Not all memories are so enjoyable. I remember buying Ultima II for $40 (small box) at a department store. The title disappeared, but I found the galactic map a few years ago, all that remained of a title I really wish I'd still had. For reasons that defy sanity, I WROTE on my Ultima IV map (boo, hiss, etc.). Still have it as a monument to not thinking. But perhaps one of the best is writing off a title as lost only to find it at the very bottom of a really old box, and in great shape despite being covered (Windwalker).
Joe had a fine post a few back about how the props pull you into the story ("put the saucer on your head" cracks me up). Certainly it ignites the imagination, but I'd take it one step farther in that it integrates itself into your being. I remember what I was doing 15-20 odd years ago because of what I was doing (playing what we now consider 'classic' games).
While I worship at the RPG shrine, and pay tribute to strategy games (just got SSI's Six Gun Shootout, which I am going up to my parents this weekend JUST to image that :) I drool over thinking about combining certain classic games. M1 Tank Platoon and F-117 into an extended campaign. Pirates! and Swashbucker :) (too obvious but so what). And just about any RPG w/any SSI strategy game. To have fewer encounters but have to spend about 20 minutes on each engagement. Oh yes. Sure Darklands does a good job of that, and I still think about XCOM and Jagged Alliance, I'm sure there are much, much better combinations of 2 or 3 games that would make "the ultimate game" (I'm eager to hear others). Sigh. Oh yeah, speaking of combining classics, anyone going to see "Freddy vs. Jason"? :)
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Marco Thorek wrote:
"Feldhamer, Stuart" schrieb:
You're dating yourself also, Jim. Now I'm curious how old you are exactly. :
)
Some of my most prized gaming posessions are those that survived from when I
was a kid, even if they may not be in the best shape. I have a Seastalker
folio that my parents wanted to throw out when we moved, but I insisted on
saving it. A few years ago when I started collecting in earnest, I raided
all the boxes to find it. ("I KNOW it's in here somewhere!"). I also have a
few other things, but sadly, my Dad's Starcross saucer was stolen not too
long ago. (Doesn't that sound weird? "Commissioner! The hope diamond has
been stolen! And that's not all! A Starcross saucer!" "A Starcross saucer???
Good lord! Alert the mayor!") There was also a lot of stuff which I DIDN'T
insist on saving when we moved. Oh well. : (
Oh, I can share that sentiment... One of my most prized possessions is
the very first Infocom game I bought: a used copy of Moonmist, whose box
back then was already tending more into the undesirable direction. I
have one Moonmist box that is perfect, but still, I'd never sell that
old, beaten up box.
Same goes for all the other games I was given or bought myself when I was a child: Sublogic's Flight Simulator II, Firebird's Elite, etc. I guess that's what has driven me to software collecting in the first place - I can associate a memory with these old boxes and games.
Marco
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