Fantastic video right here, I'll never tire of seeing big box PC games being showed off. And I had no idea that voice-command edition of Aces of the Deep existed! Made a point to collect the rest of the Aces series, but I'll have to track that one down :D
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow was my favorite Sierra game! I finished it over and over! Great video, Metal Jesus! I love fridays :) Greetings from Portugal!
Sierra was my absolute favorite gaming company in the 90s. Leisure Suit Larry was the first PC game that I bought for my very first PC. Thanks for these videos. A great walk down memory lane.
Metal Jesus! I just found your website three days ago, curious to find just random collections to peer at while I was eating a sandwich, and fell in love with your videos. Great stuff, wonderful commentary that's perfectly paced and laid back to listen to, great collection too. This was my favorite time for gaming and sort of an "age of wonder" golden time for me. I was born in 83 so I was about 10 to 16 when I was playing these interesting PC games. I used to love Bullfrog's games (Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet) along with Doom and Duke Nukem. When I got older, I discovered this great selection of FMV Sierra stuff (Beast Within, Phantasmagoria 2) and then got into the old point and click stuff. Brings back memories to see those monster-sized boxes. Keep up the great work, love your stuff! Thanks for letting me geek out real quick!
I had a lot of these "big box game" boxes up until I moved a couple of years ago. Their imagery really helped you visualize the games and put you in the mood to buy them. I owned "Gold Rush!," "Codename: Iceman," "The Colonel's Bequest," "Rise of the Dragon," the King's Quest series, the Space Quest series and the Police Quest series. These are just the few I can remember. I probably owned about half of Sierra's entire catalogue of games.
Thank you for this video. It's a great reminder of how amazing Sierra was in its day. It's easy to forget that Valve and many other companies in the Seattle area wouldn't exist without Sierra's vision back then. Also, it and Lucasarts invented the humor in games that, while not in the forefront now, permeates video games to this day.
Man it's easy to forget how many Sierra published games I actually bought back in the day. Half Life, Homeworld, NOLF.... PC game boxes in the 90's kicked ass. Wish I still had all the Mechwarriors and I-76 as well.
Oh my god, I loved the Sierra Games... and I still love 'em all to this day. My first Let's Play was about the glorious Quest for Glory/Hero's Quest. I stand firm by my opinion that LucasArts/LucasFilm Games and Sierra crafted the best adventure games back in those days. Damn, I envy your collection MetalJesus. You truly rock! Greetings from Germany, Osselpi
I loved Sierra Online when I was a kid! Jones in the Fast Lane was one I loved after I had finished all the Quest series! And Dynamix was incredible as well! I'm so glad you mentioned those games! Great video!
oh wow! Talk about a trip down memory lane! I still have all of my old Sierra games. As a matter of fact I was just telling my 11 year old about Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmasist. Great Video!
Nice video. I remember many of these very well. Gold Rush was actually one of my fave games back in the day, I played the two first Police Quest, the first King's Quest, Manhunter, and the first two Larry games. Great games.
Besides Oregon Trail and number crunchers in school, first real PC game I played was Space Quest 3, blew me away. Been a Sierra fan ever since, thanks for the video, love the boxes. Favorites are SQ3 & 4, KQ6, LSL7, and all the little gems like Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
I remember playing the Leisure Suit Larry games at my friend's house in the late 80's and early 90's. In 2000 I got the LSL Ultimate Pleasure Pack and got to finally play LSL 6: the Talkie and LSL 7 Love for Sail. Awesome games. Never played any of the Space Quests but my friend had them all and I remember the music being pretty cool. Nice video!
This brought back so many memories. My first game was Gold Rush - I even completed it. Then the Leisure Suit Larry series. I don't have the boxes anymore, but I still have some of the games. Thanks so much for this video!
Great video dude! I scored a shrink-wrapped copy of SQ4CD and SQ3 with the snout and visor off ebay a few years ago, prized possessions indeed! I loved all the goodies the games would come with...the holy grail of my collection though...SQ1EGA with misprinted box! Only 15 bucks from Germany! Some people have no idea what their selling! lol I know you get this a lot but thanks for all the awesome work you did at Sierra! Chainsaw Monday will always be a black day in the history of gaming. Thank God for Kickstarter!
