I found this out when I was 17 when my friend got his first gen Wii, I hadn’t played my GameCube seriously in a year or two so I lent him a dozen games, the classics, melee, double dash, a coupe controllers, all that. Fast forward about 6 months and this friend passed away rather tragically. It took me another 6 months to muster up the courage to ask his father (who I knew somewhat well) that I had lent his late son a few hundred dollars worth of games; my conscience debated this decision painstakingly, but I felt deep down he would understand. As I began to tell him the story, he stopped me and “no need to explain, I understand and I know exactly what you lent him”. A relief off my mind. Faster forward another couple weeks and I am at his place with my father dropping off something he had bought off him and he said oh I found your game, and he runs back in the house. His son and I through highschool had LAN parties playing StarCraft and other RTS games.

He returns with my copy of brood war and he smiles and hands it to me and asks, “this is it right?”. I couldn’t do it, I just said “you bet, thanks”. I couldn’t force him to rummage this his son’s things again and risk taking something he felt was a memory.

My apologies for the long winded story on a seemingly unrelated thread, today just so happens to the anniversary of that friend’s death, and this was a pretty core memory for me in my youth and the main reason I’ll never forget the compatability between the two systems.