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[jfb]

Does anyone want my old Infocom games? I have about a dozen, none of which are probably still runnable (I bought them for Amiga, Commodore 64, and a really old IBM PC), but some people are still nostalgic for the packaging.

Also: Ultima games, Magnetic Scrolls games, LucasArts Adventures, Pinball Construction Set. And for somewhat more modern systems: StarCraft, Battle Realms, Acid 2.0, Scrabble, Painter 6 (upgrade), Neverwinter Nights, and the first two versions of Cakewalk Sonar.

I'm not good at throwing stuff out.

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm nostalgic, but not nostalgic enough to want just the packaging.

(My dad still occasionally uses his Vic 20. But not his C-64. Because he is Strange.)

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

I am nostalgic to want just the packaging... depending on what it consists of. Books? I forget what came with these things?

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

By the way, I mean just the Infocoms. I loved Infocom.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Usually there was a little booklet and then assorted other things. Here, I'll grab a couple:

Wishbringer had "The Legend of Wishbringer," a local history publication of the Festeron Free Public Library; the letter that you are supposed to deliver at the beginning of the story; and a map of the postal zones of Festeron, Antharia, and vicinity. And a glow-in-the-dark plastic "stone," which I seem to have lost.

Hitchhiker's Guide had an advertising brochure for the Guide; an official Order for Destruction of your house; what must be an official Order for Destruction of your planet; and peril-sensitive sunglasses.

In addition to those two, I have Starcross, Suspended, Border Zone, Planetfall, and Sorcerer; Deadline and Suspended in the cheap early editions they made for the C-64; the Zork Trilogy; the Zork Anthology (with Zork Zero and the slightly graphical Beyond Zork); the three highly graphical, mostly lame post-golden-age Zork games; and The Lost Treasures of Infocom, possibly both volumes. LTOI just has thick books with what might as well be photocopies of the original materials, though; I wouldn't bother.

Let me know what you'd like.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Awesome, those are great! I'll take all of them, including the LTOI books if you want. If I don't want them, I can pass them onto people who might want them.