Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn’t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s, I found this Nintendo Power magazine at K-Mart and used my birthday money to buy it. I read so much of it that I still have a huge amount memorized about 30 years later. Because of this guide, I was able to beat my very first video game as a kid.
It’s been packed away for decades and I’m at a point where I need to let it go. Getting rid of something so nostalgic is weird. I know it’s pointless in the modern day, but it’s still hard not to want that direct emotional connection to the past.
Turned out, this only netted me like $1.50 at the game store, but the two PlayStation MegaMan games I took without cases (that I got for free from a coworker at LW years ago) were worth quite a lot. So overall I got trade-in value of something like $70 for the bundle.
I turned around and spent it on video game stuff for my kids. It was a fun #DadMoment.