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Hi everyone...
I got off my seat after spending hours working and took a short stroll around the house, just to come back in my computer room, stopped at the doorway and looked up and down my book shelf and then stared at my shiny ES Daggerfall box - the big box version, like how they used to make them and thought about a question I wanted to ask the GoG Community.

The Question: What are some of the oldest computer (any computer) games you own with the original CD or floppy disks that you still have in your possession? Bonus if you still have the original boxes and manuals.

For me:
- ES Daggerfall (with original big box, manuals)
- ES Battlespire (with original big box, manuals)
- Dune (with jewel case, CD insert)
- Test Drive (floppy, for Amiga Commodore 500)
- Leisure Suit Larry 1-3 (floppies for Amiga Commodore 500)
- Marble Madness (floppies for Amiga Commodore 500)

And quite a few other PC (early to mid 1990's) and Amiga Commodore 500 (late 1980's) games.
Post edited September 15, 2012 by ginsengsamurai
Probably Police Quest 1 (VGA) with the hint book.

Hate to admit it but many of those games my siblings and I played in the late 80s and early 90s were borrowed from friends. So I didn't own many of the old adventures.

But from 1993 forward I own various Sierra titles among other games.
Post edited September 15, 2012 by mondo84
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mondo84: Probably Police Quest 1 (VGA) with the hint book.

Hate to admit it but many of those games my siblings and I played in the late 80s and early 90s were borrowed from friends. So I didn't own many of the old adventures.

But from 1993 forward I own various Sierra titles among other games.
Oh that's alright. I would say more than half the games I played in the 1990's were also 'borrowed' as well. It wasn't until I started working that I stopped 'borrowing' and started buying. ^_^

PS: PQ series were one of the best game series ever.
Post edited September 15, 2012 by ginsengsamurai
Just the CD's only

Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny, Everquest, Stonekeep, Creatures 2, HOMM 3
Post edited September 15, 2012 by EverettLamb
I gave away all my old games but I think I still have the floppies for Heroes Quest (Quest for Glory) : So you Want to be a Hero.
I think the PC Version of Wizardry I - Proving Grounds and Wizards Crown were both around 1985 and I still have them both. I also have the Original Sleeve Case for The Bard's Tale which was about that time.
StarCraft

EDIT: I will probably be throwing that out, along with all other Blizzard boxes (they are the only ones that I've left right now, threw out all other games) as soon as I find something to fill the space they take.
Post edited September 15, 2012 by Elenarie
If computer can count outside the x86 world, I have a bunch of Atari 800 PC games with the boxes and manuals still. For PC itself, probably Doom (Yeah, I got started late in the PC world.)
Right now? I think 101st: Airborne Invasion of Normandy and Apache vs Havoc. Though they're in a compilation made to work on XP and later, rather than the originals, so I don't think that counts quite as much.

I used to have a CD for Arc of Doom, which is pretty old, and not really even known to the internet, apparently.

I also have had several copies of Starcraft over the years which have all been lost.

Oh and I have a copy of Diablo II.
I really need to look around, but might already lost them all :-(

But I still have Mech Warrior 4 (I won a competition) because it still new. But there was 6 games CD that came with sound blaster 16. - including Ultima 8, Sherlock Holmes, Space Quest 4 (I think). But all disk games was too corrupted, moulded, etc.
I have a very old Elite box, but the diskette contained within is certainly not the original (indeed, the plastic insert in the box was designed to hold two cassettes).
Unfortunately, I've gone through phases where I get rid of boxes and put my games into cd booklets. Now I wish I hadn't, but nothing to be done for it.

Disk-wise, I only go back about as far as the first "Majesty", so 12 years.
The oldest in my collection is QFG2, followed by M&M3. I actually have an even older game made in 1989 called Oil Barons, but I doubt anyone's heard of it. It's not even on Mobygames.
Oldest with box... probably Bionic Commando, 1988.
I might have earlier ones, but I can't think of them, at least not with the box and everything.
I have Lemmings sitting on my desk...the game...not the rodents...