About more than a year after I bought my first copy of Star Trek Birth of the Federation, due to excessive usage the cd got damaged! My first cd that I actualy damaged due to usage since my first cd game in 1994!! Anyway, I was devastated since it was my favourite space strategy game. I couldn't find it anywhere else at the time. I was in a small(-ish) greek town where I was working as a sales manager for a few months and it was late evening (like 1900 or something) and went to the town centre for a break from work. There I located in a corner shop some games' boxes, to be exact the door was open (it was something like a bookshop) and with the corner of my eye I saw the boxes inside. I went inside the shop (which should be closed for hours by now) and for some strange reason they had some boxes on the floor basicaly. I saw them, asked the girl in if they had more, and said yes, upstairs. I went upstairs and on a wooden table they had about 10 boxes of older games, and one of them was BOTF in the collection with Klingon honour guard and armada I think, I couldn't believe my luck! So of courseI bought it (I had money at the time) and I treasure it since then. I even managed to make a copy with a special program so that I save the cd from any fate like its predecessor. :-)
That was in 2000.
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