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uncluttering
Feb. 26th, 2009 07:42 amI usually have a good handle on my "stuff" collection... but it's been gettin' to me lately again. I've got inspiration to start going through it, thanks to a friend who has been doing an anonymous blog for a while. (I sat down and read it in its entirety while xp grinding Digimon on my DS, which I tell you what, worked out great for a multitasking project. I would have died of boredom just running chars around on the screen since I have already done a ton of that anyways. And I got to catch up on a good chunk of someone's blogging life. ^^ ) But hmm, where to start? Quite a bit of my life-hoard is already picked pretty darn clean.
Ironically, one thing I have a lot of is software. Yeah, I'm pretty much down to just the actual CDROMs for a fair share of it, but even that I don't need. For instance... Interplay's Tempest 2000. I think I got this in one of those bundle packs because I wanted Battle Chess. There's some kind of Star Trek game in here too, if I can find it. I "always meant to play them" but never did, and I know better than to imagine I actually will now. The copyright date on Tempest is 1997.
How many copies of the EverQuest software do I have? And how many do I actually need? None. Because if I ever play it again (which I swore for the last time I wouldn't some time ago)... I'd just pay $20 for the all-current-expansions set-of-the-day anyways. Check it out, I still have my original disk from when the game came out. Copyright 1998. Back when 989 Studios was actually associated with the project. I think the only reason I've actually kept this crap is because I know how much I paid for it. The original game was $55 with the strategy guide. Four full expansions at around that price each... and the last set-of-the-day I picked up a couple years ago. Or was that five... *looks at the copyright date* Heh. The base game plus seven expansions for $20... and one of those, I never even played any of the content. Adios.
Final Fantasy XI from the first time I played it. *chuck* ...Various demo disks I'm never gonna play again. 1997. 1998. 1999. (Hahaha Carmageddon II, yeah that was fun... Final Fantasy VII, I have the full software and the PSOne version, why the heck do I still have the demo that probably doesn't run on XP anyways?) Heh, I wonder if some of this is actually worth something... though I wrote on some of them. *shrug... chuck* Wow, I have a disk that includes a demo for Halo 1 and didn't even know it... didn't know what Halo was back then. At least this disk is only 5 years old. *chuck*
Hmm. Descent II. Part of a Descent pack, I let someone borrow the disk for the original Descent and they managed to lose that part. Which was the whole reason I bought the set. 1997. *chuck* Wow, the original Unreal with a logo for the Diamond 3D card on it. *laugh... chuck* Battle Beast, the game that never did end up having proper multiplayer. Byebye. Dark Forces... I'll keep that one. 11th Hour, the sequel to The 7th Guest... hmm, never did beat it, I guess I'll keep it for now. Prolly need to find a walkthrough to finish that damn furniture puzzle, though.
Heh. Battle Chess. Goofy game... do I keep it? 1991, hahaha. Eh, it's time to say goodbye. High time, I say. Halflife. Keep. Drivers for a scanner I no longer have and a reeeeally old shareware disk I think I kept mainly for the shareware versions of Duke Nukem 3D (which I have the full version of) and Rise Of The Triad. Welcome to chuckville, disks! Oh my gods... add in drivers for an S3 ViRGE card. Yikes. Heh, I should probably be throwing this stuff up on DriverGuide or some such site. Nah. I'm trying to get rid of these.
Picture Publisher 8. Bye. The original Warcraft. Eh. I should toss that in the organizer with Warcraft III. My C++ compiler program from college. Gah. What the heck am I supposed to do with that? Somebody could probably actually use it... and it wasn't cheap. Diablo 1, 2, and the expansion is actually somewhere in the more-recently used software pile. Keep. HAHAHA there's the Star Trek game... and it's pinball. Byeeeee.
RIP software I will never use. This journal entry is your last claim to fame. I now have less than half the stack of software that's been sitting in this little box ever since I decided my "software" CD organizer book needed to move on to holding DVDS. Now to go weed out the manuals for this stuff in my files and computer/gaming/manuals bin...
Ironically, one thing I have a lot of is software. Yeah, I'm pretty much down to just the actual CDROMs for a fair share of it, but even that I don't need. For instance... Interplay's Tempest 2000. I think I got this in one of those bundle packs because I wanted Battle Chess. There's some kind of Star Trek game in here too, if I can find it. I "always meant to play them" but never did, and I know better than to imagine I actually will now. The copyright date on Tempest is 1997.
How many copies of the EverQuest software do I have? And how many do I actually need? None. Because if I ever play it again (which I swore for the last time I wouldn't some time ago)... I'd just pay $20 for the all-current-expansions set-of-the-day anyways. Check it out, I still have my original disk from when the game came out. Copyright 1998. Back when 989 Studios was actually associated with the project. I think the only reason I've actually kept this crap is because I know how much I paid for it. The original game was $55 with the strategy guide. Four full expansions at around that price each... and the last set-of-the-day I picked up a couple years ago. Or was that five... *looks at the copyright date* Heh. The base game plus seven expansions for $20... and one of those, I never even played any of the content. Adios.
Final Fantasy XI from the first time I played it. *chuck* ...Various demo disks I'm never gonna play again. 1997. 1998. 1999. (Hahaha Carmageddon II, yeah that was fun... Final Fantasy VII, I have the full software and the PSOne version, why the heck do I still have the demo that probably doesn't run on XP anyways?) Heh, I wonder if some of this is actually worth something... though I wrote on some of them. *shrug... chuck* Wow, I have a disk that includes a demo for Halo 1 and didn't even know it... didn't know what Halo was back then. At least this disk is only 5 years old. *chuck*
Hmm. Descent II. Part of a Descent pack, I let someone borrow the disk for the original Descent and they managed to lose that part. Which was the whole reason I bought the set. 1997. *chuck* Wow, the original Unreal with a logo for the Diamond 3D card on it. *laugh... chuck* Battle Beast, the game that never did end up having proper multiplayer. Byebye. Dark Forces... I'll keep that one. 11th Hour, the sequel to The 7th Guest... hmm, never did beat it, I guess I'll keep it for now. Prolly need to find a walkthrough to finish that damn furniture puzzle, though.
Heh. Battle Chess. Goofy game... do I keep it? 1991, hahaha. Eh, it's time to say goodbye. High time, I say. Halflife. Keep. Drivers for a scanner I no longer have and a reeeeally old shareware disk I think I kept mainly for the shareware versions of Duke Nukem 3D (which I have the full version of) and Rise Of The Triad. Welcome to chuckville, disks! Oh my gods... add in drivers for an S3 ViRGE card. Yikes. Heh, I should probably be throwing this stuff up on DriverGuide or some such site. Nah. I'm trying to get rid of these.
Picture Publisher 8. Bye. The original Warcraft. Eh. I should toss that in the organizer with Warcraft III. My C++ compiler program from college. Gah. What the heck am I supposed to do with that? Somebody could probably actually use it... and it wasn't cheap. Diablo 1, 2, and the expansion is actually somewhere in the more-recently used software pile. Keep. HAHAHA there's the Star Trek game... and it's pinball. Byeeeee.
RIP software I will never use. This journal entry is your last claim to fame. I now have less than half the stack of software that's been sitting in this little box ever since I decided my "software" CD organizer book needed to move on to holding DVDS. Now to go weed out the manuals for this stuff in my files and computer/gaming/manuals bin...
