Stupidly Expensive Big Box PC Games - $800 Sealed?!?
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- Some of the more RARE and EXPENSIVE big box PC games. - - Big Box PC Game Collectors group: / bbpcgc
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It really is absurd how high big box PC games have risen in value over the past ten years.
Really wasn't that long ago that collecting these was considered laughable by many collectors. Well WHO'S LAUGHING NOW.
* does a Scrooge McDuck dive into pile of PC game boxes *
Lol. Agreed. I got back into collecting my old lost big box pc games about 2 years ago and had to do quite a bit of work to find them all at reasonable prices. Hardest to find was the Wing Commander 3 film tin version but I got it and my collection is complete! Wish I had never gotten rid of my originals when I moved out at 18 though lol.
You are ruining your treasures. :P
@@LungMing23 I have a bunch of my C64 and Amiga boxed games. I really didn't have a PC until 2002.
Gamevet wow! I never got the C64 experience. I’m kinda sad for that after learning about it.
I was lucky to have a next door neighbor with his C64 back then. It was rad. I miss him.
A big thanks to local Seattle collector Kevin Ng who let me borrow many of the extremely rare and valuable games in this video! It was a great mix of every publisher and genre and his games you almost never find out in the wild anymore. Such a cool dude!
Thanks so much!! It was an honor to help out! :D
Kevin Ng is good peoples!
@@kevinwng Do you know OneyNG?
Definitely do more videos about big box pc games! Can't get enough of those :)
Great to see you here!!
I love love love Big Box Games like the rest of the community lol. Man... Awesome art, and a magical time for gaming!
@@delrachdubal Remember all those manuals in Big Box games?
They were basically books.
Especially for the flight simulators.
3:10 the face you make when you realise how expensive these games are
Lahton Wolfgramm 😂😂😂
My rarest computer game is the Akalabeth California Pacific Computer Co., © 1980. version.
Keep going with this. The more obscure and rare PC games, big box or not and whether valuable or not. This stuff is fascinating.
Big box PC games are nothing short of art. My family couldn't afford a gaming pc in the 90s and I can't even count the hours I spent looking at the game boxes. Good memories.
Spencer T I’m sorry to hear that
I'm not super into these games but I love learning about them!
I love seeing all the old PC games like this. I missed out since we didnt have a computer back then. I wish there was gameplay footage with these videos though.
That box with the mask is creepy I think I'll keep my $150
Dogma as he was turning the box I felt like the eyes were following me! Super creepy.
@@chucklea5898 yeah me too, I thought maybe its supposed to do that? Lol
3:10 “here’s something you don’t see every day” you’re right, I don’t see this everyday, but I’ll see it every night in my nightmares now so thanks.
This really takes me back to when I was kid. I'll have to see if I still have my sealed shareware and retail games that were passed down to me when I was younger. I know I have a copy of Doom Shareware sealed, Prince of Persia (standard box), Red Baron, and some other early DOS games a lot of which were from Sierra. I've even got a lot of the old shareware compilation CDs like a few editions of 101 Games that had Duke 1, Duke 2, Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, and Corridor 7. It would be cool for me to be able to help out a collector by adding things to their collection that they may not have yet. Seeing this video brought me back to when I was just two years old and my dad was teaching me DOS commands so I could play games on the PC after he went to work because he wouldn't be there to do everything for me. DOS taught me how to read before age three and now 23 years later I'm working as a senior cyber-security analyst. Geeked at birth and such good memories.
AHH takes me back! There was something so special about receiving a game in a big box with beautiful artwork and all disks and manuals inside. Or visiting a game shop looking at all the different boxes deciding which one to buy. Maybe it's nostalgia talking but it's an experience you miss with a simple download. Of course at the end of the day it's all about the games though not the packaging.
One thing I'll never forget is the smell when you open up a big box PC game, especially the smell of the manual. Now that's nostalgia.
I loved the video!!.. I'm not a pc guy but it is allways good to know about all kinds of videogames!! 🤘
Thanks for always making my days better @MetalJesusRocks wish I knew someone half as radical as you.
