Keep PC game boxes?

[entropy]

I've got them boxed up but I'm torn 50/50 whether throw them out to declutter and free up space.

PHers, help me decide!

[RizzoTheRat]

I had a cupboard full of boxes for games that were so old I doubt they'd run on my current PC, I threw them out when I realised pretty much anything I'd bought in the last few years I'd bought either as a download or came as DVD style case. I can't actually remember the last game I bought that came in a box with paper manuals.

[Aphex]

I still have my Diablo, Fallout and various elderscrolls boxes but since steam I've not held onto anything else

[Altrezia]

I keep them but mostly they are just boring DVD cases.

I wish I'd kept my Lucas Arts game boxes. The Monkey island and DOTT boxes are brill and I'd like them on my shelf.

[Jinx]

Still got Wing Commander 1 on 5 1/4" floppies with manuals and blue prints of the Confederacy fighters
Also have Ultima 5 with Cloth Map and Aluminium Medal.
Games might have cost a bit back then (£50) but they really put the effort into the boxes!

[HewManHeMan]

I bought some massive CD wallets and chucked my Bluray / games / DVD collection in them. Went from taking up the entire floor space in the spare room to one square hole in an Ikea unit thingy.

Mate of mine flat out refuses to part with the DVD cases of his collection; took us three days to ferry his DVD's to his new house. Total waste of time.

[Squirrelofwoe]

Still got quite a few PC game boxes (the original big cardboard affairs!), off the top of my head I've got:

-Dune (floppy disks)
-Dune 2 (floppy disks)
-Dune 2000
-Star Wars Tie Fighter
-Star Wars Rogue Squadron
-Star Wars Dark Forces (floppy disks)
-Star Wars Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight
-C&C Red Alert
-C&C Red Alert 2
-C&C Tiberium Sun
-Starcraft (massive limited edition box!)
-Worms 2
-Half Life
-Half Life Opposing Forces
-Quake 2
-Deus Ex
-Hidden & Dangerous
-Total Annihilation
-Age of Empires 2

I've always kept those, can't really bring myself to get rid these days- particularly when they all have the manuals etc for them- it kind of feels like a marker for when my entry into the world of PC gaming, and reminds me of a time when each game was laboriously anticipated and saved up for, played continuously for weeks without consideration of any others. I.e a time before the words "Steam Sale"... I like it because I can vividly remember each of those purchases, where I got them from etc, something you just don't get these days (it's the same feeling with all of my music vinyl I brought for DJing compared to the digital tracks I now use). They do take up a fair bit of space though.

Since games went over to the smaller CD/DVD case style rather than actual card boxes I have still kept them but they all stored away in a big plastic container and I normally keep the disks in a big wallet.

Obviously with Steam these days it's not really an issue anymore. The last game I brought a 'hard' version of was GTA V - a massive case containing 7 DVDs... I brought it that way mainly for the awesome full colour map that came with it.

I do miss getting the big cardboard boxes though.

Edited by Squirrelofwoe on Thursday 29th October 15:12

[Cerberus90]

I've still got all of mine, Any collectors edition boxes or non-dvd sized boxes are stored away in a box.
And there's another half a rack of PC and PS3/360 games too.

[Brigand]

Over the past couple of years I've been decluttering, with the majority of my PC games coming out of their boxes and being put in a CD wallet. I only have a few left in boxes on the desk, and they are mainly special edition versions. I have a few old games still boxed but in a cupboard, Civilisation 3 comes to mind as it has a big box, tiny CD jewel case inside but a big chunky manual (back in the days when you got a manual!)

I did the same with my DVD collection as well this year, all out of their boxes and into a small metal box with slips in, with just the BluRays and box-sets left on the shelves.

[Bullett]

Mostly steam these days. I still have some old big box games (Half-Life, Homeworld a few others) and a pile of DVD case types but they are all in the loft. Some are too old to run on my current machines and most are already loaded up to Steam/online.

I have 359 games in my steam library.

[Hudson]

Cerberus90 said:

I've still got all of mine, Any collectors edition boxes or non-dvd sized boxes are stored away in a box.
And there's another half a rack of PC and PS3/360 games too.

Wow, i think you and i are the only ones who got the actual boxed copy of half life 2


Only one i have left is my collectors edition WoW Cataclysm box.

[lewisco]

The last boxes game I got was GTA 2.



(Not my actual copy, that's in the shed somewhere)

[Cerberus90]

Hudson said:

Wow, i think you and i are the only ones who got the actual boxed copy of half life 2


Only one i have left is my collectors edition WoW Cataclysm box.

That was the first proper PC game I ever bought. It was also what caused is to switch from dialup to broadband, as it would have taken forever to download the updates from steam on 56k.

I remember it well, as I bought it from Dixons, but then had to take it back as I couldn't play it as I couldn't download the updates, they luckily accepted it back as I think they'd had a number of other people having the same issue. Bought it a bit later once we'd got the broadband up and running.

[cianha]

The only boxes I've still got are the Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansion boxes, because I thought they were fab.

Even if the only reason I actually needed them was the 12 digit code inside...