BigBoxCollection

Batman to-go :-)

Updated switch.bigboxcollection.com Guess it shows, that I've bought my Switch on day one.

Finding a big box game under the christmas tree is rather rare these days, so here's a quick update with a bunch of DOS, Windows and C64 games for you all to dig through.

Having fun re-installing game clients — and bundling them into Playnite — I've downloaded POD and gave it a spin.

With the new PC setup complete, it's time to boot up a game.

Just found out that all the Expy sports games are on Nintendo Switch as "The Epyx Games Sports Collection".

Reworked the landing page of bigboxcollection.com; it's more colorful now & also matches the 3D box pages in style.

Reworking the landing page and here's a preview of a stupid but fun little thingy soon to be unleashed:

Here's an old render of my collection grabbed during the early days of bigboxcollection.com.

Diablo, the first 3D box to have reached 7,000 views since the redesign of went live last November.

"Tetris Forever" is out and it's fantastic!

Couldn't resist, was on sale.

Today, some more boxed games arrived.

Picked up some C64 games yesterday.

Adding specular maps is work, but I'm still amazed how much they do actually add to the overall feel

In my second life as C64 graphician jmin I'm pixeling all kind of things for fun.

This one has been on my list for way to long.

Added a couple of C64 GEOS software "boxes" (well, they're books here in the German speaking world)

Quite some time ago, Thomas shared a pic of his French Diablo box and boy, I fell in love with it.

With the final puzzle piece added yesterday, my US set of all Test Drive games set is now complete \o/.

With this, my Test Drive II set is finally complete.

Getting updates for games is great, getting free upgrades is even better and getting remasters for free is ace.

Some time ago, I've started to scan the back of the box with the top lid on and thus showing the both on the back scans.

With the upload of Space Quest 6, there's now 800(!)

Oh, look what landed on my doorstep today!

First pic using a new flatbed scanner (a cheap Canon one).

Sure, it's a small box and yeah, I only played it with my brothers on Playstation 2, but it's a fantastic game and a great looking box.

Some of the boxes waiting to be scanned and uploaded.

No box added but uploaded some additional textures for existing boxes Still love the subtle lightning FX for replicating the varying shininess of box & stickers and for faking gaps of two part boxes and so on.

Spent some time tweaking various things to speed up the page. 3D boxes are of course still quite a load, but starting up bigboxcollection.com should be a bit faster now.

RetroGamer Magazine takes a look at the enduring legacy of the Thief series which first appeared on our monitors back in 1999.

Came home from a short vacation with two more Big Boxes waiting on my door step: Al-Qadim had been on my wishlist forever and Thunderscape just had to be picked up due to having added Endomorph.

"Yeah, just add one of the shots twice.

A couple of C64 games arrived today: R-Type Ikari Warriors Death or Glory

Another fantastic article in RetroGamer magazine load 259: The Making of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.

Back in the day, I definitely preferred DuoTris, but at the same time, MirrorSoft's Tetris always had a special place in my heart.

Woop!

Oh boy, I'm lagging behind big time!

California Games was a huge hit for Epyx and thus released on a lot of platforms back in the day.

Adam has updated his BigBoxDB and has now 125 big boxes sitting on this virtual shelf!

Picked up another copy of SimCity: It's the classic (enhanced) edition of the original game ?

Installed Diablo IV and now there's Conando out there saving the worl... em..

Not sure how I'm gonna scan this big box ?

New highscore but still not #1.

My big box of Baldur's Gate III arrived!

:-]

Combining all my hot topics C64, demo scene & collecting games: Another World by X-Ample Architectures.

The Sandworm was delivered.

More 3D boxes!

More games waiting to be scanned.