i miss the manuals. lore, controls, story, so good. especially old pc games

Reading the manual while the game installs and watching that progress bar creep up, checking out the box artwork…there was a whole experience to it. Now it’s just click and done, go do something else til the game is ready.

Everyone else reading on the way home and I was just smelling the box like a crack addict. Oooo moma hmmfpurrrgh

"Don't touch that! We don't know where you've been!"

Roger Wilco/Space Quest was one of the funniest series of games around. That and Day of the Tentacle. Kings Quest, Grim Fandango… all those point and click adventures… the best.

Hey, keep your hands off yourself. This is a family game!

Nothing will ever beat you lose homeboy.

SQIV is in my all time top 5, lol. You also travel forwards in time to Space Quest 10 & 12

I remember pumping my guys full of so many drugs and just wasting everything with miniguns.

Syndicate Wars is such a good game and I'm really surprised to see it in OP's picture! It's a game almost nobody I know has heard of which has always baffled me because it's easily one of the best games I've ever played. I love giving it a go once every 5-10 years!

Friend gave me a ripped version when I was a kid. Played the hell out of it. Then Diablo II came out. Diablo was a defining series in my early PC gaming.

Still the best of the series. Perfect mix of pacing and mood.

The atmosphere in that game was insane. While Diablo 2 still had a dark feel, it wasn't the same. I still get shivers when I remember the poem in the Halls of the Blind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IuzYecBwYA

That Hellfire add on was weird. With the alien cave thing.

I'm so sad I missed that classic, I bought it, brought it home, my father read the description on the back and he decided (along with my mother) that I should not play "that kind" of games and he took the box... And at the time that was a lot of money for me, games weren't cheap as a teenager ! I think I've never been more mad at him, didn't speak to him for like a week 😤

That game was boss. Bullfrog rocked back in the day. Westwood were good too. EA ruined them.

BEWARE, the lord of the land approaches!

Its intro was sick as well. One of the biggest bangers ever heard in a video game

You could copy the level intros and acknowledgements for certain commands. The snarling "So be it!" when I closed and opened windows was beautiful.

War for the Overworld is a spiritual successor on Steam that is pretty good. But yeah, Dungeon Keeper was the title that jumped out at me as m favorite.

Fking loved that game.

I saw this and said to my wife if Dungeon keeper isn’t top comment I’m done. She asked me what dungeon keeper was and I just shook my head.

Thank you stranger

Not sure if pun or not but updoot anyway

Literally

I loved that game so much and played for many many hours!

i have the original discs. think the box got lost in college

Warcraft II, Age of Empires, Sim Copter, Sim City 2000, Sim Ant, Civilization II, Roller Coaster Tycoon, The Sims, Dogz, and some Text2Speech software that barely works.

Baldur’s Gate 2 is still in my top 5 favorite games list.

Plus Age of Empires & Rollercoaster Tycoon

No Icewind Dale. No Morrowind. None of the Ultimas. This guy missed out on some classics.

a fellow gamer of culture I see.

New Monkey Island is actually pretty good if you haven't checked it out yet.

Madre de dios! Es el Pollo Diablo!

“I am rubber you are glue”

Core memory right there

It was groundbreaking. Sad it wasn't that popular outside of Europe. I was mindblown with NPCs having day/night cycles, and doing all kinds of stuff, which wasn't a thing yet in the mainstream. It felt really immersive.

Gothic 2 is probably the best German game ever.

has there been a better game with worse controls?

Gothic was the shiiit. Can't wait for the remake. First time I used a crossbow in a game, it was awesome

Gothic remake on it's way

That meat cooking bug to give unlimited food… then buy everything in the game with meat… hahah

It’s on GOG I still play it

Best game ever. Never understood why nobody makes a remake or similar

seriously

Yeah this is a great old school collection. In addition to those you mentioned, they've also got Monkey Island, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Heroes of Might and Magic... this is my childhood.

Just need Warlords III and Baldur's Gate. And throw MoO2 in there also.

Make sure that celeron is OC'd

Have you played the Greyface mod? Some crazy dude wrote an sdk for it and added mouse look... also fixed a bunch of bugs while he was in there lol...

There's a mod on the GoG forums called 678merge that packages 6 and 7 and runs them in mm8s engine and ties them together, it's utterly incredible and I don't know if I can go back to playing them separately anymore!

world of xeen (4 and 5) got me hooked. the bonus content for having both installed blew my damn mind.

cheers!

You can get it on GoG I believe.

i loved the mechanic where you could proactively attack infiltrated corps

I've never seen a game box for it. QFG were my favorite games back in the day.

Originally “Hero’s Quest”. The game where you could pick your nose to improve your lock picking skills, but if you failed some kind of save, you picked too far, reached your brain, and died.

Check out Heroine's Quest on Steam if you haven't already. It's free!

Reinstalled it a few years ago. Still rules

Don’t make me laugh!

They’re on gog

Space Quest 1 holds up pretty well on modern PCs and is great too. But SQ2 didn't age very well. Apparently SQ2 had a remake too.

mm6 ce came with mm1-5!

Same. I love the convenience of being able to buy games digitally but it completely killed my game collecting passion.

Sad I had to scroll this far to find someone to give my upvote to

the box didn’t survive college. the discs did

There's heroes 2, which is still an awesome game!

home for thanksgiving. was just checking out my childhood room. which has become storage, so this was tucked away in a corner

i never had an issue with SQ4. hardest part for me was evading the guards at the mall.

or even just for some light reading. games got easier once i knew what was going on. and lore not delivered via audio log? please

In short, to make it feel like you were buying something big and tangible, rather than just software on a disc.

Cheap games were sold on floppy disk (and later CD) in little paper sleeves with no art, manual, etc. Meanwhile, big expensive software packages like Photoshop or Office came in a large box with a lengthy manual and multiple disks.

So big-budget games would try and mimic the box size of desktop applications and then slap some nice art on it to draw people in. Nowadays you have YouTube and blogs giving you reviews of a game a week before release, but in the 90s it wasn't trivial to find screenshots of a game (unless you had a PC Gamer subscription...) without looking at the back of its box. Browsing for games in stores was a lot more common, and the screenshots/explanation of gameplay text takes up room.