Paperboxes are back!
Ever felt you want to have a teeny-tiny minature big box of your favorite game sitting on your desk? Well, warm-up your printer, grab glue & scissors and get ready to print some boxes because the papercraft feature is back!
BigBoxCollection
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In the Press: "Pour One Out for Physical Media With a Library of Drool-Worthy Golden-Era Game Box Art"
Tom Hawking sent me a mail after stumbling upon BigBoxCollection.com and he wrote a neat little blog entry for Gizmondo about it :-)
Pickup
Back home from X party and of course, I've found some games there that just had to be added to my collection. Speaking of my collection, there's quite a pile to scan building up and, well, there's a big surprise coming up in a couple of weeks
Pickup
Grabbed a copy of Final Doom via local classifieds.
Pickup
Found two packages on our doormat today: some strange keys and (finally) a copy of Pirates Gold \o/
Pickup
Three C64 games arrived today, waiting to be added to the virtual collection Stoked having Rolling Ronny on my shelf, especially as an update (dubbed Ronny Rollback by v3to ) is currently in the works.
Box art
Added some sketches to Diablo II
Artists
Lots of profile pics added/updated for the Artists page.
Shiny new old
Re-scanned the Fallout box and finally replaced those green tinted pics from yesteryear.
Matching Tiles
Surprise! Scrap , a member of C64 demo group Genesis Project sent me a boxed copy of his 2023 game Shisen Sho . If you're looking for a relaxing tile matching game with a fantastic SID soundtrack, grab a copy over at CSDb.sk . It's fantastic!
Live Beta Testing
Impromptu live beta test session of Street Sports Pogo at last weekend's BCC Party #20 in Berlin.
Demo Party x Game Collection
Went to my first C64 demo party BCC Party #20 and came home with a bunch of boxed games. Never expected my two hobbies to sync up that well.
First Preview
Latest issue of Freeze64 had some "Freezing Hot Pogo News" and the Pixel Punx are loving it :-) Grab it from CSDb.dk
Going full circle
It's not out yet, but I just couldn't wait sharing the box and thus I've kinda gone full circle with BigBoxCollection.com by uploading myself to the virtual shelf O.O
That's not how it works
Oha, Jabba has a non Euclidean space ship.
Photo Shoot
A behind-the-scene photo teaser thingy. So excited
Sunset
Completed the fantastic Outlaws by LucasArts. Would Red Dead Redemption be a worthy follow-up? There's a Switch 2 version now and it's 50% off too.
Diving
Don't know how the Switch 2 is scaling things up here, but it looks fantastic. Not sure, if a 4k projector is needed for playing World Games though ;-)
Shapes
Real life Tetris
10 Years! PETSCII Covers Poster
And another poster made up with GFX from my C64 PETSCII demo "Scan And Spin" for celebrating 10 years of BigBoxCollection.com. Grab a high-res version here
10 Years! PETSCII Poster
Took my C64 PETSCII demo "Scan And Spin" that I've made for celebrating 10 years of BigBoxCollection.com and turned it into a poster. Grab a high-res version here
10 Years! Scan And Spin
I know, the 10th anniversary is still a month away but I just had to release my C64 demo early because it was finished and I couldn't hold myself back any longer. Download: csdb.dk/release/?id=253137 Details: jmin.at/Release.000039 C64 Emulator LVLLVL.com/C64 by James
Feel the Force
I'm used to playing Star Wars on my arcade cab these days, so revisiting it on C64 and a joystick sucks bit time; plugging in a mouse smoothes things out, but IMHO is just plain cheating.
New trick
I do love boxes with gatefold covers and cutouts and both are supported here for their 3D versions. Further, there's boxes that come with a sleeve and guess what, jep, those are supported now too.
Folios
Hand full of folios.