Love it! More people need to know the huge contribution Sierra made to gaming and technology! Graphic adventures, PC gaming, soundcards, CD-ROM, SVGA, FMV, online gaming, hint books, magazines, the idea of game designers as auteurs - Sierra was a pioneer!
I think that Sierra coming back again is an epic event since I cannot wait to see and play these game IPs once again in a fresh perspective. I still have a lot of these old Big Box PC games and disks etc.
The Sierra adventure games were my introduction to the world of PC gaming, mostly the Space Quest games. Once I started playing games on the PC, I didn't bother with platforms again. Sort of a dual edged sword--I almost entirely missed out on the game systems of the 90s. Seriously, I rarely touched the SNES or Genesis...I think I watched someone play an N64 a few times...and I don't think I've ever personally laid eyes on a Saturn or a Dreamcast. It's been nice remembering some of the less known games I could not for the life of me remember the title of until finding your channel (Hunter Hunted and Rise of the Dragon, in particular). My main regrets these days are not having many of these titles and the appropriate OS/hardware to run them. From what little experience I've had, it can be challenging or impossible to run games from the early 2ks, let alone the 90s and before, on modern PCs running Windows 10.
THANK YOU METALJESUS!!!!!! Japanese Thexder! I've been looking for THAT VERSION and THAT box since the 80's. No one ever knew what I was talking about. The box is awesome and the game looks awesome and hard as all get out! For that, thank you and.... I forgive you for not showcasing Creep Night or mentioning 3DO. ;). Thanks man.
Leisure Suit Larry 1-6... Hands down some of the craziest, funniest series of games that Sierra made, which I've played back in the early 90s. Al and Ken always made an appearance in those games somewhere.
Oh the memories of the quest games (King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Freddy Pharkas). I remember being in my teens, and going to visit my brother who was 10 years older. We would drink, and play those games all the time. My sister-in-law would come down around 4 in the morning, yelling at him to go to bed. Then they would get up the next morning, and I'd still be playing. I would also mention to them, how they might have some phone charges from calling the Sierra Help Line. I swear I spent some weekends at his place, and only got about 3 hrs total sleep.
Thexder was my first introduction to Classical music. I remember Moonlight Sonata was the theme song. Played that sucker on a Commodore PC 10-2 IBM clone with CGA graphics, 640k of memory, and an Adlib soundcard. That 8088 processor screamed along at 4.77 MHz. I remember the poster that came with Thexder, and had it hanging on my wall. Thank you, +MetalJesusRocks, for that memory!
I loved Sierra games. I remember looking at the back of the boxes and seeing the picture ads that would come up while installing the games that would make you want to buy another one. I remember wanting to get No One Lives Forever XD.
So many radical games. I've never been able to get into PC gaming but I love hearing about retro PC games. The boxes and manuals are always so interesting; old console boxes don't have the same appeal.
I collect big box computer games too! I basically just hunt the local auction site for old games though lately I have been buying through Ebay after arranging forwarding service to ship to my country. I think one of my fondest memory of hunting and finding interesting old games was when I bought a complete in box expansion to Diable called Hellfire because as much as I am into the Diablo series, I honestly never heard about an expansion for the first game! To tie it into this video of yours about Sierra PC games collection, that expansion oddly was not released by Blizzard but it was developed and released by a division of Sierra (It has a logo of Sierra in the bottom). It's quite rare to find nowadays but I don't know if it's worth a lot of money. But when I found it, I was so happy because I never heard about it and it was dirt cheap! 10 bucks or something.
This was one of my favorite MJR videos , hands down. i always love to see classic pc games. thanks for doing what you do every week brother! the (first) sierra age, such a unique time for gaming development.. so nostalgic. roots man. roots.
I saw MetalJesusRocks at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. I wanted to shake his hand but geeked out. That's right, Iraq No Problem but a youtube favorite of mine I bitch out. At least I got Pat the NES punk to Sign my SupaBoy
awesome video! I grew up playing Sierra games. I'm especially fond of the space quest series, I found Space Quest 1 and 5 in bargain bins when I was a kid. I'd like to collect more Sierra big boxes, I mostly have the collections series not the individual boxes.
