New Acquisitions Thread (image heavy)

[Rudy]

Those are some fine acquisitions, folks.

[Tawmis]

I love Gold Rush! That game should have done MUCH better.

[Rath Darkblade]

I never played it, alas. I just never found it in the game shops. Can it be played on today's ultra-fast modern computers?

[Rudy]

I never played it, alas. I just never found it in the game shops. Can it be played on today's ultra-fast modern computers?

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[Collector]

Can it be played on today's ultra-fast modern computers?

Surly you forget where you are.

http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/N ... llers.html

Or more specifically,

http://sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/N ... rs.html#GR

[Constantin35]

Got this one in a pawn shop for ~6 US$... A rather well preserved KQ3 in its grey/silver release!

[Tawmis]

I have none of the silver boxes. Would love to find them. But man, Pawn Shops just don't exist in San Diego with that type of stuff...

[Constantin35]

Seems to be King's Quest day, today... Just found in the Mail today the Grey/Silver Box of Kings Quest 1 (btw, is it normal, that only KQ2 and KQ3 as grey/silver boxes do have this flap on top of the box? Mine KQ1 doesn't...)

as well as King's Quest 4 in its AGI incarnation:

[Constantin35]

One of the coolest things is actually the Sierra catalogue from 1987, which came along with the grey/silver KQ1 Box. It has All three KQ's in its grey/silver layout promoted, as well as Space Quest 1 in its black box, and further ancient Software

[Collector]

That KQ3 looks pretty pristine. Nice find. Seems like the gray boxes are usually fairly beaten up.

[envisge0ne]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. KQ3 looks practically brand new. The was an amazing find & amazing price

[QuestCollector]

KQ1 grey box does not have a flap on it. No need to worry. There is a very rare clamshell Tandy release of KQ1 though. It has the same box art.

[Constantin35]

It sounds like it is mixed up. I believe that Tawm got a copy with both in one box. Perhaps it is from someone whose machine could not handle the high requirements of SCI, so sent the SCI disks back to Sierra in exchange for AGI replacement disks. Did you look at the contents on the disks?

It arrived with some other pieces today. Indeed it seems that this one returned his SCI Version for an AGI Version. The Disk label says Version 2.0, which sounds like the Easter-Egg Version, right?

Aditionally arrived

a shrink-wrapped Blue Force CD-ROM Version

a shrink-wrapped Black Cauldron

a shrink-wrapped Hoyle Book of Games Vol. 3. If I understand correctly, then the two Stickers (Rqts and Value Priced) tell me, that the Content is some real Sierra Content (no black and white photocopies, and a true sleeve/box packaging), but it is some re-release, were Slash did the Customer Support?

A shrink-wrapped early Version of Mixed-Up Mother Goose

A SCI-Release of Hero's Quest AKA Quest for Glory 1

And finally a SCI-Release of KQ1 in the golden AGI Box Release

[Collector]

Nice haul. And yes, v2.0 is the one with the "Beam Me" Easter egg.

[Constantin35]

... and has put my KQ1 collection to an astounding number of 6 different boxes... Still something missing?

First Release 1983:

Second Release 1984 - shrinkwrapped:

Grey-Silver Release:

Golden AGI-Release - shrinkwrapped:

Golden SCI-Release:

New SCI-Release: