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Showcasing the awesome history of video game box art. An elegant wrapping from a more civilized age. Chat and learn how to submit your own scans on our Discord: https://discord.gg/CWXbgxCeW5 Posts by @pxa.ca. Chat us up about retro games!
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Love the construction of this photo!
Amstrad CPC version of Barbarian.
The fight is over and the lizard drags away your opponent.

Real stuff not emulation: CRT scanlines, same gaming conditions as back then.
That's my philosophy at Retro Dream
If you haven't, come check out the Discord (link in bio) to hang out with fellow big box preservation weirdos! It's a good bunch over there.

Also, I restarted my old blog so if you want, maybe check that out and subscribe: geekbravado.com

Good to be back at this! Much more to come! 💖

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Geek Bravado
The hobby blog of Parallax Abstraction where he posts musings on various topics, mostly gaming and tech.
geekbravado.com
There have been a LOT of new contributions to the site and there's a BIG backlog to get through so you'll be seeing those start rolling out on the feed over the next little while. I'll be at a measured pace, no 30+ post dumps, promise. 😉

I've also got some scans of my own to submit!

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Honestly, no one reading needs to care why I wasn't about. Life just got a bit hairy and I had to triage some things to the backburner to make room for other things that needed my attention.

The good news is things are evening out and I can get back to fun stuff like this!

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Well hi everyone! It's @pxa.ca, your humble BigBoxDB Bluesky posting dude. You may have noticed the feed's been pretty quiet for the last while and I haven't been too active on the Discord either.

I hate long threads so don't worry, this won't be one either.

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BIG updates made to the site to both the overall experience but also to performance! Come check it out, @adamzwakk.com be puttin' in work!
I've overhauled @bigboxdb.com to be the latest React/ThreeJS/dependency versions, fully supporting glb/ktx2 texture compression, fun lazy loading, more animations, and tons of performance improvements. www.bigboxdb.com/shelves

See my other 'release notes' at discord.com/channels/129...
BigBoxDB | 3D Shelves
An elegant wrapping from a more civilized age
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I never post on here because I forget tbh, but we're at 434 boxes now on @bigboxdb.com! All thanks to some recent contributors!
"Please help, they have my family and are making me pose for this weird astrology game!" 🤣
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Russell Grant's Astrology (DS, 2009)
I'm hoping I can afford to redo my basement next year that will become my own little retro sanctuary/workshop/office that I can also use in Canadian winters. 🙂
What a beautiful place! You did an incredible job. I love my small town but I'm in a newer bungalow townhouse with a tiny back yard that's all deck. 🙂 One day...
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Seriously guys, if we just flip the image around no one will ever notice!
Yet another reason why @gog.com is the GOAT! They've added an almost Steam Workshop-like system to one-click install mods for a variety of classic titles. All vetted and tested by their team and in partnership with the mod authors.

This is brilliant! Well done!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn4...
GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins!
YouTube video by GOG Classics Vault
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Remember when NVIDIA and AMD allowed their partners to put insane box art on GPU boxes? If you do, Lock Books has the book for you!

lockbooks.net/pages/overcl...

I am ordering this right now. I *NEED* this. It better have my boy Frobot in it!

@lgr-yt.bsky.social, you should check this out. :)
OVERCLOCKED: An Archive of Graphics Card Box Art
“Overclocked: An Archive of Graphics Card Box Art” The new book from Lock Books by Mike McCabe & Sam Bailey. AVAILABLE NOW FROM LOCKBOOKS.NET A visual history of one of gaming’s most bizarre and o...
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It took @3drealms.bsky.social 37 years to ship these to us all, but it's finally here! Looking pretty solid. Expect this to be added to @bigboxdb.com soon!
Do you long for Aero aesthetics sometimes? I mean, most of us still have nightmares about Windows Vista, but that bubbly, rounded, partially transparent UI was a vibe, yaknow'?

Someone has made an archive of the Fruitiger subgenre. Apparently Aero has subgenres! Get lost in these vibes!
Frutiger Aero Archive
A website dedicated to the Frutiger Aero design aesthetic, featuring 1300+ downloadable wallpapers, a music player, videos, icons, history, and more.
frutigeraeroarchive.org
I'll take "So Much to Unpack Here" for $500 Alex.
- Weird video game cover art -

Leavin' Teramis (Amiga, 1990)
Our illustrious leader @adamzwakk.com has a new project online! SpinJump.net is an aggregator tool that pulls together Super Mario ROM hacks from various different sites and puts them in one place, with info and download links for each one!

This is super cool! Hans is a machine. 💪
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A Super Mario ROM Hack aggregator/archive thing. I am pulling from smwcentral.net, romhacking.com, and romhackraces.com so there can be one consistent dated list and archive of all the content that th...
SpinJump.net
I'm a big fan of these "album cover" style boxes (more packages really), but you don't often see ones that aren't from EA or sometimes Activision. This is a non-English European title that looks awesome!
Ooooooh, new album style box I haven't seen before!
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Today is the 25th anniversary of Starlancer!
Raise your hand if you played it.🙋
Notice the text at the bottom of the box cover.
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Oh yeah, no way Romero doesn't LOVE this!