What to do with Old PC Games


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I have collected a large number of PC games over the years, starting back in the pre-Windows 95 days when the games ran in DOS. I had most of these games in their original boxes with game manuals, but as I started to run out of storage space I decided to break down the boxes and just keep the CDs and Manuals. I assume most of these games will not run on Vista and future OS's, so it almost seems like a waste of time holding onto them. I just hate thinking that some day I may want to revisit one of these games and I would have given/thrown it away. It would be awesome if I could trade in the original CD and Manual for a digital copy that I could hold onto for the foreseeable future.

What do you guys do with your old PC games? Do you just throw them away after a few years? Or do you donate/sell them?

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Give them to a friend, donate or sell them on eBay. You would get rid of that clutter while gaining some money or strengthen a relationship.

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I have a half dozen in a drawer here. Its funny to see the size of those things. Looking at my Jane's Air Superiority Collection you got charts, a manual and the disks were beautiful. They sure don't put much into packaging for PC games nowadays.

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I toss most of my old games at least the ones from the last decade. Have been playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 lately had to install 98SE in a VM box for it to work properly, but it still works a majority of the time better than Far Cry 2 which only loads when it wants to.

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A couple times a year I go through all my stuff and whatever I haven't used in a long time I donate or give away. I can't stand clutter, too many people are pack rats these days.

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I keep them archived in their original boxes.

Yes, I still have them. Yes, most of them are in mint or near-mint condition.

I built a special room in my house to store my collections: pictures, dvd's, games, etc.

:)

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I hoard all my games. They might be worth something one day.

I recently found an original Quake in good condition at a pawn shop. It was 3$, and I'm still enjoying it. Same goes for Quake 3.

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I have collected a large number of PC games over the years, starting back in the pre-Windows 95 days when the games ran in DOS. I had most of these games in their original boxes with game manuals, but as I started to run out of storage space I decided to break down the boxes and just keep the CDs and Manuals. I assume most of these games will not run on Vista and future OS's, so it almost seems like a waste of time holding onto them. I just hate thinking that some day I may want to revisit one of these games and I would have given/thrown it away. It would be awesome if I could trade in the original CD and Manual for a digital copy that I could hold onto for the foreseeable future.

What do you guys do with your old PC games? Do you just throw them away after a few years? Or do you donate/sell them?

Donate them to the underdog http://www.the-underdogs.info/

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