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I found my box of old PC games, they still have the manuals and inserts in them but I've made ISOs and disk images of the installs. Should I just flatten the boxes? They take up a lot of space.

>> No.6295425

>>6295420
>Should I just flatten the boxes?
why make a bait thread like this? No one is retarded enough to do that.

>> No.6295428

>>6295425
I don’t have a lot of choices here
>throw them away
>sell them
>put them in a huge box in the closet and take up space
At least when you flatten them, you’re not damaging the packaging and it will only take up half the space

>> No.6295430

Is castles any good? What kind of game is it?

>> No.6295440

>>6295420
Put them back in the box and shove them in a closet or something.

>> No.6295441
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>>6295430
I could give you the files if you want, you can play it on dosbox.
Its a castle/medieval sim where you designate money/men/armory/taxes to building your castle and protecting your land from invasion. I think its turn based but not sure
Not really my kind of game but I got it from a local thrift for $2

>> No.6295725

>>6295420
>keeping the box

>> No.6295747

>>6295420
I'd say only flatten the box if it didn't come with insert cardboard that filled out the empty space. Don't throw that shit away - keep it as it is and flatten what you can. Keep manuals in a nearby folder that can close up with a lid. Big boxes are pretty fun to have, but they really do take up a lot of space, and if you're not using them, you might as well try to get some of that space back.

>> No.6295782

>>6295420
Throw that shit away. It's all shovelware anyway.

>> No.6296075

That titanic game was pretty fun

>> No.6296081

>two copies of Judgement Rites
send one to BF

>> No.6296181

naw dude don't flatten the boxes, that's stupid as hell, I collect old boxed PC games and have a collection of nearly 200+, shit like that is why cardboard inserts are hard to find for the boxes

>> No.6296204

>>6296081
One is the original dos versiob ghe other is the talking cast VA CD version

>> No.6297001

>>6295747
shit youre right, most of these boxes have the cardboard in it. looks like I'll just keep them around in full.
i'm still kicking myself about 10 years ago i saw an orginal Doom pc box with disks and inserts at a thrift, for like $6 and i passed it up because i had the game files already at home. but then i learned doom was only sold in the mail so getting the box would be pretty rare now. oh well

>> No.6297018

>>6295420
Destroy the boxes while filming them and send them to collectors like Lazy Game Reviews on Youtube. I'm sure that will lead to hilarious reactions.

>> No.6297027

>>6295420
why the fuck would you be a dumb queer and ruin perfectly good boxes. muh space waaaah. you're why so many games can never be found complete and you sound like a stupid retard with your question. keep the boxes and repack them up and dont be a dumb cock loving queer by smashing them cuz muh space. fucking dumb retard

>> No.6297028

why don't more people collect for PC?
>huge boxes with some of the best art out there
>comparitively cheap
>master race

>> No.6297052

>>6297028
I think people don't collect PC games for several reasons:
1. a lot of people consider PC games to be more of a 'normal' thing while console games on physical media like cartridges and disks are considered more like-able to collect. And before you say "but what about big boxes?", most people nowadays don't think of PC games in big boxes but rather digitally downloaded games or at best stored on a DVD or something with a Steam code as a form of DRM. Which leads me to the next point...
2. PC game developers and software developers had a lot more problems with piracy and came up with DRM solutions long before it existed in its current form. Don't have a valid key or necessary documents when the game asks you for something? Too bad, you can't keep playing unless you crack the game.
3. Piracy has become less of an issue for both consumers and developers now that platforms like Steam not only made it easier to (re)release them on but with regular sales the price point became even less of an issue and the need to pirate decreased while not completely vanished.
4. A lot of PC games were made in a certain era like before or after windows 95 and later operating systems sometimes can't run games as well natively as on the one it was originally made on. While sometimes easy to fix it scares off people because of incertainty with compatible games while things they find online are usually fixed to work on modern OS or with some simple solution like DOSbox. Consoles and handhelds don't have that problem.
5. Emulation. It's much easier to emulate consoles and handheld systems while running PC games seems like too much effort to some. Yes those people are retarded but it shouldn't be a surprising revelation to anyone who knows other people.

All in all, I too think collecting PC games is interesting even if it's for low prices but there are many reasons why a lot of people rather collect, say, SNES or Playstation games or stick with other means to play PC games.

>> No.6297083

>>6295420
Can you make hi-res scans of those boxes (and the manual and the CDs) and upload them to MobyGames?

>> No.6297087
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6297087

>>6297028
>comparitively cheap
lol

>> No.6297163

>>6297087
listings dont equal sales and the bids could be lowballers
but pic is interesting enough

>> No.6297216

>>6297083
Sure. Most of the boxes aren’t bigger than 8x11 so I can put them on a regular flatbed scanner at home

>> No.6297247

>>6295420
nothign wrong with flattening boxes OP. The GPS does exactly that and they're probably the most pro preservation operation I've ever seen.

>> No.6297306

>>6297163
huh? Those are sold listings.

>> No.6297319

>>6297216
Thank you.

>> No.6297360

>>6297028
not sure but it's starting to get more popular
>>6297087
its not that cheap anymore, i can compare it to console game collecting but console game collecting is a ripoff nowadays, especially if you're going for cib, i've had to pay up to $75 for my rarer titles but you can get lucky more with big box pc games

>> No.6297363
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6297363

something like this. i started scanning boxes years ago but only made it through 3 lol

>> No.6297369
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6297369

>>6297363

>> No.6298954

>Interactive Storybook series
Holy shit, I remember those! I think the Lion King one was my first computer game ever. I remember specifically asking for the Toy Story one because I played the Traveler's Tales Toy Story for the Genesis and thought it was garbo.

>> No.6299612

>>6298954
the toy story on was pretty cool. there were also a sister series the "activity center" which was more game based with the same movie

>> No.6299787

>>6297087
Fug I wish I kept my box of ultimate doom now

>> No.6299882

Star Trek Judgment Rites is so good

>> No.6300109

>>6295430
AFAIR it's on GoG.

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>>6295420

>> No.6301972

>>6295420
Throw all that shit away like the developers originally intended

>> No.6303517

>>6301972
Either sell it to wherever is dumb enough to buy depreciating junk, or hold onto it so your kids can throw it out when you die. Flattening is just a cope. Retro games are the new baseball cards.

>> No.6303724

Sell them to autistic manchildren on ebay

>> No.6304213
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6304213

>>6303517
>Retro games are the new baseball cards

>> No.6304229

>>6295420
Literally none of those box covers have soul

>> No.6304235

>>6295420
Fuck, I remember that Titanic game scaring me as a kid.

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6305489

>>6304213
Sorry bud. Maybe I could take them in 2020, but it's 2030 now. Best I can do is recycle them for you.

>> No.6305843

>>6305489
>i'll still be a broke neet in 2030

>> No.6306520

>>6304229
>only the hand drawn 80s game boxes are good!

>>6304235
the only thing that scared me was the cyberflix logo at the beginning and the creepy piano music when youre deep in the ship corridors

>> No.6306587

no one ever talks about streets of sim city and how weird it was. a car to car combat game that let you import sim city maps to generate the world?

>> No.6307480

>>6306587
Streets had potential but really weird graphics and alot of program-crash glitches. Still pretty cool you can make your own cities in SC2K and load them into Streets