So, Jackson here. Speaking from my own personal perspective, gotta admit, I was grinning ear to ear while watching this. :D The sheer amount of enthusiasm is this video is contagious as hell and only made me more glad I sent these.

@holnrew

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing it with us all

@freddyburger5574

7 жыл бұрын

You are awesome to have bestowed this holy box of multiple nerdgasms upon our beloved LGR! This is an absolute treasure trove of video fodder, the products of which will bring immeasurable vicarious pleasure to we the many thousands of loyal LGR viewers. You sir are an LGR saint! Bravo

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Very much happy to hear it, and thanks a lot once again for the generosity :)

@Allyshin

7 жыл бұрын

Some of what I loved about it all was not just LGR's enthusiasm, but you could see the enthusiasm of the previous owner. The pins in the map, the meticulous notes in nearly every game box, the trinkets for each game still there; all of this tells a beautiful story. I'm sorry for your loss, I know how hard it can be to lose someone you're close to, but, in a weird way, they definitely live on in the things they loved. It's wonderful that you could share that love with the everyone. I really enjoyed seeing the little things.

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words! Honestly, in a way, that's another reason why I sent it to LGR - were dad still around, I know both of us would be watching and loving his videos, so they seemed like a great sendoff. I do miss him - but I am incredibly thankful for the time I had with him, too. :)

Not only an amazing collection of PC history, but also a nice tribute to Jackson's father, even though we didn't know him. It's so cool to look into the past and think about the person who picked out and played these games, including his awesome handwritten notes. Great video. Thank you Jackson and LGR!

@RussellTeapot

7 жыл бұрын

I was commenting something similar, but I stumbled to your comment. Aside from strange and wonderful boxes (the first three ones from infocom weere amazing), I started thinking "who was the owner of these games? what is that beautiful calligraphy?" Wow. A glimpse into the past.

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

So, I can answer that directly, as I am the Jackson that sent all this. =p Dad was a programmer most of his life, and was a serious tabletop rpg geek too, so when video gaming started to be a thing, naturally he'd dive right into it enthusiastically. As for that calligraphy, that is actually my mom's handwriting - she's a geek too, so this huge set of games was actually a mix of both of their collections. (if you want to get an idea just how geeky both my parents were, that's simple enough to answer too - they met online doing rpg stuff back in the day of 300 baud modems.) I've been talking with mom about seeing if we can get a font made of that calligraphy, too.

@50centgotshot9times

7 жыл бұрын

That is very cool and seeing all this stuff brought out some emotions in me thinking about all that time they spent pursuing their beloved hobbies while computers were starting to be developed. Nowadays we have so much choice and accesability in so many different media forms (especailly video games) that quite a few of us struggle to find a game to dedicate time to, but back then you had mostly limited choices in video games and it was common to sink hours into single player games which would let your imagination run wild without much distraction. I cherish the time when I didn't have many games on the family computer and would play and replay my favourite levels from classic games. Much love to the appreciation your parents and yourself have for these things as well as this awesome channel.

@senditcars

7 жыл бұрын

You couldn't have chose a better person to donate to.

@bryndaldwyre3099

7 жыл бұрын

I have fond memories of playing games like Wizardry on my Apple IIe clone back in the mid 80s as a teenager. I must have clocked about 200 hours on that game alone. Ultima 4 was probably the other game I spent countless hours in as well.

Ha! I did the cover painting for Ultima 3, and I can testify it's the best kind of cheesy! ;-)

@Ryodakun

7 жыл бұрын

for real?

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, seriously? I adore that art in all its perfect cheesiness, thank you for the great work over the years! I've got a ton of games with your work gracing the covers :) You also did Times of Lore that I showed here, correct?

@DenisLoubet

7 жыл бұрын

***** check out my past posts! :-)

@DenisLoubet

7 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews You are correct! (I missed the TOL opening!) And thanks for the kind words. :-)

@DenisLoubet

7 жыл бұрын

Lazy Game Reviews I recently did a Cover-That-Never-Was for Ultima VII for my patrons.

