I really miss these days in gaming. The days when you got an entire game with a full length manual, and maybe a map with some other goodies. These days you're lucky if you even get a full game with a digital download. You get way less for your money anymore, and its a sad thing.
Yes and no. We did tend to get more in the box, but the cost of production and development was a lot lower while game costs were often, with inflation, at least as expensive as today. I'd kill for non-CE physical boxed editions that had some cool manuals and stuff.
You should definitely play Monkey Island 3. It's available on GOG and works on windows 10 no problems. If you liked the first two, the third is very different looking, but the humour is genuinely second to none and it's a fantastic and really fun game. Highly reccommended.
It was so good. The other one I had was LucasArts Archives volume 3 which had Full Throttle, Afterlife, The Dig... but I haven't been able to get my hands on one for the collection.
@@Cannotbetamed1 I wish this genre was updated to modern times. If nothing I believe point and click puzzle style game mechanics could be implemented in other game styles, would be interesting.
Also 7:44 The London Dungeons is incredible, I went there with my Mum while visiting family over there (She's British I'm American). It's essentially a museum right in downtown London, but it's built up around the partially ruined _actual_ dungeons that were used to imprison and torture people way back in the day, and they're HUGE. So you walk down these rows of real dungeon cells and inside each is animatronic people or sometimes wax figures of people being tortured in all the messed up ways we used to do it. And around each cell are display cases with the real implements of said torture - thumb screws, brands ... all manner of artifacts of pain and brutality. That was a very memorable trip for me as a young teenager 😁. I ate that shit up at the time haha. But it really is very informative and an awesome mix of horrorshow and edifying museum. Highly recommended if you're ever in London!
wow, what a great video. i really love how you tell stories about your games. and i like that you admit that you don't really care about some things some people would find crucial. i find it's a great approach and shows people that if you want to be into this or any other hobby, you can do so on your own terms! very empowering :)
Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite of the entire series. It aged extremely well and it's always a joy to replay. I showed 5 minutes of the game to my daughter and she also fell in love with it.
Love love love big box pc games. Thanks for sharing. I remember my dad taking me to virgin megastore in dublin as a kid and being in heaven with all the vibrant box art 👍
I really enjoyed this video. So many great memories came back when you showed "Under the Killing Moon." I remember that being such a great game. I still have the original cd case, but the discs are nowhere to be found sadly. A few others I remember enjoying a lot back then were The 7th Guest and its sequel The 11th Hour, Phantasmagoria, Kings Quest 6, and Dracula Unleashed.
We still get frills for games, but nowadays they are mostly virtual frills in the form of MP3 soundtracks, PDF artbooks, and the likes. Physical frills, especially high quality ones, are rare today. I remember King's Quest came with a hint book and an invisible pen to reveal hints. Magic Carpet came with 3D glasses for the game's 3D mode. Many flight sim games came with elaborate pilot hand books. All the physical knick knacks we used to get are what we miss most today.
Over 40 minutes Pam talking about her Big Box PC games collection? I can not be tamed to finally watch this! Especially because we have a similar taste of old CRPGs and Point & Click Adventures. 👍
My access to non-educational pc games was pretty limited as a kid. So, I totally had that Carmen San Diego game! It was so interesting (and nostalgic) to see your collection...even if I’ve only played a few of these titles! Thanks for sharing :)
I used to love seeing these big PC boxes at the defunct store Babbages! The box art was amazing, I think I bought the first Gabriel Knight just because of the box art lol.
I'll say it - I was glad when PC games moved to the DVD case standard, the big boxes were cool and all but they just took up so much space. The good ones were totally worth it, but I also remember so many that were just a big empty box with a couple of discs and a small manual rattling round inside . . .
There is a bit of a balance needed. I like having my little collection of big boxes but I wouldn’t want every game I bought to be in a big box. Who has the space for that? It’s why all the boxes from the 90s got thrown away
The only boxes I keep are the ones for Thief and System Shock 2 from my idolized Looking Glass Studios, and the ancient Darkseed featuring the work of H. R. Giger for the Amiga, which is beautiful. The most amazing cases I remember were two games for the Magnavox Odyssey 2, Quest for the Rings and Conquest of the World. They included boards, pieces and keyboard overlays that you had to use concurrently with the games, which were great for that time.
My first physical copy of a game was an edutainment puzzle-adventure game called inventive thinking that I got for my birthday, I fell in love with it and played it with my friend for days. I wish I had the adventures collection, it looks very nice! Very good video.
FUCK YEAH QUEST FOR GLORY 💜💜 That series isn't what got me into gaming but Hero's Quest 1 was what turned gaming into a *passion* for me, and the medieval-fantasy setting as my favorite setting, and reading, and role-playing... and what got this programmer obsessed with computers in general! 💜
i think my favorite game box set was for Morrowind. the map was amazingly detailed and i used it to find many crypts and caves in the actual game (many things were drawn on the map without being labeled).
