This ones for Luzur: part duex

[Phelot]

He has sealed boxes. I would love to break into his apartment, open those sealed boxes and leave with the box contents lying around. I bet he'd feel like he just got raped.

Worse would be to fill out all the registration cards.



Unfortunately, during various moves I ended up throwing away or losing all of my game boxes. Oh well... What was nice about having them around is that sometimes I'd forget about a game and glance at my game shelf and go "Oh yeah, that game is awesome!" and fire it back up.

 

[mindx2]

What was nice about having them around is that sometimes I'd forget about a game and glance at my game shelf and go "Oh yeah, that game is awesome!" and fire it back up.

Pretty much how it goes with me as well. I can sit back and scan through the boxes and either go "Man, that was a fun game! Let's fire it up once again." or "I always meant to get around to play this one (and the Codex Hivemind loves it) so let's fire it up." Almost feels like the old days going into Babbages or Electronic Boutique's and seeing row upon row of computer games. All those boxes on all those shelves.... memories...

He has sealed boxes. I would love to break into his apartment, open those sealed boxes and leave with the box contents lying around. I bet he'd feel like he just got raped.

I actually prefer the games not be sealed. I like looking through all the "stuff" that comes in the boxes. Take Infocom's A Mind Forever Voyaging, it's sealed but I'd love to go through all the "feelies" included. However, I got it for a steal still in it's original shrinkwrap and all I can think is "If I take off the seal am I throwing away $25, 50, a $100?!!!" I'd rather not have that internal debate and just be able to enjoy the games !!

edit: Also included a few more pictures I forgot to include like the Wizardries and Descent games.

 

[villain of the story]

I know the feeling. There are games I have bought twice, one to keep sealed and one to fiddle with.

There should be a game museum where every new game gets submitted to with its source material, molds etc. for everything that comes with the box so one never runs out of any editions of any game and you can just order one and have it delivered in a week or two.

 

[Ulminati]

There should be a game museum where every new game gets submitted to with its source material, molds etc. for everything that comes with the box so one never runs out of any editions of any game and you can just order one and have it delivered in a week or two.

There was a fundraiser some time ago to start a video game museum somewhere in the kwa. The idea was to be able to play old games on period hardware (not just some emulator). I forget what the url was, but I think they raised ~200k

 

[Zed]

get rich by working so you can remove seals etc and actually enjoy the collection

 

[Luzur]

well that was nice to view, but you got games of all genres, while i mainly go for just RPG's of the big bro companies of the old days.

also, i do Commodore computers too, along the SSI, Origin, New World Computing etc parts.

boxed.

so dunno, maybe you win, maybe i win, personally i think its a draw between us with some edge for me.

 

[mindx2]

well that was nice to view, but you got games of all genres, while i mainly go for just RPG's of the big bro companies of the old days.

also, i do Commodore computers too, along the SSI, Origin, New World Computing etc parts.

boxed.

so dunno, maybe you win, maybe i win, personally i think its a draw between us with some edge for me.

No competition ... just like to share and see what fellow gamers/ collectors think. I still have a ways to go and find different gems I never even knew about all the time. I love discovering a game I never knew about but is a blast to play. An example is reading the article here on the Codex that talked about the old Event Horizon games. Dusk of the Gods, while not an earth shatteringly good game, is fun to play and the manual is great.

get rich by working so you can remove seals etc and actually enjoy the collection

Wish I could get rich so I can stop working and enjoy these games !!

Anybody have any answers to my questions about some of these games and if any clue books/ guides were made?

 

[Haba]

well that was nice to view, but you got games of all genres, while i mainly go for just RPG's of the big bro companies of the old days.

also, i do Commodore computers too, along the SSI, Origin, New World Computing etc parts.

boxed.

so dunno, maybe you win, maybe i win, personally i think its a draw between us with some edge for me.

No competition ... just like to share and see what fellow gamers/ collectors think.

Now imagine if you to two hooked up and moved in together...

 

[Ulminati]

well that was nice to view, but you got games of all genres, while i mainly go for just RPG's of the big bro companies of the old days.

also, i do Commodore computers too, along the SSI, Origin, New World Computing etc parts.

boxed.

so dunno, maybe you win, maybe i win, personally i think its a draw between us with some edge for me.

No competition ... just like to share and see what fellow gamers/ collectors think.