This is my favorite type of video MJR does.
Thanks for this video. This brings back great memories. Stores who sold PC games in the 90's needed a lot of shelf space to display the large and often irregular shaped boxes. Very cool!
I've been trying to get back all my big box games from the 90s, and I've been surprised how expensive any big box PC game is, even the crap ones.
I've never paid more than 20$ for a PC game, and own more than 300 CIB. Just don't buy anything from ebay, it's just stupid to pay these prices. The biggest part of my collection come from thrift stores, garage sales or flea markets. But I also bought lots from website like Craigslist. My most recent acquisition come from one of these website and I bought 71 CIB PC games (mostly from the 90s) for 80$. In the lot, there was game like Blood, Duke Nukem Atomic Edition, Mario's Missing Deluxe and Mortal Kombat 1 (the version with a Gravis Gamepad included). You just have to know where to check and most importantly, be patient. Sometime, I can't find a single game for many months. And if someone is trying to sell you a game that you really really want for a stupid price, just tell him to go fuck himself. Because that's how the price rise for all of us. Now that everyone know that a complete moron paid 800$ for Gabriel Knight, it's will be even harder to find a copy at a reasonable price.
Do you guys know where to get protector cases for them
@@BazookaJoe03 Well... Since there was no standard for Big Box, protector cases for them will probably be hard to find. You can check on ebay or amazon, I know case for Atari games exist. But really, you best bet would be to buy thick clear plastic sheet and cut them yourself.
@@adamrandall2996 bruh i've been looking for the mk1 with the gravis joypad pack-in, lucky lol, but yeah i agree game collecting's full of idiots, most i ever paid was $60 for shadow warrior and $55 for death rally and that's it, all the other ones i have (100+) i got for under $30, even games like blood, duke3d, system shock, etc, my best find so far was original ss1 with the ice breaker handbook off amazon for $25
@@adamrandall2996 So what's the website you bought 71 games from?
Absolutely amazing video. Thanks for making it!
Lol your account fits perfectly with this video
@@nowonmetube We are the account for the facebook group he mentions at the end of the video :-)
@Big Box PC Game Collectors
Aaaaand... subscribed! 😎
MJR talking PC games? Instant click.
"Really cool copy protection". You weren't saying that in the 90s! ;)
^^ TRUTH :)
You do a great job with creating these videos on TH-cam. I really enjoy watching all the different games on PC or console that have been out there. Makes me want to go find and buy them. Dave
Loom for a $100? I just sold my compete almost mint for $350 :)
That Suspended Infocom box is gorgeous. If a game came packaged like that today it would sell gangbusters.
I have Loom (amiga version), everything inside including the audio cassette... but back in the days I threw out the box in order to save space ! And most of my big boxes, just keeping what was inside ! What an idiot ! This is my favorite computer game!
Please do more of these! Big box PC games are the vinyl records of video games!
Love the Gabriel Knight origami box, maybe not enough to pay $800 for it though!
AdventureGameGeek Looks weird
Good lord, man. You had me running all over the house checking my conditions and completeness, since I've managed to collect about half of what you showed here since I started collecting in 1993. Fun video! Do more of these please!
I can picture metal Jesus saying. ” $800 sealed” just by reading the title 😂🤣😂🤣
I LOVE this stuff. Please do more on PC collecting. I grew up with these games but I got them at our local hair salon or super market. The same family owned both and sold pirated versions, complete with printed guides to get past some of the piracy protection. Now I'm trying to collect the games I grew up with and there aren't many videos/resources out there.
Sim City 2000 Network Edition is another expensive one just because of how seldom it shows up
@@rorz999 It was only on store shelves for less than a year. LGR has a good video about it.
Quest for Glory, I LOVED that game!!!
Awesome video! Would definitely love to see more big box videos. I'm mainly a console collector myself but I definitely see the draw of big box PC there's so much substance there!
You are such a good guy, and you produce these awesome videos... nothing I'd rather watch when I am on the verge of death hungover on a Saturday morning. Loved the video, and would love to see more of the obscure big box games
That Loom is beautiful. Probably going to rebuy it even at $100+. I am so glad I was able to play that when it came out, got me into classical music and got me more into PC games.
