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Mine were the very originals, toughest plastic I've ever seen and survived being thrown around for years. If I knew where they were I'd bet they still worked
Hm. I wonder how much my original Amiga boxed version of Monkey Island would fetch, these days. It's in near-mint condition too, having only been occassionally stared at and never actually handled or moved from its space on the shelf for the past 15 years.
Here's some of my tiny PC games collection and some mega drive/genesis/master system games PLUS a huge stack of assorted console stuff (well, a shelf fell down, so they're piled three deep on the dresser for the moment:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80164245@N00/sets/72157623325603022/
i have about 2500 or so games (down from about 3500 or so) for a bunch of consoles and handhelds, but I really need to recount one day, as I've been adding and subtracting titles over time.
The PC stuff shown is about 75-80% of what I have - the rest is in a closet (it used to be twice as large, but I sold off/traded a bunch of games over time) and a few more titles are coming this week...
I'll update if folks are interested...
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stonebro: Hm. I wonder how much my original Amiga boxed version of Monkey Island would fetch, these days. It's in near-mint condition too, having only been occassionally stared at and never actually handled or moved from its space on the shelf for the past 15 years.

They made Monkey Island for the Amiga? What else have I missed?
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michaelleung: They made Monkey Island for the Amiga? What else have I missed?

Yes. It was ported to the Amiga in 1993. Original PC release was 1990.
They made monkey island 2 for the amiga as well, 11 discs of awesome.
As with almost everything in that era, it was better on amiga
Nintendo DS collection.
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Aliasalpha: They made monkey island 2 for the amiga as well, 11 discs of awesome.
As with almost everything in that era, it was better on amiga

You were able to put it on the enormous A590+ 20MB Hard Disk :p
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michaelleung: They made Monkey Island for the Amiga? What else have I missed?
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stonebro: Yes. It was ported to the Amiga in 1993. Original PC release was 1990.

Actually, it was released in '91, and MI2 was released in '92. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released in '92. The Amiga most of the PC games from that era as well - and sound was often superior on the Amiga. However, while I preferred how well the used the more limited colors of the Amiga on MI2, there was a lot of music missing. A lot of the places where there were music in the PC version, it was silent on the Amiga (I discovered this years later, and fell in love with the game all over again, with all the new music). That said, the Amiga version had superior sound, unless you had the incredibly expensive MT-32 soundcard - which only brought it up to par (I prefer the instruments used in the Amiga version still though).
I think Fate of Atlantis was the last adventure game LucasArts released on the Amiga, as piracy was rampant and Commodore messed up. LA declared (some time after Day of the Tentacle, I believe) that they had dropped support for the Amiga platform and concentrated on the PC.
Sierra also stopped supporting the Amiga around the same time. King's Quest VI was the last Sierra adventure game released on the Amiga, and there was an A1200 version in the works, but it was canned (probably because of low sales). King's Quest VI was also a fantastic port of the VGA adventures form Sierra, unlike any of the others which had horrible use of colors and bad optimization (like Space Quest IV, King's Quest V, Police Quest 3 and Leisure Suit Larry 5). But then again, Sierra had Revolution Software (Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword, Lure of the Temptress) do the job of porting KQVI to the Amiga. The last game Revolution released for the Amiga was Beneath a Steel Sky, which was released in '94.
Overall though, LucasArts did a much better of porting the latest games to the Amiga. But Sierra did good job with the text parser games (LSL3 being much better on the Amiga, imo, than PC) - they didn't mess up until they becamse point'n'click.
Post edited February 04, 2010 by StarEye
This is about the only thing I can show
http://backloggery.com/games.php?user=gyrocaptain
It's a little out of date, but here are my books.
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v292/211/25/713964063/n713964063_702813_6819.jpg
It's only the small paperbacks. Have maybe 200 more now, and am trying to get rid of a lot of them as I've replaced them with digital copies.
:)
That's awesome RSHabroptilus. I wish I could display my books like that, instead of stacking them in a plastic bin.
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Aliasalpha: They made monkey island 2 for the amiga as well, 11 discs of awesome.
As with almost everything in that era, it was better on amiga
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Delixe: You were able to put it on the enormous A590+ 20MB Hard Disk :p

Sure, if you were rich enough to AFFORD one. I have a bit less sympathy for people whining about xbox hard drives being overpriced after looking at amiga ones...
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Cambrey: Nintendo DS collection.

Nice :D
I'm dying to find a new copy of Orcs & Elves, it's sold out everywhere.
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Cambrey: Nintendo DS collection.
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Daedolon: Nice :D
I'm dying to find a new copy of Orcs & Elves, it's sold out everywhere.

If it wasn't for the shipping I could send you a copy - they are everywhere here.