{"id":11465,"date":"2012-06-05T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11465"},"modified":"2012-06-05T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:01:22","slug":"the-great-software-purge-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/the-great-software-purge-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Software Purge of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the course of a decade and a half, I’ve acquired a number of pieces of software from a variety of sources. In a lot of cases, I’ve bought games because I wanted to like video games. When I was in college and had abundant free time amid working 50 hours a week, going to school for 18 hours a week (and 10 hours, roughly, in travel time to college per week), extracurricular activities, and a social life (note that sleep does not appear much on this list), I bought a number of games and played them through to completion, including the SSI Gold Box D&D games and Mean Streets<\/em>, the first Tex Murphy<\/a> game.<\/p>\n

So I bought a number of games in my twenties and thirties because I wanted to recapture a little of that. I’ve played the Civilization series (up until IV; when V came out and challenged my then-PC, I shelved it and haven’t installed it in the year I’ve had a more powerful PC). I installed a number of them, watched the demos, maybe noodled in it for a couple hours, but none of them captured my attention long enough to finish them.<\/p>\n

I also tried to recapture my youth a bit by buying a pile of flight simulators. In 1986 or thereabouts, I got a copy of Microprose’s Gunship and played that for hours. Again, with that expendable time of youth. So I bought a bunch of games, installed them and forgot about them.<\/p>\n

It became unseemly, really, that I carried this on even after I had children. I did stop from buying them for $20 or $30 at computer stores or Best Buy, but I did occasionally drop $9.99 on them. Mostly, though, I got them from book fairs and garage sales, and in a whole lot of cases, I put them on the shelf for a time in which I had more free time.<\/p>\n

All right, that’s not happening, and already some of them are incompatible with the machines I have running. So out they go. Below is a picture and some notes about the games in my fashion. If you’re interested in a title, let me know and we can work something out.<\/p>\n

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The list includes:<\/p>\n