Really enjoyed the list. Growing up my dad had many of those odd ball games, and I loved to sit and watch him play them. Gold Rush, Man Hunter, Quest for Glory (my favorite), Heart of China, Willy Beamish, Thexder, Larry. I really hope your video sparks some interest in the younger generation to return to the 80s and try some of these old games :)
Awesome video, and the fact you had worked for Sierra made me even more intrigued. I love to find as many retrospective videos of the original Sierra game boxes because being born in '88 I was introduced to Sierra by a friend with older brothers who grew up with sierra and therefore he exposed me to QFG and SQ as a kid but I did not buy the games till the latter part of the 90's, which was kind of the last chance to get the final Sierra game series collection releases and never had the original individual games. When the vga SC1 games, both original and remakes were released and they had also EGA versions of those games, like SQ4 and KQ5 etc., where the EGA versions separate products or just extra floppies included in the typical and more common VGA releases? didn't know if you were able to answer that
I love how the Phantasmagoria box still has the shrink wrap even thought it has obviously been opened and the box itself isn't in the best of conditions.
I got a copy of tribes 2 from my IPT and Metalworking teacher a few years back. Along with a metric ton of older PC games. Apparently the previous teacher had bought a bunch of big box PC games for some reason. They were never used and sat unopened for years until my teacher started giving them away to students who aced a test etc. I love big box PC games and I wish I had more of them.
Space quest was funny?! I was terrified of it when I was a little kid messing around on my grandparents' Tandy. Great video and so cool you were a part of a really unique and awesome era of video game history.
My brother one day surprised me with No One Lives Forever. I couldn't believe how awesome it was- I was obsessed with it. Whenever I got stuck, I just started over. I knew the beginning by heart XD
I'm from the UK, and have always loved big box adventure games, particularly Sierra. Its much harder to collect games by companies such as Legend and Infocom in the UK, because the first big games retailer (GAME) didn't open until 1993-1994. Before then, most PC game shops were independently owned, and it very much depended on whether the owner of the store had a relationship with the UK sales rep for the American companies. Having said that, I've managed to get myself some rare pieces over the years, but there is always a premium for games here because there just aren't as many copies around.
i was huge fanboy of sierra starting with wilderness then kings quest, then space quest.. i was blown away by space quest in 91.. that 3d landspeeder ride was "OMG its 3d!!" moment,.. you should reboot wilderness since it is the OG grand father of survival games which are a huge thing now. i still remember the moment i ate a cannibal as a 10 year old gamer. omg then theres tribes bro, that was my very first online shooter.. you guys are like gods to me.
Robert E Lee: Civil War General, yessss! It seriously got my nerdy butt into gaming. Parent's picked it up at a garage sale for me when I was eleven for $3 knowing how much I enjoyed history. Such an awesome strategy game that got me hooked into strategy games. Still play it to this day. :)
I've never really played PC games when I was young, but the few ones left a mark in my heart. Torin's Passage, Hype The Time Quest and Warzone 2100, such memories
Growing up in the 90's and looking at the pc games sections on eb games and gamestop and even walmart was so impressing that I would had wish I had a pc back then to enjoyed them but my parents couldn't afford one. But at friends house and playing them was awesome experience!
So insanely jealous of your collection. I regret that I no longer have any of the boxes for my old Sierra games. I believe I have a couple of leftover floppies from one of the King's Quest games and that's it. :(
Dude. I've been trying to remember the name of the game Tribes for YEARS. I used to play the shit out of that game with my best friend growing up. I remember loving it so much. I have to go watch some game footage.
I think that at the time, Sierra were one of the GIANTS of the hone computer gaming scene. It brought back so many happy memories looking back at these games - many of which I well renember fondly. However, like anything, Suerra have had their time. They were just right for the period that they were working in. But, to come back now, it just wouldn!t be the same. The box sets were just beautiful though. A lot of love, care and atrention had gone into creating these 'pieces of art' ( because that was what they were). I think, back then though, there was a lot more care and attention that went into the games themselves as well as the artwork on the boxes and maps. For example I, myself, have the original box set to ' Baulder's Gate: Shadows of Ohm ( I think that's how you spell it). I also have the box set to 'Myst' as well. Granted, these are not Sierra games, however they prove my point about the sheer beauty of PC games back then, and how games designers approached the genre from every angle.
