i always have a bitch of a time telling my friends that EA used to be one of the coolest publishers out there in terms of being both dev and consumer friendly. now i have video proof.
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFan i don’t see how. I said used to be. As in back around the company’s start. EA was in the shitter back then. Not much better now.
Great video, love the fact you really know your stuff without being the least bit arrogant or self righteous about it, seriously its a rare thing in TH-cam land. From one humble retro fan to another, I salute you.
These all look like 70s prog albums by a band that never made it out the local scene but will regale you with the tale of the time they opened for Rush and totally kicked ass. in short, they look awesome. thanks for another great video, LGR.
Oh man. Adventure Construction Set was my absolute favorite C64 game. To this day, no other rpg maker ever allowed you the flexability that that one did. Every other rpg maker always forced you to stick to one theme or genera. That one let you invent themes, generas, graphics, spells, and everything from the ground up. To this day, I have yet to find an RPG maker that lets you do that. I still occasionally start up my C64 emulator and build with it. I even made games that aren't even RPG's, but could count as simple arcade games with it.
You sir are a gentlemen and scholar. Love seeing these LP style boxes from days gone by. Soo many amazing games. Starflight, Bard's Tale I / II / III. Man those bring back so many memories. Thanks for it.
I still have a ton of mainly 80's metal LP's from when I was a teen/20’s (im 46 now and still a 'weirdo', thank goodness) When my uncle passed away he left me all his very cool 70’s vinyl, bowie, alice cooper ect
Ah, the good old days of when EA did not suck. I had Racing Destruction Set, put a lot of hours into it. Also had Pinball Construction Set. Oh, Infiltrator II, I remember that. I only had the disk though and could not figure out the game.
In a first glance W.O.R.M.S. doesn't even look like a game, but like some 80s music album. Its really sad to see where EA was and where she is now. Bubble bobble on compurers?! Thats prepostorous!
This brought back so many memories of some of the earliest C64 and PC games we owned. I was able to share some stories of our family's earliest computer experiences with my oldest son (who as a toddler 20 years ago, literally learned to talk by "helping" Mom & Dad play computer games).
Jacob Smith Well if you have an old "rotary paperweight" like that, why not show it off. Sturdy all-American ingenuity. So sturdy in fact, that one of those procedurals on TV had an episode where the killer used one on the skull of her unfortunate victim. Try that with your modern fancy-schmancy smartphone, Col. Mustard! ;)
FantomLightning Those Western Electric rotary phones were built like tanks because they were rented, not sold. So whenever someone moved or died, the telephone company would take their phone, clean it up, and pass it on to a new customer. Broken phones would also get repaired and returned to service. So they were made to last for decades.
***** You got that right! I love those old rotary phones, even the push button ones, they're just so much fun! Plus there's nothing quite like that feeling you get when you angrily hang up on someone, and you slam the phone down on the receiever!
Can't wait for LGR Starflight-vid! I actually first played the game properly only a few years ago, but it (and the sequel) instantly became some of my favorite games. An absolute classic that at least to my experience, gets seldomly covered in TH-cam-videos.
Clint, do you see yourself as an historian? I extremely like your channel, for some reason I have an obsession with old technology. The way you store, classify and document all your findings, you might be as well the best reference for the kind of technology you showcase in your videos.
This is my kind of stuff - been collecting records for about 10 years, and I love old school PC stuff (held onto all my PC games from when I was a kid, so even before record collecting, plus the stuff my dad had bought). I wonder if any modern kickstarter campaigns have made any custom packaging like this for their games as a perk/the collector's edition.
Amazing video! I got into PC gaming little after when the traditional big box started to appear. Although, I still remember few LP sleeve style were still being sold at a discount bins. You can definitely tell the developers put their hearts into their game. It is shameful that kids today will never experience these extra contents unless dishing out extra for the collectors edition.
I remember having Pinball Construction Kit for the Commodore 64. Bill Budge later expanded on the concept with the Sega Genesis game Virtual Pinball (29 customizable tables and 10 slots to roll your own, with battery backup). On that note, EA did continue to credit their creators up to at least 92-93, at least where the Genesis was concerned. You'll find creators named on the covers of Virtual Pinball (Bill Budge), Desert Strike (Mike Posehn/EA) and Road Rash (Randy Breen, Dan Geisler and Walter Stein). These are the ones I have on-hand at the moment, but I'm pretty sure there's more. And that phone! I'm working from my desk right now and my dial-up phone (Nick and Nora style) is sitting right in front of my right speaker. Had to look twice to realize it wasn't my phone ringing :).
