My AOE Gold edition was in pretty damn good conditon when I bought it alongside AvP Gold. Though I find it pretty much an imposibility to find any big boxes at all in the wild, let alone ones that aren't all tattered and torn, I don't think it just applies to Age of Empires more than most. Though perhaps it is used very readily at that period of time. It was an extremely re-playable game! 😊 When I bought my copy I didn't find issue in the fact that the one battle I was in spanned more than 9 hours. 🤣

As for AOE 2 it is far more enjoyable with the midi's from the demo integrated instead.

Bought a couple games at a thrift store today.
Sim Safari (by Dice) and some EA Collection with Sim City 3000, Sim Isle, Sim Safari again and Sim Tower, but the Sim Safari and Sim City 3k CDs were missing, but I already have those so no matter 😀

And also bought Microsoft Office Professional, Designed for Windows 95! And even though it's technically not a game, I can still play around with it! 😁

None were the large cardboard boxes, but the MS Office even has the CoA green leaflet thingy including a product ID instead of Product Key! 😁

What a way to start 2016...

Got this beauty in the post today - a complete Diablo 2 Collector's Edition! As a huge Blizzard and Diablo fan, this is my Holy Grail, and I finally have it! 😊

For those who don't know about this release, it contains the usual Blizzard CE stuff - game discs, DVD, soundtrack, beautiful manual. But it's unique in that it also contains a Diablo-themed D&D tabletop game! All the dungeon sheets and whatnot are absolutely pristine, so if I ever play this it'll be with scanned/copied versions, naturally.

This also means my Diablo PC collection is now complete 🤣

Wow, that's an awesome Diablo collection! Which is your favourite game? I bought Diablo 1 new back in the day, but not really played 2 much.
My last couple of pickups... have the CD versions of each of these, but not boxed. In the case of LoL I only had the GoG version.

bjt wrote:

Wow, that's an awesome Diablo collection! Which is your favourite game?

Thanks! Diablo 2 is my favourite for sure. The first one was ground-breaking, but the second one (with Lord of Destruction) was truly an amazing game. D3 had a lot to live up to and didn't quite achieve the lofty goals set by the community (some early design screw-ups didn't help, like the Real-Money Auction House), but since Reaper of Souls and a lot of updating and massaging from Blizzard, it's grown into a very good game.

Picking up this CE is making me want to play it again, bust out a Javazon build and go nuts. 😊

And nice pickups! Unfortunately my Indy is in nowhere near as good condition as yours!

Got this for a very fair price (local listing). Excellent condition and everything included. Couldn't be happier. 😊

Fantastic pickup! Eco Quest was my first foray into Sierra adventures in primary school and it makes me feel very nostalgic!

More new arrivals! Need a manual for Privateer but couldn't say no for the price.

Difficult to see in the picture but the previous owner left a postit with the cheat codes 😀

Some solid pickups that are essential in any collection! Nice one!

Sorry for the lack of pics 😊 I might add a few later, but my old mobile won't take very good pics anyway.

I already mentioned my latest thrift store finds in the retro activity thread, but it kinda belongs here instead.

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Thrift store finds! 😁

At first it seemed hopeless, but in the end I had a basket full of games (16, but this included some spares). Got some expansion of Black vs White (Creature Island..no idea I never played that game. I already have the basic game) and 3 copies of Imperialism II (great turn-based game! 😁 Very nice atmosphere! Only drawback is that a single game may take weeks 🤣!), another copy of Perimeter, one more copy of Frogger(!!) couple copies of Theme Park Inc, some Asterix game, Pinball 2 (dunno but the screenshots sure looked good 🤣!), House of the Dead (never heard of it) and some game called "Mythical Warriors".
Except for Perimeter, these games are all older ones and will make a nice addition to my already nice games collection 😀

All games were those standard DVD boxes though, except for Frogger which came in just the jewel case but Frogger is not bad at all!

Had a few lots of games come in this week, some interesting titles too.

Awesome! Like that Lands of Lore box, is that the CD version? Cooler than the one I got a few weeks ago anyway.

More games on my end the last couple weeks too.I bought another bookcase yesterday 😀

Normally wouldn't keep Monopoly but it's a Westwood game so...

Another couple for my "Best of British" section.

And some randoms too.

More for my "Best of British"

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Awesome! Like that Lands of Lore box, is that the CD version? Cooler than the one I got a few weeks ago anyway.

My Lands of Lore says it's the 3.5" floppy version, although the box came with the CDROM and the floppies inside 😁

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More games on my end the last couple weeks too.

Nice. Curse of Monkey Island and the SC2000 Urban Renewal Kit are two I've been looking for for a while but still don't have.

That Monopoly game is actually quite good. I got my boxed copy of it in an eBay lot, didn't expect much, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Really wish I could get a copy of Hexen though! Great finds!

This wasn't cheap, but it's one of my all-time favourites.

Great looking big box and a great game - too hard for me though as a kid. As with most of my games back then, I got it via the great floppy swappy at the back of the bus so of course no manual, and I always felt like I was missing some vital key combos. But I think it was just hard 😀

I was going through some of my big boxed games yesterday; opening them up, randomly reading manuals. I like having them around.

Got those today. I am close to completing my SSI AD&D series, I have 8 games now. I also got Camelot: Quest for the Grail but that has not come yet.

Very nice! I got a copy of KQ5 today too, but it has a different box. Two bargains and one pricey game in this lot.

Awesome pickups! Would love a copy of System Shock.

Yeah that was the pricey one 😀 possibly my favourite game of all time.