No Dr. Brain boxes? I loved that series, but I only played the DOS ones. I just put a video review of Island of Dr. Brain up and I don't think anyone has heard of it! It's a total shame because that game is awesome. I'm really envious of your big box collection there. Buying a Sierra game always meant you were getting a quality product. It really takes me back to my childhood seeing these boxes.
Funny you make this now. I've been feeling very nostalgic for Sierra games lately, been watching The Space Quest Historian play through and he does a lot more on his channel, you should check it out.
Nothing beat walking out of Walden Software with a new Sierra game, can’t forget the highlighter activated hint books, along with a pay per call hint line haha
Im born in 1991 . But i can easily remember myself playing red baron and half life . N counter strike . I really enjoyed grand prix legend . Thanks for this . And love how you capared kiss with new sierra
Just starting to collect some big box PC games, ones I used to have as a kid but.... sold off. argh soo soo dumb. But it's really good to collect for and they just are awesome to look at!!! :) Really cool video would love some more PC BIG BOX videos in the future.
Love collecting big box PC games. You can always seem to get them at thrift stores at your leisure and for super cheap. It isn't my highest priority but I definitely love them for their displayability, the art and the extras that came with old PC games are just really cool features to me.
I have 3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers by "Sierra Attractions" and it is one of my favorite games. I used to play it on my Vista machine, and it worked great. When I got a Windows 7 machine, it didn't work. Now it works on Windows 10! If you ever had a favorite game that you couldn't play, and then be able to play it again, you could share my joy lol
I think my Sierra big box find so far was coming across a copy of Space Quest 2 for $2...and this was late nineties, when you generally just did not see big box stuff from...well, anybody on store shelves. Also, I'm really jealous of that Police Quest 3 box, always loved that "slicing through" artwork of the main baddie ;)
i remember these..we were so poor that all i could do was gawk at my "friend's" collection from afar . he never let me into his room or touch his PC so i used to pretend playing those cool games for a couple of years.
Awesome collection! I worship boxed games! I have to agree with you, Sierra boxed games are so difficult to find! We face the same issue here, in Belgium. But, strangely, if one pops out on eBay, no one really cares about it and I often jump on it :) Nevertheless, I never saw Gold Rush in all those years :D Continue collecting, save them!
Fantastic video right here, I'll never tire of seeing big box PC games being showed off.
And I had no idea that voice-command edition of Aces of the Deep existed! Made a point to collect the rest of the Aces series, but I'll have to track that one down :D
ily lgr
You might be able to find it on one of your Thrifts if you look hard enough.
Red Barron Pizza Tokens still work, thanks for that Clint.
Haha The red baron episode
Ok, Clint, I see you everywhere in comments of videos.
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow was my favorite Sierra game! I finished it over and over!
Great video, Metal Jesus! I love fridays :)
Greetings from Portugal!
Great game.
What’s the difference between the red and blue box of Kings Quest VI ?
I miss Sierra Entertainment. The had some great game franchises, which would fill some holes, in the gaming spectrum, today.
Playing Caesar III for hours is one of my favorite gaming memories.
5:44 that red barron pizza coupon is still valid. LGR used it in one of his videos to get 75c off a pizza haha
Sierra was my absolute favorite gaming company in the 90s. Leisure Suit Larry was the first PC game that I bought for my very first PC. Thanks for these videos. A great walk down memory lane.
Metal Jesus! I just found your website three days ago, curious to find just random collections to peer at while I was eating a sandwich, and fell in love with your videos. Great stuff, wonderful commentary that's perfectly paced and laid back to listen to, great collection too.
This was my favorite time for gaming and sort of an "age of wonder" golden time for me. I was born in 83 so I was about 10 to 16 when I was playing these interesting PC games. I used to love Bullfrog's games (Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet) along with Doom and Duke Nukem. When I got older, I discovered this great selection of FMV Sierra stuff (Beast Within, Phantasmagoria 2) and then got into the old point and click stuff. Brings back memories to see those monster-sized boxes.
Keep up the great work, love your stuff! Thanks for letting me geek out real quick!
I'm a fellow old guy lost in the nostalgia of a more civilized age 👍
I had a lot of these "big box game" boxes up until I moved a couple of years ago. Their imagery really helped you visualize the games and put you in the mood to buy them. I owned "Gold Rush!," "Codename: Iceman," "The Colonel's Bequest," "Rise of the Dragon," the King's Quest series, the Space Quest series and the Police Quest series. These are just the few I can remember. I probably owned about half of Sierra's entire catalogue of games.
