Posted November 29, 2012
I just realized I even harbor slight nostalgic feelings towards the first "plastic boxes" that are commonplace these days, or were, if we consider the digital trend. This is quite surprising.
Big boxes are, of course, the shit. I love 'em, but I don't collect them very much. I've saved most that are still intact (there was a time I couldn't care less about boxes).
Recently I bought X-Wing Collector's Cd-rom (rom, they were called cd-rom once, ah the nostalgia) for cheap from a flea market. I think that version isn't particularly valuable, but it is probably worth more than what I paid for it.
Also Quake III arena in a big box, which I think is worth a bit more than the 2 euro's I paid for it.
I also have this thing called "Legend" or the "Four Crystals of Trazere", from 1992. It says it is some kind of a special edition that has a guide included, but I'm pretty sure all of them were like this. I bought it for about ten euroes out of mild interest sometime last year. No idea of the value.
I've not managed to get it to work, though. The floppies seem fine, but just won't work. I suppose it is so damn old I don't have anything that would run it, which makes me a bit sad. It is available from abandonware sites, of course, but I've not felt retro enough to try it just yet.
And Mechwarrior 4. It is in pretty bad shape, but it has all the components and the cd.
And finally, Shattered Steel components are spread between my apartment and my dad's basement, they are there somewhere. The manual I recall having seen too, but it might be lost to the evershifting sands of time.
Big boxes are, of course, the shit. I love 'em, but I don't collect them very much. I've saved most that are still intact (there was a time I couldn't care less about boxes).
Recently I bought X-Wing Collector's Cd-rom (rom, they were called cd-rom once, ah the nostalgia) for cheap from a flea market. I think that version isn't particularly valuable, but it is probably worth more than what I paid for it.
Also Quake III arena in a big box, which I think is worth a bit more than the 2 euro's I paid for it.
I also have this thing called "Legend" or the "Four Crystals of Trazere", from 1992. It says it is some kind of a special edition that has a guide included, but I'm pretty sure all of them were like this. I bought it for about ten euroes out of mild interest sometime last year. No idea of the value.
I've not managed to get it to work, though. The floppies seem fine, but just won't work. I suppose it is so damn old I don't have anything that would run it, which makes me a bit sad. It is available from abandonware sites, of course, but I've not felt retro enough to try it just yet.
And Mechwarrior 4. It is in pretty bad shape, but it has all the components and the cd.
And finally, Shattered Steel components are spread between my apartment and my dad's basement, they are there somewhere. The manual I recall having seen too, but it might be lost to the evershifting sands of time.