I don’t own a single big box PC game, but I love watching your big box videos.
Please continue showcasing with this fascinating big box PC games series. Thank you for all you do.
Listening and watching MJ go thru these colorful cardboard boxes is the comfy side of TH-cam.
I'm only 20 and love your videos really learn a lot about video game history
Great video. I wouldn't mind seeing more big box PC game videos. Especially the more obscure titles.
love how MetalJesus doesn't discriminate when it comes to games, he covers all consoles to PC to you name it gotta love this guy man
Thank you so much! 40 years worth of gaming history and there is no end to the wonders you can find.
Thanks for this video through my childhood of computer games. My friend had the Gabriel Knight CD release and I remember him letting me borrow it and opening the origami box. And the box of Suspended brought back memories of being in a computer store and seeing those Infocom games on the shelf. I miss the box box PC packaging and how they tried to get your attention. It’s too bad when I worked for a game store that those had mostly faded out, uniform small box PC games had just come into fashion, and soon digital services had PC games removed from stores almost completely soon after. Great nostalgia trip, thanks MJ!
I’m not even PC boxed game collecting myself but seeing this stuff is just so cool! I did brush up against some of these games growing up but this collection simply rocks.
What an interesting video! This is the type of stuff I rarely ever get to see. Thanks!
Kind of makes me wish I'd bought a second collectors edition of WoW, like I had considered doing. The price for an unopened vanilla CE is insane.
Checkout Infocom's Starcross Saucer version. That is a biggy.
I had the original doom, dad worked at Toshiba and brought it home. Ah good times haha.
My heart is sinking just looking at the thumbnail for this vid bc I had a lot of these games back in the day...
Heh, I got Wasteland for PC for 45 cents from a local thrift store a couple of years ago (missing the 3.5" disk but has both 5.25" disks and everything else). And the 3.5" version of LOOM with cassette for 65 cents.
I actually ordered Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directly from Epic back in the day and they didn't send it in a box like that. I just got the game (in jewel case), manual, and comic.
4:12 This coin was actually used as a prop in The Last Jedi, when DJ is rummaging around the ship.
Really liked this video, Do more of these big box PC games videos. Nostalgia is fun
I love these videos. It’s crazy to see what big box PC games go for. It’s awesome that MJ has all these games for preservation.
Some very high prices here. Wish I had kept all mine
Now you wish 🤣😂
Burned all of mine for storage space years ago.. all mint.
Same who would’ve thought 10-15 years ago, even old PCs are worth something now
I liked that you quoted/cited going prices for these games so people know what to expect to pay from previous auctions. If anything that’s stabilizing the market and might bring it down as more people perhaps sell off their own sets as well.
I was super lucky, an origami Gab Knight came up on ebay in Oz, not sealed but still was complete. Got it for $64AUD posted. One of my favorite games in my collection!
I know I am not the only person to immediately see the Day of the Tentacle box, very nice.
I don't know if you are aware but we Canadians got a Maniac Mansion TV show that was actually pretty funny.
Video turned out great! And thanks again for the shout out! It was awesome to help out! :D
I've literally been looking for that Labyrinth game forever....
figuratively* :p
@@Panj0 Definition: lit·er·al·ly
adverb
in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
"the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the traffic circle"
INFORMAL
used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.
"I was literally blown away by the response I got"
@@vanhalenfan613 Have you noticed that the informal definition means literally the opposite of its definition? Or does it??
It is only because so many people use it incorrectly it has taken on this bizarre state of irony.
Its usage as a hyperbole really should not be encouraged. It was only a few years ago that extra definition was added, and it never should have been. There are plenty of other adjectives you can use, let literally keep its proper meaning please.
Its mad to see all these, I remember a ton of them from seeing them in shops on the shelves, I didnt play or own PC games but I was always interested in them for the design, complete presentation and the fact that they were for adult gamers while consoles etc. were still kids stuff
Ya know, it hurts when watching this and you go "Hey I had that as a kid, and that , and that!" But I was a kid and they were either lost to time or destroyed. :(
It would be hilarious if we had time machines to prevent that.