Thank you for this video. It's a great reminder of how amazing Sierra was in its day. It's easy to forget that Valve and many other companies in the Seattle area wouldn't exist without Sierra's vision back then. Also, it and Lucasarts invented the humor in games that, while not in the forefront now, permeates video games to this day.
Man it's easy to forget how many Sierra published games I actually bought back in the day. Half Life, Homeworld, NOLF.... PC game boxes in the 90's kicked ass. Wish I still had all the Mechwarriors and I-76 as well.
That Breach 3 box looks fucking amazing! Such good art on those old big boxes.
Oh, man. If it's not all of your Sierra collection, I'd love to see the rest! Thumbs up.
Oh my god, I loved the Sierra Games... and I still love 'em all to this day. My first Let's Play was about the glorious Quest for Glory/Hero's Quest. I stand firm by my opinion that LucasArts/LucasFilm Games and Sierra crafted the best adventure games back in those days. Damn, I envy your collection MetalJesus. You truly rock!
Greetings from Germany,
Osselpi
I sent this video to two of my older brothers who played a lot of these games back in the 80's and 90's they loved the nostalgia.
I loved Sierra Online when I was a kid! Jones in the Fast Lane was one I loved after I had finished all the Quest series! And Dynamix was incredible as well! I'm so glad you mentioned those games! Great video!
Really enjoyed watching this. I had virtually every one of these myself once upon a time. Only a few still here with me.
oh wow! Talk about a trip down memory lane! I still have all of my old Sierra games. As a matter of fact I was just telling my 11 year old about Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmasist. Great Video!
Oh man the nostalgia...the nostalgia.- what a feeling!
My thoughts too...you cannot have what once was, you cannot replace original.
Man, I played a lot of those games growing up. I totally tossed them along with the Packard Bell circa 2000. Thanks man, great memories.
Nice video. I remember many of these very well. Gold Rush was actually one of my fave games back in the day, I played the two first Police Quest, the first King's Quest, Manhunter, and the first two Larry games. Great games.
Besides Oregon Trail and number crunchers in school, first real PC game I played was Space Quest 3, blew me away. Been a Sierra fan ever since, thanks for the video, love the boxes. Favorites are SQ3 & 4, KQ6, LSL7, and all the little gems like Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
I remember playing the Leisure Suit Larry games at my friend's house in the late 80's and early 90's. In 2000 I got the LSL Ultimate Pleasure Pack and got to finally play LSL 6: the Talkie and LSL 7 Love for Sail. Awesome games. Never played any of the Space Quests but my friend had them all and I remember the music being pretty cool. Nice video!
This brought back so many memories. My first game was Gold Rush - I even completed it. Then the Leisure Suit Larry series. I don't have the boxes anymore, but I still have some of the games. Thanks so much for this video!
Great video dude! I scored a shrink-wrapped copy of SQ4CD and SQ3 with the snout and visor off ebay a few years ago, prized possessions indeed! I loved all the goodies the games would come with...the holy grail of my collection though...SQ1EGA with misprinted box! Only 15 bucks from Germany! Some people have no idea what their selling! lol I know you get this a lot but thanks for all the awesome work you did at Sierra! Chainsaw Monday will always be a black day in the history of gaming. Thank God for Kickstarter!
Great collection. Love collecting Sierra and PC Games.
Love it! More people need to know the huge contribution Sierra made to gaming and technology! Graphic adventures, PC gaming, soundcards, CD-ROM, SVGA, FMV, online gaming, hint books, magazines, the idea of game designers as auteurs - Sierra was a pioneer!
I think that Sierra coming back again is an epic event since I cannot wait to see and play these game IPs once again in a fresh perspective. I still have a lot of these old Big Box PC games and disks etc.
The Sierra adventure games were my introduction to the world of PC gaming, mostly the Space Quest games. Once I started playing games on the PC, I didn't bother with platforms again. Sort of a dual edged sword--I almost entirely missed out on the game systems of the 90s. Seriously, I rarely touched the SNES or Genesis...I think I watched someone play an N64 a few times...and I don't think I've ever personally laid eyes on a Saturn or a Dreamcast.
