vga256every once in a while the thrifting gods take pity upon me 😻
i’ve never actually played a Build engine game, nevermind one of its best ones. $10 later i can finally find out what it’s like.
Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈⬛If I remember correctly, Marble Madness was the first game I ever bought with my own money. I bought it at a computer store run by a friend’s father 😀
It was the plastic-case edition (shown in the first post)
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In fact, the box was dusty and warped. I cleaned it and placed it under a stack of books for a few days so it would return to its original shape ✨
Here’s the inside of the sleeve 📸 (more info in alt)
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Got this edition of Marble Madness this week 😀 (on the left)
It was selling for a ridiculous price, so I jumped at the chance!
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a long, long time ago one of the only places you could find MS-DOS abandonware was on Home of the Underdogs. every week I would crawl through its RPG and Adventure sections looking for the next underrated gem I had never heard of. among their “Top Dogs” were two infocom games: Circuit’s Edge and Mines of Titan.
although infocom became synonymous with text adventures/interactive fiction, it was also a publisher of graphical RPGs designed by westwood associates. these were fascinating games - a blend of dungeon crawling, text adventure, and NPC dialogues.
Circuit’s Edge is unique insofar as it is set in a futuristic middle east. the world is based on George Alec Effinger’s When Gravity Fails series, a cyberpunk setting with cybernetic implants, islam, and money. Effinger himself wrote all of the ingame text.
decades later I was finally able to buy physical copies. i always liked the cover art for circuit’s edge, and that they used artist Jean-Francois Podevin’s pre-vis sketch for the manual cover.
And the back of the box! ♣️ ♦️
With screenshots of the different versions (except for the Amstrad CPC version)
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The contents of the box 💾
I must admit that I didn't really understand the rules of poker. But I may have managed to access all the images 😇 (with a cheat code? I can't remember)
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"Tu viens jouer avec moi ?" 👀 ♥️ ♠️
Very happy to own the Teenage Queen box 😀
A very nice strip poker game that I used to play on Atari ST.
The box is as beautiful as the game 🖌️
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now that is one VERY specific sticker on the cover of this kyrandia box D:
while it only happens once every few months now, it still brings a smile to my face every time i stumble upon a big box game whilst athrifting
