An odd WTB request (maybe)

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• Braveheart69

  September 2008

  Red Alert Aftermath = My Favorite PC game EVER! I play it every week still.
• UncleTusk

  September 2008

  Loom and Monkey Island were by far my favorite childhood PC games.
• removed-07-06-2016

  September 2008

  Glad I'm not the only one who loves me some vintage PC gaming. I actually went to Circuit City and bought a USB 3 1/2" floppy drive to be able to install any games I get on disk, and a USB Joystick to play the flightsim games. Gawd, I love DOSBOX, what a fantastic program (dos emulator for WinXP)!
  
  So far I have picked up Star Wars: X-Wing (floppy version); X-Wing: Imperial Pursuit expansion pack; X-Wing: B-Wing expansion pack; TIE Fighter (floppy version); TIE Fighter: Defender of the Empire expansion Pack; Star Wars: Rebel Assault; Myst; Riven, and Strategy Guide; Star Wars: Dark Forces; Star Trek: Judgment Rites (25th anniversary edition, but missing the VHS tape ). Currently I've got my eye on some others on ebay that aren't listed up top, too, but I don't want to generate any competition by mentioning them here .

  The ones I'm really really hoping to find soonest are the two Monkey Island games, and King's Quest 1-6.  I've been aching to play those for a long time; I lost an ebay auction for like $50 that had all 6 of the KQ's and have been kicking myself since!
• OzNEScollector

  September 2008

  ha, i just spent 10 minutes in "person behind the collector" thread saying how i liked anything
  
  from sierra/dynamix and then i see this thread.
  
  anyway, kind of a pointless post on my behalf cause i cant help you out.
  
  
• Kitsune Sniper

  September 2008

  OK, dude, you have GOT TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS. I have a crapton of older DOS games I want to sell or trade or whatever. I've been looking for someone who would buy these from me. Interested?
  
  I have these games available:
  Outpost 1 (CD in jewel case) + Outpost 2 (Complete in box)
  Starcraft + Brood War + strategy guides complete in box (boxes have damage, SC disc is mint, BW is mint but has thumb smudges)
  Star Trek Omnipedia Special Edition NEW
  Star Trek Starship Creator NEW
  Command & Conquer (first version, complete in box)
  Myst 3 Collector's Edition (does not include strategy guide, but has the pewter thing, bonus CDs and the game)
  Nascar Racing 2 50th Anniversary Edition (complete in box)
  Cyberia (complete in box)
  Willow (5 1/4" disks, slightly smushed box)
  Stellar 7 (floppy)
  A-10 Tank Killer (floppy, complete in box)
  Heroes of the 357th (missing copy protection wheel)
  Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating
  Pectorals! (Floppy version, untested, apparently complete)
  Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work! (5.25" version, missing game manual.)
  Powerhits Movies (Die Hard, Ghostbusters 2, Hare Raising Havoc
  (starring Roger Rabbit), The Rocketeer) floppy with manual
  Flash Traffic: City Of Angels (requires an MPEG decoder card, augh) - $3 + shipping
  
  King Quest VI (disks, box and hint book only)
  
  I will gladly sell all this to you for a very cheap price. The only problem might be the shipping...
  
• DestructoDisk

  September 2008

  Picard.. if have time to play a couple oldschool computer games.. I must make two recommendations. Escape Velocity, and Lords of the Realm II. I have spent countless hours on those games. Escape Velocity is a very unique game.. The controlls are kind of like asteroids, but the game play is RPG. You basically start out in a small ship delivering cargo or carrying passengers around.. you can upgrade your ship, get weapons, get a fighter bay and launch fighters, conquer planets and make them pay you, become a pirate, join the confederates or the rebels. Tractor beams cloaking devices, heat seaking missles.. its bad ass. LOTR 2 is an awesome turn based strategy game.. you manage you provinces and build up armies, try diplomacy with your neigbors. The cool thing tho, is all the battles are Real Time, ala Warcraft 2 with terrain layers, castle seiges and seige weapons.
• nbjork

  September 2008

  i have full throttle (awesome game) CIB, and I have Sam and Max on 7 floppy discs with the box and comics. I am too attached to part with them! I also have duken nukem 3d, doom 2, wolfenstein (!!), spear of destiny, rise of the triad, and many other originals. BTW Discworld 1 and 2 were great classic PC games. I know i didn't help much here, but am glad to see someone else that loves classic PC games.
• Kitsune Sniper

  September 2008

  I've actually gone as far as attempting to set up a virtual PC running DOS (using VirtualBox) to play some of my classic games. A few have video errors on DOSBox. >_>
• Xed

  September 2008

  if you want to make a dedicated DOS game machine.. .just go to fleamarkets, buy 20 old pc's for $1 and use the good parts to create a MONSTER dos machine
  
  
  
  i Loved Little Big Adventure 2 as a kid, how many hours i spent in the world of Twinsen is crazy
• matt163201

  September 2008

  UMMM.....wheres Blood, Shadow Warrior, and Duke 3D on your list? Dont forget Dr. Quandry (not spelled right im sure)
  
  Ahh here it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Island_of_Dr._Quandary
  
  AND dont forget Myst (original)
  
• dangevin

  September 2008

  Originally posted by: nesguy

  I actually went to Circuit City and bought a USB 3 1/2" floppy drive to be able to install any games

  
  
  This is the ultimate in technology for technology's sake. Why not just make it wireless so you can swap all 12 diskettes of King's Quest VI in the kitchen, while your modified ROB pushes the enter key for you in the computer room at each prompt.
  
