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Ah... that's where those extra clicks came from last week.

Always wanted to add this variant to my collection.

Turrican II, one of the best games on C64.

Well, hello you beautiful box!

Two packages were waiting on the doormat: More or less completed my GEOS library.

This.

With pixeling for the C64 being my new love and of course still loving my big boxes too, it only was a matter of days before those two worlds crashed into each other and formed something exiting!

Received a big box full of smaller boxes today: Back in January, Marion stumbled upon bigboxcollection.com, saw that it lacks WoW and decided to donate all of here WarcCraft games.

OK, I've got somewhat carried away this week by joining the C64GFX.Com CharSet Logo Compo 2024 and working on my first CharSet pix.

With Nightdive Studios working on their System Shock remaster, RetroGamer magazine sat down with them and Jon Chey, the lead programmer of Shock 2, for discussing the series' beginnings, how it could be updated and what's up with Shock 3.

The other day, a I received a mail from RetroGamer Magazine telling me, that I can now access the complete backlog of the mag thanks to my ongoing subscription.

I really do like to revisit International Karate (and its sequel) a lot; it's a perfect game.

BTW, the new Super Mario is wonderful!

Nerdy shelves, huh?

A couple of games arrived today, all small boxes but definitely pretty ones.

Gameroom Ramblings shared a post where he wondered why some games have different box art and well, that's a good question.

The latest issue — load 255 that is — of Retrogamer mag just dropped and guess what, there's a six page Making of article in it about Diablo II.

Blizzard added the original Diablo to battle.net the other day and with this, why not take a quick look at how to run the game.

I was surprised how dark my Turbo OutRun screenshots turned out to be.

Used a spare minute to update the X-Files box.

After yesterday's short session with Turbo OutRun, I've sat down and played the Arcade version today.

Ever since I've played the original OutRun on C64, I've been a fan.

My copy of Fast Tracks had the "Bobby Rahal Challenge" disk included.

I've grabbed two big boxes from Retro365's shelf.

Adding top/bottom to bigboxcollection.com might not just be for completion sake only but also for triggering memories!

A small packaged showed up today with the following two boxes in it: RoboCop (C64) Kind of Magic 2 (C64, Compilation) Just couldn't say no RoboCop and the same is true for the second of the three Kind of Magic collections by Magic Bytes; always loved the…

The other two of the three packages that arrived today include a mix of old and not so old games.

Three packages arrived today, and looking at the boxes, we all know what's gonna be in the bottom one: John Romero's SIGIL II (get it at romero.com SIGIL II was released back in December 10,2023 on Doom's 30ths anniversary in digital form with physical bo…

Not live yet, but I've implemented a search for digging through the hundreds of blog posts \o/

THere's another fantastic site that might soon feature 3Dified boxes.

Here's a site worth keeping an eye on: Adam is working on virtualizing his 400+ big box collection and maybe those boxes will be 3Dified too.

Some more Klax

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Another box of Commodore 64 games arrived today: Turbo Out Run Chase HQ S.T.U.N.

Oh, KLAX.

Games that ship with a construction kit were and still are rather rare, and back in the 80s, fooling around with the construction kit for "Fast Tracks" was pure mayhem in our household.

We've got a nice tradition over at the Big Box PC Game Collectors on Facebook at the end of each year where everyone joining in would show their top 12 games from all the game that they've picked up in the past 12 months.

Boxes have been viewed 125k times now; here's the top 30: Folks love Diablo but GTA games are hiding in plain sight too.

My copy of "Fast Tracks" for C64 arrived today \o/

It's the first day of 2024 and I thought I sit down and share a short recap of 2023.

First game of 2024.

Love SCUMM games?

Hurrah!

GameSpark.jp shared an article about my collection resulting in thousands(!)

See that tooltip in the bottom right corner?

Went outside.

Once again, I ate way too much, so let's do some karate exercises.

Got in touch with Luke Plunkett about my site and a couple of mails later, he shared a nice little blog post on Aftermath.

Xmas tradition: Reviving the Wii and playing through the best jump'n'run out there, WarioLand Shake Dimension!

Spotted a logo for the Quake Engine on the "Hexen II: Portal of Praevus" box.