Lazy Game Reviews You know what I noticed, you have 587 videos, and no video about any of the Ultima series. Have you ever played them? It's one of the only game series that made it all the way from the early 80s to the 2010s.
Lazy Game Reviews it looks like you have an interesting Record collection, maybe you can talk about your all time favorites in a other video. Keep up the good work man :)
I'm half tempted to fly to NC and jack your copy of The Wall, I friggin' love that album! In all seriousness though you're a lucky man to own a copy of that musical awesomeness.
I laughed when he nerd-gasmed over Star Flight. Let us know when you're done your three month hiatus, Clint. x) 17:26 - 17:32 "I am getting SO into Star Flight, it is absurd, do not bother me for the next three months." ~Clint (LGR) Love Duke Nukem calling over the phone this episode, as well. B) 14:03 - 14:36 "Ya, 'Balls of steel', ya, thanks." XD I was sad when the episode ended, though. No more LGR for a little while, not with that hiatus, that is. Gotta have my fix. :(
smooth floppies quote of the week . i love gatefold style stuff i have many laser discs and c64 stuff like it . i love em i have like a western adventure game whicih in a gatefold for the c64 .
Ahhh yes LP style oh how I miss them. This would really be the ideal time to bring them back. The hipsters would love'em and since most store boxed games are just download codes anyway, why not do it? You could use all that space to put emphasis back on the devs and stuff it with the cool extras again without having to worry about leaving space for a disc!
I've been watching through old LGR videos lately and came across this. I'm so interested to see a video on those construction games if you're still up to making them =]
Lazy Game Reviews I actually have the C64 port of Arkanoid in the same package! I find it one of my two favorite ports of the arcade game (aside from the Amiga version). Mostly due to the fact players can use either Atari Paddles or the CBM mouse for far more accurate controls.
I had those copies of the Bard's Tale series, but for the Apple II GS. The Bard's Tale didn't come with the clue book, you had to buy it separately. (of course this was back in the day when you could tell how good a game was by how heavy the box was. Yes, am old. :P )
PLEASE do Starflight soon! I love that game, it brings back so many memories; it's dear to my heart because I remember watching my late mother spending hours and hours playing this on our Tandy 1000 SL and when she called the phone number for beating it, she was supposedly the 2nd or 4th person on the West Coast to beat it.
Fun fact: The collector's edition of The Bard's Tale 4 came in this style of box back in 2018. So if you owned the classic trilogy back in the day, IV, regardless of the game's quality, would fit perfectly on the shelf with the other 3.
Honestly I think LP-shaped boxes are a great option for indie developers who want to release their titles on retail stores, they're cheaper to produce and look richer in content than a regular jewel or a plastic case. And, for the games with a notable soundtrack like Bastion and the like, why not doing a soundtrack release instead, but with a code to activate the on Steam inside the box?
During the time this style box was in vogue, I was an Amiga man. I'm sure I had at least The Faery Tale Adventure in the same LP style box, maybe Arctic Fox, maybe Marble Madness, and maybe Firepower too. All early American releases on the machine. You can imagine what an archaeologist or time-traveller from the future would make of the game packaging of times past: "What's this collection of paper, with strange symbols written on it? Could this be an actual 'manual'? Surely they're just a myth?!"
I just picked up Xenoblade Chronicles at Gamestop. In it says to check the manual in the game itself. Man. Seeing these awesome boxes and manuals, I am getting box envy.
It's funny the first thing you show off is A Bard's Tale, I found a copy not that long ago at a local thrift store that had been sorted with all of the children's books.
Transparent LP are neat though. We have a old japanese Sony turntable (circa late 70's) that's literally 'too smart' to play these on it's own :) It has a record sensor on the turntable that gets lit up when there's no record on it... Or either the record is too clear :)
Frank Schneider I usually just cover that light post, that's supposed to light up sensors, with my hand. It seems that those sensors are only checked once before playing.
That was great, brings back a LOT of memories. Bards Tale was one of the first "original" C64 games I 'ahem' actually bought, same version you showed. Sadly don't have it anymore. Any chance you could do a TSR Goldbox games video in the future?.
