A Photographic Trip Down My Gaming Memory Lane - Part One

Pull up a seat kids, and let me tell you about a time when you actually got a physical product when you bought a game.

I was bored today and decided to pull out my box of old PC games from under the bed and take a little nostalgia trip. I've been gaming on the PC for about 30 years now. I use to have a lot of even older games, but I sold a ton of them about 15 years ago when I needed some cash.

I still have a pretty swell collection of older PC games and all the cool stuff that use to come with them, so join me as we take a look at what I found as I pulled out a box I hadn't gone through in a very long time.

Warning: There's gonna be A LOT of pics, so they might take a bit to load depending on your internet speed.

We'll start with the oldest games I still have in my collection. The old point and click adventure games were my very favorite growing up and were heavily responsible for getting me into PC games.

Oh, here's a classic. I remember you had to install this stupid thing called Steam in order to get this game to play. What were they thinking trying to force that on everyone?

One of the weirdest, most twisted games I've ever played. Man, I miss the awesome artwork that use to be on CDs.

I remember being blown away when I typed in my name and the game greeted me with a "Welcome, Lord David!". Apparently, they actually recorded someone saying a few hundred of the most common first names just so the game could say your name when you booted it up. Good stuff.

I love the Gothic games and have spent hundreds of hours on them, but have never actually finished a single one.

The original is still the best one.

At little minimalist, but at least I didn't have to worry about installing them in the wrong order.

I have no idea which PGA Tour game this actually is.

This game was the gold standard for graphics, physics and AI when it came out. Actually, I don't know if any game since has had a better enemy AI than F.E.A.R.

Pretty sure my friend got this for free with a graphics card he bought. He didn't want it so he gave it to me. It would be like two more years before I had a PC that could actually run it.

I spent a ridiculous number of hours playing both of these games.

A very underappreciated series.

Behold! The game that single-handedly dumbed down an entire genre and set it back a decade! Seriously, I hate this game so much for so many reasons.

Love me some Neverwinter Nights. One and Two are still my favorite RPGs of all time.

A once great franchise, brutally murdered by EA. RIP.

Some Blizzard classics.

The greatest MMO ever made. I spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours in this game, mostly surveying for materials and becoming a virtual weapons mogul.

So nice, I bought it twice. Man I miss this game so much.

I had a lot of fun in this world too.

Only a 10 disc install!

Expansion time!

Wait, what's this? I had no clue this was in the box until today.

Pretty sure it's not actual gold, but it's a real, seriously heavy, solid coin. Worth anything?

Awesome game map find number one of the day!

Expansion number two!

And what's this? Another kick ass coin?!

And another awesome map!

Okay, things are starting to get interesting, but I took over 200 pics and I don't think I should put them all in one post or I might make someone's internet connection explode.

So, if anyone out there wants to see some more of what I found, just let me know. I've tons more pics of awesome game boxes, discs, game manuals with beautiful artwork, inserts, posters, and even some old gaming magazines with some great stuff in them. I really haven't even got to the best stuff yet.

If even one person wants to see the rest, I'll make another post tomorrow, so just let me know!