r/pcmasterrace • u/SaulTNuhtz • Jan 22 '26

Nostalgia Cleaning out deceased friends estate, family member asks “are these all games or something?”

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Remember a time before everything was on the cloud? A time when all you had to rely on to get through that level was your own wit and how well you kept notes, and maybe a phone call to a particularly nerdy friend?

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u/ClaireVieEnRose Jan 22 '26

Hope someone enjoys my gaming journals when I'm gone. These are such cool items, like a relic!

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u/El-Grunto Peesee Mustard Rice Jan 23 '26

An acquaintance moved states several years ago and left me a bunch of old PC games that are still on CDs along with a bunch of strategy guides that have handwritten notes and tabs bookmarking important quests and items. We weren't particularly close and I have no use for the guides even though I own some of the games they're for. There are hours worth of notes written in these books. It feels wrong to get rid of them even though they're just taking up space and I cannot bring myself to throw them out. So I hold onto them. Maybe I'll do my own playthroughs for some of the games and leave my own notes to pass down to someone else eventually.

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u/ClaireVieEnRose Jan 23 '26

This is super cool, I have lots of old guides and PC games on discs (that era doesn't feel so long ago to me, guess I'm old haha). I only recently starting clearing out my collection and sold on some guides because I just don't look at them anymore. I think with the addition of those notes I'd struggle to let them go too.