I’m the anti-packrat. That is, I don’t keep stuff. I’m not living anything like a zen existence but I don’t like to keep “clutter”. However, I do keep things that I form some sort of attachment to. Clearly, I’d never make a good Jedi.
Considering the number of moves I’ve made over the years, the threshold of importance to keep it through these moves would have to be pretty high.
Here’s something that has made the moves: The Balance of power 1990 manual. I have it “just in case” I play Chris Crawford’s classic game again with it’s crazy copy protection.
I played it on the Amiga (both original and 1990) and again on the PC. A truly classic game.
Do you have a game that fits this description?
Which one?
The first PC game I bought is Age of Wonders and I still have the box and everything I got with it. The book is probably 300 pages thick. Contains the story even. Really like it
Also got some Commodore 64 games with box and everything. Last Ninja and such. My brother bought those though since it's before my time.
Hell you guys ain't got nothing...
I have the 5 1/4 floppies for Lords of Conquest, Wizardy (the first one), The Cosmic Balance, Ultima IV, and god knows what else.
Do I have an Apple ][ to play them on? Of course not, but I did. Oh yes I did. In 1981 or something like that.
Best game I had back then was a NATO vs. WP thing called Germany 1984 (or 1985 maybe, can't recall). Played the hell out of that one. Still have the box even.
My Dad has a box of old TSR80 tapes too, though I don't recall what is on them.
Unfortunately for me, I move a lot. It would be cool to keep copies of the games I have/had but its not possible. In some ways is better to have actual copies than just digital but hey thats how it is hehe.
Recently I kept in my car the CD box of Empire Earth 2 for months. Cant live without that game .
My collection of stuff is sort of a disrupted pack-rat pile driven by conflict between forced moves and sentimentality. I've somehow managed to keep fragments from the sidewalk in front of my childhood (early '70s) home, but I've misplaced or discarded more than a few things I'd still like to have easily at hand, including nearly all of the pre-CD software I once had around.
The titles that've defined my gaming taste since the early '90s are Civilization, SimEarth, Master of Orion, SimCity, and Master of Magic. I'm still waiting for the truly lovable love-child of Will Wright and Sid Meir. Especially if said child can do quick changes between science and fantasy motifs.
Also, I wish there were more calls to try for a spiritual successor to Alpha Centauri. The fact that the modern Firaxis hasn't tried is yet another sign that they don't really deserve to own the Civ legacy. I have no idea how much to blame or sympathize with Sid Meier for the situation, but I'd probably collect cans and bottles to pay for what looked like a decent chance at Alpha Centauri: The Galactic Arm, or whatever the marketers decided was a good name for AC2.
I still have an Amiga 600 laying around fro two games, Syndicate (cue cheers here) and Deuteros. Deuteros was as fantastic as it was buggy, but i still like playing it, and in what is now i guess about 21 years, have never finished it.
Brad, if your looking for a new game to develop how about a remake of Syndicate?
btw, Hi there GW, been a while!
I really like HOMM2 - especially with the currently actively developed fheroes2 open source mod project. Best regards,Steven.
For me it is definately Master of Orion 2. The game made it through many moves, played it with many girlfriends, install it on every Desktop, Laptop and Netbook i have and still play it every week at least once.
Master of Orion 2 is the most played and loved game of my entire life so far.
I even still play it at LAN Parties and at home with friends.
I there were ever an update to this game i just want it the way it was with better graphics and a bigger galaxy. Nothing more.
I would marry it if i could. I even own three original boxes. You didnt had to because there were no copy protection keeping you from playing with friends but everytime i thought i lost it i bought it one more time. Just to find out i still had it somewhere. So in two moves i got two new originals ^^
BOP was amazing, I loved that game! I wish someone would do a new version.
Amnesia, the original.. This game MOVED ME.. Greatest text adventure ever.. The entire city of NYC was in this game, every address, every street. You could go into them if you wanted. It was immense, and incredible at the time. Sucked you in!
The copy protection was insane, requiring a "Wheel" of subway stops. It survived countless moves, but I think I might have finally dumped in last year, but I might still have it.. It had 5 1/4 floppies, so the chance of playing it again was virtually zero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia_%28video_game%29
Freelancer!!!!
http://discoveryfl.com/
For me life changing game was Homeworld. Unfortunately back in the day i was a kid and did not have even my own computer, so i do not own it. I was thinking about buying it recently, but i do not plan to play it again in a near future, so do not see a point in owning a box.
Anyway it is IMHO best game evar. The story, gameplay, music, voiceover, graphics and art, flawless technical soluri was perfect in every single way. Not to mention it introduced me to the music of Yes, which became one of my fav bands.
None, God bless Digital Download services. You'll have to take my old, Pentium-era notebooks and my classic camera collection over my cold, dead and exorcised body (because if you don't, I'm coming back from the afterlife just to prevent you from touching them), but as long as I've got my Steam and Impulse logins I don't need no stinking box or DVD to enjoy my favorite games.
Hell, many of the older ones have either been released as freeware (OMF:2097, Death Rally) or were like that to begin with (Commander Keen 4), so I can just hit Google and find a working, legal copy in short order.
I still have the original box, disk and manual of Wizardry:Bane of the Cosmic Forge, but it's because I did NOT play it. Since I played all the Wizardry's up till that point, I was going to keep that around until I finished playing it. Turns out I've just been keeping it for 20 years.
Still have Starflight for the Commadore 64. Box in good condition, floppy disk, manual and star map. Sometimes I just look at it and yearn.
I have my Commodore 64 copy of Ultima IV, with hand written quest notes and tips in the box with those 5.25" disks... and cloth map! I'm never selling it unless someone offers me a jillion dollars... anyone?
UFO: Enemy Unknown. It's survived in its battered Sold Out CD sleeve for thirteen years. Only moved once in that time, but there's been more than one occasion where I've misplaced it and spent an hour or more searching for it.
Precious.
You then should've tossed the wife.
One of the oldest things I keep and can't seem to part with, even though I threw out the disks, is Darklands. I just couldn't toss the manual. The next on my list if probably Emporer of the Fading Suns. I kept the CD and its case even. Shoot, I even threw out MOO 1-3 and MoM.
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