Finally now the proud owner of a big box collectors edition of #ReturnToMonkeyIsland 😊
(...two months + as many failed delivery attempts later - heck knows why LRG struggled with my address! 🙄) #BigBoxGames#BigBoxPCGameCollectors
Finally sorted out shelving for my #BigBoxGames collection! It's stacked two boxes deep, so there are roughly twice as many games as you see here (200-ish in all).
Eventually I'll get another unit like this and so I can have the rest out and on display, but this is better than nothing!
The one in the original box has rounded corners. Note the little red swans hiding the blue text are aligned differently. Both books have granulated paper (a little thicker for the collector's edition).
For several months I've been doing background research for a thing about Loki Software Entertainment, one of the first dedicated Linux games porting houses, which ran from 1998 to 2002.
Anyway, directly related to that, I just picked up a boxed copy of of their release, in collaboration with SUSE, of Civilization: Call To Power.
I was expecting a DVD case, like their their English language release of Heavy Metal: FAKK 2 , but no, this is a pristine big box release, with even the tech tree poster still intact. I have a copy of the UK Windows release from the time, so it'll be interesting to compare contents.
For a different Special Interest, I also picked up a few unpreserved French edutainment titles, including the beautifully presented La Boite À Musique (Christian edutainment?), and a couple of what turn out to be German Sierra releases (the Official Guide to Babylon 5 CD-ROM and Leisure Suit Larry's Casino) - the former doesn't appear to be properly catalogued in this edition, the latter very much is - I was hoping for French releases there. Not least because I can't speak German. But never mind.
I'm clearing out some stuff sight-unseen from a bargain basement place that has some really old software for about 2,50€ each, so it's a bit of a lucky dip what I get. Currently I'm finding new stuff (i.e. things that I can't turn up elsewhere on the internet) so it's pretty exciting.
It almost feels like the kind of thing it'd be worth starting a Ko-Fi to help fund, but it seems churlish to ask random people to upkeep my project for obscure software no one cares about to not be lost.
Before the advent of CDs, Alone in the Dark 2 fit on 9 floppy disks! 💾
There's also a cardboard sleeve containing the game Jack in the Dark. It's a little adventure to tide players over until the release of Alone in the Dark 2.
Wait, how fucking drunk were Sierra when they made these flip-top collection boxes? The Space Quest one insists on spelling Vohaul with two U's (Vouhaul), and now this King's Quest one... I'm sorry, but WHAT?