My very first big box was Planescape Torment. As you can see on my channel in Poland we got in the box : 4cd polish version, soundtrack, mousepad, manual, poster, tshirt and guide. It was packed.
Glad to hear you saying you do not care too much about the discs, as I realized when organizing my hundreds of big box games that even the games where the CDs had gone missing were probably still worth something, haha.
When I was a kid I had a Transformers the Movie sticker/puzzle book and it had those pages where you used the red plastic thing to decode it. Your video brought back some memories I wanted to share:) Also your makeup looks nice
The industry went from big box filled with goodies, to big box with no goodies, to small box, to no box. Existing big boxes with goodies are guaranteed to fetch good prices on Ebay, such as my "id Anthology" box set I bought for $125 in 1996 but is now worth hundreds. 20-30 years ago you were EXPECTED to read the manual before playing the game, so many games included thick manuals, reference cards, etc. When players stopped reading manuals, games stopped including them. That was the start of the emptying of the big box which led to small box, and the end of an era.
I threw away most of my old boxes including most Sierra adventures from the 80s. I had no idea that they'd be valuable some day. But I still have Baldur's Gate 1 und 2, Icewind Dale 1 and Ultima IX in the original boxes with maps and manuals.
I was a kid (middle school) when we had those Sierra/LucasArts games and although I valued the hell out of things like that "Adventurer's Manual" from QFG1, eventually they were relegated to the "disused memorabilia" corner of the closet and they disappeared (in a landfill). I gave away two paper shopping bags of my childhood NES carts in the late 90s because at the time they were just sitting there and a guy at work said he was working on building his NES "museum".
Maniac Mansion!!! Loved that demential game ♥ I do still wait for a remaster for the saga! Or maybe the universe stopped and dissapeared after the day of the tentacle?
I downloaded secret to monkey island on xbox live recently, i played it on my pc when I was young, and that game is still fun and funny to this day! And I loved Gabriel Knight 2, great collection!
Really enjoyed this! I didn't have a PC when I was younger, sadly, and I remember always being a bit envious of my friends who did have them. You could play games on a computer that just weren't available on consoles back then. and that gave PC gaming -- and those glorious big boxes the games came in -- a mystique all its own. Awesome job, as ever. At over 40 minutes, I know this one had to be a lot of work for you to make, but it's a joy to watch. ^.^
My big box collection is small these days, used to have a bunch. I have some that I saved, and some that I fiound at thrift stores. I have Baldurs Gate II also. Nice to be able to watch a friendly personality talking about common interests during these difficult times. Thanks again.
If you like point-and-click adventure games, you'll love Curse of Monkey Island. It's a flawless game IMO. Easily a top 10 adventure game of all time, if not top 3. The art, voice acting, story, and puzzles are all really fun.
What strikes me most about this is how focused you were on point-and-click/adventure, and RPGs back in the day. My early PC gaming (mid-late 90's, early 2000's) was split fairly evenly between isometric RPGs, FPS, RTS and strategy. I think the only PnC I played was Monkey Island? I knew of the Sierra games, Kings/Space/Police Quest etc, and I had heard of some of the LucasArts ones like Indiana Jones but I never prioritised them. Like you, most of my platforming, run-and-gun, action-adventure gaming only happened on console until about 10-15 years ago. Some genres, like fighting, racing, and sports, I have only ever played on console. I know the line has blurred a lot between PC and console gaming now so I really should branch out more.
I still think of certain games as PC Games and others as console games. Point and Click, isometric RPG and most business or survival simulation-type games seem to belong on PC.
Ahhh the interface in King's Quest 7 threw me so badly I don't know that I gave it a full chance. Also, yay for the freaking characters being fully clothed on the box! >.< And urgh, I hate that that's rare enough to be something that we have to celebrate!
ual! you could have an abandonware museum in your home, i found all the collections amazing, but especially the first one with maniac mansion. I have great memories of that game, it was the first point n click that I finished (NES version although I always wanted to play the PC)
Nice collection! Got me thinking of all the big box PC games I had as a kid, I don't understand why I got rid of all those games... ALSO! Good soundmix in this video with music from the respective game in the background! :)
I really miss game boxes. I miss being able to buy them without having to fork out tons of money for the physical CE versions, which are becoming even more rare as a thing now. Only ones I have now are some of the Blizzard ones, Skyrim, and Guild Wars 2. I had a whole set of the gold boxed AD&D games from back in the day to BG2 and D2. They looked so great on shelves!
This may be another level of nostalgia speaking here but, sometimes when I break out the old 1994 X-Men card collection or some game boxes or manuals, I....smell them. That brings me back to opening them for the first time. Call me weird.
