To me these are the videos that captivate my interest, not enough people talk about the big box generation of PC games, so special, so magical! More of a Sierra guy myself, but damn, your collection is ridiculous! Love the vids!
These games were a massive part of my childhood, and I have lots of great memories playing titles such as Full Throttle, Sam & Max, Monkey Island etc. These point and click adventures were so colourful and exciting for a kid, and definitely spurred my ongoing love of games. First 'Big Box' game I ever played was a Marvel title called 'Dr. Doom's Revenge', which was like a primitive kind of one-on-one fighting game. Thanks for sharing these awesome nostalgic games!
I had Full Throttle back in the day, and I loved it! Especially when I paid enough attention and learned Mark Hamill was one of the voice actors! Also had Tie Fighter! Loved those old Lucasarts games! Great vid as always! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
As you showed all those games my childhood flashed in my eyes. I was that nerdy kid who just played video games and those world created by LucasArts and Sierra were the worlds I was lost in
There are so many memories attached to these games.. Lucasarts captured something in the early 90s. I get nostalgic sometimes and go over some of those 'adventurer' newspapers they had in some of the boxes, I don't remember getting a catalog in any of the boxes.
All these games hit close to my heart. Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango were some of the first I played growing up and are games I have played countless amounts of times. Outlaws was actually one of the first FPS I ever played as a kid. Before I got into Counter-Strike in 99, Outlaws paved the way for me love of those games. Excellent collection my dude. I would love to own them myself.
So glad you included Dark Forces, such great memories and hours of playing that back in the day! Probably my favorite Lucas Arts Big Box PC game. Loom, yes! I got that bundled with my first IBM. Game company I would LOVE to see you do a special episode on - Infocom.
I've never been too big on collecting boxed PC games simply because I haven't played that many older PC games, but HOT DAMN would I love physical copies of any Monkey Island game--especially Curse. Curse is what got me into Monkey Island in the first place. Seeing your collection makes me wanna' go out and find 'em, haha
Amazing how very little games made in the past 20 years can even hold a candle to these evergreens in the adventure and Star Wars corner of PC gaming. Also a lot of care went into some of the box contents, so nice to see it exposed on YT from time to time (God knows I could never keep those in tact for very long to make it worth a purchase) :)
Great video man! So much nostalgia comes to me when looking at those amazing boxes full of cool stuff. These days companies just put a DVD and a single paper telling you to download DLC'S that are bigger than the actuall game
Loved that you're showing the pc some love and definitely appreciate all the background info you give! Would really be interested in hearing more about individual or lesser known companies!
these lucasarts games are my literal childhood. I remember doing a summer report in elementary on day of the tentacle. I remember going to Costco and mostly getting the bundle packs but I did get monkey island 3 on it's own. just got my son into money island, too!
Loved that you went through the best of LucasArts, didn't know the "Secret Weapon" game, but played and loved the rest ^^ The "Coloring book" in "Sam & Max", was a new take on the key-protection wheel where you looked up the figures and took a word on a specific line on that page. For the next subject could be "Shiny Entertainment" or "Bullfrog" loved the games from them aswell
Excellent - I for one love the longer in-depth look at a single company/programmers work. Less flashy than your usual videos is fine too, I enjoy just you explaining as you unbox. Please do keep giving your opinion on gameplay - it's cool to see oddities, but it's good to know if it's worth buying for play
You described The Dig perfectly. I was in awe the first time I played through it. The atmospheric music did a lot for the game and the story was very interesting. I think it was too expensive to make into a movie at the time, but would have been cool to see it in film form.
I love the big boxes of the old Microprose and SSI wargames - they had great box art and manuals and things inside Lucasfilm 'Their Finest Hour' is a beautiful also!
I remember in my boxed copy of Zak McKracken on the AMIGA, there was a proper printed newspaper with such bizarre headlines as: 'Lightning fixes man's glasses.' I once put it on my Dad's coffee table with all his other newspapers. He actually started to read it. He didn't clock for at least a minute.
