Old PCgame boxes - Cleaned out the shed - A blast to see them again.

steve58 · July 17, 2020, 03:39:38 PM

Have/had a lot of those. Still got a closet with 2 shelves full of old PC games...big and small boxes. Keep having to re-direct the wife away from that closet every time she gets in a de-clutter mode/mood

O:-)

W8taminute · July 17, 2020, 03:43:27 PM

See that's where we men must remember to keep our pimp hands strong when it comes to our gaming nostalgia pre-marriage.

I can accept a possession of mine getting thrown out by the wife in the garbage if it's something like say a kooky mickey mouse mug I won at a carnival. But if my game boxes ever get thrown out behind my back there will be some serious hell to pay and my wife knows that. I'm talking scorched earth policy. She'll need a binding U.N. mandate to keep the ungodly firestorm I would unleash.

Gusington · July 17, 2020, 05:38:27 PM

Wow preach it \m/

MetalDog · July 17, 2020, 06:26:30 PM

W8, are you secretly Tom Cruise?

Sir Slash · July 17, 2020, 06:36:08 PM

Every good Divorce Lawyer knows throwing-out spouse's game boxes is actionable. And justified. O0

IICptMillerII · July 18, 2020, 01:36:32 AM

This was a great burst of nostalgia, thanks for sharing these! Back in my childhood home I have a bunch of game boxes. I miss the good old days of those game boxes, and the good games that came in them.

Destraex · July 18, 2020, 08:13:44 AM

Quote from: Gusington on July 17, 2020, 08:35:21 AM
Centurion: Defender of Rome is one of my all time favorites :)

Are some of the boxes in there twice or is am I seeing things? Like Hexen?

Must have double posted one photo sorry. I threw out a fair few a few years back. This box in the shed was a surprise to me though. Been 20yrs since some of that stuff was moved.

Destraex · July 18, 2020, 08:19:04 AM

Quote from: Dammit Carl! on July 17, 2020, 09:24:19 AM
Snap! Just saw "Wooden Ships and Iron Men," as a PC game. Did not know they did that = cool stuffs.

That is one of the only board games I still have from my gaming heyday.

Yeah. I had no idea it was a board game until a friend mentioned it upon seeing those photos. Board game stores were much rarer than PC game stores in Australia back then. Their was one store in another state that imported games called milsimgames. Only one I really knew of. I used to subscribe to their free catalogue. You used to be able to read huge descriptions on all the games. Because convincing people over mail order when no internet is available and no other way of telling what they were made that catalogue amazing. You got a tonne of background on computer games and board games.

Destraex · July 18, 2020, 08:22:51 AM

I should mention as well. Tomorrow my Wife sends an interstate friend that Mechwarrior box. A friend probably too young to have ever played that game. He will be modifying the box, framing it and putting it on the wall. Retro art. That's how much of a fan he is of mechwarrior. I reckon it's a really cool idea. It's the age we are from.

jamus34 · July 18, 2020, 02:01:21 PM

Quote from: Sir Slash on July 17, 2020, 02:45:56 PM
That is quite the collection there Destreax. I also had, or drooled over, most of the same group back in the day. Anybody else remember the screenshots on the back? They'd put the IBM's on there and you had to read, 'Amiga screens may differ'. :pullhair:

Oh it was even worse for C64.

The absolute worst game I remember with the "bait and switch" graphics was Dragonstrike.

IBM POV actually looked like the back of a dragon.

C64 You got a pixel on screen. I mean seriously it looked like an Atari game.

Gusington · July 18, 2020, 02:03:14 PM

I never had an IBM PC back in the Charlie Chaplin PC era, but weren't graphics much better on an Amiga? I did have a C64 so I know that the PC graphics blew away the C64.

Staggerwing · July 18, 2020, 04:32:15 PM

The Amiga was much better that the average IBM PC until roughly the time of the first 386 based PCs. By then there were newer VGA and SVGA graphics cards and sound card options that allowed game developers to build nice looking and sounding games for the PC. Older DOS games were still going to look and sound crappy if they only offered CGA and EGA graphics. The only close call might be those 80's games that offered 'Tandy' graphics and sound, as the Tandy 1000 line of PC computers was actually designed to offer game friendly PC-Jr style sound and color while still being nearly fully XT/AT compatible, something the PC-Jr itself was not.

steve58 · July 18, 2020, 04:48:46 PM

I remember when I got my 1st VGA monitor and was able to view a picture of a rose that looked like an actual rose. Daaamn, I be old :-\

Gusington · July 18, 2020, 10:07:15 PM

Ah PC Jr., Tandy, XT/AT...music to my dork ears.

Sir Slash · July 18, 2020, 10:23:52 PM

I played, 'Curse of the Azure Bonds', my first Gold Box game, on a monochrome monitor. No colors! Then I went with a hook-up to my old color TV. O0 That was nice!