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Title: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Retrocool on 10/28/2013, 02:19 PM
So I am now missing a few boxes for my collection.   When I had to move, I had packed up some of my collection and left them at my parents house.   Today, I went in to grab them to dust them off and put them them on the shelf, to come to the sheer horror that some of my boxes were missing.

Apparently, my mother ended up cleaning the basement and ended up throwing a few of my boxes away that I guess I did not place with my other games.  Thinking that they were garbage because they were empty.  I can not be mad at her because she did not know any better, but a little of my childhood had died within me ...

Now, I am looking for boxes to a few of my games.... Some are going to be so hard to come by.... while others I imagine I can probably find CIB.

Missing in Action

Double Dungeons
Bonk's Adventure
Ys Book 1 & 2 w/Map (dieing a little more inside)
J.B. Harold Murder Club
Alien Crush
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: jeffhlewis on 10/28/2013, 02:31 PM
Yup, that's how I lost almost a decade of gaming magazines and strategy guides spanning 1988 - 1997 or so. All neatly organized on the shelf with polybags and everything. Literally as soon as I left for my freshmen year of college - BOOM, gone. Ah well. Good luck with reacquiring some of those boxes.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Nazi NecroPhile on 10/28/2013, 02:43 PM
Aww, man, what a kick in the pills.  I've no spare boxes, but here's a free hug.  *squeeze!*
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: CrackTiger on 10/28/2013, 03:26 PM
When I moved to the big city to attend film school, I couldn't take everything with me. So I left all my HuCard cases, boxes and manuals behind, as well as every issue of EGM and GamePro and various other game mags up till 1996 in my Turbo-CD box in my bedroom closet. I told my Dad that I'd bring back everything I could each trip home and to not touch anything. Several months later I remminded him on the phone and he told me he had already thrown everything out. That included the box and manual for Magical Chase.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Tatsujin on 10/28/2013, 07:52 PM
better get them back as complete, might be easier to find :)
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: esteban on 10/28/2013, 09:14 PM
Yup, I lost some of my favorite LP's and games when my parents randomly three stuff in the trash many moons ago.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: ccovell on 10/28/2013, 09:31 PM
Moral from today's lesson: preemptory parricide.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: roflmao on 10/28/2013, 09:46 PM
While it's not game related, I had 2 long boxes of comics (mostly from the mid 80s) stored in my parent's garage when it was broken into.  They lost all of their power tools and I lost my comics. :(

Strangely they left the stacks of drawings on newsprint from my art college days. Little did they know some day I will be famous and those will be worth millions. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: xcrement5x on 10/29/2013, 10:38 AM
Dang, crazy stuff.  I've been lucky that my Mom has semi-hoarderish tendencies so nothing in my old room got thrown out unless I was the one doing it.  It's nice in a way because all my stuff is still there, but overwhelming in another way because there is a lot of stuff to sort through and figure out what I want and what can be pitched.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Xak on 10/29/2013, 10:46 AM
I lost a ton of gaming books and  comics as well to my parents. I got rid of a giant ps2 collection which i now regret. One part of it was every RPG (over 100) complete
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: kiketonto on 10/30/2013, 07:33 AM
so sorry about that!
mothers ALWAYS throw whatever they find.
Mine? comics! a lot of them.
Why mom? why?  ](*,) ](*,)
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: YANDMAN on 10/30/2013, 08:02 AM
Oh man i feel for ya i suffered a similar fate, I actually rescued a sealed mario bros game and watch some n64 games and 15 years of magazines from a skip that was being loaded at my parents old home, Sadly i have no boxes to offer but i wish you luck in the hunt.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: geise on 10/30/2013, 08:42 AM
PM me your addy for a free Alien Crush box.  :D
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Xak on 10/30/2013, 02:46 PM
hugs not drugs
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Sparky on 10/30/2013, 03:11 PM
Retrocool, bring it in < opens arms & readies the leg wrap>>
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: _Paul on 10/30/2013, 03:21 PM
Here's a hug:

aichoaniki.webp (https://web.archive.org/web/20140811192539if_/https://www.originalsoundversion.com/soundtrack-of-the-month-072009-ai-cho-aniki/)
https://www.originalsoundversion.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/aichoaniki.jpg
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: bob on 10/30/2013, 03:58 PM
Quote from: guest on 10/30/2013, 03:21 PMHere's a hug:
aichoaniki.webp
I LOL'd
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: esteban on 10/30/2013, 09:12 PM
Quote from: galam on 10/30/2013, 03:58 PM
Quote from: guest on 10/30/2013, 03:21 PMHere's a hug:
aichoaniki.webp
I LOL'd
Sharing is caring.
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Xak on 10/31/2013, 10:21 AM
I will never forget me and my buddy the first time we put in Cho Aniki cd only , we had no clue what awaited us.

Then we rediscovered Exile Wicked Phenomenon
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Retrocool on 10/31/2013, 01:18 PM
Quote from: guest on 10/30/2013, 03:21 PMHere's a hug:
aichoaniki.webp
Now, that just made my day...
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: geise on 10/31/2013, 02:11 PM
Quote from: Retrocool on 10/31/2013, 01:18 PM
Quote from: guest on 10/30/2013, 03:21 PMHere's a hug:
aichoaniki.webp
Now, that just made my day...
Now that keeps making my never ending nightmare of bear hugs.  Never...ending...nightmare, especially since we all keep quoting the image. :lol:
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Mzo on 11/02/2013, 02:06 AM
There were a good couple of months where all my handheld stuff went missing.  I'm talking original Game Boy and all its different incarnations up to around NGPC era, and all the corresponding accessories and games.  My parents tossed out the desk it had all been stored in, and the box it was moved to was MIA.

It was eventually found in a storage space, so happy ending, but I swear I almost cried when I found out it was all missing.  IT WAS AWFUL =[
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: TheClash603 on 11/02/2013, 02:51 PM
I thought this thread was going to say that the little drinks Hugs were no loner in production.  That would've been the real nightmare!

Thankfully the things you are looking to acquire are non-perishable, so you should be able to find them all again someday soon :)  Only that Ys box is a little harder to find, the others should be quick fixes :)
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Xak on 11/03/2013, 01:20 PM
i need drugs not hugs

rpg mode ACTIVATED ... prescription meds rule
Title: Re: I shed a tear today - I need HUGS
Post by: Retrocool on 11/15/2013, 02:09 AM
Props to Geise for helping me out.....