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There's one last game on the way but sadly I won't be able to pick it up until Jan 2 so it's kinda the first game of 2024 and what a beauty it is: Fast Tracks for C64 (incl.

Oh, hello!

Grabbing some scans before heading into the holidays.

Updated 84 boxes and thus 32% of all the boxes available on this side have now all six sides up.

Snagged a (European) copy of Hexen II: Portal of Praevus via local classifieds!

Silly idea: TV border or no border?

I think I've never played Dragon Breed back in the day, even though I've always liked shoot-em-ups, and to be honest, it has an awesome setup: riding a dragon, doubling your firepower.

Grand Monster Slam.

Had a quick playthrough of Batman on C64 and guess what, I did remember (almost) everything about it.

My first computer was the humble C64, and while my brothers and I did have a couple of original tapes (mostly Mastertronic ones), there were, of course, also loads of copies.

Two games landed on my doormat today!

Doom always felt like a Christmas game.

US releases popping up via local classifieds here in Austria is a rather rare thing and one does pop up it's often for a lot of money.

My NerdWall™ is a mess right now but it's the easiest way of keeping track of the boxes that have been through the scanner once again for updating their 3Dified versions.

Hexplore was on sale on GOG.com the other month and of course I've grabbed a copy right away.

What's better than starting lunch with shooting a few hoops?

Grand Prix Simulator was one of the first games that we had for the Commodore 64, and now, looking back, it was a really decent title: two-player mode, fast gameplay, fantastic soundtrack, and speech!

Wanna play GTA?

Gameroom Ramblings was curious about my collection by year published and, well, here's a statistic answering that:

Hosting your own blog allows you to splice in automatically generated posts.

Uploaded the rest of the lithographs from the French Omikron Collector's Edition.

Yay, Half-Life 2 arrived today and I'm more than happy.

There are no cookies nor tracking nor anything on bigboxcollection.com but I started counting views for each box & as of this very minute the boxes have been spun around 9,210 times.

Ready.

Another boxed indie game for my shelf: Trauma

Local classifieds have been good to me these past weeks.

Half-Life 2.

Picked up a bunch of C64 games for cheap via eBay: Atomic Robo Kid Dan Dare III Bart vs.

Shiny #Quake box 😍

New joystick 😎

BTW, two new games arrived last friday: ST:TNG - Klingon: Honor Guard Risk II

Gaming mag from yesteryear arrived: This issue of PC Games got me really exited back in October '96 and no, I'm not talking the LucasArts feature but the 16 page special about #Daggerfall.

Bugs, bugs, bugs.

Just realized that my Soul Reaver box isn't a trapezoid but a regular one.

Not sure if it's a great idea but owning a phone that shoots 50MP & has a 5x optical zoom would allow a panorama with gazillion megapixel to zoom in.

Getting closer reaching #1

Progress...

New old games for my shelf \o/ Another Skyrim.

Oh, adding all this additional data for the games on my shelf will be 'fun', but it's gonna be worth it.

Neat!

Lunch break doodles: Never made any icons before but I felt like giving it a try.

Extended mock-up: basic layout with game list on the left & 3D view right.

Generating pics for the site re-design: Here's all the computer games on my shelf minus all the variants (so it's 619 out of 748 boxes) in a title-card format.

Made some quick mock-ups yesterday, mainly iterating & reshaping existing bits; here's one showing a rudimentary details page.

Not the 1UP I was looking for.

Concept art for Maniac Mansion (from Rob Smith's Rogue Leaders book)

With Quake II's neat compass feature being used, Hexen could be enjoyed by new audiences, right?

Happy Birthday #Daggerfall 😍

New high score but still haven't beaten wave 7 ðŸ˜

After years of waiting for an affordable copy to show up, I'm happy to finally add #Wizardry IV to my collection.