I remember coveting a voodoo 3 graphics card so i could play quake, £80 - 90 back in the 90s. If i recall half life was my first ever pc game, many hours spent on it
I really like your channel. I love to watch channels on old games and old synthesizers, there is something cute about people being nostalgic about great things from the past. You are up there with Pushing Up Roses. Look Mum No Computer and Espen Kraft! Good work!
Haha, wow! You’re making me want to play almost all these again! Wow, 5.25 floppy disks, takin’ it way back 👍 will have do see what’s on GOG for sure! The Goblins games were awesome too!
Disco Elysium beating Planescape: Torment for the # 1 position??? Say it ain't so, Pam! I actually have Disco, and I plan on playing it real soon. That X-Files box is awwwwwwwesome! Little file folder disc holders, I love it! Cool collection! A nice boxed game I have is Wasteland 2, for backing the game. I don't know how easy it is to find now, but it came with a really soft cloth map and a small spiral-bound manual. I have to finish that game someday...
I was hooked on the Might & Magic games VI, VII, VII and IX. Finally becoming a lich in game VII, For Blood and Honor, always stands out in my memory as a triumph! Still have the boxes and strategy guides.
Really enjoyed this video! I was very much a PC girl in the 90s (well, between the NES and Xbox) and it makes me sad that there is not so much attention on collecting these and that they can be annoyingly hard to get. Luckily I still have all my childhood games in box, but a lot were from budget reissue ranges. Some real classics here - Baldur's Gate 2 and Theme Hospital are two of my all time faves.
awesome collection, absolutely loved those big box games. Unfortunately some of the ones i had started deteroriating too much and i thought to replace them with some plastic vhs-like boxes but cannot find them online big enough
For anyone with the Steam version of Gabriel Knight 3, if you go to the little cog icon to Manage, you can click Browse Local Files... and there should be a PDF of the Prologue graphic novel ( 17:45 ) in one of the folders.
That part at the beginning I had to listen to a couple of times because it sounded like you were saying, "Whether I was playing any ass", and then I realised that you were saying, "Whether I was playing NES" :D
The story of Counter Strike: Sierra were the original publishers of HL, before Valve struck out on their own. CS is a HL mod that Valve quickly acquired and sold as a HL title for a few years. CS and it's developers are now a standalone Valve IP.
saying this to anyone thats thinking on getting into big box collection if you can find just the box keep it as thats the part that most likly been lost from a kit. peaple did decent saving the game and cd case, maybe the critical game manual and map. the free adverticment flier thats gone for the most part. the box have been cleared out by ones mom soon after the game was bought when it was released.
Thanks a lot for sharing your collection. :) Woud love to see more videos from you, talking about them. For me, Planescape: Torment is the best role playing game, besides Gothic, I have ever played, so it would be quite interesting to see a retro review from you about the strange journey of the nameless one! Even if its not the easiest game to review! :)
OK; you know how I work: when you list, I list choice bits! *1. Baldur's Gate(s):* I was fortunate enough to start with BG I and get II and Throne of Bhaal as soon as they came out, which is good as they use the "each game is higher-level than the last" system used in the Gold Box AD&D games of the 80s. In AD&D most of the traditional fantasy foes can be dealt with at 8th Level or less, so Baldur's Gate (which started you at 1st Level) had more of a "bright adventure for young (twentysomething) heroes" feel than its sequel, which was a bit loaded down with high-level virtually-insta-kill magics and monsters (as the game started at ~7th/8th Level). Throne of Bhaal starts you off at mega-high level (~16+) and thus it's somewhat amusing how easily your demi-godly party can still be smushed by Fire Giants! It also has some extra-planar elements, but I agree that they were much better handled in *Planescape: Torment.* *2. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura:* When I was in High School (well, an Academy, but I digress) I had made a campaign world in which magic-users were at war with technology users, so this game intrigued me so much that I almost considered playing it (I never claimed to be much of a gamer girl lol). Speaking of which, I would like to see a woman play this game if only to see what the dress equipment looks like (all the playthroughs/reviews I saw were dudes wearing tuxes), so if you thusly give it another go, I'll be watching! *3. Blade Runner:* Most noteworthy for me is that the role of love-interest/heroine Rachel Rosen is actually reprised by *Mary Sean Young* (credited in the movie as "Sean Young" because they'd rather give her a man's name than use the name "Mary" for some reason). I would like to see you have a go at it! *4. Diablo II:* I can totally relate to your concerns about the game. I played the Paladin and wanted the sword Azurewrath and the Angel's Raiment armour set until I played through the game and only ever got ONE THING of that level of rarity to drop: a Barbarian Hauberk I couldn't even use! It looks grotesquely beautiful but is a BLOODBATH GRIND FEST; I'm glad I played through it once but never even bothered getting Lord of Destruction, let alone playing through it a second time. The few story-based cutscenes were cool, though.