You should totally review some of those Construction Set games. Also, how has the cover of Pinball Construction Set NOT made any of your videos of great cover art? It's arguably the first truly *iconic* game cover, and still a great piece of art.
Holy crap, Starflight! I had that on Genesis, and I'm gonna say it- it was better in just about every way. Yes it lacked the procedurally generated worlds but I'll take the better control, combat, mineral gathering, visuals and such over that. Such a good game and when I first played it with my brother, no idea what we were doing. Gathered minerals, upgraded our ship but had NO clue on the story haha. Not till I replayed it recently did I figure out any of that stuff.
I kinda wish we can go back to these sorts of things. Maybe with all the pseudo-retro stuff going on right now, someone out there would package games like in the old days.
these are still somewhat affordable, but don't be surprised if people start collecting these a lot more and their values go up fast, I've already seen some boxed versions of 90s CD-Rom games start to take off in price, and these old Floppy Disk games from the late 80s and early 90s are often much harder to find in their complete form.
aegisofhonor Oh yeah, all of these games are going up in price these days. Even since I started really collecting in 2008, certain games I got for $5 back then are going for 10 times that.
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"It's attached to my forearm, it's very handy."
i always have a bitch of a time telling my friends that EA used to be one of the coolest publishers out there in terms of being both dev and consumer friendly. now i have video proof.
maboroshi1986
Show em Archon
@@WhiteStripesStripiestFan i don’t see how. I said used to be. As in back around the company’s start. EA was in the shitter back then. Not much better now.
Great video, love the fact you really know your stuff without being the least bit arrogant or self righteous about it, seriously its a rare thing in TH-cam land. From one humble retro fan to another, I salute you.
horsicusfaticus I appreciate it!
***** Wtf ?
+katherina sandmann
Oh hello, Buzzfeed-like clickbait-using fisher, how are you?
There's a beauty to the square that record sleeves really emphasize.
These all look like 70s prog albums by a band that never made it out the local scene but will regale you with the tale of the time they opened for Rush and totally kicked ass.
in short, they look awesome.
thanks for another great video, LGR.
Can you believe EA used to treat their developers like artists? Can you believe their games came packed witha ton of STUFF? God...
Well, EA is a perfect metaphor for executives in the music industry then and now.
Oh man. Adventure Construction Set was my absolute favorite C64 game. To this day, no other rpg maker ever allowed you the flexability that that one did. Every other rpg maker always forced you to stick to one theme or genera. That one let you invent themes, generas, graphics, spells, and everything from the ground up. To this day, I have yet to find an RPG maker that lets you do that. I still occasionally start up my C64 emulator and build with it. I even made games that aren't even RPG's, but could count as simple arcade games with it.
You sir are a gentlemen and scholar. Love seeing these LP style boxes from days gone by. Soo many amazing games. Starflight, Bard's Tale I / II / III. Man those bring back so many memories. Thanks for it.
How does this man not have more subscribers, your videos are the best!!
Thanks for the entertainment and knowledge. Keep it up bro!
0:52 "It's very handy."
Only Clint will I allow to use such flat jokes. Chuckles abound.
I still have a ton of mainly 80's metal LP's from when I was a teen/20’s (im 46 now and still a 'weirdo', thank goodness)
When my uncle passed away he left me all his very cool 70’s vinyl, bowie, alice cooper ect
Also I didn't know Duke could speak Simlish.
Pointless gag is pointless.
Sylvester Stalone
Ah, the good old days of when EA did not suck.
I had Racing Destruction Set, put a lot of hours into it. Also had Pinball Construction Set.
Oh, Infiltrator II, I remember that. I only had the disk though and could not figure out the game.
In a first glance W.O.R.M.S. doesn't even look like a game, but like some 80s music album.
Its really sad to see where EA was and where she is now.
Bubble bobble on compurers?! Thats prepostorous!
This brought back so many memories of some of the earliest C64 and PC games we owned. I was able to share some stories of our family's earliest computer experiences with my oldest son (who as a toddler 20 years ago, literally learned to talk by "helping" Mom & Dad play computer games).
He's having way too much fun with that phone; I'm betting we've got a good running gag/reference in the works.