Your childhood memories: every time I went to throw/give a game away that mysterious, cloaked figure would appear and say "Hey, kid. Let me buy that from you."
It would be awesome to see the more obscure stuff. Great vid!
True story: My senior year in high school (this would've been late December 1994, right before Christmas), I went over to my buddy's house in Danville, IL (his sister was a classmate of mine, and I'd had his father as a teacher back in middle school) just to, y'know, hang out and stuff, and lo and behold, Jane Jensen, creator of _Gabriel Knight_ (and her husband) were visiting the family from California. Turns out that they were close friends of my former teacher and his family, and I ended up staying for most of the night, talking PC games with Jane, and cleaning her out at poker to boot.
Incredible memory of mine.
Man... I just came across a top and bottom tab Sealed copy of the original Unreal Big Box, Jewel Case photo 2 of 4 (They had 4 different Jewel Case covers) Only one on Ebay as of now that is top and bottom sealed, but also shrink wrapped and the box is damaged and dented bad in a corner..... is $1,300 including shipping. I have it listed for $799.95 with the official guide and the box is basically a 9 out of 10,
No dents, Rips, fading or much at all. Amazon doesn't have it, ebay only has one but now two including mine. It's very hard to price due to this! Mine does not have the Shrink Wrap but it's still insane for pricing!
What a ride! Thank you so much!
More, please!
I was born in 86. I didn't get my hands on a PC until about 1998. I remember going into stores though and looking at a lot of PC games and wanting to play them all. Box shapes would definitely catch my eye. I think my first true experiences until I got hooked with Counter-Strike and Team Fortress for HL1 was Outlaws, some of the Beavis and Butt-Head CD roms and I fondly remember Simpsons Virtual Springfield. Obviously StarCraft and Diablo 2 was a huge thing for me also. It all got crammed together by about 2000 when I hit high school. I have the Diablo 2 battlechest along with WOW. I have a small box copy of the HL1 pack that has Blueshift,Opposing Forces,Counter Strike and Team Fortress, so happy my brother found that. I didn't even play Maniac Mansion until after 2010 when my pal told me about the NES version. I now own a super nice version of it in the box, NES that is.
That Zork box is seriously awesome! I played the hell out of Return to Zork when I was a kid.
So cool to look back and see how much more physical stuff was included with games back in the day, with no extra cost.
That Gabriel Knight box is indeed pretty sweet, wish I had that one in my collection. I think it was either 7th Guest or 11th Hour big box that had a very unique design to it. Cosmology of Kyoto also had a *really* cool box design
man thank you for making these videos, i appreciate you i love the old PC stuff - big part of my childhood growing up
The mask from Suspended kinda creeps me out.
Wish these games weren't so expensive though. And I'm having a hard time trying to find the DUAL SHOCK/DreamCast/GameCube Version of Resident Evil 2. 😟
Didn't know this existed
@@nowonmetube Which one you talking about?
@@ElricSowrd all of them
@@nowonmetube Uh huh.
@@ElricSowrd lol. I've got the PS4 Remake anyway 😂 so I don't really care 🤷🏻♂️
Man I used to love just wandering into a store and just browsing the shelves of the big box PC games. It was a much smaller gaming world back then.
Those big box collections are so beautiful 😍😳. I love their classic art styles on the cover.
Wingcommand Kilrathi Saga is one you missed. Somewhere in the 200$ as well
Big box pc games are my favorite to collect. Finding anything decent in the wild seems more challenging than console games.
I remember the original Outrun that came out for ZX Spectrum having a music cassette with it with the original arcade music. The game also came on cassette which was a pain when you had to start it in the right place for the right level.
Seeing Big Box game videos make me sad, I used to have a hundred or so big box PC games.
It has to be said - I am absolutely moved by that dagger fall cover art - just beyond beautiful.
Definitely one of my favorites too!
Immediately when you showed jazz jackrabbit, I instantly thought of LGR.
Great video!
