Octopus Overlords

Well I lucked out. While we were in Wal-Mart today D surprised me by getting me a 5 shelf bookcase for my birthday. I knew right away what to use it for...books..NO..pc games! I started my collection in 1994 and have'nt stopped since. I keep games in original boxes in mint for the most part. I also now have a large collection of jewel case games. I was able to only get a small part of my collection into this thing. Im gonna have to buy myself a 2nd one to help with what I have in this crowded room. The rest will have to stay in storage until someone dies and makes room or I move lol.

A pic of the case and the mess still needing room beside it.

Front view.

A box at the foot with no home.

Top area.

Closeup of that pile.


I think I need a bigger computer room. And ya gotta like how I snuck the Ben-Gay Patch box in there for added style. And the spider web. I can actually reach that corner to clean it now. Notice the old storage box pic. The boxes on top were squished cause it used to be on the bottom. Also note the chewed area. Rat tried to makes its home from my games when it was outside in the garage.

While I got ya here and showing off some of my collection I wanted to show you one of my pride and joys. I got it about 1998 in a used pc games mom & pop shop. In mint condition. No idea if it works. It did in 1998 when i still had a drive to play it on





The pages are actually bright white. They look dingy cause I had to forego the flash...it reflected the flash.

Very impressive.

Nice. I see you even went alphabetical. We'll see how long you're able to keep that up. I tried it once, and a year later, my shelves were overflowing and my aphabetical system went all to hell.

A grave omission: You do not appear to have "The Suffering". I recommend it.

I'm one of those guys who actually enjoys studying pictures of other peoples' collections. And the Star Trek photos were nice too. I like looking at older games especially for nostalgia effect.

"A grave omission: You do not appear to have "The Suffering". I recommend it."
That's more than made up for by the inclusion of Celebrity Poker - easily New World Computing finest hour

"Germ-X" hand sanitizer?

Cool. Now you can stand in front of the bookcase of games and say, "You are all my children."

Yeah thats Germ-X not anal glide lol.

Daehawk wrote:While I got ya here and showing off some of my collection I wanted to show you one of my pride and joys. I got it about 1998 in a used pc games mom & pop shop. In mint condition. No idea if it works. It did in 1998 when i still had a drive to play it on

Geez, and I was just getting ready to clean out my comp junk box and throw out the three I have.

Daehawk wrote:Yeah thats Germ-X not anal glide lol.

Hmmm, no one else mentioned anything about anal glide. Funny where your mind takes you, isn't it?

I was like you a couple years back. But until you can devote a whole wall as a gaming bookshelf then I reccommend you put most of the games in the closet and only keep the new stuff, the unplayed stuff and the favorite stuff on the shelves.

I went to Home Depot and purchased one of those cheapo book shelves with doors (about 60 bucks) and put all the other games in there. As my collection expands I will buy another cheapo book shelf.

edit: the cheapo book shelf - case is in the garage.

When i was putting the games in it I came across Independence War 1...what an awsome game that was. I want to play it again but I no longer have a 3dfx card.

My games were staring at me resentfully (so many barely played) that I finally exiled them to a bookshelf in my garage where they are well-ordered and out of nagging sight.

And now I regard them as a stored treasure (like acorns gathered by a squirrel) and not as a reminder that I should be more realistic about whether I will have the time for another...

I still have it too, Daehawk I got my copy at Radio Shack when it first came out, but I could never get very far in the game or really figure out what I was supposed to do. Seemed very random

Although I just cleaned up my room and reorganized it and threw out lots of game boxes. They were taking up far too much room.

I used to have a collection like that, but I moved and purged 95% of em, and I don't keep boxes anymore either. I <3 Games that come in DVD Cases. That way I can indulge my compulsion and keep my Studio Apartment from not overflowing

Yeah, I decided on what I considered "classic" and what I considered as "crap". After that, I had to start tossing boxes as they were taking up too much closet space AND shelf space. While my collector mentality was saddened, the reality of the situation was that most of those boxed games were not "shelf worthy".