Jackson's dad had immaculate taste.

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Yeah he did. :)

Always loved the hand drawn covers like that on old PC games, same with old metal vinyl. It's not perfect but really charming looking and genuine

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Utterly charming and often delightfully cheesy. Love collecting metal records as well for that stuff!

"When I was downloading random abandonware from French websites in the early 2000's." What a sentence.

@TheSmart-CasualGamer

2 жыл бұрын

And an immensely relatable one!

I have no actual interested in these games, I mean, they sound cool and all but it's not really my thing. But I just really like LGR being very enthusiastic about something he loves.

@boy82killer

7 жыл бұрын

gorgon, what a strange thing to say..

@manyamooy8898

7 жыл бұрын

***** It just isn´t in my street of interest. No need to make a sexist comment about it.

@FinalBaton

7 жыл бұрын

Love me some groans-of-pleasure-over-nerdy-stuff

@folver91

7 жыл бұрын

I'm with you. Some of them I even want to play seeing how enthusiastic he is about it, but I don't know. Perhaps we should force ourselves and be in the right mood.

Donating to LGR rather than selling is an awesome move. Sure you can sell and make a mint but, like all future artefacts, it's important to send them to a good home where they can me treated well and archived. We wouldn't have half our historic cultural knowledge if books weren't preserved by libraries. Archiving is awesome, 10/10

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY why I did it! :D

@smartpig2386

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure people that pay lots of money for rare games would also enjoy them and also keep them safe, etc.

@TristenSarelvun

3 жыл бұрын

@@smartpig2386 But not all of them would document them online. I don't know about any of these things, but LGR has uploaded some images of rare things he own that have become the default on wikis, and he's uploaded certain old games or programs to back them up and allow anyone to try them out.

@ScreaminMadMurphy

3 жыл бұрын

IT BELONGS IN A (lgr collection)!!!!

Total respect for the generous guy that gave you all these amazing games, and you for letting us share the excitement. Thanks a lot.

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You just know there's some half-dead 1970s Dodge van out there with the Dragon Wars artwork airbrushed on it.

7:54 "How to use the manual" Peak engineer reached

@JasonZakrajsek

7 жыл бұрын

moosemaimer did you notice it's in section three of the manual? lol

Man, I am so jealous!!! This is a great donation

@JimBob-vg2og

3 жыл бұрын

You have enough games MJR 😂😂

Honestly, LGR, if there's enough people who, like me, love text-based adventure games.. you could just do an "LGR Plays" for those sorts! I think it'd be great to just follow along with the story and hear your comments/narration if you're up for it. Sure, it may bore many, but somehow people can sit and watch Minecraft streams for hours, which is beyond me. Lol! Just saying! Cheers :)

If you can't find boxarts from the net, you should do an archival good deed and scan those in hi-resolution for the public.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

I plan to!

I love that "How to use the manual" is in section three of the manual 7:45

It's 3am and LGR releases a 34 minute video fuck me I guess

@HaakonAnderson

7 жыл бұрын

🎶And I said baby, it's 3am I must be lonely...🎶

@SyphonNL

7 жыл бұрын

It was 7 am over here. Even more fucked up.

@Trashware

7 жыл бұрын

Oh the internetpeople and their lack of restraint.

@Jimmykreedz

7 жыл бұрын

It'll still be here tomorrow, dude.

@RussellTeapot

7 жыл бұрын

ha! 9:21 PM here.. just right after dinner, perfect :)

I have a suggestion for covering text adventures: Have an artist friend do some storyboards, or maybe even act them out with some friends. Sounds dumb I know, but I would watch the freckles off of that video lol

@asiu19

7 жыл бұрын

pretty good suggestion, I second that :)

@hingeslevers

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, or do parts of the games as some kind of radioplay with foley and ambient sounds, in the spirit of not having graphics, to give a sense of the ambience of the game.

