Re: Let's show off our physical PC games!

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:09:02 -0000 (UTC), "Mark P. Nelson"
<markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Geeknix <usenet@apple.geeknix135.net> wrote in
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On 2024-12-10, rms <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

"Ant"  wrote in message
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https://www.nelsonpics.com/mpn/games/dsc_0243.png

Oh, we're really all going to do this? Fine. Now, look what you made
me go and do.

https://imgur.com/a/viInnOq

(Sorry for the quality of the images. I grabbed the images with a
web-cam 'cause it was just easier than using a phone and transferring
them over to the PC. But I didn't take much time with the project, so
everything is a bit out of focus, dark, and grainy.)


Things of note:


- My game boxes, as noted in an earlier post, aren't really stored for
display. I just kept the ones that had meaning to me (or that I just
thought looked cool) and stashed them in the closet. So I don't have a
fancy shelf where I can show them all at once. A good number of them
are just flat-packed (I keep them all stashed inside the big box that
came with the original "Gothic", which is why it's the rattiest of all
my boxes ;-). All in all, it's not very impressive to LOOK at.


- There's also a handful of boxes that are missing from that page
(most notably "Ultima 7: Black Gate" but also a wooden boxed version
of "Oregon Trail" and the original shareware "Quake", as well as a few
others. I'm pretty sure I have the other Wing Commander boxes
/somewhere/) that I either didn't grab from the closet or the pictures
were just too blurry and I was too lazy to re-do them.  ;-)


- I kept almost all my Ultima game boxes, with pretty much all the
original contents (manuals, disks, etc.) stored within them. Often
including my hand-written notes used when I played the game.


- I'm a sucker for boxes made out of metal. I don't go out of my way
to buy them (because I know if I do I'm going to keep it forever) but
when one does enter my hands, it doesn't get thrown away. Although I
should have a metal Wolfenstein gamebox somewhere. I wonder where it
got off to?


- The last few pictures are of the boxes that I keep flattened, with
the manuals and disks stored elsewhere


- Not included are all the paper sleeves used in CD jewel/DVD cases
for some PC games and pretty much all XBox/PS. I keep all those with
the manuals and dumped the plastic cases themselves.


- The disks of pretty much all the games (except the Ultima games) are
stored in 200+ CD folders. Including the floppy disks. Manuals are
stored in office storage boxes.