And I missed that. These were the kind of games that were on my very first computer. So I just started thrifting a little bit more and finding an occasional game here and there. Pretty soon, I had five games, 10 games, 20 games after about a year.
And then I went through a really crappy breakup, and then my job position was eliminated. And so, uh... because I had less money, I started collecting more. (laughs) If that makes any sense. No, I ended up getting another position and ended up collecting as a true hobby for a few reasons https://motoracer-thegame.com/. The thing turned into a hobby because the more I was looking into some of these games, the more I started realizing there were so many stories behind all this stuff, and I'd never really researched the making of all of these games, and so the collecting turned into a historical aspect. I started getting a lot of books and reading all sorts of things and watching "Computer Chronicles" on the Internet Archive. And then I started archiving myself. I started scanning all of my manuals and backing up all of the floppy disks, and I ended up getting involved in a group online that was archiving just all sorts of classic PC games and stuff. And then I started LGR shortly after, just to sort of do something with all that knowledge. I never really planned for it to be a job. It was just... a hobby. And so the hobby continued and, well, now it is my job, so this really is my business assets that you're looking at here. That's a lot of why I do collect. But other than that, it really is for nostalgia. I remember so much of this stuff, or at least reading about this stuff as a kid. There were a lot of things I was not able to own back then because mostly I just had shareware and the occasional new game or something that I copied from friends or something. And also absolving myself of piracy guilt of years past. (laughs) All those years browsing Home of the Underdogs and abandonware sites and just taking everything, it's just like, "ah, whatever!" Now I can finally own all the boxes and it's nice. And also kind of think about it as like owning pieces of art. Like, this is all artwork to me. Each one of these things is significant not only because of the industry itself, and how big it's become and what it means to modern society now, but it's also just like, I want to own these little things that I respect so much by the artisans, really, that designed all these. Everything from the boxes, the covers that are amazing, the manuals, the feelies, the floppy disks, the stickers. The software itself, of course. If there's a game with a fantastic soundtrack, I just wanna own the game so I can feel like I own that too. And it's a bit personal. Hard to explain, but hopefully you're getting some of that idea. You know, honestly, I would like to start a museum with this at some point, someday. Probably far in the future but if not a museum, then I don't know, maybe like a traveling circus of LGR with, like, computers and games and stuff. Just go around and be like a book fair, except it's a computer game fair. I don't know, I have these cool ideas that I just wanna spread this stuff and make sure that people can appreciate it other than me. I love having people over into this little area here. Personal friends, of course. Can't just let anybody in because that's a little weird. Yeah, it's neat to share this and these videos are definitely one very big way of letting me do that. Alright, so let's start taking a look at some of these shelves in detail here. Everything is organized by genre and then alphabetically but also sometimes by publisher. Yeah, I'll sort of explain as we go along. The first section here is my area of applications, productivity software, utilities, operating systems. Anything like that, really. I've got everything from old school MS-DOS to more modern Windows operating systems, OS/2, and a lot of print programs. Even really stupid utilities like First Aid 95 or the Y2K bug things. Paint programs, encyclopedias, Microsoft Entertainment Packs and screensavers. Lots of screensavers, I love those. And these weird little desktop utility kind of things that... you know, whatever, man. I had a lot of fun with these kind of things back as a kid I also have some collector's editions in here that don't really fit anywhere else, and a few other design programs. Right up on the next shelf here, I have my board game adaptations.
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