It's been nice remembering some of the less known games I could not for the life of me remember the title of until finding your channel (Hunter Hunted and Rise of the Dragon, in particular).
My main regrets these days are not having many of these titles and the appropriate OS/hardware to run them. From what little experience I've had, it can be challenging or impossible to run games from the early 2ks, let alone the 90s and before, on modern PCs running Windows 10.
You can really appreciate the box art of the older games. Especially those drawn by artist. Interesting
THANK YOU METALJESUS!!!!!! Japanese Thexder! I've been looking for THAT VERSION and THAT box since the 80's. No one ever knew what I was talking about. The box is awesome and the game looks awesome and hard as all get out! For that, thank you and.... I forgive you for not showcasing Creep Night or mentioning 3DO. ;). Thanks man.
Leisure Suit Larry 1-6... Hands down some of the craziest, funniest series of games that Sierra made, which I've played back in the early 90s. Al and Ken always made an appearance in those games somewhere.
Ken sent me
Oh the memories of the quest games (King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Freddy Pharkas). I remember being in my teens, and going to visit my brother who was 10 years older. We would drink, and play those games all the time. My sister-in-law would come down around 4 in the morning, yelling at him to go to bed. Then they would get up the next morning, and I'd still be playing. I would also mention to them, how they might have some phone charges from calling the Sierra Help Line. I swear I spent some weekends at his place, and only got about 3 hrs total sleep.
I appreciate your Sierra content. Very cool that you worked for them. I can understand it's not the same as it was then. Nothing ever is.
Thexder was my first introduction to Classical music. I remember Moonlight Sonata was the theme song. Played that sucker on a Commodore PC 10-2 IBM clone with CGA graphics, 640k of memory, and an Adlib soundcard. That 8088 processor screamed along at 4.77 MHz. I remember the poster that came with Thexder, and had it hanging on my wall. Thank you, +MetalJesusRocks, for that memory!
Wow this was one of the most insightful episodes I've ever watched! Thank you!!
I always appreciate your Sierra videos. I remember playing these games on old compact computers in the late 90s/early 2000s
Awesome collection and video! Im a long time fan of sierra. Grew up on all these games!
I loved Sierra games. I remember looking at the back of the boxes and seeing the picture ads that would come up while installing the games that would make you want to buy another one. I remember wanting to get No One Lives Forever XD.
Space Quest! I had a random thought about games I played as kid, this helped me figure out what it was I played. Thanks!
So many radical games. I've never been able to get into PC gaming but I love hearing about retro PC games. The boxes and manuals are always so interesting; old console boxes don't have the same appeal.
a lot of classics featured in this video, that was really fun to watch
I collect big box computer games too! I basically just hunt the local auction site for old games though lately I have been buying through Ebay after arranging forwarding service to ship to my country.
I think one of my fondest memory of hunting and finding interesting old games was when I bought a complete in box expansion to Diable called Hellfire because as much as I am into the Diablo series, I honestly never heard about an expansion for the first game!
To tie it into this video of yours about Sierra PC games collection, that expansion oddly was not released by Blizzard but it was developed and released by a division of Sierra (It has a logo of Sierra in the bottom). It's quite rare to find nowadays but I don't know if it's worth a lot of money. But when I found it, I was so happy because I never heard about it and it was dirt cheap! 10 bucks or something.
I miss those big box games. Dig the shirt too. Super underrated game!
I didnt know you worked for Sierra!! Dude your even more awesome in my book!
Great video. Space quest was my jam in the 90s.
This was one of my favorite MJR videos , hands down. i always love to see classic pc games. thanks for doing what you do every week brother! the (first) sierra age, such a unique time for gaming development.. so nostalgic. roots man. roots.
Oh, man. That Half-life collector version is indeed awesome. The t-shirt looks great!
I saw MetalJesusRocks at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. I wanted to shake his hand but geeked out. That's right, Iraq No Problem but a youtube favorite of mine I bitch out. At least I got Pat the NES punk to Sign my SupaBoy
awesome video! I grew up playing Sierra games. I'm especially fond of the space quest series, I found Space Quest 1 and 5 in bargain bins when I was a kid. I'd like to collect more Sierra big boxes, I mostly have the collections series not the individual boxes.