@lucetubegplusstillsux2678

7 жыл бұрын

Clint does great voices so I could see him just doing it with a dramatic voiceover would suffice for a lot of em.

@ADarkandStormyNight

7 жыл бұрын

Haha a community project would be damn fun. I actually worked in film music for years, and could score the thing hahaha. We should all just ignore him, and find someone to animate him having an fantastical adventure based on his review, regardless lol.

@EuryBartleby

7 жыл бұрын

Does anyone do this right now? It's a pretty great idea.

Sweet haul Clint! I have always enjoyed how well you take care of stuff and how you value any game you come across, especially rare ones, regardless of actual game quality. I have seen other youtubers who break cartridges or burn disks at the end of a review to prove a point and that has always really stung for me. It's like my nerdy Indiana Jones screaming "It belongs in a museum!" So thank you for doing such a service to the Videogame world!

I like how Alien Fires seems to be a full on Amiga box with just an IBM PC sticker slapped on it: "Alien Fires uses every ounce of the Amiga's power to create a state-of-the-art visual and aural sensation".

THIS IS AWESOME! JACKSON IS AWESOME! Where do I send pics for LGR Thrifts? I have found a couple GREAT things in recent months! I found an old Packard Bell PB300 in great shape today, though it seems to need a new power supply. 25mhz i386 and a whopping FIVE MEGS OF BALL-BUSTINGLY FAST RAM WOOOOOO! Oh, you may know of something that has been wracking my brain for years now. There was a game I played back in first grade, so maybe 87/88, and I'm pretty sure it was called Brain Drain, but I can't find crap about it on Abandonware sites or anywhere else. It was a puzzle game, and there was a bit where you played as a detective trying to solve a case, and I'm almost certain the part where I was stuck was trying to track the perp down from a shoeprint that had been left in wet concrete. It had rudimentary graphics, and relied on a text parser I know for sure.

All of these games from the 80's and 90's with awesome box art, physical maps, instruction manuals and other cool things. Nowadays when you buy a game on Xbox 1 or PS4 you don't even get an instruction manual! Hell even in the PS2 days you got a friggin' manual!

@Ropetupa

7 жыл бұрын

No Name Speaking of which, GTA had awesome manuals. Like Vice city's travel guide, does anyone know anything other games with these kind of manuals?

This made me think of my dad. When we moved back to Italy from the US, back in the early ‘80s, he was one of the first and earliest IT consultants around in our area, here in Central Sicily. He was not too much into videogames, but he did enjoy one of the earliest versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator, which came into a ring binder book, CGA graphics and stuff. I remember my brother and I messing with all his Lotus, Works and other diskettes searching for some games, and he gave us Alley Cat and QBasic with Gorilla and Nibbles... so sweet and fond memories. Nowadays all that stuff is just gone, as well as my dad, and I miss him and all that so bad it hurts sometimes. This video made me both happy and a little sad. Thank you, Clint for all the sweet memories! No wonder you’re the only “KZreadr” I follow so regularly!

What an amazing thing to receive. Its wonderful that it all went to someone who will cherish it and most of all enjoy it and of course preserve it. Have oodles of fun. 💾

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

That was the idea. I could've sold them, sure - but would they truly be preserved that way? Hell if I know! Where as I know they would be under LGR's hands.

I loved seeing how happy you were while opening these and I'm glad you shared it with us. Also what a great guy Jackson is for sending them. But I'm sure he was confident that you would cherish them as much as his dad did, evident buy how well he took care of them and the hand written notation. This is the type of content I really enjoy. It really brings me back I wish my parents hand't thrown out some of my old PC and apple II games....

Wait what? Ys was localised on the IBM PC?? I thought it only came to the west back in the day on the Master System and on the Turbografx CD!! Holy crap... I wanna see you play that version!

Oh man, I love all the notes and the pins in the Ultima map. It shows how loved the games were, which really hits a special place in my heart.

