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      When I was a child, I discovered JRPGs through Final Fantasy 9 on PS1. I was blown away and I would spend hours upon hours playing this game, until I progressed until it asked me to insert disk 4. To my horror, Disk 4 was scratched and didn’t work. That was the last time I played a final fantasy game

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        I had a similar experience reading a book. Someone ripped out the last page and I never knew what became of the Hungry Catepillar. Never read a book again.

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          Same exact thing happened to me! Except it was a VHS recording of Debbie Does Dallas. My buddy’s friend’s cousin didn’t stop recording during the commercials, so the movie cuts off before the big climax.

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        i am on disc 4 now! (in retroarch everywhere with cloud saves!) make a m3u for all 4 discs and have the time of your life!

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    Oooh “disc”! Get mister fancy man with the CD-ROM disc!

    *rips out cartridge, blows furiously in slot, jams cartridge back in*

    ping!

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    Am i too young to get it? Every modern game is online only and does not sell on disks. Modern pcs does not even have a disk drive.

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      Lol, I think you’re literally who the joke is about.

      Games used to come on physical media, and they used to include everything on the disk (or cartridge) day 1. There was no "download a patch’ because the consoles couldn’t connect to the internet.

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        That, and also because i live in different culture. I live in eastern european country, computers came here quits late and not everybody could afford them, so there just hasnt been a large amount of pc users to form a disk gaming community. And when the internet came, everyone just pirated games because there was no other way to get games. Even the disks often were pirated.