Oh, the memories of the good old days of gaming! When video games were far and few between, and could be made by one to a handful of people. Yesterday’s post [Video Game Nostalgia] touched on some old games I played when I was but a lad. I decided for today I’d drag out a lot of the old stuff, see what I still had for curiosity sake, and take a picture :-).

All of the software packages are DOS applications (except the Windows upgrades, obviously, and Visual Basic), most everything says for the “IBM/TANDY” :-).

On a silly side note, I had the bad habit of calling PCs (Personal Computers) “IBM Compatibles” (as opposed to Apples) until like 1998, heh.

From left to right, top to bottom:

• My dad’s TRS-80 Model 100. The story goes that when he used to have to get up at night to take care of my older sister when she was a baby in ’82, he used it to instant message friends on CompuServe over its 300 baud modem while rocking her back to sleep or such. I also played with a TRS-80, which also belonged to my dad, at my grandfather’s house one summer, and did some programming on it in Basic when I was ~12 :-).
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)
• Visual Basic 5.0. Info on a previous version I received here. :-)
• MS-DOS owners guide
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992)
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance (1988): 3 books for the game plus rune wheel. My sister was the one that played this one IIRC.
• ZZT (1991): Getting started guide and 2 floppy disks
• Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival (1989): Floppy disk and getting started guide
• Ken’s Labyrinth (1993, Epic Megagames): 2 floppy disks
• Jazz Jackrabbit (1994, Epic Megagames) (can’t find my “Jill of the Jungle” though :-\)

Some more really old software I found that I didn’t worry about taking pictures of:

• Bicycle Holiday Collection (1992)
• Cakewalk Home Studio v3.01
• Chutes and Ladders (1988, Milton Bradley Co.)
• Math Rabbit (1986, The Learning Company)
• Microsoft Paintbrush (1985-1986 - Yes, this was once a program you actually had to buy. The manual is a pretty and colorful little neatly bound ring-binder too ^_^).
• Monopoly Deluxe (1992, Virgin Games)
• The Electric Company - Picture Place (1988)
• Solitaire’s Journey (1992)
• Wheel of Fortune (1987)
• Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego (1985-1986)
• Windows 95 & 98 Upgrades

And, Yes, I know I’m a packrat. I inherited it from my Dad :-).