Hey Neilikki,
Thank you very much for enlightening me/us about those "CEs"!
In fact although they were released in 2006 merlin-multimedia.pl seems to still have the Prince of Persia one.
And i agree i won't have much interest in buying this except for the nice looking box. I can't speak polish... So i'll pass on this.
@Foreverflash: I did look at your collection and see you big boxed pc games. Was amazed by the Fallout boxes!
Alice and Deus Ex are wonderful too, just 2 days ago i saw a deus ex big boxed in near mint condition but the seller was asking a crazy price so i let it go.
You're perfectly right with the "not intended" collector status of big boxed games, they were just a "standard" in the old day that became "collector" due to the change in how games are packaged, their increasing rarity due to age... and our nostalgia
Since i only began collecting in the middle of august (2011), i'm still in a frenzy with what i buy, so i managed to get some really nice pieces of big boxes rather fast.
I stopped really fast tooo, to focus on CE's. All my big boxes are stocked, as i don't have space to display them, so i can't tell you everything i have, nor take any photo, but here is are some of the games i have:
- The Elder Scrolls Arena
- TES Daggerfall
- Sealed Mint Quake 2
- Sealed (but the plastic film is used) quake 1, but i got robbed, the guy sent me a low budget reedition. I'm too confident.
- Diablo 1, both US and FR versions
- MDK Special Edition
- Myst III collector edition (EU version, while US came with a figurine and i WANT it)
- Duke Nukem 3d "Duke it out in DC" expansion pack
- Civilization II Limited Edition
- Hexen II Mint Sealed
- Carmageddon, if i remember well its sealed too
- A really nice Tomb Raider 1 edition, the box is designed as a pyramid
- Final Fantasy VIII, a rather rare piece for PC. Box is damaged though.
- Baldur's Gate and its extension
And others
The game i just got is Omikron : The Nomad Soul. It came out in 1998 or 1999 (i'm hungry, and when i'm hungry i just can't think properly :p).
It was the first game of a then newly found french studio, and an herald of "the french touch" in the game industry, made in collaboration with David Bowie, who made the soundtrack and plays a character in the game.
You may know this studio well, as it recently developped a huge PS3 exclusive... Heavy Rain
The studio (Quantic Dreams), also made Farenheit. But Omikron is different than those 2 games, it mixed FPS view with adventure aspect, the possibility to control nearly any NPC in the city by possessing them, and some fights are played in a Street Fighter/ Tekken/ MK style! A really unique mix of genres at the time, and still now. So it may not appeal to everyone i think...
I can't say much more, as i never played the game^^ I had a Macintosh when it came out, and forgot to play it when i got a pc some years after.
When i'll have time and space, i'll take photos of my collection
But i d'ont think it will come soon.
Enough writing! I am flooding my own thread :O