I'd like to play Arcanum again but every time I try to go back to it I'm driven away by the awful combat. The skill system is so cool, but the combat is garbage. Maybe there's a mod or something I can find to make it suck less.
I've owned two pc "big box" games: War Wind (never played beyond startup) and Tomb Raider Gold (the only TR game that I have played and completed). Keyboards are hard to play games with. >_< I've also owned Claw and Death Gate, but those were gifts and not in the boxes. The latter is a fun adventure game. Would recommend.
Nice collection! You should join the Big Box PC Games Collrctors group on Facebook, very friendly community and you might find some of the missing bits for your boxes.
Great video as always! That brings back some sweet memories (when you could read the manuals while installing the games ^^') and makes me want to play some of these again. Lands of Lore was the first PC game I ever owned (I had it in a package with Broken Sword) and i am thrilled that you might do a video about it :)
@@Cannotbetamed1 no argument here.. i just never had them on a PC.. more NES, SNES and N64 then sporadic jumping in and out of games but I missed out on a lot
1st ind had one of the best games EVER!! Monkey island! The remastered editions were great! I'm STILL WAITING AND DREAMING for a rerelease of The Curse of Monkey island. One of the best games EVER! Up there with Castlevania SOTN, Super Metroid, Goldeneye 007 and GTA5. It's a perfect game like all those
The cover art on Torment always seemed weird to me, in a game with such powerful, spectacular art! Wow! I've been meaning to give Disco Elysium a try, but you liked it more than Torment!? I need to try it out as soon as I can!
I really miss these days in gaming. The days when you got an entire game with a full length manual, and maybe a map with some other goodies. These days you're lucky if you even get a full game with a digital download. You get way less for your money anymore, and its a sad thing.
Yeah, you need to shell out a lot of extra money for collectors editions for any change of physical things
Yes and no. We did tend to get more in the box, but the cost of production and development was a lot lower while game costs were often, with inflation, at least as expensive as today. I'd kill for non-CE physical boxed editions that had some cool manuals and stuff.
You should definitely play Monkey Island 3. It's available on GOG and works on windows 10 no problems. If you liked the first two, the third is very different looking, but the humour is genuinely second to none and it's a fantastic and really fun game. Highly reccommended.
oh my god the Lucas arts classic game package was life.
It was so good. The other one I had was LucasArts Archives volume 3 which had Full Throttle, Afterlife, The Dig... but I haven't been able to get my hands on one for the collection.
@@Cannotbetamed1 I wish this genre was updated to modern times. If nothing I believe point and click puzzle style game mechanics could be implemented in other game styles, would be interesting.
@@RihannaDahmer agree. Dunno if today's youth could dig the point and click games.
There are some good ones for mobile tho.
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No pandering. That's one thing I appreciate about this channel.
Thanks
Also 7:44 The London Dungeons is incredible, I went there with my Mum while visiting family over there (She's British I'm American).
It's essentially a museum right in downtown London, but it's built up around the partially ruined _actual_ dungeons that were used to imprison and torture people way back in the day, and they're HUGE. So you walk down these rows of real dungeon cells and inside each is animatronic people or sometimes wax figures of people being tortured in all the messed up ways we used to do it. And around each cell are display cases with the real implements of said torture - thumb screws, brands ... all manner of artifacts of pain and brutality.
That was a very memorable trip for me as a young teenager 😁. I ate that shit up at the time haha. But it really is very informative and an awesome mix of horrorshow and edifying museum. Highly recommended if you're ever in London!
Disclosure: not every game collector can afford to have the hardware required to play it, especially for PC.
wow, what a great video. i really love how you tell stories about your games. and i like that you admit that you don't really care about some things some people would find crucial. i find it's a great approach and shows people that if you want to be into this or any other hobby, you can do so on your own terms! very empowering :)
Thank you :)
@@Cannotbetamed1 welcome :)
Theres just something special about old big box pc games. Classic goodness
Those Blade Runner and X-Files boxes look beautiful! PushingUpRoses would be proud of your collection!
:)
Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite of the entire series. It aged extremely well and it's always a joy to replay. I showed 5 minutes of the game to my daughter and she also fell in love with it.
It’s hard to swallow she even owns the big box and never even tried it. It’s got a lot of classic awesome things in it.
Love love love big box pc games. Thanks for sharing. I remember my dad taking me to virgin megastore in dublin as a kid and being in heaven with all the vibrant box art 👍
I miss seeing big box PC games in stores.
