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My PC Game disc collection

I don't use Giant Bomb for tracking my game collection (owned or played), but here I'm making an exception, since I never buy physical games anymore so there's no difficulty keeping this updated. And it's a nice little snapshot of my gaming past.

I don't own anything particularly valuable, and I've hardly kept any original boxes, but many of the games never made it to digital stores (and possibly never will).

No particular order, just how they've ended up arranged in the case I keep them in.

There's a few discs I can't add to the list. One is a local game compilation (I might put the individual games here one day). Three more are nothing but buildings and mods for SimCity 4. The final two don't exist because they're not a game - they're demo discs from a special edition of a PC magazine, and possibly the best demo discs of all time, containing: Age of Empires II, Battlezone II, C&C: Tiberian Sun, Comanche Gold, Curse of Monkey Island, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, Descent II, Deus Ex, Diablo, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, GP500, Grand Prix Legends, Ground Control, Half-Life, Hidden & Dangerous, Homeworld, Indiana Jones & The Infernal Machine, Lemmings Revolution, Myth II, Motocross Madness II, Pharaoh, Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Re-Volt!, Starcraft, System Shock II, Tomb Raider IV, Total Annihilation, Unreal Tournament, Warcraft II, Wolfenstein 3D, Worms Armageddon, and finally X-Wing V Tie Fighter.

List items

  • 1 disc. It turns out I lied in the introduction - I bought this and a few others from an op shop only a few months back. To be honest, I'll probably never play it, but the games were $2 each...

  • 1 disc. Free with issue #20 of Australian PC User.

  • 1 disc. Available on various digital stores now, which is strange, because it's unique but really not a very good game. (For instance, before the first patch any country could invade any other country without having to provide a way for their forces to get there.) I also wasted hours trying to train the neural network the AI used.

  • 4 discs. The remaining op-shop purchase, at the high price of $5. The most pointless of the purchases since it's strictly inferior to FSX and other flight simulators I already owned, and I'm not nostalgic about it.

  • 2 discs, but one is just for the manual. Introduced a lot of concepts to the NFS franchise, but I didn't know that at the time - I just liked it because it had my father's car in it (the Ford Falcon XR8, not one of the supercars).

  • 2 discs. Again, charity shop, as-yet unplayed, but too cheap to pass up.

  • 2 discs. Another pickup from the charity shop. Haven't played it yet, but it'll probably get a better framerate than DCS World does.

  • 1 disc expansion pack. Not part of the Tycoon bundle, we just really wanted more rollercoastering - even if DLC had existed then, our internet connection didn't. It was called 'Added Attractions' here.

  • 1 disc. My sister's favourite third of the Tycoon bundle - though I enjoyed it too. I named all my parks after myself - and I still have the save files.

  • 1 disc. Singleplayer campaign was too hard, but the hot-seat multiplayer more than made up for it.

  • 3 discs - GDI campaign, NOD campaign, and a disc especially for the manuals. My first experiment in video capture was trying to record the intro video because I thought it was awesome. Watching it on YouTube now is a lot easier (and the video seems much cheesier too).

  • 1 disc. Bought from a newsagent on an overseas holiday, but thankfully it worked alright when I got home. Available in GOG now, which is fantastic because I remember patching it being a huge hassle.

  • 1 disc. An early and rare online purchase of a physical game, acquired during an obsession with the titular TV show. The game itself is okay for a tie-in.

  • 1 disc. My distantly-second-favourite edition of Civilization. (My favourite is Alpha Centauri, which totally counts; ToT was meant as a competitor to it.) Never cared about the fantasy setting but the extended-original and sci-fi campaigns were great.

  • 1 disc. I own the normal version, not "Black". Did you know this sold many more copies than the same-named 2012 version?

  • 1 disc (and only 38 MB of it, and that's the Deluxe version!). The third of the Tycoon bundle that got the least attention, if only because we liked the others more. Feeling nostalgic? Check out http://openttd.org!

  • 2 discs. Released in 2003, this combined with T3:WOTM above was a real blow to my faith in gaming (and trust in flashy boxart). On the other hand, I had a copy of the Australian game magazine that accidentally included a leaked pre-alpha, so that was kind of cool. I think I still have the box, and paper manual, and keyboard 'overlay' (cardboard diagram, didn't go over the keys).

  • 1 disc. The oldest/only game I have a paper receipt for (27 May 2002, from a store that still exists but is only good for cheap raspberry licorice nowadays). Great menu music, too.

  • 1 disc. Came free with issue 77 of Australian PC PowerPlay, and was way too hard for me at the time, so I never realised how little game was actually present.

  • 1 disc. Came free with an unspecified issue of (Australian) PC PowerPlay. I still have the magazines in a box in an attic somewhere, though I dumped most of the discs.

  • 1 disc. My version is called 'Rally Championship 2000' and came free with issue #31 of the magazine Australian PC User.

  • 1 disc. I still have the manual, I think, but it's nothing special compared to the really big old flight sim manuals.

  • 1 disc. I'm sure I got this free somehow (magazine subscription bonus perhaps?) but I was too dumb to play it without cheats (poundofflesh).

  • 1 disc. The earliest gaming let-down I can remember (the PC game was completely different from the T3 console releases, and basically a sub-par copy of Battlefield) - it was released in 2003, so I guess I was either lucky or had no standards before then. It used GameSpy for multiplayer, so it's probably dead forever.

  • 1 disc. My version's named "M.A.D.: Mutually Assured Destruction". Surprisingly, it's a really fun game.

  • 1 disc. My favourite third of a 'Tycoon' game bundle. Available on Steam with its expansion - but not in my region. Anybody want to swap for some trading cards?

  • 2 discs. "Gold Edition", which is probably worse than the "Complete" version on Steam.

  • 1 disc. For some reason, despite it being well over a decade ago, I can picture where I found it in the discount store I bought it from (the store itself is long gone). Available on GOG.com now.
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