Video game packaging

Let's talk about classic video game package, a lost art for a long time now, but hot damn...

http://www.zakelro.com/images/blog/prizes/u5map.jpg

cloth maps!

Feelies

All of Infocom's game packages since Deadline included extra content in their game packages called "feelies". The feelies for The Lurking Horror included:
A Student ID Card
"G.U.E. at a Glance", a guide for freshmen of the school, including maps of the campus and buildings and background information on the school
A rubber centipede-like creature reminiscent of one of the monsters in the game. This was not mentioned on the package, and made for a creepy moment even before the user played the game.

^^^ loved this one

i see someone doesnt preorder atlus rpgs

haha no! do the DS versions come with goodies?

I guess nowadays you can buy the "ultimate edition" packages for thrice the price, but back in the day (because the graphics were so shitty) this was part of the deal.

one of the things that use to take me by surprise when i first started hunting down retro games was how big the boxes for old pc games were

^^^ example: DID's 'Inferno' comes with a hardback manual/graphic novel. See also: all the stuff that comes with the various versions of Elite.

when i was 11 years old i bought a few infocom games w/ feelies from some online circle of infocom packaging obsessives (small crossover with the online circle of text adventure game writers i longed to join), and yeah, never equalled

ultima maps were fantastic though. i had 4 but i don't know where it went.

shout-out here to manuals that go above and beyond, like frontier: first encounters' spaceship catalog and accompanying book of in-universe short stories, or blizzard entertainment's mid-90s run of thick glossy things with optional backstory written in the voices of various factions' historians

(oh ha frontier first encounters is a version of elite)

yeah one of my favorite pieces of video game related packaging was the manual for myth II

feel like i have mentioned this before here but i thought the game Armageddon man was the greatest thing because it came with a giant vinyl map and reappliable stickers. lol @ "black african republic".

the cd for forgotten subpar space-colony strategy game deadlock had a hidden audio track on it where a guy sang a long song insulting all the game's alien races and longing to return to earth

that map is fantastic, omg

i like that they didn't let pakistan into the islamic alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19mg4ci69A

well that was pretty terrible