Loved this video. I have a bunch of those too: Monkey Island, The Dig, Sam & Max, Full Throttle.. when I was a kid and my dad let me choose one game for the summer, I always went for Lucasarts for the stuff, manuals and excellent (talkie!) games!
this video was a great idea. It gives us a deeper look into consoles/pc's then just doing a general hidden gems video. Love your stuff. Keep up the great work!
Tie fighter collectors CD-rom..so many memories. Got that when it first came out and played it to completion on my parents packard bell pentium 75. I was a kid at the time and the game felt like it had so much depth. I had the original box and everything for this game until about 8 years ago. Still have the CD-Rom though and installed it through DOSBOX. Lucasarts and Sierra made PC gaming for me back then.
I still have The Secret of Monkey Island, Loom, Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, Maniac Mansion 2 Day of The Tentacle, Star Wars Dark Forces, Star Wars Rebel Assault, The Dig, Full Throttle and Afterlife, but ALL of them for MAC!!! Plus The Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango for PC. Also Shivers, Gabriel Knight 2 and Phantasmagoria, from Sierra, and for MAC as well!!! Plus Lighthouse and Shivers II for PC.Lucas Arts and Sierra Rock!!!I Miss the 90's!
Definitely enjoyed the focus on just one publisher. And as a gamer who wasn't really into pc games... These videos are still totally great and entertaining for me. Keep em coming MJR!
When I'm on the road I'm indestructible...... Full Throttle ranks as one of my favorite games of all time. I remember it came out when I was in the Army and stationed at Ft. Bragg. Me and a buddy, the guy in the barracks room next to mine, both got it. We completed it in one night, I remember both of us going back and forth to share when we got through different parts of the game. I was disappointed with how short it was but even more disappointed when the sequel got cancelled. Edit - OMG - I just learned about "Full Throttle Remastered"!
I think this style of video is really cool. I like the idea of looking at one companies work at a time, and you could use your friends collections to pad the companies your short on.
Rebel Assault II was my jam! I think it is BY FAR my favorite Star Wars game because of how much it meant to me growing up. I had just watched the original trilogy, and so the video was magical and made me feel like I was in the movies. Those piloting missions though... holy crap. Fun tidbit, the Asteroid Field song is my favorite of the franchise because of this game. There's nothing more fun than to hear it while ducking and diving giant rocks in space.
OMG, loved this video! I had most of those games back in the day. That's when I started getting into video games more seriously. So many good memories. Thanks for the great videos.
Man I loved Full Throttle when I was a kid. Used to play it with my dad. Not sure if we had the big box but we definitely had the huge guidebook (with the same artwork on the front). The one big box I regret losing when I moved house was Stay Tooned! (a Sierra game). Strangely my dad managed to retain all his original Zork boxes
Wow, I forgot about most of those games. I like your idea to go through the different game companies. Hope to see those videos in the future, keep up the great work!
Disheartening to not see or even hear a mention of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, for me that was the epitome of LucasFilm games. Also sought for it forever in my youth.
"Sometimes you have to out fight it. Sometimes you have to outsmart it. Sometimes you have to out run it. Full Throttle." - from the demo. It is a pretty awesome game. The reason why they didn't proceed with the sequel was because the voice actor who provided the voice of Ben passed away. I'd love to see the game remastered. :)
More PC game videos! Start capturing gameplay! Would absolutely love to see more PC videos by you since you are one of the old big retro gaming youtubers that dabbles in PC at all.
VERY nice collection. I don't really collect big box pc games unless I run into them at a very good price, but if I could afford it and had the space, Lucasarts would be a company that I would collect for. Thanks for the video!
Maniac Mansion is crazy fun. I played a little bit of it on PC at the Living Computer Museum last year, makes me grateful for the NES version because playing that was so slow. As far as Interplay, I spent an ungodly amount of hours on a game called Cyberia. Was also a PS1 release years later. Just for kicks and worth the mention, MegaRace.The host on the game was awesome.
