04-04-2011, 09:42 AM | #1 | ||
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In Search of PC Gaming Tat
Hi folks. Sorry if I've got the wrong forum for this - I wasn't sure where best to put it. It's a quickie, so I'll keep it brief. I'm putting together something for PC Gamer on classic gaming tat - cool cardboard boxes, tchotchkes, feelies and so on, and I'm trying to track down as many interesting ones that I can get photographs of as possible. I figured if anyone was going to have a cupboard full of that kind of stuff, it'd be you guys! It can be more or less anything from the old Ultima cloth maps to the weird boxes of DOTT/Gabriel Knight, to feelies like the old Infocom Zorkmids. Awesomely good, hilariously crap, incredibly inventive... all are cool, just as long as they're interesting :-)
If you've got any good ones on hand and access to a camera to take a couple of quick snaps for me, could you drop me a line? My e-mail address is [EDITED] Cheers! Last edited by Paco; 04-04-2011 at 03:56 PM. Reason: no Email |
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04-04-2011, 09:59 AM | #2 | ||
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Neat, I saw this mentioned on twitter, I can't wait to see what people can dig up
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04-04-2011, 03:31 PM | #3 | ||
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Yeah, I really miss this kind of stuff. Unfortunately I don't have any really good bits myself (aside from some novelisations and similar) since a lot of it got lost during a move a few years back. There's no arguing that DVD cases are more CONVENIENT, but I miss having a big box full of stuff to rip open, things like Ultima VII coming with a manual written from the baddies' point of view, Galactic Enquirer in Space Quest V, and so on. I'm not going to pay for a Special Edition of something to get a Pip-Boy clock and such, but free tat was always neat to find.
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04-04-2011, 05:54 PM | #4 | ||
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The people to speak to, the main collectors, are Red Avatar, Ermuli, and Geezer. I'm not sure who else has a massive collection, but Red has mentioned the notebook and pencil from the first Laura Bow game, for example.
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04-04-2011, 07:12 PM | #5 | ||
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Cool, cheers! I know Red from elsewhere, and I'll drop the others a line.
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05-04-2011, 06:05 AM | #6 | ||
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Professor Oak has a big collection too as far as I know, he would be worth asking too
I see an inundation of Monkey Island Pirate Wheels in your future... EDIT: I'm crossing my fingers that someone out there has the complete documentation to both Sierra "Conquest Of" games by Christie Marx. I'd love to see that again.
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07-04-2011, 04:06 PM | #8 | ||
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Hahahaha I'd never thought of Longbow like that, but damn, very fair point. I guess I liked the maps and gem language stuff so much that my young self ignored it.
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12-04-2011, 10:01 AM | #9 | ||
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It was more irksome when you didn't have the paper manuals to hand. For... uh... some reason. (*cough*) Awesome game though. It's on my list to do for Gamer's Crap Shoot column, mostly for the morality system.
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12-04-2011, 12:36 PM | #10 | ||
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<shame>I once handed in an 8th grade history project illustrated with hand drawn copies of motifs form those manuals</shame>
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