2008 MacBook, no Photo Booth :(

I purchased my MacBook in 2008 and lazily neither bought AppleCare nor pursued a resolution to the issue that Photo Booth has never worked/been available on my computer. I was under the impression that this MacBook model came equipped with the camera so Photo Booth should be available to me. Now that it's too late for me to purchase AppleCare and get answers, does anyone know what I can do or purchase to have access to Photo Booth? Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Regardless of what you do, you should plan to backup your data*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
You can erase and install from the original system discs.
Or you can extract Photobooth from the installer packages on those discs using http://www.charlessoft.com/ 's Pacifist.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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