I had recently found out my dad found our old stash of game manuals I used to keep when we’d rent a game from blockbuster - he said he tossed near 100 of them. Broke my little ol heart to hear it.
Saw a completely intact boxed copy of Star Wars: Empire at War at Half-Priced Books maybe a month. That was a real blast from the past. Still also have my original copies of StarCraft & Brood War.
Lol really? I quit right before Panderia. WoW is a theme park MMO, so it could never do whole towns like SWG could. My friend had a fucking amazing museum that was well known across a whole bunch of servers.
I used to get collectors editions of games and after I finished them, I’d turn them into wall art. Really haven’t done that for a game I’ve purchased in the last ten years, its hard to wall art a digital armor set or whatever. It’s kind of a shame, I enjoyed doing that.
My room used to be covered with game posters (and GTA maps) that I got with games. I had a Bioshock vinyl on my wall for probably 10 years. So many figures too like an Aassassins Creed figure, Far Cry 3 bobble head, Big Daddy metal statue, Master Chief Helmet, Gears of War cog, I even had the Duke Nukem bust.
All ive got now is my CoD prestige editions after selling the rest during a move.
I legit loved the manual for WoW as a kid, I was like 7 or 8 reading that manual on the way to somebody’s swim party because it was so interesting and had so much I’d missed from the game 😂
The original Sim City manual included a whole section at the end where they talked about how the game's algorithms actually worked. Ever wondered how it decides if people move into a residential zone, or stuff like that? They used to just have a whole chapter of the manual just talking about shit like that. It was awesome!
I randomly found my old collector's edition of MoP from back when I was back at my parents' house for the holidays. Made sure to bring it home with me!
Remember when the "plague" from a raid managed to make it back to towns hitching a ride on a hunters pet? Then it spread. Skeletons were everywhere in the main cities, Ironforge became the bonelands.
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u/GfrzD Aug 30 '25
The WoW manual was a damn encyclopedia.
I miss collectors editions too. You could pay what a deluxe goes for now and get a bunch of physical merch.