I really enjoyed this video. So many great memories came back when you showed "Under the Killing Moon." I remember that being such a great game. I still have the original cd case, but the discs are nowhere to be found sadly. A few others I remember enjoying a lot back then were The 7th Guest and its sequel The 11th Hour, Phantasmagoria, Kings Quest 6, and Dracula Unleashed.
Glad you liked it :)
Chadly loved doom pc game☺️
@@only257 that's funny I don't remember mentioning that game. But you're not wrong. 😄
I love FMV games too. Nice trip down memory lane.
We still get frills for games, but nowadays they are mostly virtual frills in the form of MP3 soundtracks, PDF artbooks, and the likes. Physical frills, especially high quality ones, are rare today. I remember King's Quest came with a hint book and an invisible pen to reveal hints. Magic Carpet came with 3D glasses for the game's 3D mode. Many flight sim games came with elaborate pilot hand books. All the physical knick knacks we used to get are what we miss most today.
Over 40 minutes Pam talking about her Big Box PC games collection? I can not be tamed to finally watch this! Especially because we have a similar taste of old CRPGs and Point & Click Adventures. 👍
This was a great video-thanks for it! I really loved this period of gaming and miss the thoughtful presentation that went with pc big boxes!
My access to non-educational pc games was pretty limited as a kid. So, I totally had that Carmen San Diego game! It was so interesting (and nostalgic) to see your collection...even if I’ve only played a few of these titles! Thanks for sharing :)
No problem.
Big boxes were the pinnacle.
They’re pretty great
Cannot be Tamed huge x files fan😉
I used to love seeing these big PC boxes at the defunct store Babbages! The box art was amazing, I think I bought the first Gabriel Knight just because of the box art lol.
The box art could be a real draw. More so than on console games.
I'll say it - I was glad when PC games moved to the DVD case standard, the big boxes were cool and all but they just took up so much space. The good ones were totally worth it, but I also remember so many that were just a big empty box with a couple of discs and a small manual rattling round inside . . .
There is a bit of a balance needed. I like having my little collection of big boxes but I wouldn’t want every game I bought to be in a big box. Who has the space for that? It’s why all the boxes from the 90s got thrown away
What great collection you have. And such great packaging those old classic titles had. Amazingly cool!
Thanks!
The only boxes I keep are the ones for Thief and System Shock 2 from my idolized Looking Glass Studios, and the ancient Darkseed featuring the work of H. R. Giger for the Amiga, which is beautiful. The most amazing cases I remember were two games for the Magnavox Odyssey 2, Quest for the Rings and Conquest of the World. They included boards, pieces and keyboard overlays that you had to use concurrently with the games, which were great for that time.
My first physical copy of a game was an edutainment puzzle-adventure game called inventive thinking that I got for my birthday, I fell in love with it and played it with my friend for days.
I wish I had the adventures collection, it looks very nice! Very good video.
Thanks!
FUCK YEAH QUEST FOR GLORY 💜💜 That series isn't what got me into gaming but Hero's Quest 1 was what turned gaming into a *passion* for me, and the medieval-fantasy setting as my favorite setting, and reading, and role-playing... and what got this programmer obsessed with computers in general! 💜
i think my favorite game box set was for Morrowind. the map was amazingly detailed and i used it to find many crypts and caves in the actual game (many things were drawn on the map without being labeled).
My very first big box was Planescape Torment. As you can see on my channel in Poland we got in the box : 4cd polish version, soundtrack, mousepad, manual, poster, tshirt and guide. It was packed.
I miss the feelies, demos, and buzzwords. Thanks for sharing your shelf candy!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Glad to hear you saying you do not care too much about the discs, as I realized when organizing my hundreds of big box games that even the games where the CDs had gone missing were probably still worth something, haha.
For sure they probably are. I'm sure there are a bunch of people trying to piece together boxes.
When I was a kid I had a Transformers the Movie sticker/puzzle book and it had those pages where you used the red plastic thing to decode it. Your video brought back some memories I wanted to share:) Also your makeup looks nice
Thank you
Theme hospital was amazing, and at least as a kid could be quite difficult at the later levels.
Omg yes Beast Within is one of the best FMV games of all time along with Tex Murphy! I play Gabriel 1 and 2 annually they're so fantastic.
The industry went from big box filled with goodies, to big box with no goodies, to small box, to no box. Existing big boxes with goodies are guaranteed to fetch good prices on Ebay, such as my "id Anthology" box set I bought for $125 in 1996 but is now worth hundreds. 20-30 years ago you were EXPECTED to read the manual before playing the game, so many games included thick manuals, reference cards, etc. When players stopped reading manuals, games stopped including them. That was the start of the emptying of the big box which led to small box, and the end of an era.
