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Fairfox: *snip*
Because size matters and who have more to compensate than gamers...
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htown1980: I am still sad about losing my Ultima VII cloth map :(
*sigh* All that stuff went off with ex #3.

Eons ago one of the "retail federations" asked the "computer game industry" to standardize box sizes for display. I remember it because it was talked about quite a lot and how some companies didn't want to do it. Console gaming already had standard sizes. I was running a Waldenbooks at the time and we had one of the last "Walden Software" spinner racks in the company and putting games on it was an annoyance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_packaging
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Fairfox: (original lee went with flushin'... :/ )
Seems like your little "toilet lid problem" is haunting you :P




eidt: Wait... Original Lee went with flushin'? WHAT DID YOU DO?!
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timppu: Journeyman Project Trilogy: My god! It was a huge cardboard box that you couldn't hold in one hand, you could probably fit a newborn baby inside. Yet, the CDs themselves were only in some thin and flimsy cardboard envelope or such, and if there was a manual, it wasn't a big one either.
The Monkey Island Bounty Pack (1-3) was like that. It was double the width of your traditional 'big box' but only contained a double thickness jewel case and a manual for MI3. The manuals for MI1+2 were on the CD those games shared.
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timppu: Journeyman Project Trilogy: My god! It was a huge cardboard box that you couldn't hold in one hand, you could probably fit a newborn baby inside. Yet, the CDs themselves were only in some thin and flimsy cardboard envelope or such, and if there was a manual, it wasn't a big one either.
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SirPrimalform: The Monkey Island Bounty Pack (1-3) was like that. It was double the width of your traditional 'big box' but only contained a double thickness jewel case and a manual for MI3. The manuals for MI1+2 were on the CD those games shared.
That glorious Bounty Pack!
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/57/20/product-105720.jpg

That reminds me, I still miss Curse of Monkey Island on GOG or Steam.
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ApexProcyon: That glorious Bounty Pack!
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/57/20/product-105720.jpg

That reminds me, I still miss Curse of Monkey Island on GOG or Steam.
Yeah, that was it! And yeah, considering it's pretty fondly remembered you'd think Disney would want that money.
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