In any case...moving on.
My copy of Snatcher came in last night. That brings me down to only 3 R6s left for Sega CD, and the rest of the collection will be simple to complete after that. I've got Keio and Snatcher out of the wayIt will be nice to finally complete a collection, instead of being ~10-15 away for a few of them (looking at you Jaguar, Jaguar CD, 7800 and 32X).
Also, for a nice little story:
A friend of mine gave me her copy of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. Besides the fact that it's awesome, it also rounds out my missing Lunar copy for PSX.
Why did she give me a copy of this, though? For some background:
She is a former co-worker of my fiancee's and suffers from bipolar disorder. She's had her struggles with it and has finally found some medication that allows her to function without making her sick. Her mother suffers from a rare disorder that causes tumors to appear in her bloodstream, her grandmother is recovering from an injury, and both are on oxygen. She's been coming over for various parties and gaming for the past year+ and has been a welcome addition, even if I have to drive across town and back at odd hours.
During that time, my fiancee graduated with her bachelor's degree and has almost finished her masters. I've overcome the fact that my school dropped me with 18 weeks left for my bachelor's to work in the gaming industry as a Software Engineer and I'm currently working on finishing up my degree. She originally dropped out because of her illness issues with bipolar, but because of our encouragements and motivation to get back in, she recently was able to clear up her loan issues and found out that when she gets back into school, she'll enter as a Junior with 6 credit hours left before she's a Senior. She gave us the game as thanks for the motivation to finish up her degree and allow her and her family to improve their lives, and she knows the game will be treasured as part of my collection (I always show off my Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete when people come by).
...needless to say, it's going up on my display shelf and I'll ensure that it'll be counted in the collection, but it will be a prize piece. When I get a copy of Lunar 2 for Sega CD, I'll break both out to compare.
EDIT: I couldn't write/read that without any tears after the discussion we had last night when I dropped her off at home. Sorry if I rambled on, but it means a lot to me.
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