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LOL, you ARE hardcore to play those damn Wizardry games!  

I lost a lot of books due to mold and stuff when we lived in Minnesota.  I kept that stuff in the basement and it was too wet down there.  I lost this awesome collection of classics my grandfather had collected, though I still have two volumes to this day (Conan Doyle and Shakespeare -- the rest are lost).  For some people, keeping books is a big deal, and I miss those things a lot.  I do still have a lot of old books, but I'm sad I lost what I did.  

I wish I still had my NES game and my GI JOES and starwars figures, but that's all gone too.  

All my stuff was in my room, but ex-brother-in-law's kids moved in and my stuff went out. I did manage to salvage a set of books that my great-uncle had given us that were his when he was a child. Lots of cool stuff in that set - got my first intro to Irish mythology there, as well as some really great poetry. And my mom's cookbooks that she got around the time I was born.

It really sucks to lose stuff like that. I had 3 huge boxes of books that I left behind at my friend's place when I moved out. When I finally got a ride back so I could pick them up he'd thrown the whole lot out with the garbage. It had only been a week. Not quite as bad as your loss but still bad.

My mom opened one of the boxes in the basement and discovered a couple of stuffed animals that were the worse for wear. She took one look at my face and quietly put them in the washing machine, not promising any miracles. Miley the Mouse survived, my sister's Lambchops did not. Kaylee is still trying to figure out what to do about the giant mouse sitting in her spot on the bookcase :)

That's awful you lost some heirlooms, but at least you proved how hardcore you were in the process. lol You could be old school, but only play Pong, Frogger, Asteroids and other stuff not requiring maps, but you went with Wizardry of all things. I call that hardcore.

Wizardry was the game that hooked me on gaming. Hard to believe I was a PC only gamer back in the day, and one of the few kids in my high school class with a computer at home.

I used to have Wizardry on floppy disks for the Apple IIc and those plastic cassettes for the Apple Macintosh version. It'd be neat to have them now, but I'm ok with the NES version that I can actually play again from time to time. Recently I was wishing I'd saved my Squad Leader board games. I could buy them again on Amazon though. In general, I don't really miss anything that got lost in yard sales or whatever happened to them when I went off to college. 

That Interplay collection is really cool. I'm going to play Out of this World soon. That is, the remake called Another World on Vita.

I figure I can probably find most of those older games somewhere in a playable format. What I had them on was only taking up space. And I have the NES version of Wizardry, so I am a happy camper.

I still have an Atari 130XE and a metric ton of floppies with games on them. Losing that kind of stuff sucks. I had a lot of my games stolen a few years back.

Those old games weren't ever going to be played again, so they were actually pretty easy to let go. I managed to save most of the pack-ins, so not so bad in the end. The books and some of the memorabilia were a lot harder to let go of.

I never got anything from my childhood me and my parents dont talk so I probably wouldnt even go to there funeral when they pass I know this seems harsh but they want nothing to do with my family so I honestly dont even have pics of me as a youngster.

I did have Atari, pong, coleco etc and a ton of games but I have no clue where they are today. :(

That's sad, Lee. Their loss. Too bad you don't have any of the old photos, though. Bet your kids would have liked to see them.

I don't have that many things left from my childhood, mostly due to my being rather deconstructive as a kid. I could take apart all manner of things easily, it was putting them back together that was the real challenge.

The hardest stuff to lose was stuff my dad had given me from his trips to Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, and other places and stuff that he'd given me from his days in the National Guard, and the books.

I had to go thru that myself when I returned back to the greatness that was the Nebraskan Midwest. I lost most of my comics and video game mags and the rest I don't remember anymore. I think it's my mind trying to save me from the heartache.

I was able to find my metal box of micro machine star ships whichw as a real treat. Though I have most of them stored in my basement inside plastic totes, I still plastic bagged them for fear of possible mold. You never know. Atlast you were able to salvage some precious memories.

Yeah, that's kind of the way I'm looking at it. Better some than none.

This was heartbreaking to read. Going through all your stuff ruined by elements has to be rough, especially the keepsakes from your family. I am glad that you could salvage some of your stuff and HELL YEAH for homemade maps!

I managed to save more than I initially thought I would be able to. One thing I found that I thought had been lost before the garage and basement fiasco and was able to save was a set of books my great-uncle had given me that were his when he was a little kid. Kind of one of those general knowledge/literature/poetry things that were really popular back in the day. I first learned about a lot of Irish mythology from those books, as well as a lot of cool poetry like "In Flander's Fields" by John McCrae. That poem is the reason the poppy is the symbol for Veteran's/Rememberance Day.