1000 Games
Woohoo! BigBoxCollection.com has now over 1,000 games available as high-res 3D models waiting to be explored Here's the remaining ones on my to-scan pile: Blue Force Captain Blood Death or Glory (C64) Flashback: The Quest for Identity Gender Wars Legends of Valour: Volume 1 - The Dawning Microcosm Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch Zork: Grand Inquisitor
ToDo List
Slowly getting there, only the following games on my stack: AotD 2 (inkl 1 & JitD) Archimedean Dynasty Black Mirror III: Final Fear Blue Force Captain Blood Cyberia Cyberia 2 Death or Glory (C64) Drakensang Flashback: The Quest for Identity Gender Wars Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb Legends of Valour: Volume 1 - The Dawning Loopz (Amiga) Microcosm Pictionary: The Game of Quick Draw (C64)…
Portal to Azeroth
Back in January 2024, Marion from Michigan, US got in touch with me after having read about BigBoxCollection.com over at PCGamesN . Reason for reaching out was the lack of World of Warcraft boxes in my collection and to change that, she would donate me her copies. After a couple of mails back and forth and me covering shipping, the boxes were sent over the big pond and arrived some weeks later at…
Realms of Conan
Not sure why, but my Realms disk has Conan shining through? It's a single label, so it can only be a ghostly image from the thermal printer.
Box on a Shelf
OK, click & zoom on your own risk: Shelf PS: No filter nor order options yet, but they're on my ToDo list.
Poster
All 921 games on a single poster? Here you go: Download
Peek
Working on bringing back the ol' shelf view from 2015. Here's a sneak peek.
Pickup
No more room for big boxes, but squeezing in a folio is always possible! Happy to add Captain Blood (incl full manual and art booklet) to my collection.
Greenscreen it
Your hobby is making videos about old games? You want to add a big box to your video? A spinning 3D one? Well, listen up: Each and every box on this site can be opened in a "Greenscreen" mode, which means, you can just go ahead and record any 3D box. Thanks to chroma keying, the box can then be overlayed with your footage. Neat, huh? Here's what you need to do: Open the box you're looking for.…
Spotlight on box cover Artists
I've been researching artists for a while now and guess what, I'm somewhat done for now and integrated all the data not only in the filter but also into the various box views as well as an overview page . Please mind, that there are still a lot of boxes on this vitural shelf lacking this information and I would kindly ask anybody who does have a name or hint on the artist behind those fantastic…
Comics
Fate of Atlantis, the comics.
Art of Diablo
These two books arrived today. Always been a fan of Diablo's dirty and moody art. Can't wait to dig through those big and heavy tomes.
Scanning
Scanning... brrrr...
RetroGamer Magazin: Making of Wizardry
Fantastic article in RetroGamer magazine load 267: The Making of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord .
Funny Doom
Yay for high resolution jokes.
ToDo List
Here's a list of all the boxes from 2024 that I have not yet come around to scan and upload. Adrenix Alien Breed: Tower Assault Air Warrior AotD 2 (inkl 1 & JitD) Archimedean Dynasty Black Mirror III: Final Fear Blue Force Brain Dead 13 Cannon Fodder 2 Caribbean Disaster Command & Conquer: Firestorm Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn Creatures Curse of…
Bigger Collection
2024 had been a busy year and started off with a bang and it does show in the growth statistic of my collection. Please mind, for 2024, only boxes that have been 3Dified and thus uploaded to BigBoxCollection.com are counted. This year, I haven't managed to upload all the boxes that I've physically added, so the real number is even higher.
Books, Comics and Guides
The Media info got an update and does now list additional content in form of books, comics or strategy guides too. Up until now, these were only visible via the content photos.
Box art info
Over at BlueSky , OriginalVideoGameArt.com commented on a post sharing the artist responsible for the Fade to Black box. Adding who's done what box art had been on my ToDo list for ages and guess what, that comment made me sit down and implement this feature. If added to the database, there's a new "Box art" info; searching for an artist is also possible, either bei entering a name or by clicking…
Holy Switcheroo, Batman!
Batman to-go :-)
Switch Collection
Updated switch.bigboxcollection.com Guess it shows, that I've bought my Switch on day one.
X-Mas Update
Finding a big box game under the christmas tree is rather rare these days, so here's a quick update with a bunch of DOS, Windows and C64 games for you all to dig through. Happy holidays, everyone!
Rust & Dirt
Having fun re-installing game clients — and bundling them into Playnite — I've downloaded POD and gave it a spin. Not as fast as I remembered, but still as dirty looking :-)
Hard driving
With the new PC setup complete, it's time to boot up a game. Usually, I'm going for a round of Doom, but while configuring GOG Galaxy, I've spotted another gem: Bleifu� aka Screamer! Only had a quick race, but it's all (still) there: the wobbly GFX, the high voltage sound and insane arcade handling. Love it.
Epyx on Switch
Just found out that all the Expy sports games are on Nintendo Switch as "The Epyx Games Sports Collection". Love it!