Jacob Smith Well if you have an old "rotary paperweight" like that, why not show it off. Sturdy all-American ingenuity. So sturdy in fact, that one of those procedurals on TV had an episode where the killer used one on the skull of her unfortunate victim. Try that with your modern fancy-schmancy smartphone, Col. Mustard! ;)
***** Don't even need Rotary, just need a sturdy Cortelco desk phone...
FantomLightning Those Western Electric rotary phones were built like tanks because they were rented, not sold. So whenever someone moved or died, the telephone company would take their phone, clean it up, and pass it on to a new customer. Broken phones would also get repaired and returned to service. So they were made to last for decades.
***** You got that right! I love those old rotary phones, even the push button ones, they're just so much fun! Plus there's nothing quite like that feeling you get when you angrily hang up on someone, and you slam the phone down on the receiever!
cannibalisticrequiem Yeah, hanging up on people with a smartphone is singularly unsatisfying. Kids don't know what they're missing these days.
Where is the follow-up video for Adventure Construction Set? I NEED THAT IN MY LIFE! P.S. Thanks for all the great videos over the years.
Can't wait for LGR Starflight-vid! I actually first played the game properly only a few years ago, but it (and the sequel) instantly became some of my favorite games. An absolute classic that at least to my experience, gets seldomly covered in TH-cam-videos.
I love your floppy disk enthusiasm. Every time I see one I tear up a bit.
That pinball front panel art is beautiful, and really takes advantage of the 1:1 dimensions.
I love everything about this video! Full of SEXINESS
Haha, I figured you would dig this!
MJR, LGR, and AVGN keep me amused/entertained to no end, each in your own unique way. Thanks to all of you!
This was amazing. I love taking deep dives in your impressive collection. As alwas, thank you Lazy Game Reviews/Clint.
Thanks Again for making me feel astounded at in my lifetime. How Far we've moved technologically, and how much older I've gotten.
i could watch lgr just going through his collection and talking about the boxes all day it's hypnotic like sleep's dopesmoker :)
Lps = awesome . PC games = awesome . lp boxed PC games = mind blown
Clint, do you see yourself as an historian? I extremely like your channel, for some reason I have an obsession with old technology. The way you store, classify and document all your findings, you might be as well the best reference for the kind of technology you showcase in your videos.
Luis Mercado Unofficially, perhaps :)
This is my kind of stuff - been collecting records for about 10 years, and I love old school PC stuff (held onto all my PC games from when I was a kid, so even before record collecting, plus the stuff my dad had bought). I wonder if any modern kickstarter campaigns have made any custom packaging like this for their games as a perk/the collector's edition.
LGR's hands seem smooth as hell. nice.
Is it bad that I look forward to your videos more than Game of Thrones?
Never stop!
Elegance and joy combined in this video
i was kind in a bad mood but the DOS emergency really cracked me up. thanks, it was much needed.
appreciate your videos, retro pc gaming is under the radar
Amazing video! I got into PC gaming little after when the traditional big box started to appear. Although, I still remember few LP sleeve style were still being sold at a discount bins. You can definitely tell the developers put their hearts into their game. It is shameful that kids today will never experience these extra contents unless dishing out extra for the collectors edition.
I remember having Pinball Construction Kit for the Commodore 64. Bill Budge later expanded on the concept with the Sega Genesis game Virtual Pinball (29 customizable tables and 10 slots to roll your own, with battery backup).
On that note, EA did continue to credit their creators up to at least 92-93, at least where the Genesis was concerned. You'll find creators named on the covers of Virtual Pinball (Bill Budge), Desert Strike (Mike Posehn/EA) and Road Rash (Randy Breen, Dan Geisler and Walter Stein). These are the ones I have on-hand at the moment, but I'm pretty sure there's more.
And that phone! I'm working from my desk right now and my dial-up phone (Nick and Nora style) is sitting right in front of my right speaker. Had to look twice to realize it wasn't my phone ringing :).
You showed two of my favourite things in life.
The Wall
and
Red Dead Redemption
So much love.
Shady Two of my my absolute favorites as well, in any medium :)
Lazy Game Reviews You know what I noticed, you have 587 videos, and no video about any of the Ultima series. Have you ever played them? It's one of the only game series that made it all the way from the early 80s to the 2010s.
Hobbit Stomper burned out from elder scrolls perhaps. that's what happened to me
Hobbit Stomper Lazy Game Reviews I'm also surprised you haven't done Crystal Caves yet either.