Really enjoyed the list. Growing up my dad had many of those odd ball games, and I loved to sit and watch him play them. Gold Rush, Man Hunter, Quest for Glory (my favorite), Heart of China, Willy Beamish, Thexder, Larry. I really hope your video sparks some interest in the younger generation to return to the 80s and try some of these old games :)
King's Quest... I have so many good memories of those games. Space Quest too.
Awesome video, and the fact you had worked for Sierra made me even more intrigued. I love to find as many retrospective videos of the original Sierra game boxes because being born in '88 I was introduced to Sierra by a friend with older brothers who grew up with sierra and therefore he exposed me to QFG and SQ as a kid but I did not buy the games till the latter part of the 90's, which was kind of the last chance to get the final Sierra game series collection releases and never had the original individual games. When the vga SC1 games, both original and remakes were released and they had also EGA versions of those games, like SQ4 and KQ5 etc., where the EGA versions separate products or just extra floppies included in the typical and more common VGA releases? didn't know if you were able to answer that
I love how the Phantasmagoria box still has the shrink wrap even thought it has obviously been opened and the box itself isn't in the best of conditions.
Awesome games , great graphic adventures at that time , i'm still playing some of them and the experience is still great.
I got a copy of tribes 2 from my IPT and Metalworking teacher a few years back. Along with a metric ton of older PC games. Apparently the previous teacher had bought a bunch of big box PC games for some reason. They were never used and sat unopened for years until my teacher started giving them away to students who aced a test etc. I love big box PC games and I wish I had more of them.
Space quest was funny?! I was terrified of it when I was a little kid messing around on my grandparents' Tandy. Great video and so cool you were a part of a really unique and awesome era of video game history.
My brother one day surprised me with No One Lives Forever. I couldn't believe how awesome it was- I was obsessed with it. Whenever I got stuck, I just started over. I knew the beginning by heart XD
Homeworld - one of the best games I ever played.
And oh....Police Quest I on my Amiga...wow...such simple graphics, but so much joy.
Thexder, space quest, and A-10! So many good memories with those!
The band member analogy is spot on!
Nice collection! Wish I had had the cash earlier in life to collect big box games.
I'm from the UK, and have always loved big box adventure games, particularly Sierra. Its much harder to collect games by companies such as Legend and Infocom in the UK, because the first big games retailer (GAME) didn't open until 1993-1994. Before then, most PC game shops were independently owned, and it very much depended on whether the owner of the store had a relationship with the UK sales rep for the American companies. Having said that, I've managed to get myself some rare pieces over the years, but there is always a premium for games here because there just aren't as many copies around.
i was huge fanboy of sierra starting with wilderness then kings quest, then space quest.. i was blown away by space quest in 91.. that 3d landspeeder ride was "OMG its 3d!!" moment,.. you should reboot wilderness since it is the OG grand father of survival games which are a huge thing now. i still remember the moment i ate a cannibal as a 10 year old gamer. omg then theres tribes bro, that was my very first online shooter.. you guys are like gods to me.
The artwork looks beautiful
Robert E Lee: Civil War General, yessss! It seriously got my nerdy butt into gaming. Parent's picked it up at a garage sale for me when I was eleven for $3 knowing how much I enjoyed history. Such an awesome strategy game that got me hooked into strategy games. Still play it to this day. :)
I've never really played PC games when I was young, but the few ones left a mark in my heart. Torin's Passage, Hype The Time Quest and Warzone 2100, such memories
Growing up in the 90's and looking at the pc games sections on eb games and gamestop and even walmart was so impressing that I would had wish I had a pc back then to enjoyed them but my parents couldn't afford one. But at friends house and playing them was awesome experience!
Yep these games were a big part of my teenage years, used to get the hint books with the revealer pen too!
Very awesome my friend! Sierra is one company that makes the best games period!
So insanely jealous of your collection. I regret that I no longer have any of the boxes for my old Sierra games. I believe I have a couple of leftover floppies from one of the King's Quest games and that's it. :(
My top favorites were all shown on here. Leisure suit Larry, Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, and the Caesar games.
Dude. I've been trying to remember the name of the game Tribes for YEARS. I used to play the shit out of that game with my best friend growing up. I remember loving it so much. I have to go watch some game footage.
Sierra had some of the best presentation boxes in the industry, plus manuals / posters etc.