@Popmetalj

7 жыл бұрын

same - Jackson's Dad and/or Mom clearly immersed themselves in them. Look how beautifully preserved they are 30+ years on. I want to give Jackson a hug for doing such a selfless thing as donating them to LGR

Boy do I love being able to see this a week early on Patreon ;) Crazy haul by the way! Very generous of Jackson! Right on man.

Absolutely stunning to see so much software from the early days of pc gaming. I thinks it's hugely important that people like you document, collect and archive these games. And thanks to the donor as well!

So many memories... Defenders of the Crown, all the infocom games, Y's, Dragon Wars, Ultima III all games I played as a kid.

this is the 3rd time over the last few years ive watched this, I returned for the "ahhh" and "grrrrr's" and "Gahhhhh's!" just a dose of Clints excitement and enthusiasm just makes me feel great, Jacksons right, it is indeed contagious. Common Clint, make some videos about these. can't wait.

It's so heartening to see that Jackson's dad clearly loved this genre of game and as such took great care of them. Most of these I have not played but I have played Heimdall on Atari ST and Amiga and it is GREAT FUN! You're in for a treat :) I'm looking forward to seeing these games reviewed in full.

Cool video! I really miss the big box PC games era. I caught the last part of the big box era in the early to mid 90s. What a time to be alive. This video had so many awesome old school PC games. A small amount of those games I have played and others I have not.

So envious, but also so glad for you! What an amazing collection!

I bought the Magic Candle Volume 1 through a computer store's BBS in 1988-ish. My first online purchase! Brings back memories. Awesome video, LGR!

I'm like a third of the way through, and am already blown away. Great stuff sir!

I'm super excited to see you review these!

What a find ! Jackson is such a nice guy to give you his dad's stuff and about you doing text adventurers I would totally watch you play them.

You could make a video about Infocom and its games and show gameplay of the Infocom games you own.

What an amazing haul, I can't wait to see you review them all.

you have the best cleanest old school PC game collection, I'm a hardcore gammer who's never been to much into PC but now I'm getting into it, I love these beautiful box arts they come in

Ohhhhh man. That Black Cauldron game is one of my earliest memories of using a computer. We didn't have a PC at home until maybe 1993, but a few years earlier I played that at the local library. Quite a haul you got, congratulations.

I love the way they used to package these games. Can't wait to see the follow up videos covering them individually!!

So cool, didn't get to grow up with old IBM computers and games so love seeing stuff like this

Always warms my heart to see Infocom stuff, glad to see more of it in your collection now.

I'm having fun looking up the release dates on the titles you're showing that still have the prices on the boxes and seeing how much they'd retail for in 2016 using inflation calculator. Wilderness was released in 1986 for $37.50 which is $82.61 in 2016. Jackson's dad must of had a good job in the 80s.

Look at this stuff! How much love went into those boxes and the wole presentation of the games. With those Maps and goodies and posters. I hope stuff like that will return some day.

Why I'm just finding this channel now? This is gold! :D

Awesome haul. I didn't play many PC games, but I always admired the various boxed games.

I absolutely LOVED Spellcraft back in the day! Nice Pickup!

Awesome collection of oldskool games thanks for sharing Jackson!

I too was growing up when a lot of this stuff was just coming out. Sadly, I also missed out on a lot of it as well. I really love the idea of maps and manuals you can hold. Something actually physical that would come with the games and programs that you can refer to whenever you want to, not just when the program was running.I can't wait to see your videos on these treasures. I might just have to get some versions of my own, see what I missed out from back in the days.

Man thats a generous viewer. For a guy who has so many games to get so many he doesn't have, this must have been like Christmas! Your collection has got to be getting to be one of the biggest there is.

Started collecting games from my childhood... This is absolutely awesome. Thanks

Wow, that's a cool collection! Could you also share the box scans on mobygames? The "The Phantom's Revenge" boxart @3:18 and and "I, Damiano" @27:12 aren't up there yet.

