How much of your original SW purchase remains?

[Maren]

Just as the title says. Do you still have the original box, jewel case, manual, pamphlets, etc? that's a big, resounding YES for me. I even kept the purple foam! The box's a lil bit beat up for sure, but there's not a single scratch on the CD.

I'm talking 1997 here, not the re-packed distributions, let alone digital downloads.

Anyone?

[Robman]

I got mine at wal-mart back in 1998 for about $50. I kept the box for quite sometime but it eventually got thrown out, I still have the jewel case with the little pamphlets but I either lent out or lost the actual cd which is slightly angering.

All I have left of my original retail box is this scan of the back of it, the grey stuff adhered it to my wall.

[Maren]

Hmmm, I got mine from a regular computer store, for about as much (exactly $54 if my memory serves me well, for the receipt I did not keep!)

It's a shame, though, to see our stuff deteriorate and disappear. I myself lost many floppies to magnetic fields and molding along the years.

I've had this itching about reconstructing the original SW box for a while now, and just when I was about to start, I found out about a couple of .psd files that were generously released not long ago which contained the original front image we see on the box, with Lo Wang holding the guardian's head, and now I'm thinking, what if the rest of the original box's design still exists?, or the paper on the back of the jewel case?, or the SW logo pressed on the CD? talk about hitting the jackpot!

The only thing remaining, besides the original manual in digital form (not a scan) that couldn't be easily reproduced (like the pamphlets) is the very relief on the box, to get it right, for we don't have the mold or whatever thing they used to do it.

[Robman]

You may try to remake the original box? Whoa... that's some dedication

[Maren]

You may call it that, but most people would say I've lost it!

Seriously, I'm big into preservation, and it kills me to see everything fall apart and disappear, sometimes never to be found again.

If we could only have these things in their original digital forms, we'd be able to print them all out on demand and effectively recreate them 1:1, thus preserving the whole package for posterity, and not only the CD as a binary copy.