I think that at the time, Sierra were one of the GIANTS of the hone computer gaming scene. It brought back so many happy memories looking back at these games - many of which I well renember fondly.
However, like anything, Suerra have had their time. They were just right for the period that they were working in.
But, to come back now, it just wouldn!t be the same. The box sets were just beautiful though.
A lot of love, care and atrention had gone into creating these 'pieces of art' ( because that was what they were).
I think, back then though, there was a lot more care and attention that went into the games themselves as well as the artwork on the boxes and maps.
For example I, myself, have the original box set to ' Baulder's Gate: Shadows of Ohm ( I think that's how you spell it).
I also have the box set to 'Myst' as well. Granted, these are not Sierra games, however they prove my point about the sheer beauty of PC games back then, and how games designers approached the genre from every angle.
No Dr. Brain boxes? I loved that series, but I only played the DOS ones. I just put a video review of Island of Dr. Brain up and I don't think anyone has heard of it! It's a total shame because that game is awesome.
I'm really envious of your big box collection there. Buying a Sierra game always meant you were getting a quality product. It really takes me back to my childhood seeing these boxes.
I love those big boxes, I have a ton of Sierra box games, it's my #1 collection
Sierra was EPIC. Brought back so many memories!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely love the Space Quest series! Glad to have the boxed version of them. 😊
Best Sierra game EVER, been playing it ever since i was a little kid, After Dark Games!
Did I seriously just wait up til 5 am for the newest Metal Jesus video? Yes, yes I did.
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were you a developer at sierra or what did you do? great vid!
thank you for letting me go back in time, I remember each game... nice collection
Funny you make this now. I've been feeling very nostalgic for Sierra games lately, been watching The Space Quest Historian play through and he does a lot more on his channel, you should check it out.
Nothing beat walking out of Walden Software with a new Sierra game, can’t forget the highlighter activated hint books, along with a pay per call hint line haha
Wow, I have never seen a boxed copy of GK1. It's glorious!
Im born in 1991 . But i can easily remember myself playing red baron and half life . N counter strike . I really enjoyed grand prix legend . Thanks for this . And love how you capared kiss with new sierra
love some of sierra's classic games
Homeworld
Great stuff MJR! I played Phantasmagoria when I was too young lol but it was awesome!
Just starting to collect some big box PC games, ones I used to have as a kid but.... sold off. argh soo soo dumb. But it's really good to collect for and they just are awesome to look at!!! :) Really cool video would love some more PC BIG BOX videos in the future.
You rock Metal Jesus!! Thx for all the badass content man....
Every time Metal Jesus releases a new video, I think to myself, "That's pretty cool."
I love Sierra games, have been a part of my life from 1988 on
Love collecting big box PC games. You can always seem to get them at thrift stores at your leisure and for super cheap. It isn't my highest priority but I definitely love them for their displayability, the art and the extras that came with old PC games are just really cool features to me.
I have 3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers by "Sierra Attractions" and it is one of my favorite games. I used to play it on my Vista machine, and it worked great. When I got a Windows 7 machine, it didn't work. Now it works on Windows 10! If you ever had a favorite game that you couldn't play, and then be able to play it again, you could share my joy lol
I think my Sierra big box find so far was coming across a copy of Space Quest 2 for $2...and this was late nineties, when you generally just did not see big box stuff from...well, anybody on store shelves.
Also, I'm really jealous of that Police Quest 3 box, always loved that "slicing through" artwork of the main baddie ;)
Wow that Gabriel Knight box brings back memories. Gold!
Oh my god I'm so jealous! Big box collecting is the most fun thing ever!
Love big box pc AND mac games which are way harder to find. Got a copy of Space Quest 3 with the embossed cover a few months back. Good stuff!
i remember these..we were so poor that all i could do was gawk at my "friend's" collection from afar . he never let me into his room or touch his PC so i used to pretend playing those cool games for a couple of years.
Awesome shirt! One of my favorite box arts of all time.
Awesome collection! I worship boxed games! I have to agree with you, Sierra boxed games are so difficult to find! We face the same issue here, in Belgium. But, strangely, if one pops out on eBay, no one really cares about it and I often jump on it :) Nevertheless, I never saw Gold Rush in all those years :D Continue collecting, save them!