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Wing Commander III has some cool stuff in the box. Taking a look now, we have an installation guide, a “playguide” (instructions), a fold out sheet with the factory specifications and basic information on the various spacecraft in the game, a reference sheet for the controls, and a book called Victory Streak. Victory Streak has chats from in-universe newsgroups, e-mails, interviews with characters in the game, music reviews, news articles and even more info the ships. It also has passages on the history of the game’s universe, including a timeline and info on various races and places. As you can tell, it’s mostly a mock magazine, and it makes for some fun world-building. It even has classifieds! Anyone interested in buying a remote hovermobile?

Sadly, that’s just about the only game I own with such paraphernalia. Well, I’ve heard there are feelies in Welcome To The Future’s box, but I have that in the original shrink wrap, and I don’t think I want to tear it off just to verify.

Amazingly, I still buy PC Box games. The selection is way down from what it once was, but not gone completely.

Back in the days of the C128, all my adventure games came from infocom and I just loved the extra goodies they came with.

I do have a huge collection of PC games in mint condition and what they all came with in the past is simply amazing - plastic statues, maps, walkthrough books, artbooks, the list goes on.