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**Japher** · October 13, 2004, 15:19

you must have a kid...

I always head to the bargain area at Frys. They have console games for cheap too. I saw Black&White (the first one) for $8.99 the other day, but I am too cheap and was already paying full price for Rome: TOtal War. I just found a game store near my house that has cheap/used games as well.

Bargain hunting is not always dumpster diving.

**lord of the mark** · October 13, 2004, 15:45

Re: Thrift Store Junkie

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Father Beast

Civil War Generals

A nice little TB wargame, not too intense.

Command & Conquer

I suppose one must know this to know RTS, and its good you got it cheap, I suppose.

MS Flight Simulator for Windows 98

I got this at a bin. Havent taken the genre further, liked playing it but glad i got it at a bin.

Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade

POTM liked Reader Rabbit.

Sim Earth

I actually found that in my apt building trash room. Could have used a better manual.

Warcraft II Total War

I just bought the shareware for 99 cents.

sounds like a nice collection, youve done some topnotch bargain hunting. More on this later.

**Dis** · October 13, 2004, 16:20

Crusader- great game.

civilization- never played the first one.

x-com- beyond a great game.

but how many years after the initial release did you play these games?

I never mess around in thrift stores, I'm not even sure if our local ones carry PC software.

**Snotty** · October 13, 2004, 16:37

Is sim earth any good? I remember seeing it run many years ago, and found it as part of a compilation in a shop for a tenner recently (compiled with sim farm and sim ant or something like that)

**Adagio** · October 13, 2004, 16:42

I've never found the point of waiting many years to get the games, it's not like they a lot cheaper anyway... not here anyway... unless $8 USD is what you call cheap for a 5+ year old game...
...and there's not many games to choose from anyway... mostly it's like ~10 different games, only few good games (when considering reviews , how well they sold back then and such stuff)

I believe a game like vanilla Civ2 would still cost about $15 USD... that is IF you can find the game

**Dis** · October 13, 2004, 16:45

are any of those star trek games any good?

I refrain from buying those types of games because I know all those franchise type games suck.

**hexagonian** · October 13, 2004, 16:50

How in the heck did you find time to play all of those games???

I'm plugging the AOW1/AOW2 combo - got that from CompUSA for $10.

$5 per game for all of you math challenged people

**DRoseDARs** · October 13, 2004, 17:03

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Millennia: Altered Destinies
...

Has anyone ever gotten this game to work? I can't even get the damn thing to install proper.

**Father Beast** · October 14, 2004, 08:20

Originally posted by hexagonian
How in the heck did you find time to play all of those games???

Umm..., I don't, Really. It's become like some sort of obsession. the vast majority of these I have never installed. I truly don't know if I will. But I hold on to them nonetheless.

I think I will refuse to upgrade my current Win98 machine and find a place for a new one (if and when I get a new one) in order to be able to try all these out. and to still run XCom, unbelievable game, that one.

and a few others....

**lord of the mark** · October 14, 2004, 08:33

Originally posted by Snotty
Is sim earth any good? I remember seeing it run many years ago, and found it as part of a compilation in a shop for a tenner recently (compiled with sim farm and sim ant or something like that)

the concept is interesting - its model of earth, sort of a lite version of the climate models used for global warming discussions, etc. Except it goes beyond climate and geology, it models evolution of life forms, etc. So you can do stuff like test out global warming theories, or you can start with earth 3 billion years ago and see if certain changes still permit intelligent life to develop, and maybe from an entirely different family of life rather than primates.

BUT - its a DOS game, with a fairly non-intuitive interface (from what I remember) and the manual is almost entirely devoted to explaining how the earth really works, rather than to discussing how the game interface works. I found it intensely frustrating - the kind of game i always think im going to go back to, and never really want to go back to.

**lord of the mark** · October 14, 2004, 08:36

Originally posted by Dissident

I never mess around in thrift stores, I'm not even sure if our local ones carry PC software.

I VERY occasionally see one or two PC games CDs among the odds and ends at a thrift store, but its not enough to be worth going to the store for that, since its most unlikely ill see anything i have even a vague interest in. Used game sections of game stores, while not quite as dirt cheap, are much better uses of time.

**Father Beast** · October 14, 2004, 08:52

as I said, I also have picked up a few manuals at thrift stores. a lot of them I don't have the games for, but I suppose this must be some sort of obsession, too.

I put a * if I got the manual along with the game, and a + if I got the game separately
*7th Guest
Aces Of The Pacific
*Aces Over Europe (and control documentation)
*Activision Adventure Collection
+Age Of Empires Gold Edition
Age Of Empires II: Age Of Kings
+Alpha Centauri
*Amazon: Guardians Of Eden
Archipelagos
Arena
Jane's ATF Gold
*Betrayal In Antara
Blue Max
Bodyworks 3.0
Castles
Castles II
*Civil War
+Civilization
+Civnet
Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition
+Combat Flight Simulator
+Command & Conquer: Red Alert (2 copies)
*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Conquests Of The Longbow
*Creatures
Curse Of The Azure Bonds
*Daggerfall
Day Of The Tentacle
Deadlock
*Descent
*Descent II
+Dungeon Keeper
Dungeon Master II
EF2000
Eric The Unready
Everquest Trilogy
+Falcon
Falcon 3.0
Falcon 3.0: Operation Fighting Tiger
Fleet Defender
MS Flight Simulator
MS Flight Simulator 5.0
+MS Flight Simulator for Win95
Flight Unlimited
Fly!
Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist (The Modern Day Book Of Health and Hygiene)
+Heroes Of Might And Magic II: The Price Of Loyalty
Icewind Dale
Island Of Dr. Brain (Encycloalmanactionaryography)
King's Quest
King's Quest II
King's Quest IV
Lemmings (2 copies)
Leisure Suit LarryLeisure Suit Larry II
Links LS 1997
Links LS 1998
+Links LS 1999Lode Runner
Jane's Longbow Gold
+Lords Of Magic Special Edition (2 copies)
+Lords Of The Realm II (2 copies)
Lost Treasures Of Infocom
Maelstrom
+Master Of Orion
+Might And Magic
+Might And Magic II
+Might And Magic: Darkside Of Xeen
*Necrodome
Nephi's Quest
+Outpost
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain
+Pirates
Planetarium Gold
Police Quest Collection (2 copies)Punisher

I have to go to work, I'll post the rest later.....

**Urban Ranger** · October 14, 2004, 10:49

Why would you want three copies of 7^th Guest?

**Dis** · October 14, 2004, 10:55

at game manuals with no games

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