Your glasses lenses are so green from a light or something! My favorite color is green 💗
I think it’s from the anti-glare coating... which doesn’t seem to be doing it’s job very well
I threw away most of my old boxes including most Sierra adventures from the 80s. I had no idea that they'd be valuable some day. But I still have Baldur's Gate 1 und 2, Icewind Dale 1 and Ultima IX in the original boxes with maps and manuals.
I wish I had kept all my boxes
I was a kid (middle school) when we had those Sierra/LucasArts games and although I valued the hell out of things like that "Adventurer's Manual" from QFG1, eventually they were relegated to the "disused memorabilia" corner of the closet and they disappeared (in a landfill). I gave away two paper shopping bags of my childhood NES carts in the late 90s because at the time they were just sitting there and a guy at work said he was working on building his NES "museum".
Incredible big boxes! Your LucasArts Collection is awesome too!!
You and MJR make this look like a lot of fun.
Maniac Mansion!!! Loved that demential game ♥ I do still wait for a remaster for the saga! Or maybe the universe stopped and dissapeared after the day of the tentacle?
I downloaded secret to monkey island on xbox live recently, i played it on my pc when I was young, and that game is still fun and funny to this day! And I loved Gabriel Knight 2, great collection!
Really enjoyed this! I didn't have a PC when I was younger, sadly, and I remember always being a bit envious of my friends who did have them. You could play games on a computer that just weren't available on consoles back then. and that gave PC gaming -- and those glorious big boxes the games came in -- a mystique all its own.
Awesome job, as ever. At over 40 minutes, I know this one had to be a lot of work for you to make, but it's a joy to watch. ^.^
Thank you! These are nice because they don't require any writing, but it did take a long time to film and edit.
Aw damn. I used to play Lands of Lore waaaaaaaay back in the day. You're bringing back some great memories with my friends.
:)
The story of how I saved the world IS the best of your collection
My big box collection is small these days, used to have a bunch. I have some that I saved, and some that I fiound at thrift stores. I have Baldurs Gate II also. Nice to be able to watch a friendly personality talking about common interests during these difficult times. Thanks again.
No problem :)
If you like point-and-click adventure games, you'll love Curse of Monkey Island. It's a flawless game IMO. Easily a top 10 adventure game of all time, if not top 3. The art, voice acting, story, and puzzles are all really fun.
good lord the BG2 and Torment boxes are so beautiful. also cool to hear love for Disco Elysium!
What strikes me most about this is how focused you were on point-and-click/adventure, and RPGs back in the day. My early PC gaming (mid-late 90's, early 2000's) was split fairly evenly between isometric RPGs, FPS, RTS and strategy. I think the only PnC I played was Monkey Island? I knew of the Sierra games, Kings/Space/Police Quest etc, and I had heard of some of the LucasArts ones like Indiana Jones but I never prioritised them. Like you, most of my platforming, run-and-gun, action-adventure gaming only happened on console until about 10-15 years ago. Some genres, like fighting, racing, and sports, I have only ever played on console. I know the line has blurred a lot between PC and console gaming now so I really should branch out more.
I still think of certain games as PC Games and others as console games. Point and Click, isometric RPG and most business or survival simulation-type games seem to belong on PC.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Agreed.
Great collection Pam!! Hope you continue to make it grow and so does your channel!!! :)
Thank you
Ahhh the interface in King's Quest 7 threw me so badly I don't know that I gave it a full chance.
Also, yay for the freaking characters being fully clothed on the box! >.< And urgh, I hate that that's rare enough to be something that we have to celebrate!
Omg, there's so much more information about the Counter-Strike I could have shared. So many memories! Thanks for including it in your lineup!
No problem
What a great collection! Love your content, have a wonderful day!
Thanks, you too
ual! you could have an abandonware museum in your home, i found all the collections amazing, but especially the first one with maniac mansion.
I have great memories of that game, it was the first point n click that I finished (NES version although I always wanted to play the PC)
It’s such a fun game with an eccentric cast of characters.
I've never been much of a pc gamer myself but its still nice to see which games mean the most to you and your man's gaming tastes.
Lucas arts classic is the same box I got back in the 90's. So great, I bought 2!
Love these longer vids, I find it less forced and more natural.
Thanks for taking the time to share your interests
No problem
Nice collection! Got me thinking of all the big box PC games I had as a kid, I don't understand why I got rid of all those games...
ALSO! Good soundmix in this video with music from the respective game in the background! :)
Thanks!
Beatuiful collection and awesoma design of these box!!!
Thank you
Hi, Pam. I like several of those games you have in your collection.
I really miss game boxes. I miss being able to buy them without having to fork out tons of money for the physical CE versions, which are becoming even more rare as a thing now. Only ones I have now are some of the Blizzard ones, Skyrim, and Guild Wars 2. I had a whole set of the gold boxed AD&D games from back in the day to BG2 and D2. They looked so great on shelves!