Now imagine if you to two hooked up and moved in together...

They'd end up with a lot of duplicate games. if they merged collections They could send them to me. I didn't have space for a billion boxes, so I threw all my old game boxes out and buned the disks to DVDs

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Yeah, you told me that last time too.......still waiting.......

Oh yeah, good point. Sorry about that. Real Life has been a bitch.

 

[spekkio]

Five of ten best games ever in one pic (the remaining five can be DISCUSSed).

 

[mindx2]

Five of ten best games ever in one pic (the remaining five can be DISCUSSed).

It's one of my favorite shelves along with the Ultimas

 

[Ulminati]

I'm a bit surprised his lucasarts shelf has Monkey Island 3 and 4 but not the vastly superior Monkey Island 1 and 2. Also missing Zak McKraken, Manic Mansion and Day of the Tentacle. Those are some of LucasArts most treasured adventure games. not having them on your shelf is criminal.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

I do try and only get IBM PC versions of everything but do have a few Apple II (Infocom) and Amiga (Return to Chaos) games that I either can't get for PC or were never made for PC. However, even these I've burned onto a disk the emulator and files and keep them with the games. I've done this with every game that came on a floppy as well.

Well the Apple II and Amiga were PC's too, just not IBM compatible, so that's ok. I Actually started an original Amiga collection a while back - but original Amiga games (especially the rare ones) go for a small fortune, so I kinda lost interest.

The guy I bought my Amiga 1200 from (ebay), lived nearby so I picked it up in person - had a massive man-cave under his house lined with shelf after shelf of hundreds of mint condition Amiga games. When he saw the look on my face when I walked in he said "Wanna touch em?". Spent the next hour or so fondling game boxes and trying to hide my erection.

 

[mindx2]

I'm a bit surprised his lucasarts shelf has Monkey Island 3 and 4 but not the vastly superior Monkey Island 1 and 2. Also missing Zak McKraken, Manic Mansion and Day of the Tentacle. Those are some of LucasArts most treasured adventure games. not having them on your shelf is criminal.

Just haven't gotten around to all the LucasArts games. Zak McKraken and Maniac Mansion generally go for over $100 each and I had other games I wanted more like the Ultima II. Many of the MI 1 & 2 games I've seen recently weren't complete or in pretty poor condition. I'll get around to those as well but have slowed down a bit on my game hunting.

 

[JarlFrank]

There should be a game museum where every new game gets submitted to with its source material, molds etc. for everything that comes with the box so one never runs out of any editions of any game and you can just order one and have it delivered in a week or two.

There was a fundraiser some time ago to start a video game museum somewhere in the kwa. The idea was to be able to play old games on period hardware (not just some emulator). I forget what the url was, but I think they raised ~200k

There is such a museum in Berlin.

 

[mindx2]

There is such a museum in Berlin.

You Germans get all the cool stuff!!

 

[Luzur]

i think i should collect the pics in a post again.

these are old pics though, ive been swapping them around and the NES pile have shrunk alot.

(no, not me on it, but my friend, where it is parked atm due to space issues.)

+ 2 1084S Commodore Monitors (is glimpsed in the PET pic to the far left.) and assorted peripherals.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Fuck me sideways!!!

:/

 

[mindx2]

Impressive... very impressive*



* except for the console crap

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

Damn thats a lot of stuff, of which I've only played a fraction. I miss some of the older stuff that I've sold off.

Bottom right corner, looks like the popamole wasn't invented yesterday.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Now I feel sad that
1, I have sold most of my games as I got bored of them.
2, That even while I got also bored of selling them, I still don't have a complete set of almost anything. TIE Fighter is missing instructions, Dungeon Keeper is missing everything but the CD, and so on... 2/3 of the Saturn games are missing their cases (which fucking sucked, they were like DVD cases but shittier)... Well I have everything that came with the PS3 games, yippee. Except the ones I borrowed to somebody and can't be bothered to ask who it was because they are PS3 games.

Luckily I still have 1/3 of my comics collection.

Anyway,

 

[Captain Shrek]

There are two thing I make a point never to SELL for money. One is books, the other is good games I own (I consider all of them good, as that's my criterion of ownership).

 

[Bladderwrack]

What a waste of space.

 

[mindx2]

What a waste of space.

Please enlighten us to your wisdom.