Lazy Game Reviews it looks like you have an interesting Record collection, maybe you can talk about your all time favorites in a other video. Keep up the good work man :)
It's all about having a nice smooth floppy.
Loved this, Clint. Thanks for what you do!
I really dig the Faery Tale LP!! I have a huge poster of that game framed from when I was a kid.
That phone segment cracked me up! I knew you put that thrift buy to good use.
Love that Starflight one. I played the heck out of both Starflight and Fairy Tale Adventure on the Sega Genesis.
I appreciate getting to see stuff like this.
I'm half tempted to fly to NC and jack your copy of The Wall, I friggin' love that album! In all seriousness though you're a lucky man to own a copy of that musical awesomeness.
They're awesome! Vintage games packaging was so much better.
Great video... Great memories!!! I remember having a couple of those, particularly Bard's Tale.
I laughed when he nerd-gasmed over Star Flight. Let us know when you're done your three month hiatus, Clint. x)
17:26 - 17:32 "I am getting SO into Star Flight, it is absurd, do not bother me for the next three months."
~Clint (LGR)
Love Duke Nukem calling over the phone this episode, as well. B)
14:03 - 14:36 "Ya, 'Balls of steel', ya, thanks." XD
I was sad when the episode ended, though. No more LGR for a little while, not with that hiatus, that is. Gotta have my fix. :(
Great stuff! Good olden times. There is something to analog products :)
I absolutely love vinyl! I want to collect vinyl albums! I even have The LEGO Movie Soundtrack on vinyl!
Silly LGR. I don't miss an episode from my favorite youtuber.
Great stuff. I wonder why I never stumbled upon any of such boxes at all during my life. And I'm from the 80's.
:O Loved Racing Destruction Set and Pinball Construction Set. I had both for the C64.
smooth floppies quote of the week . i love gatefold style stuff i have many laser discs and c64 stuff like it . i love em i have like a western adventure game whicih in a gatefold for the c64 .
If I ever release a game, I've got to do this style of box at least once.
Ahhh yes LP style oh how I miss them. This would really be the ideal time to bring them back. The hipsters would love'em and since most store boxed games are just download codes anyway, why not do it? You could use all that space to put emphasis back on the devs and stuff it with the cool extras again without having to worry about leaving space for a disc!
Never seen those style poxes before. Nice to see and funny to see the promo photos of the developers ha ha classic ;)
Starflight! The game that got me into gaming back in the day! :D
Is that a first print The Wall? No title on the front or barcode on the back.
Skellingtor I believe so! It's quite the early one for sure.
Skellingtor I'm jelly
+Skellingtor What a find. His house must be some kind of Indiana Jones treasure trove.
They look super classy, shame we haven't seen any modern games make Special Edition versions like this. I'd buy!
I've been watching through old LGR videos lately and came across this. I'm so interested to see a video on those construction games if you're still up to making them =]
"Not Everything Has Two Sides."
~Some guy who owned a copy of The Bard's Tale II
Racing Destruction Set is awesome, we played it hour after hour on my friends C64.
New LGR! New LGR!
Lazy Game Reviews I actually have the C64 port of Arkanoid in the same package! I find it one of my two favorite ports of the arcade game (aside from the Amiga version). Mostly due to the fact players can use either Atari Paddles or the CBM mouse for far more accurate controls.
im jealous of your fine collection there LGR.
I love the notes in the books. Somebody played bards tale two..alot!
I had those copies of the Bard's Tale series, but for the Apple II GS. The Bard's Tale didn't come with the clue book, you had to buy it separately. (of course this was back in the day when you could tell how good a game was by how heavy the box was. Yes, am old. :P )
PLEASE do Starflight soon! I love that game, it brings back so many memories; it's dear to my heart because I remember watching my late mother spending hours and hours playing this on our Tandy 1000 SL and when she called the phone number for beating it, she was supposedly the 2nd or 4th person on the West Coast to beat it.
Fun fact: The collector's edition of The Bard's Tale 4 came in this style of box back in 2018. So if you owned the classic trilogy back in the day, IV, regardless of the game's quality, would fit perfectly on the shelf with the other 3.
Very unusual design Clint, I don't think I've seen these where I live. even way back in the day.
Impressive what a couple of decades can make to a developer. RIP Eletronic Arts.
That's legit rad as fuck. Thank you for showing these classic gems to us.
wow....never knew these existed!!!! thanks LGR!
