Remember the days when...

[Aulayna]

PC games came in giant cardboard boxes that housed a little jewel-sleeve case in a plastic inset with a gigantic instruction manual?


http://www.greyaliengames.com/misc/OldskoolGameCollection.jpg


Those were the days.

Discuss old gaming memories here!

[Pike]

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Anyone who did not play PC games involving these things did not play enough PC games.

[Slothy]

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Anyone who did not play PC games involving these things did not play enough PC games.

/smug

[Aulayna]

[INSERT FLOPPY AND HARD DISK JOKES HERE]

Insert... *giggle*

[Bolivar]

Putting C&C gold into a cd player to enjoy the visionary soundscapes of frank klepacki.

The badass ads for FFVI, VII and Tactics in comic books.

Looking at the FFVIII "King of RPGs" ad and thinking 'games have too much marketing spin these days.' Ha!

[NeoCracker]

I played a couple games on a floppy in my youth!

[Shauna]

Good times, eh? A million floppy disks to install things, each installing only 10% at a time.

[Pike]

I had about two cases of floppy disks back in my late-80s youth. Had a total of probably ~200 games across all of them. It was great times :aimsun:

[Sephex]

Cartridge sleeves for the NES. They smell like plastic and childhood.

[Shoeberto]

I remember pretty distinctly seeing commercials for Resident Evil 3 and Final Fantasy 8 during prime time TV back when I was a kid. I was amazed. They were video games! That I knew! On TV!

Now I'm so sick of video game commercials. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.

I do miss big PC game boxes, though. In a sense, at least. I really don't miss the sheer amount of space they take up, but I miss the nostalgia attached to them.

[DK]

fuck your floppy disks, cassette tapes and LSD nightmare screens for life.

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[Pike]

fuck your floppy disks, cassette tapes and LSD nightmare screens for life.

http://athanathos.republika.pl/images/c64/Loading.jpg

oh man remember when it was show that for like 20 minutes?

[Hollycat]

Oh, man the memories. I've still got my original Oregon Trail floppy somewhere. I should go play it.

[Chris]

GOD yes! I still have the original Myst games! Never finished them though, as I found them way too hard back them. Riven was like one giant "?" to me back then. :(

[Araciel]

Playing Ghostbusters on Commodore 64

thinking it was awesome.

Dude there's really too much to put down here but let me say that fmv games, lucas arts games and so much more shaped my young mind and taught me to read so many words I'd have never bothered learning..

I LOVE my computar.

[Shorty]

All I know is I loved the shit out of my empty Tomb Raider trapezoid box and kept it for much longer than I should have.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Tomb-Raider-Trapezoid-Box-Manual-PC-CD-/00/s/MzAwWDQwMA==/$(KGrHqF,!pcFCqHP8KnMBQ-wTbPg1Q~~60_35.JPG

[Shaibana]

All I know is I loved the trout out of my empty Tomb Raider trapezoid box and kept it for much longer than I should have.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Tomb-Raider-Trapezoid-Box-Manual-PC-CD-/00/s/MzAwWDQwMA==/$(KGrHqF,!pcFCqHP8KnMBQ-wTbPg1Q~~60_35.JPG

ooh god yes!! tomb raider..
oooooohh the memories!!
i remember my father always playing this game. and when i saw him playing it i would side next to him, watching him play this game and helping him solve stuff. he could not get any further without me!! even to this day whenever he gets stuck he calls me to solve it. he is really bad at boss fights! haha!

i still have all the discs, eventough half the cases are empty and the games dont work anymore becaus they are damaged


also i still have Jazz JackRabbit 2 i have played it 100000x

i remember the old boxes with floppy games like Agent, do you remember this little pearl? we had quit a collection
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