Been digging pc big box collecting lately. Console game are so hard to find second hand since there's a massive craze in collecting for them. Then again if you keep doing videos on these then I'm sure they'll jump in value too... Still worth it
I remember playing Full Throttle, The Dig and both Dark Forces games, great stuff. I really wasn't a fan of adventures until I played Full Throttle. I was heavily into FPS games though, I still remember the troubles I had trying to get Wolfenstein to run on my Commodore 386SX 20, (JUST 5k MORE BASE MEMORY). Thanks for the great stroll down memory lane. DOSBOX allows you to run a lot of these old games on modern machines.
I remember the Fate of Atlantis. I'll always remember that game as a teenager. Me and friends around the PC, thinking, trying to find out solutions... and there was not googling the solution back there. ;)
So jealous, Lucasarts is my favorite gamedeveloper and Full Throttle and Lechuck´s Revenge is my favorite games of all time and i really need too buy these sometime. Really looking forward too Full Throttle Remasterd.
Always excellent to see more big box PC games! Hope to see more on other companies, genres, etc :)
I was just watching your channel and thinking of MJR, now I'm doing the opposite!
one might say that this youtube channel is a hidden gem :)
+Britney yes!!! :)
i agree!!!
Great seeing all those old school memories.
I'd love to see a ranking of your favorite box art. The artwork was often mind blowing.
Man, LucasArts could do no wrong back in the 90's.
I know, right!? :)
+MetalJesusRocks Great video! Which big box games are you still looking for?
Gaming in general did less wrong back then (in absolute figures anyway) ;)
The only thing they did wrong was stop making games
Thanks for the memories Metal Jesus
To me these are the videos that captivate my interest, not enough people talk about the big box generation of PC games, so special, so magical! More of a Sierra guy myself, but damn, your collection is ridiculous! Love the vids!
Big box PC games are the vinyls of gaming collections.
These games were a massive part of my childhood, and I have lots of great memories playing titles such as Full Throttle, Sam & Max, Monkey Island etc. These point and click adventures were so colourful and exciting for a kid, and definitely spurred my ongoing love of games. First 'Big Box' game I ever played was a Marvel title called 'Dr. Doom's Revenge', which was like a primitive kind of one-on-one fighting game. Thanks for sharing these awesome nostalgic games!
Oh, the memories!! These games were so incredible. The Dig just makes me want to cry.
I love these videos that talk about topics I'm not familiar with, very educational!
I had Full Throttle back in the day, and I loved it! Especially when I paid enough attention and learned Mark Hamill was one of the voice actors! Also had Tie Fighter! Loved those old Lucasarts games! Great vid as always! Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
As you showed all those games my childhood flashed in my eyes. I was that nerdy kid who just played video games and those world created by LucasArts and Sierra were the worlds I was lost in
There are so many memories attached to these games.. Lucasarts captured something in the early 90s. I get nostalgic sometimes and go over some of those 'adventurer' newspapers they had in some of the boxes, I don't remember getting a catalog in any of the boxes.
I cant even recall if Lucasarts have ever made a bad adventure game. This is Amazing! Loved full throttle and the dig specially as a kid!
Love Lucasarts ! i`m happy to own all of there adventures in big box . Don`t forget the great Zak McKracken And the Alien Mindbenders !
Lucas Arts adventure games are my entire childhood. So nice to see this collection!
I love how you threw in a short video of your band rocking out at the end. Right on!
+jmatt781 \m/
I'd love to see more videos of 90s PC companies, and just videos on the history of the PC in general.
Top 80's/90's pc games/systems!
The Dig is a very good point and click game. Great voice cast too. One of my favourites.
for me, this is the best youtube channel , a gem
All these games hit close to my heart. Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango were some of the first I played growing up and are games I have played countless amounts of times. Outlaws was actually one of the first FPS I ever played as a kid. Before I got into Counter-Strike in 99, Outlaws paved the way for me love of those games. Excellent collection my dude. I would love to own them myself.
So glad you included Dark Forces, such great memories and hours of playing that back in the day! Probably my favorite Lucas Arts Big Box PC game. Loom, yes! I got that bundled with my first IBM. Game company I would LOVE to see you do a special episode on - Infocom.
I've never been too big on collecting boxed PC games simply because I haven't played that many older PC games, but HOT DAMN would I love physical copies of any Monkey Island game--especially Curse. Curse is what got me into Monkey Island in the first place. Seeing your collection makes me wanna' go out and find 'em, haha
Amazing how very little games made in the past 20 years can even hold a candle to these evergreens in the adventure and Star Wars corner of PC gaming. Also a lot of care went into some of the box contents, so nice to see it exposed on YT from time to time (God knows I could never keep those in tact for very long to make it worth a purchase) :)
Great video man! So much nostalgia comes to me when looking at those amazing boxes full of cool stuff. These days companies just put a DVD and a single paper telling you to download DLC'S that are bigger than the actuall game
Brings me back to my childhood. Tbank you for this video!
Loved that you're showing the pc some love and definitely appreciate all the background info you give! Would really be interested in hearing more about individual or lesser known companies!
Dude. You are the highlight of my Tuesday's.
Great video, and thanks for mentioning GOG. I wasn't aware of this service.
Hardcore nostalgia in this video for me, nice selection!
The Dig was amazing, hands down one of the best of LucasArts
these lucasarts games are my literal childhood. I remember doing a summer report in elementary on day of the tentacle. I remember going to Costco and mostly getting the bundle packs but I did get monkey island 3 on it's own. just got my son into money island, too!
Loved that you went through the best of LucasArts, didn't know the "Secret Weapon" game, but played and loved the rest ^^
The "Coloring book" in "Sam & Max", was a new take on the key-protection wheel where you looked up the figures and took a word on a specific line on that page.
For the next subject could be "Shiny Entertainment" or "Bullfrog" loved the games from them aswell
Excellent - I for one love the longer in-depth look at a single company/programmers work.
Less flashy than your usual videos is fine too, I enjoy just you explaining as you unbox.
Please do keep giving your opinion on gameplay - it's cool to see oddities, but it's good to know if it's worth buying for play
You described The Dig perfectly. I was in awe the first time I played through it. The atmospheric music did a lot for the game and the story was very interesting. I think it was too expensive to make into a movie at the time, but would have been cool to see it in film form.
Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders! I loved it on C64 in the 80's! And I still occasionally play it with my Commodore. Great humor in that game!
I love the big boxes of the old Microprose and SSI wargames - they had great box art and manuals and things inside
Lucasfilm 'Their Finest Hour' is a beautiful also!
A couple of Big Box PC games that I loved were 7th Guest and the sequel, 11th Hour. Those were great point and click Horror/Puzzle games for the PC.
i would love to see a video dedicated to interplay. good video mjr!
I love interplay
yes!
Yes! Please Jesus!
I remember in my boxed copy of Zak McKracken on the AMIGA, there was a proper printed newspaper with such bizarre headlines as: 'Lightning fixes man's glasses.' I once put it on my Dad's coffee table with all his other newspapers. He actually started to read it. He didn't clock for at least a minute.
I loved all of these games! I don't even know how many times I've played Monkey Island 1-3. Loved the video!
Loved this video. I have a bunch of those too: Monkey Island, The Dig, Sam & Max, Full Throttle.. when I was a kid and my dad let me choose one game for the summer, I always went for Lucasarts for the stuff, manuals and excellent (talkie!) games!
this video was a great idea. It gives us a deeper look into consoles/pc's then just doing a general hidden gems video. Love your stuff. Keep up the great work!
My favorite Star Wars game was "Jedi Outcast." That game blew me away when I was 17 years old and it first came out on P.C.
I've been waiting so long for this cool kind of episode. More Pc (big) boxes!
Interplay and xatrix would be cool!