This may be another level of nostalgia speaking here but, sometimes when I break out the old 1994 X-Men card collection or some game boxes or manuals, I....smell them. That brings me back to opening them for the first time. Call me weird.
I remember coveting a voodoo 3 graphics card so i could play quake, £80 - 90 back in the 90s. If i recall half life was my first ever pc game, many hours spent on it
I really like your channel. I love to watch channels on old games and old synthesizers, there is something cute about people being nostalgic about great things from the past. You are up there with Pushing Up Roses. Look Mum No Computer and Espen Kraft! Good work!
Thanks!
Nothing can beat the late 90s/early 00s RPG boxes.
They felt like treasure boxes.
just started collecting bog box pc games, love the whole packaging and content inside. favourite to collect for.
I do find them the most satisfying.
Again, impressed with your gamer creds 😊. Great games and great times !
:)
Haha, wow! You’re making me want to play almost all these again! Wow, 5.25 floppy disks, takin’ it way back 👍 will have do see what’s on GOG for sure! The Goblins games were awesome too!
Disco Elysium beating Planescape: Torment for the # 1 position??? Say it ain't so, Pam! I actually have Disco, and I plan on playing it real soon. That X-Files box is awwwwwwwesome! Little file folder disc holders, I love it! Cool collection! A nice boxed game I have is Wasteland 2, for backing the game. I don't know how easy it is to find now, but it came with a really soft cloth map and a small spiral-bound manual. I have to finish that game someday...
For best RPG, not necessarily favorite game. I love cloth maps! I got one in a Dragon Age game, I think.
I need to get few of those also. That's how my gaming adventures started. The boxes, the manuals were so good back in the day!
I miss manuals
I was hooked on the Might & Magic games VI, VII, VII and IX. Finally becoming a lich in game VII, For Blood and Honor, always stands out in my memory as a triumph! Still have the boxes and strategy guides.
This is reminding me of how sad I am that I've let partners talk me into throwing out my PC big boxes...
Love that dark/light angel picture behind you.
Awesome collection! Thanks for sharing!! :D
No problem :)
Really enjoyed this video! I was very much a PC girl in the 90s (well, between the NES and Xbox) and it makes me sad that there is not so much attention on collecting these and that they can be annoyingly hard to get. Luckily I still have all my childhood games in box, but a lot were from budget reissue ranges. Some real classics here - Baldur's Gate 2 and Theme Hospital are two of my all time faves.
That's cool you still have your childhood games. I wish I had kept more of mine.
awesome collection, absolutely loved those big box games. Unfortunately some of the ones i had started deteroriating too much and i thought to replace them with some plastic vhs-like boxes but cannot find them online big enough
It is difficult to keep the pc boxes in good condition. I'm afraid mine are going to get sun faded.
For anyone with the Steam version of Gabriel Knight 3, if you go to the little cog icon to Manage, you can click Browse Local Files... and there should be a PDF of the Prologue graphic novel ( 17:45 ) in one of the folders.
That part at the beginning I had to listen to a couple of times because it sounded like you were saying, "Whether I was playing any ass", and then I realised that you were saying, "Whether I was playing NES" :D
Nice. That was the Sandiego I used to play in school. Grays Geography Almanac... duped into geography.
Killer collection! This must have been a ton of work, solid music choices for each section! Keep it up
Thanks!
That D2 manual tho. I miss having all the cool art from pc games.
I miss the days when games came in big boxes full of neat stuff and a "bible" of a manual.
Me too
@@Cannotbetamed1 Good memories. :)
Diablo perfect game..!!!
The x-files game top....!!!
Só faltou o game "Doom" na coleção!
Show sua coleção..!!!
👏👏
The story of Counter Strike: Sierra were the original publishers of HL, before Valve struck out on their own. CS is a HL mod that Valve quickly acquired and sold as a HL title for a few years. CS and it's developers are now a standalone Valve IP.
Interesting! Thanks for the info
Remember when games came with cool manuals? Those were the days.
Ah, big box PC games. Sigh... The good old days. One of the "they don't make 'em like they used to" things that is actually true.
Watching this really makes me regret selling all my old games. Why oh WHY!! Great video though! :)
Thanks!
There's an almost ASMR thing going on with you leafing through booklets over there in the corner. I would absolutely watch a Pam ASMR video.
I was thinking about making a video or two where I read game manuals.
@@Cannotbetamed1 Count me in!
This is an awesome video, thank you for putting it together.
You’re welcome
Hahaha, I totally get you about other RPGs feeling inferior after Planescape :D
saying this to anyone thats thinking on getting into big box collection if you can find just the box keep it as thats the part that most likly been lost from a kit.
peaple did decent saving the game and cd case, maybe the critical game manual and map.
the free adverticment flier thats gone for the most part.
the box have been cleared out by ones mom soon after the game was bought when it was released.
