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Not pictured are Under Defeat and Karous, which are in a different box. A bizarre thing is that I managed to buy under defeat for 25$ years ago because the previous owners house flooded and partially ruined the cover and manual (the disc was submerged in the flood water too apparently but you wouldn't be able to tell, it looks and works fine).

I've also owned several other games over the years like Evolution 2, Grandia 2, cosmic smash, head hunter, plasma sword, kikaio, Giga Wing 1+2, bangai o, super magnetic neo, crazy taxi, power Stone 1, gun lord, sturmwind, unreal tournament, and maybe a few others, but they got sold on over the years to help fund new dreamcast/vintage game purchases.

Everything in the box here is original except for propeller arena, which is a fan made package on cdr since the game never actually came out. I even bought some of this stuff new from stores back in the day, like paying $50 for Sonic Shuffle oof (actually I like this game though some of the popular criticism is definitely valid)

The box is absolutely iconic.

Always nervous the gdrom drive won't work, but glad to see it's still going!

Here's my good old collection from 30+ years ago of shareware mail order disks. This was mostly how my family bought software in the early 90s before the Web got more widespread in the mid 90s making the mail order disk business mostly obsolete. Here's some pics of my shareware game heavy hitters. Let's just say my childhood had a lot of Apogee, ID and Epic games.

There's a bunch of non game stuff in here too. Utilities, screensavers, random quirky things like PC speaker music programs where each key of the qwerty keyboard plays a different tone. I've been through these before, looking to see if there is anything rare and not already on the Internet archive, but it seems the vast majority of it already is, even when it's something I've never heard of before.

I did still rip a lot of these (about 95 percent of them still read fine) and I think it may still be interesting one day to share those files as a single downloadable collection, so you could see what random collection of games, screensavers and programs someone might have on their 386 in the mail order disk days.