Tie fighter collectors CD-rom..so many memories. Got that when it first came out and played it to completion on my parents packard bell pentium 75. I was a kid at the time and the game felt like it had so much depth. I had the original box and everything for this game until about 8 years ago. Still have the CD-Rom though and installed it through DOSBOX. Lucasarts and Sierra made PC gaming for me back then.
Great Collection!!! Times Will never come back :(
The 90's was a great decade about Games & Music Rock!
Greetings from Chile Metal Jesus! ;)
I played Monkey Island Le Chuck's revenge on the second gen ipod touch and it was an awesome story to experience as a teenager.
+MrAce514 adventure games play well on the iPad. Have you tried The Room series?
+MetalJesusRocks No I haven't but now I gotta check it out, thanks for the recommendation!
This is a great video, I'd love to see more of your big box PC games with a detailed look inside the boxes.
I still have The Secret of Monkey Island, Loom, Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, Maniac Mansion 2 Day of The Tentacle, Star Wars Dark Forces, Star Wars Rebel Assault, The Dig, Full Throttle and Afterlife, but ALL of them for MAC!!! Plus The Curse of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango for PC. Also Shivers, Gabriel Knight 2 and Phantasmagoria, from Sierra, and for MAC as well!!! Plus Lighthouse and Shivers II for PC.Lucas Arts and Sierra Rock!!!I Miss the 90's!
Definitely enjoyed the focus on just one publisher. And as a gamer who wasn't really into pc games... These videos are still totally great and entertaining for me. Keep em coming MJR!
When I'm on the road I'm indestructible......
Full Throttle ranks as one of my favorite games of all time. I remember it came out when I was in the Army and stationed at Ft. Bragg. Me and a buddy, the guy in the barracks room next to mine, both got it. We completed it in one night, I remember both of us going back and forth to share when we got through different parts of the game. I was disappointed with how short it was but even more disappointed when the sequel got cancelled.
Edit - OMG - I just learned about "Full Throttle Remastered"!
I love this channel. Thanks to you and Reggie, I started my Gamecube collection!
I think this style of video is really cool. I like the idea of looking at one companies work at a time, and you could use your friends collections to pad the companies your short on.
In my copy of Secret of Monkey Island, the previous owner wrote down the directions for the treasure map on the inside of the box, I love it
sweet how he said "Luftwaffe"
Greetings from Germany.
I used the have the OG Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders game - loved that game so much!
Rebel Assault II was my jam! I think it is BY FAR my favorite Star Wars game because of how much it meant to me growing up. I had just watched the original trilogy, and so the video was magical and made me feel like I was in the movies. Those piloting missions though... holy crap. Fun tidbit, the Asteroid Field song is my favorite of the franchise because of this game. There's nothing more fun than to hear it while ducking and diving giant rocks in space.
U need to bring back big box/old school pc games videos. Luv these
Great video and good idea show casing pc game companies from back in the day. Looking forward to seeing more!
Original Sam and Max didn't have any audio so yes that is the second release.
Such an awesome game which ever version you play
Great video, I absolutely f'ing loved the Dark Forces games and Outlaws.
More developer focused videos and more big box PC games please!
OMG, loved this video! I had most of those games back in the day. That's when I started getting into video games more seriously. So many good memories. Thanks for the great videos.
Man I loved Full Throttle when I was a kid. Used to play it with my dad. Not sure if we had the big box but we definitely had the huge guidebook (with the same artwork on the front). The one big box I regret losing when I moved house was Stay Tooned! (a Sierra game). Strangely my dad managed to retain all his original Zork boxes
Tie Fighter is in my top 10 games ever list. I *love* that game!
Really enjoyed that, particularly seeing those Adventurer catalogues
I had the gold boxed X-wing vs Tie fighter..... those big PC boxes were awesome... I think I still have my cloth Everquest map around here somewhere.
Please continue with pc games series! Awesome.
Tim Schafer's company (Double Fine), who remastered Grim Fandango, are currently remastering Full Throttle for release next year.
I played Outlaws in a LAN center back in the day. It was pure magic!!
