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My grandmother’s game collection. We’re not sure if she knew how to overwrite existing game files.


My grandmother’s game collection. We’re not sure if she knew how to overwrite existing game files.



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34 Comments

  • tezoatlipoca

    Lol. Thats cute and all sorts of fantastic. Unless she’s still around maybe using a switch or something, sorry about your grandma.

    If you decide that this isn’t worth keeping for nostalgia or some kind of art installation (with a title that riffs on the memory thing like “Nona’s Persistance of Game State” or something), you could always sell them as specialty items.

    _This OG Gameboy and copy of Warioland 4: lovingly curated by Nona: Nona is survived by three children Danny, Dora and Debbie, eleven grandchildren and twenty seven great grandchildren. Doreen loved to bake, paint squirrels in the park and volunteered every Tuesday at the soup kitchen where she was known as “grams”. This copy has a save game at level 27 with the crystal sword and bonus food; has yellow and blue, has not yet unlocked red key**. Rare collectors item: $100_

    Or better yet, sell these for $100 or auction on ebay and anything that you get beyond the going rate for an old gameboy and Warioland 4 goes to Grandma’s favourite charity. 🙂

    **never played Warioland, I dunno.

  • RandomActOfMindless

    She must be like me with utility knives.

    “Where the hell did I put that thing? I guess I’ll buy a new one.”

  • calliLast

    I think with all the offspring she had there is a copy for everyone as a memento of her awesomeness. She probably picked a lot of them from flea markets and such by looking at the price tags.

  • folothedamntraincj

    For games like harvest moon or Pokémon, where you raise and name your virtual pets, overwriting a save file for a new game can feel like putting down a dog just to get a new puppy.

    Yet that dog was immortal as long as you didn’t kill it, but you only had one doghouse.

    Those don’t look like those kind of games though, but I can understand being nostalgic about a savegame file.

  • Ok_Cable3631

    That’s almost 2K worth of stuff with the Gameboys and games alone (at current market prices). Pretty cool lot of stuff she has there 🙂

  • Grievance69

    This is bizarre…. like how long was it from when she started playing these games to when she lost her memory/ability it seems? It’s very sad I am sorry to see but I am amazed she has all of these systems and copies of games, how one could accumulate all of this in a short amount of time even at my age seems like quite an effort. Genuinely curious, your grandma was a gamer dude, I want the truth

  • Weenie_ur-butt

    Did your grandma pass?

    I went through my grandmas games after she died. She probably beat the main story to Morrowind 10+ times.

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