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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: When Is A Game Old?
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:11:23 +0200
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On 4/9/2024 4:33 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 09:23:30 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/8/2024 11:09 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:27:05 +0200, Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> On a related note: what's the oldest media (tape, floppy, cd-rom,
>>> cartridge) you still have for a game?
> 
>> The oldest PC game I have physical media off would be Battletech: The
>> Crescent Hawk's Revenge from 1990. I once bought this in a grab box in
>> the shop, and I think someone had already played it and returned it
>> later, as it gave my computer it's first virus.
> 
> You weren't missing anything. "Revenge" wasn't a very fun game, from
> what I recall. Its combat was slow and tedious, but also lacked the
> depth and versatility of the tabletop game. And its story wasn't very
> engaging. It was one of Westwood Games (of "Eye of the Beholder" and
> "Command & Conquer" fame) earliest titles though, and one of the last
> games to sport the Infocom branding.
> 
> I've had similar experiences from that era of returned PC games being
> sold 'as new' (although without the 'fun' of paying for a virus ;-).
> Too many store owners were extremely confrontational when called on
> it, too.
> 
> 

This one I found way later. I remember I was choosing between Daggerfall 
and this one, and chose the Battletech game because they wanted full 
price for Daggerfall years after it came out.
But well, I think they just found some stuff when cleaning their storage 
and decided to put it all out.
It wasn't like this was even a proper computer store, this was a 
department store with a small computer section. Which, come to think of 
it, didn't actually survive until today.