Bitter sweet because I'm pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP
It's church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff they do sell.
The others that were piled up in the bottom of the box. Some of the discs had fallen out of the cases and sleeves but they all seemed fine except for one: Half-Life GOTY disc got a few tiny fatal cracks. A lot of software and bargain bin games have been excluded.
There were two discs that go with two joysticks I have. I have a sidewinder somewhere but couldn't bother looking for it for the pic.
CD keys will be a problem for some of those. Were they on the paper sleeve, inside the jewel case, on a sticker in the manual? Who knows? Every publisher seems to have picked a spot at random and losing them makes old PC game collections a minefield of unplayable* discs.
* Without cracks or No-CD patches. Obligatory reminder that piracy = games preservation.
Games shared on the Archive frequently have a working CD key in their descriptions. If you've got a disc with no key, it's a perfect place to check first.
I feel like if it was popular enough, a cracker exists. Complete with awesome 8 but tracker tune
Some of the older ones wouldn't even need a crack, just a keygen or even a single printed key.
Keygens also have tracker tunes.
They're printed on the case, for StarCraft anyways
I mean StarCraft is also free