I most certainly do as I'm collecting them. For sharing my games with other (retro) gaming heads, I decided to turn my collection of over 840 boxes* into shiny 3D
The tech behind the 3D boxes is simple: first up the game boxes sides are scanned. Then, those textures are attached to a 3D mesh based upon the boxes' actual dimensions. All boxes can be zoomed and rotated and some can even be looked at from top and bottom angles. Also, double click/tap a box with a gatefold cover to pop it up.
The site is a one-man show and done in my spare time. I do try to keep it as up-to-date as possible but sometimes, well, life happens and the time from picking up a new box until it's available in 3D with all bells and whistles does vary quite a bit. I'm trying to keep you all posted via the blog though.
Anyway, I better stop babbeling and let you jump right in. Use the search in the top right corner or start with one of the games listed below.
Enjoy,
Benjamin
* Well, lots of boxes and some not so boxy ones
2024-09-11 Pixels In my second life as C64 graphician jmin I'm pixeling all kind of things for fun. Yesterday, I've submitted a pic for the currently running C64GFX.com Game Loading Screen Compo 2024 which celebrates the visuals shown while a game is loading. Rules are pretty loose, so game wise, everything goes.
The first thing that popped into my head was doing a MDK pic, and guess what, IMHO it turned out pretty neat, so here it is:
For those interested, the C64 file can be downloaded over at CSDb and you'll find some background info on jmin.at.
2024-09-10 Latest Pickup: Caveman Ugh-Lympics This one has been on my list for way to long. I fondly remember how my friends and I laughed our asses off playing Caveman Ugh-Lympics on the humble breadbin. Nothing beats a round of fire-making, smacking your oponent on the head when he's dying of laughter. Zoink!
2024-08-28 Latest Pickup: Another Diablo Quite some time ago, Thomas shared a pic of his French Diablo box and boy, I fell in love with it.
Cut to almost two years later, I found a copy for cheap for my shelf.
2024-08-18 Latest Pickup: Test driving Super Cars With this, my Test Drive II set is finally complete.
2024-08-08 Hellish update Getting updates for games is great, getting free upgrades is even better and getting remasters for free is ace. Thanks, id Software and Nightdive Studios for bringing Doom and Doom II up to speed.
2024-07-31 Hi-tech tool Some time ago, I've started to scan the back of the box with the top lid on and thus showing the both on the back scans. It definitely looks better in the 3D box, but it also a sucks having to edit the scans a bit more for fitting the rectagular shape.
Well, not anymore: low and behold, a new contraption for improving scans 1000% or more :-)
2024-07-31 Milestone: 800 Games With the upload of Space Quest 6, there's now 800(!) boxes available to click through on this site.
Enjoy!
2024-07-25 Latest Pickup: Pew Pew Pew! Oh, look what landed on my doorstep today!
A boxed US copy of Star Wars for C64!
Misplaced my European double cassette case + inlay decades ago, so I'm more than thrilled having this one now sitting on the shelf behind me.
2024-07-15 Latest Pickups: Gandalf & Co Sure, it's a small box and yeah, I only played it with my brothers on Playstation 2, but it's a fantastic game and a great looking box.
Couldn't say no to it.
2024-06-19 Tweaking
Spent some time tweaking various things to speed up the page. 3D boxes are of course still quite a load, but starting up bigboxcollection.com should be a bit faster now.
Also squashed a couple of bugs along the way.
2024-06-18 RetroGamer Magazin: Thief - An Enduring Legacy RetroGamer Magazine takes a look at the enduring legacy of the Thief series which first appeared on our monitors back in 1999.
The article can be found in Load 260.
2024-06-16 Latest Pickups: SSI Adventures Came home from a short vacation with two more Big Boxes waiting on my door step: Al-Qadim had been on my wishlist forever and Thunderscape just had to be picked up due to having added Endomorph.
2024-06-06 Latest Pickups: R-Type and Ikari Warriors A couple of C64 games arrived today:
R-Type
Ikari Warriors
Death or Glory
2024-06-05 RetroGamer Magazin: Making of Star Trek 25th Anniversary Another fantastic article in RetroGamer magazine load 259: The Making of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary.
2024-06-04 Tetris revisited
Back in the day, I definitely preferred DuoTris, but at the same time, MirrorSoft's Tetris always had a special place in my heart. It was all I had while all the boys and girls around me played the superior GameBoy version, and boy, was I jealous.
Then again, there's Wally Beben's mind-blowing 20+ minutes tune and all is balanced again
Cut to 2024. I've just found out on CSDb that there's a remaster, err, remix, err, recoded version out there and it has just received an update!
Let's boot it up!
The update is not just some graphical tweaks, no, it's a full re-implementation of Tetris following how the game played on other Platforms at the time. Further, there's an optional shadow as well as music and sfx options.
It does play great, not as snappy as current versions of Tetris, but still. The addition of slow/hard drop is great and the sfx are a nice touch too.
My main complaint is that the original tune is only played on the title screen and can't be selected as background music thanks to technical limitations. Bummer.
Anyway, grab a copy of version 1.1b and give it a try!