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Zack's "Ye olde 68k games" conquests

zackl

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I'm sure some of you have seen my games thread in the Trading Post (aka "I will buy your 68k mac games!") but I wanted to start a section here to help me keep track of the 68k games that were a huge part of my first Macintosh experience. 

I've recently moved and hopefully will be pulling out the collection and getting more organized so I can add to this.

But I'm going to start with my most recent conquest, and the one that's been the hardest to find - an original boxed copy of Airborne! which put Silicon Beach Software on the map.

Jonathan Gay who programmed this went on to create Dark Castle I & II before he build the company that invented Flash and sold it to Macromedia, then Adobe.

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olePigeon

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Very cool.  Having gotten my own personal copies of Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle, my Holy Grail of Mac games has shifted to a boxed copy of Warlock. :)

For Apple IIe, I still would dearly love to get my mittens on Conan, Akalbaeth, and Ultima II.

 

zackl

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Finally got my games collection out of moving boxes, this isn't final display form but good enough to inventory! 

Top of the shelf are my crown jewels:

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Dark Castle sealed box

Kings Bounty sealed box

Sonnet Presto Plus in box

Airborne! in original box

Through the Looking Glass (thanks 68k!)

Marathon sealed box.

 
Other side of the shelf:
 
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Spectre VR sealed
Gravis Mousestick sealed
Price of Persia

 

Then the next shelf down are my favorite 68k games, more or less:

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beyond dark castle

Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis / and the last crusade

Legend of Kyrandia

SimAnt

Syndicate

Pathways into Darkness

Loom

Quest for Glory 1 (Sealed)

Monkey Island (VG condition / complete)

Monkey Island 2

Fa-18 hornet

Lemmings

Out of this World

Rise of the Dragon

PGA Tournament Golf

Lunicus

Castles Siege & Conquest

Pirates!

Leisure Suit Larry 1.

The third shelf, underrepresented in same photo contains:

Sierra's Gold Rush

Police Quest 1

SimTower

Full Throttle

King's Quest 1 - 3, 5 (KQ 4 doesn't exist on Macintosh)

Space Quest 1 & 3

Dragon's Lair

Macwars (Sealed)

MS Flight Simulator

Fallout (PC - got a mac version to sell me?)

Oregon Trail

Zork I (with map)

Arthur

Quest for Glory V (PC - got a mac version to sell me?)

Fallout 2 (PC - got a mac version to sell me?)

Then move one shelf down and we have the dupes & stuff I don't care about at this point but will take offers on!

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Pinball

Kings Bounty Apple II

Dark Castle IIgs Version (thrashed case)

Dark Castle Macintosh Version (thrashed case)

Kings Bounty PC

Quest for Glory One - good condition / complete

Quest for Glory One - tear in other side of box that damaged art / complete

Monkey Island - water damaged box, missing disks / manuals

Kings Quest V - dupe

Where in the USA is carmen san diego

Indiana Jones & the last Crusade - nice condition just a dupe

Prince of Persia II - no attachment

Mac OS 8 - sealed in box

Making this thread as a partial inventory, partially to let people know what I have.

What I'd like to do next is photograph each individual game - sealed copies front & back, unsealed take them out completely.

Any requests? 

Anything that I'm missing that I should have :)

 
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MJ313

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Awesome collection!!

Pathways was one of my first games... loved it. I think you can get it for iPad now, but man, playing it on the old machines is more fun.

 
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olePigeon

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If you can find them, three games you should get (and a fair warning, I'm hunting for them!) are Spin Doctor (the original, not the Ultimate Challenge CD), Super Maze Wars (though you can get Maze Wars+ right now on eBay which is essentially the same game), Warlock, and Color Dark Castle.

I don't know why I never bought Color Dark Castle, but they don't sell it anymore. :(

 
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zackl

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If you can find them, three games you should get (and a fair warning, I'm hunting for them!) are Spin Doctor (the original, not the Ultimate Challenge CD), Super Maze Wars (though you can get Maze Wars+ right now on eBay which is essentially the same game), Warlock, and Color Dark Castle.

I don't know why I never bought Color Dark Castle, but they don't sell it anymore. :(
Totally, Color Dark Castle I would love to have.

I think our interests overlap what w/the LCs etc - would love to see your 68k collection, I am unsure why I collect outside of nostalgia, but I tell myself it's because of the box art which I love viewing. 

 

olePigeon

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If you like Box Art, any Psygnosis game is guaranteed to please.  They're 99% PC games, but there're few Mac games in there (Lemmings, for one.)

 

rezwits

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Lode runner, man I spent some time on that game, making levels even.  It's funny when I look back at my "minor (no pun)" gaming days and I was absorbed by that game.  For a whole summer!

 

zimwhatzim

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Macintosh Garden, I think.  Delta Tao no longer sells it.  I missed my opportunity.   :(
Yeah I'd check Macintosh Garden. They have pretty much everything. If not you can see if I do, I haven't looked myself (the collection was years in the making...and a lot of it was "donated" by a friend) 

afp://www.tauceti.org (guest)

 

SE30_Neal

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I like using floppys, theres something pleasing about them, maybe nostalgia but all that meaningful noise they make is pleasing to me, a usb stick just isnt the same ;)

 
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