Awesome Swag there Pam. I use to watch X-Files with no lights on.
Thanks a lot for sharing your collection. :) Woud love to see more videos from you, talking about them. For me, Planescape: Torment is the best role playing game, besides Gothic, I have ever played, so it would be quite interesting to see a retro review from you about the strange journey of the nameless one! Even if its not the easiest game to review! :)
It is hard! Hats why I haven’t done it
OK; you know how I work: when you list, I list choice bits!
*1. Baldur's Gate(s):* I was fortunate enough to start with BG I and get II and Throne of Bhaal as soon as they came out, which is good as they use the "each game is higher-level than the last" system used in the Gold Box AD&D games of the 80s. In AD&D most of the traditional fantasy foes can be dealt with at 8th Level or less, so Baldur's Gate (which started you at 1st Level) had more of a "bright adventure for young (twentysomething) heroes" feel than its sequel, which was a bit loaded down with high-level virtually-insta-kill magics and monsters (as the game started at ~7th/8th Level). Throne of Bhaal starts you off at mega-high level (~16+) and thus it's somewhat amusing how easily your demi-godly party can still be smushed by Fire Giants! It also has some extra-planar elements, but I agree that they were much better handled in *Planescape: Torment.*
*2. Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura:* When I was in High School (well, an Academy, but I digress) I had made a campaign world in which magic-users were at war with technology users, so this game intrigued me so much that I almost considered playing it (I never claimed to be much of a gamer girl lol). Speaking of which, I would like to see a woman play this game if only to see what the dress equipment looks like (all the playthroughs/reviews I saw were dudes wearing tuxes), so if you thusly give it another go, I'll be watching!
*3. Blade Runner:* Most noteworthy for me is that the role of love-interest/heroine Rachel Rosen is actually reprised by *Mary Sean Young* (credited in the movie as "Sean Young" because they'd rather give her a man's name than use the name "Mary" for some reason). I would like to see you have a go at it!
*4. Diablo II:* I can totally relate to your concerns about the game. I played the Paladin and wanted the sword Azurewrath and the Angel's Raiment armour set until I played through the game and only ever got ONE THING of that level of rarity to drop: a Barbarian Hauberk I couldn't even use! It looks grotesquely beautiful but is a BLOODBATH GRIND FEST; I'm glad I played through it once but never even bothered getting Lord of Destruction, let alone playing through it a second time. The few story-based cutscenes were cool, though.
I'd like to play Arcanum again but every time I try to go back to it I'm driven away by the awful combat. The skill system is so cool, but the combat is garbage. Maybe there's a mod or something I can find to make it suck less.
That is awesome collection
Thanks
I've owned two pc "big box" games: War Wind (never played beyond startup) and Tomb Raider Gold (the only TR game that I have played and completed). Keyboards are hard to play games with. >_< I've also owned Claw and Death Gate, but those were gifts and not in the boxes. The latter is a fun adventure game. Would recommend.
Nice collection! You should join the Big Box PC Games Collrctors group on Facebook, very friendly community and you might find some of the missing bits for your boxes.
I think I am in that group. Or was.
"Big boxes! Big games! Big...! I love it!"
I'm really enjoying your videos. :)
Thanks!
the third monkey island is actually pretty good
Great video as always! That brings back some sweet memories (when you could read the manuals while installing the games ^^') and makes me want to play some of these again.
Lands of Lore was the first PC game I ever owned (I had it in a package with Broken Sword) and i am thrilled that you might do a video about it :)
I'm very interested in the history of RPG games but I actually only completed two pre-1996 rpg's: Ultima I and Lands of Lore I
Thanks! I really need to set aside the time to play it again so I can make a video
I miss these older games. I only played a few PC games but Age of Empires was a fun time... Prepared me well for other games like it later on
I never got into Age of Empires, tried it a couple times. I always liked turn based strategy better.
@@Cannotbetamed1 no argument here.. i just never had them on a PC.. more NES, SNES and N64 then sporadic jumping in and out of games but I missed out on a lot
1st ind had one of the best games EVER!!
Monkey island!
The remastered editions were great!
I'm STILL WAITING AND DREAMING for a rerelease of The Curse of Monkey island.
One of the best games EVER!
Up there with Castlevania SOTN, Super Metroid, Goldeneye 007 and GTA5.
It's a perfect game like all those
The cover art on Torment always seemed weird to me, in a game with such powerful, spectacular art!
Wow! I've been meaning to give Disco Elysium a try, but you liked it more than Torment!? I need to try it out as soon as I can!
Love your videos Pam.
Thanks!
I’m sure you def got MetalJesusRocks attention. 😝❤️