LGR's Big Box PC Game Collection Room Tour
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Date: 2022-04-14
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yorgle11
I remember seeing that -Links 386- box prominently displayed in stores a lot back in those days. It seemed like such a classy game for people with the latest and fanciest computers.
There's a handful of other game boxes that also stand out to me as icons of retail, like Daggerfall and Test Drive 3, for whatever reason, even though they aren't games I owned back then.
Back like 15 years ago I threw out a bunch of my old PC game boxes, because I arbitrarily decided that everything I kept should fit in one cardboard box. I've come to regret some of the boxes I threw out. Mostly I just have disks/CDs and manuals now but only a few boxes.
I've read LGR mention that he uses Ikea -Billy- bookcases, so this is a good demo of how they look and fit. I've been debating what kind of shelving unit to use for my stuff and how deep the shelves should be. I have a lot of console cartridges (which are pretty shallow) but also some PC stuff that wants more depth. I guess for the sake of efficiency I'm leaning towards deeper shelves even though it would probably make the console cartridges look pretty buried.
I might even challenge my comfort zone and try to build something myself for once in my life. It doesn't look like it would save much money, but at least I'd have control over the dimensions.
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I remember seeing that -Links 386- box prominently displayed in stores a lot back in those days. It seemed like such a classy game for people with the latest and fanciest computers.
There's a handful of other game boxes that also stand out to me as icons of retail, like Daggerfall and Test Drive 3, for whatever reason, even though they aren't games I owned back then.
Back like 15 years ago I threw out a bunch of my old PC game boxes, because I arbitrarily decided that everything I kept should fit in one cardboard box. I've come to regret some of the boxes I threw out. Mostly I just have disks/CDs and manuals now but only a few boxes.
I've read LGR mention that he uses Ikea -Billy- bookcases, so this is a good demo of how they look and fit. I've been debating what kind of shelving unit to use for my stuff and how deep the shelves should be. I have a lot of console cartridges (which are pretty shallow) but also some PC stuff that wants more depth. I guess for the sake of efficiency I'm leaning towards deeper shelves even though it would probably make the console cartridges look pretty buried.
I might even challenge my comfort zone and try to build something myself for once in my life. It doesn't look like it would save much money, but at least I'd have control over the dimensions.
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Gemquist
-Leading into the Barbie game collection. - -. You gotta have one of those-
Hey, man. Say what you will, but I had a lot of fun playing Barbie Detective with my younger sister. It was her first P&C style game, and kind of a hidden gem among the Barbie games, to be honest. You explored this massive theme park hunting down some criminal and doing puzzles, mini games, and some sort of hidden object thing. It really reminded me of Scooby Doo on the Genesis - minus the fantastic art and Lucas Arts style command system.
Really interestingly, it had some very smooth text to voice playback for player names. Not sure if they had recordings for as many names as they could stuff on the CD, or had some sort of speech generator, but it surprised the hell out of me when we were entering her, and a lady friend of mine's name as our character.
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-Leading into the Barbie game collection. - -. You gotta have one of those-
Hey, man. Say what you will, but I had a lot of fun playing Barbie Detective with my younger sister. It was her first P&C style game, and kind of a hidden gem among the Barbie games, to be honest. You explored this massive theme park hunting down some criminal and doing puzzles, mini games, and some sort of hidden object thing. It really reminded me of Scooby Doo on the Genesis - minus the fantastic art and Lucas Arts style command system.
Really interestingly, it had some very smooth text to voice playback for player names. Not sure if they had recordings for as many names as they could stuff on the CD, or had some sort of speech generator, but it surprised the hell out of me when we were entering her, and a lady friend of mine's name as our character.
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77elvistheking
It's really sad how games collecting has gone. That's not meant for LGR but for people trying to copy people like LGR just for the sake of it. My favorite PS2 games are Siren 1 and Siren 2.
I had them since 2004 and 2006 but was missing manuals and Siren 1 case was also bitten by my dog lol.
Got each in near mint condition for like 13 euros shipping included from amazon in 2013. Now each cost around 80-150 euros. The worst part is those games are for very specific audience and are extremely hard. most people that get them and made their price skyrocket just put them in a shelve and never play them. At least I know LGR probably played every single game he owns lol
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It's really sad how games collecting has gone. That's not meant for LGR but for people trying to copy people like LGR just for the sake of it. My favorite PS2 games are Siren 1 and Siren 2.
I had them since 2004 and 2006 but was missing manuals and Siren 1 case was also bitten by my dog lol.
Got each in near mint condition for like 13 euros shipping included from amazon in 2013. Now each cost around 80-150 euros. The worst part is those games are for very specific audience and are extremely hard. most people that get them and made their price skyrocket just put them in a shelve and never play them. At least I know LGR probably played every single game he owns lol
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Joe's
Man I'm glad to see you appreciate these older games that are long forgotten, we get them in our store from time to time and I have to put a couple bucks on them and find a spot on the shelf for them. Every once in awhile somebody comes in and picks a few up, I agree with you on the older sports games too, the Golf and Baseball ones were pretty amazing just because the amount of statistics, etc. they could keep track of even back then was pretty mind blowing. The books with them are always huge too, even on things like the Genesis.
