Reunions don’t always lead to warm, fuzzy feels no matter what Peaches and Herbs say.

Sometimes, they can inadvertently dredge up melancholy memories of unfortunate events.

Reddit user hogpiesatwork was kicking around the Super Nintendo Entertainment System community, looking for a hit or two of video game nostalgia when he stumbled across a long-lost friend: his childhood SNES system that was stolen back around 2004.

“I can’t believe it! This is my SNES! The crack in the console (put there by [his older brother] Doug, because he couldn’t handle his Street Fighter 2: Turbo losses well, and threw the controller hard enough to pull the console off the entertainment center. I was so pissed)! The games with it! Those were my games! The scuffing on Bulls vs Blazers!”

The game system, which was “gifted” to him by his older brother when the user was a kid, was stolen during a move from Chicago to Grand Rapids, Mich., but wasn’t something he really played with or missed at the time (he was older, owned an Xbox, “and I was already ankle deep into the modding scene, so while I was upset, I wasn’t destroyed about it”). That didn’t mean he didn’t still have strong feelings for the childhood friend.

His reunion, however, gave way to some amateur detective work, and while hogpiesatwork wasn’t able to question the individual who lifted his SNES, the user did get some answers from the individual who ended up with the system.

Maybe not a perfect ending, but certainly a happy ending. Maybe Peaches and Herbs were right.