@50MGG

7 жыл бұрын

yes please Clint, scan and upload on Mobygames!

@realavt

7 жыл бұрын

300dpi hi-quality box scans of all his collection would be very cool. To replace all that blurry lo-res crap, posted at mobygames...

Nice haul bro, Might and Magic 3 and Magic Candle, also, you make those games sounds so old so you make me feel antique :P

Holy hell, that is an amazing haul. I am so jealous right now! I'd love to see a video on Shard of Spring and Demon's Winter (they're a series, but you don't have to have played Shard to enjoy Demon's Winter)... they're really old-school RPG's and probably haven't aged all that well, but they were really ambitious at the time and had a lot of great ideas.

What a great donation! It's also clear that whoever owned these clearly loved them and, for the most part, kept them in excellent condition.

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed! Caught me by surprise to see them in such good shape, too! (cases like The Black Cauldron and Genghis Khan were probably just from having so much weight on top of them for 15, 20+ years, heh.)

I played Shard of spring, Magic Candle and Wizards Crown all when they were brand new. You make me feel old. I remember loving Shard of Spring. Also had Exodus with the cloth map and the coin.

Truly legendary pickup! 0_0 the depth to the PC games scene is phenomenal. It's nice to know that no matter how rich, lucky or fanatical you are, no one will ever have everything

It makes me happy to hear LGR going "Look at that! Look at THIS! This is awesome!" :) Thank you Jackson and Jackson's mom and dad!

Dammit, I'm beyond jealous! Some of these games are SO DAMN RARE and go for astronomical prices on eBay. I've been searching for some of these for decent prices for years! While other people get them all as a huge gift. I'm happy for you, man, and I love your videos in general (your channel is one of my all-time-favourites on KZread), but I'm also really crushed at the same time. ;)

Wow, I'm jealous too. I started playing D&D in grade 5 back in 1983 and loved it. I remember seeing some of those game in those 2 boxes u have.

Wilderness, yeah I had that one. So many of these though I have never heard of. Pretty great haul. This will keep LGR video's coming for a long long time.

Almost obscene levels of excitement. :) It all looks great, but I'm especially looking forward to you covering Universe and Ys. Awesome haul indeed.

Amazing stuff, that a guy just donated ! Generated ! He deserves atleast 5 private videos lol. Those infocom stuff were the highlight for me, mindwheel, well all good stuff there, the donator knew his thing

The handwriting of the original owner marks him most likely as an engineer. Before CAD, engineering students had to have a lot of drafting classes including ink lettering resulting in some sublime penmanship from that generation. They could also sketch 3 dimensional assembly drawings on the backs of napkins.

This video took a lot more than 34 minutes for me, because I had to check out at least the Mobygames-page of every game that I wasn't familiar with (which was most of 'em.) :D So cool haul, congratz.

I have neither the space, nor the ability to maintain such a collection and yet I am SO jealous! What an incredible haul you've got there. The owner definitely put it in good hands.

Thankyou LGR and Sir Jackson... so many memories OMFG. Godam!

I am somewhere between crying and laughing in bliss, I am so happy for you man. All these material...

Haha, these videos are like having a kid opening gifts on xmas on demand. You get so excited, it's great to see an adult display that much joy over anything, really!

When you took discworld out of that box I wowed. That game / world is one of my favorite things in life I've always wondered why you didn't feature that beautiful box art in your box art videos :) now I know

you found me some new ones to look out for, good video

Wow Wizards Crown! That was a great game. Would love to see you do a lets play or a review on it. This unboxing was like going through a photo album of my childhood. Thanks for sharing!

Props to Jackson for his generosity. What a haul!

