For some reason I'm relieved to hear that :D

Probably standing around transfixed by the mobile phone, talking to their "friends" on Facebook or something similar. Quite amazing really that social networking software has pretty much erased the "social" from real life.

Marbles, wow. Not heard of that for so long. Conkers was another. Lots of information on "achievements" and such like here with the release of Galaxy, but at the end of the day what are they, nothing, just a picture or some text. Now a really big conker which has just smashed the champion, now that's something physical!

Ah, but we are becoming a Monty Python sketch here :o)

Bring back the so-called dark age of PC gaming!! Now where did I put that expanded memory manager...

that marbles are still around ?

Yes, and that some kids are therefore quite possibly still playing with them. I often go to toy shops in malls, or toy sections in big shops, but I never look out for or notice marbles. I only go to gawk at the legos, especially the Star Wars legos :P

I'll post some photos when I uncover my big boxes from the dusty realms of my Collector's Cave ®,
but I love me Boxes!
In my collection I have the Abe Oddworld games, Broken Sword 1+2, The Longest Journey, (just to name some that are available on GOG) as well as an almost complete collection of Humongous Entertainment titles.

Are the games from CDAccess.com unopened? Or are they used copies?

they were next to an escalator in a display couldnt miss them
i wasnt looking for them
but i was sorely tempted to buy a "net" they were just 1 euro

maybe i wil just for the hell of it

i got a few family mebers with small children i can ask them if their kids still play with marbles

Big boxes are cool, but only if there is actually anything inside them. There are many boxes that just contain a jewel case and a sheet of paper. Baldur's Gate was such a box, as well as the expansion, a total waste of space.

Hu? In my regular original BG' box, there were the discs' pack, and the 80+ pages manual (and some advertisement sheets). And for TotSC, there were the disc, the manual, and the BG's map. Sure, there weren't collector boxes, but...

Do you have a reprint version, instead? It would explain why your box was almost empty.

All of the ones labeled 'Retail box' that I bought were unopened. Sometimes, for example for Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, I got some CD in a sleeve that said it was supposed to come with some hardware and was not to be sold separately. Another game, Warwind, was just the CD case and manuals in a zip-lock bag. I didn't get the impression that they were used, though. Each game page tells you the kind of packaging, whether you get just a jewel case, a retail box, or a zip-lock bag.

You'll be extremely popular if they do! I don't know what the small children in my family play with, but I do know that it involves a lot of shouting :P

Cool! Thanks. :)

No I meant the 3.5" and 5.25" releases. Both were floppy disks, but one was harder and the other floppier.

Not sure if Ultima Underworld come out on CD in stores. Maybe as a re-release later on.

Maybe the French release was different, but I had the original German print. The manual was incomplete and stripped down, some parts blatantly missing (something along the lines of "look up page XX for more information" and it literally said "XX" because that part was not in the manual). The CDs were in some crappy cardboard sleeve and would fall out all the time. It was mostly just empty space in the box. TotSC had a complete manual, but that was just an expansion, so the manual was very barebones anyway. Still a box that's almost empty.

There is a reprint called Baldur's Gate: The Saga which contains both the base game and the expansion in one box with all the extras and the complete manual (150+ pages). When I found out about it I did a crazy thing: I sold my original prints and then used the money to buy the Saga print. It took a lot of patience to sell the ones I had for a good price and find the Saga cheaply, but in the end I managed to cover the cost (I might have even made a euro or two profit actually). Now I have more stuff and it takes up only have as much space. Plus the Saga box looks much cooler :P

I still collect big box games! Here are some pictures of my collection that I uploaded a while back.