Honestly I think LP-shaped boxes are a great option for indie developers who want to release their titles on retail stores, they're cheaper to produce and look richer in content than a regular jewel or a plastic case. And, for the games with a notable soundtrack like Bastion and the like, why not doing a soundtrack release instead, but with a code to activate the on Steam inside the box?
Cheaper to produce? No way son. Jewel cases are so widespread, that they are ridiculously cheap. Cooler? Yes. Cheaper? Hell no.
Well, if recycled paper is used to produce the boxes their cost would reduce quite a bit, ain't that right?
A phone in top left corner is a nice touch ;-)
Wow! I had forgotten about these boxes. I had Bop n' Wrestle in one of these.
During the time this style box was in vogue, I was an Amiga man. I'm sure I had at least The Faery Tale Adventure in the same LP style box, maybe Arctic Fox, maybe Marble Madness, and maybe Firepower too. All early American releases on the machine. You can imagine what an archaeologist or time-traveller from the future would make of the game packaging of times past: "What's this collection of paper, with strange symbols written on it? Could this be an actual 'manual'? Surely they're just a myth?!"
Wait, There was an LP for the OST of Red Dead Redemption!?
I just picked up Xenoblade Chronicles at Gamestop. In it says to check the manual in the game itself.
Man. Seeing these awesome boxes and manuals, I am getting box envy.
The screenshots from the pinball construction set game reminds me of macadam bumper!
Could you do a video on the construction set series? :D
Nice red WE Model 500 in the background!
***** Thank you! Love that thing, so solid.
if memory serves there was also an lp style release for lawnmower man at least i remember having one that trifolded open.
It's funny the first thing you show off is A Bard's Tale, I found a copy not that long ago at a local thrift store that had been sorted with all of the children's books.
yay, i've been patiently waiting for this video
Transparent LP are neat though. We have a old japanese Sony turntable (circa late 70's) that's literally 'too smart' to play these on it's own :)
It has a record sensor on the turntable that gets lit up when there's no record on it... Or either the record is too clear :)
ZXRulezzz
Put a sheet of satin paper below the record
Frank Schneider I usually just cover that light post, that's supposed to light up sensors, with my hand. It seems that those sensors are only checked once before playing.
Pink Floyd's "The Wall"! Right on man!
The screenshots from the Pinball construction pack remind me of the NES black box pinball game. I also have the sudden urge to watch "Tommy"
there were game makers in the 80's?
cool!
+ that "Operation Wolf" logo looks like Wolfenstein's
That was great, brings back a LOT of memories. Bards Tale was one of the first "original" C64 games I 'ahem' actually bought, same version you showed. Sadly don't have it anymore.
Any chance you could do a TSR Goldbox games video in the future?.
lol the Phone call :D
You should totally review some of those Construction Set games. Also, how has the cover of Pinball Construction Set NOT made any of your videos of great cover art? It's arguably the first truly *iconic* game cover, and still a great piece of art.
Well. That was pleasantly soothing.
This was just wonderful.
Holy crap, Starflight! I had that on Genesis, and I'm gonna say it- it was better in just about every way.
Yes it lacked the procedurally generated worlds but I'll take the better control, combat, mineral gathering, visuals and such over that. Such a good game and when I first played it with my brother, no idea what we were doing. Gathered minerals, upgraded our ship but had NO clue on the story haha. Not till I replayed it recently did I figure out any of that stuff.
Nice! Would be cool to hear that music constructon kit on some of your machines
Great. Just another item for me to look out for at the thrift stores in the record section.
I kinda wish we can go back to these sorts of things. Maybe with all the pseudo-retro stuff going on right now, someone out there would package games like in the old days.
I would love to see a full video dedicated to your vinyl collection.
Some do look like rock albums alright! The Fairy Tale one especially is very like a Gothic Rock album sleeve.
I have the Wall vinyl myself, but holy fuck that Red Dead Redemption vinyl. Didn't even know it existed but I want it. So. Much.
these are still somewhat affordable, but don't be surprised if people start collecting these a lot more and their values go up fast, I've already seen some boxed versions of 90s CD-Rom games start to take off in price, and these old Floppy Disk games from the late 80s and early 90s are often much harder to find in their complete form.
aegisofhonor Oh yeah, all of these games are going up in price these days. Even since I started really collecting in 2008, certain games I got for $5 back then are going for 10 times that.