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Man I'm glad to see you appreciate these older games that are long forgotten, we get them in our store from time to time and I have to put a couple bucks on them and find a spot on the shelf for them. Every once in awhile somebody comes in and picks a few up, I agree with you on the older sports games too, the Golf and Baseball ones were pretty amazing just because the amount of statistics, etc. they could keep track of even back then was pretty mind blowing. The books with them are always huge too, even on things like the Genesis.
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Ivan
LGR you have the best game reviews did you maybe came across games that is similar to abuse and alien rampage? I used to have that game on cd that i got in pc play magazine(green cd with star wars mysteries of the sith demo on it) but i canot remember the name only i remember is that when you start the game you see black and white animation of a guy in full armor suit holding a rifle while descending down in elevator and then the game starts thats all i can remember
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LGR you have the best game reviews did you maybe came across games that is similar to abuse and alien rampage? I used to have that game on cd that i got in pc play magazine(green cd with star wars mysteries of the sith demo on it) but i canot remember the name only i remember is that when you start the game you see black and white animation of a guy in full armor suit holding a rifle while descending down in elevator and then the game starts thats all i can remember
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Kuznetsov
I love those big box pc games.
Back in the early 90s when i was a 24/7 gamer me and my older bro had hundreds of them between us, sadly a lot of them got sold off, I've started collecting them again what will building a retro pc like i had back in the day, yea sure you can download 1000s through torrents with doxbox packages but there is nothing like owning the real game. a physical copy and the smell of the 90s as you flick through the manuals, good days.
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I love those big box pc games.
Back in the early 90s when i was a 24/7 gamer me and my older bro had hundreds of them between us, sadly a lot of them got sold off, I've started collecting them again what will building a retro pc like i had back in the day, yea sure you can download 1000s through torrents with doxbox packages but there is nothing like owning the real game. a physical copy and the smell of the 90s as you flick through the manuals, good days.
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Fuzzy
One thing I noticed is that you have very few japanese games (as opposed to japanese releases of western titles, would really love to see you review some more of those if you have the opportunity, maybe like some old NEC or MSX or fm towns stuff, that'd be awesome. I don't really have much japanese pc games, otherwise I'd be happy to donate some, but alas I mostly have console games and maybe some newer pc stuff but I'm not sure if that's your jam.
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One thing I noticed is that you have very few japanese games (as opposed to japanese releases of western titles, would really love to see you review some more of those if you have the opportunity, maybe like some old NEC or MSX or fm towns stuff, that'd be awesome. I don't really have much japanese pc games, otherwise I'd be happy to donate some, but alas I mostly have console games and maybe some newer pc stuff but I'm not sure if that's your jam.
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Sleeper,
So, if you remember some time ago when I asked about a certain game that I can't find anymore in one of your videos? I said something about 2 letter W's on a CD? Well, in the game, it also had it on some walls too. The game is called, -The Day The World Broke-. Now I just gotta find a CD and play it! No seriously, this Collection Room Tour unintentionally helped me find the game I was trying to find all these years. Thanks for the tour!
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So, if you remember some time ago when I asked about a certain game that I can't find anymore in one of your videos? I said something about 2 letter W's on a CD? Well, in the game, it also had it on some walls too. The game is called, -The Day The World Broke-. Now I just gotta find a CD and play it! No seriously, this Collection Room Tour unintentionally helped me find the game I was trying to find all these years. Thanks for the tour!
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Fernando
Man, I see you have some Heroes of Might and Magic games, but no review until now! Would you cover them?
On a side note, do you recall that back in Msn Messenger (version. 4 or 5 I believe) they added support to play HoMM (3? Or was the 2) with your contacts. That was pretty weird but my 13 years old self was ecstatic to try it, but had noone to play with: (
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Man, I see you have some Heroes of Might and Magic games, but no review until now! Would you cover them?
On a side note, do you recall that back in Msn Messenger (version. 4 or 5 I believe) they added support to play HoMM (3? Or was the 2) with your contacts. That was pretty weird but my 13 years old self was ecstatic to try it, but had noone to play with: (
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TwistedGaming
Hi LGR I always like to watch your awesome lazy reviews. I would just like to know do you still get boxed games and or are they just on steam and platforms like steam, origin and so on love your collection of games you deserve a guiness world record any way hope you have an cool day or night from South Africa - hope you reply
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Hi LGR I always like to watch your awesome lazy reviews. I would just like to know do you still get boxed games and or are they just on steam and platforms like steam, origin and so on love your collection of games you deserve a guiness world record any way hope you have an cool day or night from South Africa - hope you reply
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