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Retail PC games. Bought in stores. On shiny CD's and floppy floppies.

by fisk0

Hey, this is the list of PC games I've bought in stores and stuff. Unlike those digital downloads I had created another list for.

A lot of these are even complete with those beautiful, giant paper boxes, printed manuals thick as bibles, 5.25 inch floppies and annoying price tags you can't remove without destroying the cover art.

NOTICE: I'm in the process of splitting this list up by platform, as I have multiple copies across multiple platforms for many games, and editing such a big list became pretty tedious. This list will soon only be PC games, the others will probably be divided by platform manufacturer (i.e. Nintendo Consoles, Sony Consoles etc.), though I have yet to figure that part out.

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Wing Commander

1. Wing Commander

The PC version. My brother bought this in 1991, but I am pretty sure I've been the one playing it the most, and since he lost his interest in games, I've had the box for the last 15 years or so.

Wing Commander: Prophecy

2. Wing Commander: Prophecy

Bought this from a classmate who got it bundled with his computer. For some reason he had no interest in space shooters.

Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

3. Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

The first PC game I bought for my own money, back in 1997, for my new, very own computer I had been promised, a Pentium 60 mhz I think. I never got the computer though, and for the first couple of years I played it on my father's machine.

Command & Conquer

4. Command & Conquer

The DOS version bought in 1998, also got the Windows 95 version in the "The First Decade" collection which I bought later.

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

5. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun

I think I bought this in 1999 or early 2000. It ran horribly slow on the PC I had then, but the graphics looked fantastic, and the music was awesome, so I didn't care.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

6. Command & Conquer: Red Alert

I own several copies of this, even though I really never liked the Red Alert games as much as I did the original C&C/Tiberium games. Anyway, I own the original boxed DOS/Windows 95 version which I bought in 1999, the "The First Decade" version, and the PlayStation 1 port.

Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations

7. Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations

First bought separately for the DOS version I own, then got another copy with TFD.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

8. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

The PC version, got it ridiculously cheap for 49 SEK / ~5€ just a few months after it was released.

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

9. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

The complete edition with both Tiberium Wars and Kane's Wrath, bought for 99 SEK (~10€) in a nearby food store.

Dune 2000

10. Dune 2000

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