Wow! Looking forward for your reviews for some of these. Very generous of Mr Jackson. I think you owe him a limb or two. ;)

I wasn't too into any of the games as you were showing them, though they were all my type of topic (Fantasy is my go-to genre), but I freaked out when I saw Ys in the collection! I've loved that series from when I first saw the artwork for Ys II back in the mid-90's. It's actually what spurred me onto drawing my own anime style art, so it is something special to me - though I only have one of the games (the one for PS2)! Thanks for the video, Clint! ^_~

I love all the retro games, good haul!

It’s delightful to hear Clint’s voice change into an excited Kermit the frog by the end. It’s all too much for him, holy grail.

Whoa, extremely generous! Props to Jackson from me too, really interesting stuff to see. c:

wow thx lazy for taking me back in time :) you have to do vid with that wilderness game ...

How nice to see these going to a good home!

15:35 That's some pretty good art, with its StarCraft Battlecruiser even.

I would really love to see some reviews of text-adventure games! I loved those so much as a kid and you and I seem to have a very similar taste in games so I would love to see what you have to see about games like Zork or Planetfall since you have it.

Dang, is Jackson's dad still around? I'd love a video where you like interview him about his experiences playing all these. You can tell he loved playing these, with all the hand-written notes and stuff

@BouncyTEM

7 жыл бұрын

He is not, sadly. Passed away three years ago. Might be able to do an interview with my mom, though, considering this was partly her collection too and she was geeky in her own right.

@Popmetalj

7 жыл бұрын

Your Dad (and Mom) had great taste and I think it is wonderful of you to give the games to Clint so that A: you know they will be looked after and adored and B: that LGR will be sharing the experience of trying these classic and rare titles with us. Thanks so much :)

@folver91

7 жыл бұрын

+BouncyTEM Very cool man. Thanks for sharing those games with us.

@thelastdruidofscotland

7 жыл бұрын

nope, bouncytem knew who to send these off to, and hundreds of peeps agree, LGR is the best home for these

@ThisIsPete

6 жыл бұрын

Super-late reply to this comment, but I'm just now catching up on this video! Add my sincere thanks for sharing these with LGR, and consequently to LGR for sharing them with the rest of us. I have fond memories of a bunch of these games (often their Atari ST versions rather than PC) and it's also cool to see stuff I've never heard of! Your dad was clearly an awesome geeky guy, and I take my hat off to him and his collection.

Looking forward to see reviews about those game from your!

Not Knight one... Knight Orc :) (and quite an amazing text adventure for its time.)

Wow that window decal is just amazing

I wish I had kept more of my old manuals. Out of all the ones I did have at some point, Claw Marks is still my favorite to this day. It just made Wing Commander feel so much more real, and on top of the Claw Marks you had the blueprints.... oh the greatest.

Holy crap this is great.

A moment of silence for Clint's inbox, which is no doubt full of requests to buy these rare games.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

YEP. And endless ideas on how to cover text adventures...

That Spellbreaker box-art is amazing.

@jameslamb7197

7 жыл бұрын

As well as Enchanter. Infocom's box-art game is on point.

I owe it to you LGR, a bit of thanks, because I think if not for your enthusiasm for old games there are probably some I wouldn't have tried. I'm currently in the middle of some Pentium restoration projects, and I really want to try out things like Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, Lemmings, etc.

Yes, Ultima 3, the first computer game I ever bought and the first game for my newly acquired Apple //c in the summer 1985. Plenty of memories.

Zork 3 and Demon's Winter immediately jumped out at me as soon as you cracked open the box. Never heard of the latter, but can't wait for you to cover it.

you inspire me more to try to make the text games and the lowpoly and retro stuff i have in mind more :)

Lords of the Realm, Romance of the three kingdoms....total classics. The romance series was available on NES as well and loved those games. Great haul here!

I think this is the video of yours that make me jealous. The Enchanter series and others. Just, totally amazing.

Breathtaking collection of finest games, respect to Sir Jackson and his Dad

Spirit of Excalibur! Such a great game! I remember spending many late nights over several months trying to get through that game on my old 80286. I need to break that one out again.