Neat! Is it the PC version? I wonder if it's the newer version with a fancy title screen or mouse support, or if it's the older one.

Minumum Requirements: IBM/TANDY 100% Compatibles
Contains 5.25" Disks.

640 K RAM, 2DISK DRIVES OR A HARD DRIVE

Works with: VGA, EGA, MCGA, CGA & Hercules

Full Digitized Sound, 16 Color Graphics
Supposrts Mouse & Sound Boards.

I'm not sure, but I think they may have lied on the box, gambling that they were going to have mouse support before initial release (which didn't happen). I could be wrong though.

I also didn't know it came on 5.25" floppies - that's kinda cool. I have original 3.5" floppies that my cousin gave me, and of course there was the Ultimate Wizardry Archives release on CD-ROM.

Heh, Wizardry 6 is sitting there in my closet..probably never to be opened. Funny thing is, that box is probably older than I am (Im born 1992)

Damn, I was your age when that game came out.

I couldn't play it when my mom was around because it had demons and topless women (in 16 colors!). Speaking of which, my previous avatar was one of the main end boss characters...

Does your generation still like the old games? As a member of the Atari generation (yeah, even before Nintendo!) it's strange to think that there are now video game enthusiasts who don't remember the world before 16-bit consoles...

nice box. Those classic boxes are much more appealing then those dvd like things of today.
Although those are better spacewise 😀

Agreed. Although I didn't care much for all the crazy shaped and sized boxes they were making in the mid 90s (I actually prefer the Wal-Mart sized boxes they use now over weird trapezoid shaped things that you can't open without a hacksaw), the regular large box design was just right for admiring on a shelf.

I actually saved lots of my old game boxes, although I eventually whittled down my collection to my favorites and then flattened them to save space.

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Nah, I dont mind. I didnt know where to post still new to this forum.

The Infocom boxes from the early 80s are what I remember most for being oddly shaped. The box for Suspended was a mask in the shape of a face. The Starcross box was a UFO shaped disk. I too prefer the smaller box sizes of today's games or even the DVD style boxes of the PS2 or Gamecube.

Electronic Arts had some very innovative Folio-style boxes. They opened up and often told you about the game and its creators. Not the strongest storage mediums.

Early boxes, like the Ultima II box, are awe-inspiringly large. I like the large but slim design that seemed to evoke Wargame boxes.

I'm assuming by "folio-style", you mean like the one that Starflight 1 came in: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/starflight/ … ameCoverId,136/

Starflight was the first store-bought PC game I ever owned, and has remained one of my most favorite video games of all time. I got it for Christmas around the end of 1986 I think. I still have the game boxes and accompanying materials (manuals, disks, maps, code wheel, etc.) for both Starflight games 😀

Interestingly, the box for Starflight 2 was rather similar to the modern Wal-Mart-sized boxes of today. It was a bit larger though. The box had a front flap that was meant as the primary means of opening it, whereas modern boxes tend to have purely external front flaps that serve no purpose other than to double the box's self-advertising real-estate.

Those are the ones. EA actually had a great deal of redeeming value back in the day, they published many of the best games of the 80s. Their folio packages had some very attractive packaging, which is why I pine for the uniqueness of the packaging of PC games. PC games used to come in all shapes and size and artists created the box art, not Photoshop hacks. Too bad circumstances forced them to adopt a more boxy design in the late 80s.