>When i was putting the games in it I came across Independence War
>1...what an awsome game that was. I want to play it again but I no longer have a 3dfx card.

You can find a glide emulator at http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/ Independence War works great on it.

JonathanStrange wrote: (like acorns gathered by a squirrel) ...

I like that.

I'd love to try that, but a quick estimate tells me I'd need about six of those shelving units to get my entire collection up, boxed. I even ran out of room to just display the jewel cases, and ended up carefully folding up the boxes for storage, putting all the disks into binders, and packing the empty jewel cases away (CD keys are written down in an encrypted file). I'd love to have everything on display, but a small house and two kids means that three CD binders is much more realistic than six huge shelves.

Buatha wrote:Yeah, I decided on what I considered "classic" and what I considered as "crap". After that, I had to start tossing boxes as they were taking up too much closet space AND shelf space. While my collector mentality was saddened, the reality of the situation was that most of those boxed games were not "shelf worthy".

Yep. I really, really need to do a big purge/garage sale and keep only what I really cannot part with. Or in political terms, I need to declare a War on Clutter!

Back when I did not buy many games, I used to be very fastidious about keeping the box, etc. Now they just take up too much space, so I only keep some boxes for my very favorite games and am trying to pare down the rest. It's a good rainy day project.

Thanks noman!..Ill givethat a shot. Gotta love the best ever intro to a game. 10 minutes no less!

Hell's Taco wrote:

I'd look out, Daehawk. It appears that Hell's Taco may be preparing a shocking expose for the next issue of Octopus Overlords magazine describing all the sordid details about your relationship with this mysterious lubricant.

Yeah that sanitizer along with the BenGay box are not something to show people on a forum

I installed the wrapper and Independence War but when I try to run the game a box pops up for a split second then closes and nothing happens. Its so fast i cant even see what the box is.

I give up...its just too old. I still have my original Voodoo card around here and if someday i ever build a old box then Ill play it again. Or someday when i actually feel like fooling with it.

I did try windowed mode, different res, acceleration lvls even off, compatibility modes...you name it..bah. Old games.

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Daehawk wrote:While I got ya here and showing off some of my collection I wanted to show you one of my pride and joys. I got it about 1998 in a used pc games mom & pop shop. In mint condition. No idea if it works. It did in 1998 when i still had a drive to play it on

Geez, and I was just getting ready to clean out my comp junk box and throw out the three I have.

hehe yep i'm similar - I tend to find that once I loose interest I want to sell the game and get some of the money I spent on it back. As a result I have a very small collection possibly less than 10 games. That said when you see Daehawks collection I do wonder - what if, but the wife would have gone mad if i'd ended up with that many

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Daehawk wrote:When i was putting the games in it I came across Independence War 1...what an awsome game that was. I want to play it again but I no longer have a 3dfx card.

The funny thing is this game runs pretty well with a glide emulator. (Check the I-war MB for the one that works best). But the really frusrating thing is the CTD when I try to end the mission.

Man I too would love to play this game again, I liked it better then the sequel but it *really* has stability problems running on modern computers under XP.

Whenever I try to load the Particle Systems website it says its offline. Maybe they went bye bye.

Daehawk wrote:Whenever I try to load the Particle Systems website it says its offline. Maybe they went bye bye.

Yeah I'm pretty sure they did.

Anyway Atari still has a I-War MB up and someone formerly from Particle Systems (Stephan Robertson I think) still posts there from time to time.

http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/fo ... orumid=137


Don't hold me to this but I believe that this was the glide wrapper they were using for I-war.

http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/

Also, you might also have to monkey around with direct draw settings to get I-War to run. At least I did.

Anyway good luck getting it to run. For me the Glide part was the least of my problems. My main problem was stability with or without glide mode.

>>>>>>crashes when exiting a mission<<<<< was my main problem.

http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/sh ... did=423222