• arch_8ngel

  September 2008

  Good to see people still into these classics.
  
  
  
  I just download them from abandonware sites. The odds of finding these in decent condition, and having disks that still work is pretty slim. It's not like cartridge based games with burned chips where bitrot takes eons. We're talking wimpy magnetic media, prone to abuse, misuse, and untimely demise.
• Peroxide

  September 2008

  Half of those are offered for free from their owners now.
• arch_8ngel

  September 2008

  Not on disk or with packaging which is what he appears to be interested in.
• removed-07-06-2016

  September 2008

  Yeah, like I said, I know several have been rereleased in other formats, but that's not what I'm going for. I read a very interesting interview with Hideo Kojima a while back, when MGS 3 first came out. They were asking him what he thought about the possibility of digital distribution of his games, and if he considered them "art". He laughed a bit at the art part, but stressed that things like packaging, instruction layouts, and the artwork on the physical disk are part of the "total experience" of playing a game. They all have a slight impact on you, and your enjoyment of a game; he thinks games will always be marketed in some physical form because of this. I completely agree with this concept; hence why I will be purchasing the retail packaging for Mega Man 9 when they finally make it available. I know not every gives a crap about this stuff, but to me it completes the experience more if I have things in their original format.
  
  
  
  That said, lol, I am doing this partly because it's cheaper than new games. I just don't want to go the completely cheapest route and shortcut my experience of the game. I haven't bought a new game for my XBOX360 since I picked up The Orange Box in June.
  
  
  
  PM coming your way Kitsune
• removed-07-06-2016

  September 2008

  Originally posted by: dangevin
  
  This is the ultimate in technology for technology's sake. Why not just make it wireless so you can swap all 12 diskettes of King's Quest VI in the kitchen, while your modified ROB pushes the enter key for you in the computer room at each prompt.
  

  
  
  This made me laugh a lot
  
  I actually looked into getting a 5 1/4" USB floppy drive, too, but sadly nobody makes one. WinXP does support reading of these drives, but not writing (which doesn't really matter to me I guess). I just haven't gotten around to the used PC shops in my town to try and pick one up yet. There's a couple of people that make dos boxes on ebay, with all the necessary hardware, for like $90-120; I might pick one of these up eventually if I get enough games that use the larger floppy format, and I have a spare hundred bucks that I don't know what to do with, lol.
  
• arch_8ngel

  September 2008

  I would guess that you won't find many function 5 1/4" disks around. Those things wear out quickly. I had some that came with NEW games back in the day (like Darklands) and they only worked for about year when treated well.
• Porksta

  September 2008

  Command and Conquer Red Alert was released for free a few weeks ago, not sure if it is now though. As for Day of The Tentacle, I have it but it is unopened and doubt you want to pay more for it. I do have Grim Fandango though, interested?
• removed-07-06-2016

  September 2008

  PM sent
• dangevin

  September 2008

  Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
  
  I would guess that you won't find many function 5 1/4" disks around. Those things wear out quickly. I had some that came with NEW games back in the day (like Darklands) and they only worked for about year when treated well.

  
  
  Depends on where you're keeping them. Keep them near a cordless phone, major appliance or a CPU or some other large metal electrickey thing (official term) and they'll demagnetize in no time.
  
  I used to get cheapo shareware copies off mail-order when I was a kid and since we only had a HD was was I think 20 MB (Windows 3.1 baby!) I had to do a lot of loading-and-deleting to play new games. They always worked fine for years. I kept them all on a bookshelf, on an outside wall with no electrical outlets .
  
  Whether they work now: doubtful. But I had more trouble with 3.5" than I ever did with 5 1/4" just because the mechanical part of the smaller diskettes always gave out.
  
  On a side note, about 4 years ago I got rid of my ancient shareware collection, and while I was reminiscing looking at the game titles on each label  I found my childhood porno collection. Pics-only, of course, and all of it downloaded at 2400 bps from local dialup BBS sites I was quite the little pornhound! They were named Porn-o-rama. Yep, I probably should have started dating earlier in life...
  
• arch_8ngel

  September 2008

  Haha...yeah the early days of digital porn were hilarious. I remember it being a big deal that my buddy had a couple of SVGA (256 color) pics of topless women. They looked TERRIBLY grainy and rough.
  
  
  
  Well, I always kept the disks in a caddy that was stored in my closet (on an outside wall). I don't recall ever having a 3.5" fail for anything other than mechanical reasons, but 5.25" would blank out from time to time.
• removed-07-06-2016

  September 2008

  Well, I don't think there's any games on my list that are available in 5 1/4" only, so I think I'm fine there. I've had 3 1/2" disks go out on me, though. I usually make a backup copy of them on my HDD in case one poops out on me. Damn blank disks are getting harder to find, though, in retail markets. I think Office Depot still caries them, but they're more expensive than an f'ing flash drive with 2GB. Craziness.
  
  
  
  
• ag1052

  September 2008

  I remember playing King's Quest 1 on my grandfather's computer... I should have grabbed it when he died... good memories