Octopus Overlords

Peacedog wrote:Moby games is pwning you guys.

They must not block box covers.. because mine are all direct images from Moby. Either that or I just have the images cached.. heh

where do you get the Psygnosis cover scans? it just occurred to me i should have a rotation of Roger Dean pieces as my desktop...

hitbyambulance wrote:where do you get the Psygnosis cover scans? it just occurred to me i should have a rotation of Roger Dean pieces as my desktop...

I just did a google image search on "Brataccas" in my case.

One of my old school favorites...



Too bad I can't find a picture of the cover of the original Test Drive.. one of the first games I ever had. Back on my 5.25" floppy.

Ooh... Here's a *CLASSIC* I had this on my 8086 (or was it an 8088? I can't remember..) back in the day.

OH hell yeah. I had TV Sports: Basketball..

Anyone remember this classic (I can't find the cover for it.. but it's an old school favorite of mine.. again on pc).



Karateka!

And you can't go wrong with any of the old school Sierra classics...

Anyone remember this classic (I can't find the cover for it.. but it's an old school favorite of mine.. again on pc).

I certainly remember Karateka, although I prefer the C64 version which has more colors than blue white & purple.

Karateka is one of the first games to attempt a really cinematic style, although it's not the first to use cutscenes (I think Pac Man wins that honor).

Atheist wrote:One of my old school favorites...
Too bad I can't find a picture of the cover of the original Test Drive.. one of the first games I ever had. Back on my 5.25" floppy.

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi ... _ID=851950

Get ready for the ultimate street racing experience with TEST DRIVE for the PC. Race through four international cities in more than 20 high-end sports cars as you sprint for the checkered flag and all the glory that goes with it. Remember, though, you'll have to watch out for more than just the competition: traffic, pedestrians, and especially the cops who can take you out of a race in a split second if you aren't careful. The excitement, intensity, and danger of street racing are yours for the taking with TEST DRIVE.

Four international cities? Is that what they called the gas stations? And what? All of them connected by a mountain that was always on the right side? Hehehehe.

I loved that game. But I don't remember any pedestrians.. The cops I do remember.

In keeping with the upcoming release of it's latest incarnation:

OMG, Loderunner!

Damn, Loderunner was a great game!

Not sure if these will work, but here goes:

EDIT 2: Fixed.

Wow, two pages worth, and only one that I've ever played (Police Quest: SWAT).

OMG, Lord_Pall, that is impressive!!!

I almost forgot one of the coolest games from my past... Bioforge



And lets not forget
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Falcon 3.0 with the Operation Fighting Tiger expansion plus a couple of strategy guides.


Box contents


Falcon 3 with its big brother.


Shifting gears a bit, here are a couple of old Flightsimulator books I held on to over the years. They're both from 1986.

I need to get a scanner for these.

Aces of the Deep . . . oh god I can't wait for SHIII to arrive on my doorstep hopefully sometime this week

Ah, but who has the ORIGINAL sub sim... Sphere's GATO?

Or MicroProse's Silent Service?

I think I still have my Gunship and the strategy guide Gunship Academy here somewhere... AND Gunship 2000 (never found the mission disk though...) and strategy guide.

I'm still kicking myself for not holding on to my old Microprose sims. Well I still have Fleet Defender but that's it :{

Yeah I definately remember Gato with that pink ocean on a shitty CGA monitor

Anyone remember Orbiter which I believe was also by Sphere or Spectrum Holobyte (Sphere a division of SH?). The Mac version of the game kicked ass as it had speech and the framerate was much faster than the POS 8086 I played it on. It had some missions where you could capture Soviet satelites and also a Hubble Telescope deployment mission.

What a great thread . . . I haven't retained any of my old classics, but seeing the box art for all of these really is a blast from the past. I have to say, I think I had the strongest reaction to the Bards Tale and Pirates boxes. I can't even begin to count the number of hours I spent with those games.

I never played Aces of the Deep, but the packaging and the map look great. I supposes I'm setting myself up for diappointment to hope that SHIII has a map like the Aces of the Deep one pictured. My all time favorite sub sim remains the original Silent Service. I'm hoping against hope that Silent Hunter III unseats it - three days and counting to find out!

Don't forgot those "Classics" we could all do without:

I still have all my old games. Ill have to take some pics sometime.

Eh I went ahead and did one...Terra Nova. One pic of the contents and one pic of whats what labeled


and


1. Box back
2. CD in cardboard holder
3. Box front
4. 1995 Virgin catalog
5. Installation guide
6. PC Gamer spam
7. TN strategy guide offer
8. Registration card
9. Cyberia 2 demo notice
10. TN manual

and under all that is a big envelope it all came in.

Oh and heres a pic of the CD..Ill try to remember to include those in all my posts too.

and Ill try to make those smaller next time hehe.