Pack-age of Enlightenment (May 26, 2007)

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Long Live the Confederation!
Grimloc has forwarded us a cool link - a blog called FraudWasteAbuse that has posted a nice reminiscence of classic game packaging. Both Wing Commander and Ultima are focused on:
Wing Commander was my first non-educational computer game. It came out way back in 1990. The box says that the game is a special promotional release, but the only thing special about this version was that it was the second printing. The manual was made to be like a magazine for the carrier you were stationed on in the game. It also came with some neat blueprints for the various ships you could fly in the game, and they contained many of the answers for some of the evil copy protection questions you were asked. If you needed 5¼ inch floppies there was a form you could send in. The game also came with a game catalog that I’ve long since lost.
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Read the entire article here.


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Original update published on May 26, 2007
 
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I disagree - Wing Commander was a highly educational computer game. I learned about all the famous Sci-Fi authors by reading the sector map in Claw Marks.
 
Sylvester said:
I disagree - Wing Commander was a highly educational computer game. I learned about all the famous Sci-Fi authors by reading the sector map in Claw Marks.
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You may be thinking of the WCU map included with Prophecy - the only famous sci-fi author on the Claw Marks map is Eddings.
 
I'm not sure I buy the "non-educational" thing, either. How many people would've bothered learning the intricacies of IRQs, DMAs, and building/upgrading computers if not trying to run WC games? :D

(The above was thoroughly tongue-in-cheek. Anyone who takes it seriously deserves the laughter they'll get afterwards. :p )
 
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