Wow, I forgot about most of those games. I like your idea to go through the different game companies. Hope to see those videos in the future, keep up the great work!
How about doing a feature on games from Bullfrog? They made some cracking games during the 90s.
I'd also like to see a possible review on the tomba series, yeah there hidden gems.
Disheartening to not see or even hear a mention of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, for me that was the epitome of LucasFilm games. Also sought for it forever in my youth.
"Sometimes you have to out fight it. Sometimes you have to outsmart it. Sometimes you have to out run it. Full Throttle." - from the demo.
It is a pretty awesome game. The reason why they didn't proceed with the sequel was because the voice actor who provided the voice of Ben passed away. I'd love to see the game remastered. :)
Those LucasArts Volume boxes are quite nice as well.
OMG all my favourite games in one episode :D
Great work, Lucas arts Big Box PC games deserve a lot of attention.
SO much love here. More PC game vids!!!
Outlaws was amazing. Story and gameplay both.
always glad on watching your vids. keep them coming MJR
More PC game videos! Start capturing gameplay!
Would absolutely love to see more PC videos by you since you are one of the old big retro gaming youtubers that dabbles in PC at all.
VERY nice collection. I don't really collect big box pc games unless I run into them at a very good price, but if I could afford it and had the space, Lucasarts would be a company that I would collect for. Thanks for the video!
Maniac Mansion is crazy fun. I played a little bit of it on PC at the Living Computer Museum last year, makes me grateful for the NES version because playing that was so slow. As far as Interplay, I spent an ungodly amount of hours on a game called Cyberia. Was also a PS1 release years later. Just for kicks and worth the mention, MegaRace.The host on the game was awesome.
I would immediately remove those 3.5" disks from those 5.25" protective sleeves! Little dings on the 5.25" disks could be fatal.
I was About to write the same thing but you beat me to it :)
xwing vs. tie fighter was my childhood. playing it on the MSN Gaming Zone was a lot of my free time. X-Wing and TIE Fighter were great too.
I would definitely like to see some videos focused on specific publishers. Great video man.
Day of the Tentacle was actually also just remastered dude, it's one of my all time favourite Lucasarts games.
Outlaws also had a release that included the base game and an add-on called "A Handful of Missions", which isn't easy to find.
I would LOVE to see more videos from you which are based around developers. This video was dope
Been digging pc big box collecting lately. Console game are so hard to find second hand since there's a massive craze in collecting for them. Then again if you keep doing videos on these then I'm sure they'll jump in value too... Still worth it
I remember playing Full Throttle, The Dig and both Dark Forces games, great stuff. I really wasn't a fan of adventures until I played Full Throttle. I was heavily into FPS games though, I still remember the troubles I had trying to get Wolfenstein to run on my Commodore 386SX 20, (JUST 5k MORE BASE MEMORY).
Thanks for the great stroll down memory lane.
DOSBOX allows you to run a lot of these old games on modern machines.
I remember the Fate of Atlantis. I'll always remember that game as a teenager. Me and friends around the PC, thinking, trying to find out solutions... and there was not googling the solution back there. ;)
So jealous, Lucasarts is my favorite gamedeveloper and Full Throttle and Lechuck´s Revenge is my favorite games of all time and i really need too buy these sometime. Really looking forward too Full Throttle Remasterd.
That big box-PC Games are really interesting! I would like to see some more hidden Gems of big box PC games too.
Zak McKracken and the Alienmindbenders, the best Lucas Arts Adventure from the 80s. Surprised not to see that in your Collection.
I once saw Outlaws at a Goodwill once. At the time I didn't know what it was, but now I wish I picked it up.
Loved Outlaws and Full Throttle!
X-Wing/Tie Fighter series, Full Throttle... Some of my absolute favorites.
TIE Fighter was the reason I got into PC gaming in the first place.
Well, that and Wing Commander III...
Outlaws was amazing! Loved playing multiplayer on The Zone.
Great vid. I loves Dark Forces, definitely wish it would get a fully updated modern makeover. The whole Jedi knight series was outstanding.