I have three of these installed and played unreal tournament about five weeks ago.

I've got my old Doom floppies!

Some old people hoard cats, others funk pops, me? I hoard old game discs

I still have my fallout 2 manual. It was a 60 page ring binded notepad with all sorts of game info.

jokes on you. I have 3 optical drives. and at least one still works!!

my PC does have a optical drive, and it will always have an optical drive.

I have 1 Pioneer and 1 LG DVD drives tucked, just in case.

I still have demo discs from PC Gamer magazine.

Broken Sword 2? Why'd YOU BREAK IT AGAIN!?!?!

because I own them

Yup.

I haven't had a CD player in decades but I have an old copy of a Bon Jovi record that the first love of my life gave me. Literally every time we were ever in the car together a Bon Jovi song came on the radio. Pretty cool.

I still have a DVD drive in my desktop PC. I don't use it that much but it comes in handy from time to time.

I also have one in an old laptop that I have set up near my exercise bike. I use that one pretty frequently to watch old sitcoms while I work out. Just bought the Scrubs Season 1 box set from a thrift shop.

Even if your PC doesn't have a disc drive by default, you can still enjoy the games by getting a USB disc drive. I literally got one originally for my laptop and have been using it with my current desktop. It's been a good purchase when audacious is allowed to read the disc.

I still have my Quake CD from 1996. GT Interactive!

I have the full Warcraft 3 battle chest stored safely. I will never use it but I would have a deep sadness at loosing it.

I have a big-box, unopened copy of Midtown Madness that I got a couple years ago. I had a MM2 box too when the game was new but it's been lost to time. And a bunch of non-big box games like NFS MW 05 (and 12), Halo 2, Driv3r...

I miss the large boxes that video games came in the early 2000s and earlier. The physical media, like manuals, maps, and tech trees were incredible. You couldn't just alt+tab or check the internet, you had to pin a map to your computer room wall, and keep real notes. Its easier now, but it takes some magic out of the experience.

I still have my copy of Fable proudly stating “Optimized for Windows Vista!” Just because it makes me laugh.

I'm glad I still have my physical copy of Freelancer considering you cant buy a copy of it any more.

Because my tower still very much does have a blue ray dvd burner and i have another couple in my parts cupboard

One day I will get a disc drive, then we'll see whos laughing.

Lemmings on 3.5" disk, will not ever throw away, too many memories

Mine does.

whoa whoa whoa unreal tournament is retro gaming ?

next you'll be telling me nirvana is classic rock.

Bart Simpson was 10 in 1989. He would be the POSTER CHILD of collecting cds.

Edit: Marge was 34 in 1989. Oh my god, Marge is a boomer.

I just rebuilt two older systems and installed my optical drives in them. One linux box and one Win 7. It’s honestly great having them back. I’ve started moving some DVD’s and CDs to backup. It was surprising how much better quality a decent bitrate rip of a CD is compared to music streaming services.