I know it may not be easily done, but it would be super cool to see some gameplay of these games and other Big Box titles.
I still have my Firehawk game that my folks kept, but used. Oh, :(.
Love your channel seeing all these PC game boxes.. so many memories!
My heart stopped for a second when you showed the Apple package of Wasteland. I could care less about it's monetary value; it was like seeing an old friend I haven't seen in 30 years.
I started collecting big box pc games ten years ago.
They became harder and harder to find but I lucked out finding some still sealed. The most rare one I have is Wizardry Trilogy for Mac2 in mint sealed condition. I imagine these games may have been unwanted gifts that sat around and donated to thrift stores years later. I want to make a video soon showing my entire collection.
I watched someone in Goodwill open the plastic wrap and seal off of a big box Duke Nukem 3D and Mortal Kombat 2. I couldn't tell him to stop in time... it was a sad day. At least I still picked them up in great condition for $2.99 a piece
Id love more BBPC videos. I see them alot at goodwill and fleamarkets so its cool to get another opinion of what to look out for
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I remember that Suspended one being on shelves at the local game store we had back in the 80s. Wanted it just for the box, but I am sure the game was probably just another text adventure game, and lord knows I had plenty of those already. Used to stay up until 3 am making very little progress on those text adventuires, and on school nights, and then be tired as heck! My best treasure I still have is a sealed PC version of Zork II, I ended up with two of them back in the day and I found the extra one a few years back still sealed and perfect, no idea what it is worth now, hard to look up sealed version, there are plenty of opened ones though.
Would of been cool to have LGR on this episode.
Agreed. Too bad the dude lives 2,000 miles away from me :(
I personally would love to see more of these BB PC games videos. I didn't play them much but it's still fascinating.
PS. I find these "Stupidly Expensive" videos helpful.
A. If I find one of these in the wild at a decent price even if I'm not familiar with it. I'll grab it because I saw it on here and know that it's likely worth a playthrough.
B. I find things out about games in my collection. Or rather games that were once in my collection.....
Picked up some of these last year for the game room. Putting in a new addition and shelf to the Murray Game Museum just for PC Games as the boxes take up space.
Clothmaps, coins, vynil covers, weird shaped boxes. Man, they were packed. As a kid, in the 90s, I was pirating games because my family wouldn't spend that much money on games, since we had friends and such to pirate games for PS1 and PC.
Now you are lucky to even see a manual on modern games, let alone a coloured one. You get a flimsy paper about safety, heallth Very few games can come with some extra bonuses, like the Inside/Limbo compilation on PS4 has art cards and a poster, Slime Rancher has a colourful manual that acts as a lite encyclopedia of slimes and each expansion of Witcher 3 came with two decks of Gwent to play with friend along with tokens and rules. If you want cool shit, buy the collector's editions.
As usual, these videos on Old PC games are awesome!
I love these videos MJR and would love to see you dig deeper into your more obscure collection of Big Box PC games.
Hello MetalJesus. Thanks great video! We have just picked up a tonne of Big Box PC games and it is handy to have something to refer to.
Lmfao day of the tentacle....when i looked quick thought it said day of the testicles 😆
Did not know that about the mail order Doom. In fact, I didn't even know that version was mail order at all.
Best intro on TH-cam
Also 00:38
A great video, thanks! Ultima I is really hard to find complete and in good condition. Usually it’s more than $200. Fun fact, the Japanese Ultima I has a cloth map (I have it too). Also I’m lucky to have that small Ultima II grey box sealed, I wonder how much that is nowadays...
If it's for the IBM, the smaller grey box U2 will likely fetch north of $500 depending on condition. A sealed Apple II original release large box U2 went for over $1200 recently. The rarest one is the small black box.
Great video. Damn...I used to own a complete mail order copy of Doom 1...stupid me tossed out the box but I did sell the disks for about $80.00 online some years ago. I have a sealed copy of the one of the original Might and Magics around somewhere...I've found and sold many rare console games but not many big box PC titles. I need to get back into looking for them, it's a lot of fun. :)
I had no idea that shareware games like Jazz Jackrabbit had physical releases. Cool!