mail
>Its her arm, 2 batteries, a charger, and a very sweet note explaining she got a new better arm and thought I'd like the old one
For years I had it clamped on the edge of my shelf sticking out all weird. I packed it up when I moved out and its just been in the box since. So I just have a spare arm I guess.

>>712424667
Damn that's very cool

>>712425402
Now all I need is a prosthetic leg so I have a set. I do feel bad that the first thing I ever said to the woman was "Mom said you only had one arm." but whatever. She's a dear family friend. The party animal that is the only person that can convince my mom to get up to some mischief. We all love her.
The letter was sweet too. I'll dig it out tomorrow. I want to read it again. The long and short of it was she thought it was neat that I thought it was so neat. People always give her a little pity or condolences about her arm but I never did any such thing. I was just curious and never weirded out about it like so many are. Just encouraged me to stay curious and willing to learn and accept people. Disgustingly sweet but she's always been sugary sweet to me. And would always crush cans for my amusement.

>>712419868 (OP)
Resident Evil Director's Cut
by chance I played it during its actual timeline, July 98. blew my mind when I realised it. still have it, last played three years ago on my fat ps2. good times.

>>712420390
>1998
>steam
lol

>>712419868 (OP)
>What game did you purchase
Not a single one.

>in 1998
Was in balls.

>>712424667
>>712426297
She sounds like a great person

Quake 2
Need for Speed 3

>>712426558
>Was in balls.
and now my balls are in your mouth. funny how things turn out huh anon?

>>712420342
I was 13 years old back then

>>712426297
Did you ask your parents how she lost it? Also you should probably send her a msg or something, get in touch if you haven't in a while, I'm sure she'll appreciate it.

>>712419868 (OP)
wasn't born yet, but bro dude I do remember these haflife cs silent hill, feels damn good to be aging millenial amireite?

>>712427649
She was just born that way. Never had an arm.
She passed away about two years ago now. I'll have to catch up to her in the next one.

>>712428407
Oh, I'm sorry about that anon.

>>712428594
Thanks. It is a bummer but its how these things go. Not that im trying to be blasé or anything. Just I've got nothing but great memories of that woman. Five bucks says she refused a real arm at the gates.