u/majestic_ubertrout

And an actual Goodwill find!

I don't actually have a lot of the older ones but I decided to collect the later ones for...reasons? The Sam's Club big box of 2004 is so profoundly ridiculous - it's the standard retail tin smallbox inside a big box.

Thus Collector's Edition of Hellgate: London is about 12x8 (inches) and it's from 2007. Is it a big box or something else? Diablo box for scale.

The big box of the third is the only one remotely rare, and kind of hilariously it's empty except it has a sealed small box inside. Still a fun small series.

And it felt pretty good!

To folks in the UK this is as dull as dishwater, but it's a lot of fun to visit CEX from overseas and see a vibrant chain of media/used electronics stores. I wouldn't trade Microcenter for it, but it's cool to see. And while I don't think the UK editions of two of my favorites are all that different, I didn't exactly break the bank to get them either.

Just below my shelf of Duke, natch.

Been getting more into turn of the century Mac gaming, with a working G3 iMac and G5 Tower. Some really fun ones here, and it's cool to see how these play as the Mac ports.

Picked up from ShopGoodwill fwiw.

Picked this up off FB Marketplace and mostly saw a beige case from the early ATX era which I need for another project, which had been upgraded.

That PSU though (a Apevia ATX-AS500W)...straight from 2004. And probably not the best to use in 2026, but so awesome. The 7900 GS is also a treat. Board is a Intel D925XCV (early 775 board).

Been collecting a bunch of rare Civ stuff lately and this is a cool one, although the content has been floating around for a while. It's a 7 minute video talking about the making of Civ 3, but mostly just in general terms in a EPK sort of way. These were given out to people who I believe preordered the Limited Edition of Civ 3 from Best Buy in 2001.

Archive: https://archive.org/details/civ-3-bb-disc/

Note that video is here, I just wanted to post the disc for archival purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOA08tgZtvY

I vibe-coded a working R9 290/290X driver for Windows XP x86. It's a bit wonky and needs more work and tuning but...it works! 3Dmark06 ran all four tests without any issue.

To state the obvious: you should not run a machine where stability is important on Windows XP using a vibe-coded driver for hardware which never had XP support. But still!

This was a curriculum for writing MECC was selling it would seem. Found this in a lot of stuff from a teacher's estate. Best way to open these is in Sheepshaver (for the disk) or LibreOffice (for the files). Link: https://archive.org/details/otrail

Good day at the MIT Flea Market / Swapfest today.

Gateway Colorbook CB4DX240 (486 laptop) with charger, Sound card / modem with Analog Devices AD1845JP, EVGA 500 W PSU, 2x8 Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2400, Audigy 2 ZS (Dell), GeForce FX 5700 LE, 2x240GB Corsair MX500 SSDs, Zalman CNPS 9700 LED, Asus MIO-Audio 888, Lite-On ATA DVD-R drive, Soldier of Fortune Gold Edition, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (C64 box).

Found this and it looked like it hadn't been uploaded before, so I took the initiative. Doesn't look like there's that much not otherwise available, but still cool to share: https://archive.org/details/c-3-c-presell

*that should be "rarity" in the title. Darn it.

Got this 2005 G5 for cheap with another one in much better shape. Seller warned me it looked like it had water damage. He wasn't kidding. Is this a lost cause?

Fwiw it would be very cool to have a late air cooled G5, so it would be nice to get working.

Update: The other G5 I purchased works great so probably going to try to give this to someone locally or keep for parts.

Also one that recommends using a 3dfx Voodoo card...

Expansion for scale. So weird to see Games for Windows branding on a big box.

Probably should explain a bit what a big box is - it's a box that's substantially bigger than a DVD box (usually 9x7 or so and rectangular where the vertical side is taller). Collector's editions are a different thing. The LGR vid clarifies the subject - and shows why having one from 2006 is so cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhZkmAscdw0

Pretty pleased at this. $12 for the pair.