When Compact Discs (as well as DVDs, etc.) are reduced to Frisbees:

It occurs to me that in the past decade, the standard "medium" has become digital download. From rental services that stream movies (such as Netflix and Crackle) to online stores such as the Nintendo eShop, Steam and well, Google Play could fit into both of these categories. 

A day or two ago, I was looking for a couple of discs that contained two separate DOS games that I loved and remembered from my childhood. after what felt like an hour or two of "tearing my room apart" (metaphorically speaking, that is) I was finally able to determine that I had forgotten to pack them away with all of my hardware re-installation discs. 

So that leaves me thinking for a minute. I ask myself a couple of questions: Do I ask Emily to look for them when she goes back to Ohio next month? Do I try to describe them to Mom to see if she can find them and mail them? Or do I look for the games on Google and bookmark the resulting websites to download them to my new computer later on?

Well, naturally, I ended up choosing "Door Number Three." After careful searching (one doesn't want to find a website full of malware) I was able to find the two pieces of software I had been searching for. I was able to find the first one, "Epic Pinball" on a website I had used previously called "MyAbandonware," which happens to be the same place where I found another game from my 6th Grade year of school called "Super Solvers' Spellbound." I had also found Jazz Jackrabbit here as well, but it was only the demo, and quite frankly, I can extract that from DOSGames.com.

Finding the full version of Jazz Jackrabbit was a different story. After the secondary Google Search mentioned above, I managed to stumble upon a website called "FreeGameEmpire.com" and not only was the version they had not a demo, they also had the CD version that contained all of the "Episodes" (yes that type of game existed WELL before half-life!) for download from their website. 

The third game that I hadn't thought of at the time, but has occurred to me now is Rayman. I am not as worried about finding it on the internet because it has been remade at least twice for portable systems, so if I want it bad enough, I will most likely download it from the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS.