The International House of Mojo

Silly man. Haven't you ever heard of the classic Boris Karloff flick, "The Mummy"? That's the movie you must be thinking of. Geez.

Wow. I didn't think it was possible to say so much without saying anything.

That's why Remi made a point of saying that *I* wrote the article... you should kind of expect that going in

I mean, that is why we love the classic elTee articles. ;

"Never in the field of videogame journalism was so much written about so
little by so few"

Yeah....*sigh* Kinda ironic thing is, my mom just called me to say she pulled all the "junk" (See: My old boxed Lucas games, of which I owned the Floppy Disk, and CDRom talkie versions of all their point and click games) I left in the closet at my parents house and gave it to some charity service thing. There was a long pause on the phone by me after this point then I just wiped away the tear and said "Oh....Ok....Well....I can download them....I guess thats cool....Not the same as the box...but you know....its ok...." Then I cried.

Gah, my mom had given my He-Man action figures away to somone when I asker her where they were when I was 10, and wanted to look at my old toys cause I had some nice memmories with them. :<

Haha did you have that short-arse one who had springs for legs? My friend had that one and he hated me for years after I pinged him out of the window and into next-doors back garden. What a shot!

i really can't believe anyone's mother could do this :o my mother knows how much i care for these boxes, but even if she didn't she would always ask me before throwing something out...

seems incredibly rude to just throw out your stuff

:~

There should be a helpline at the end of the article for people like you. :(

Let's set up a fund to buy those boxes back! Fuck Ron Gilbert and his car!

Your guys comments have only made me feel the pain of their loss even more....The thing I liked about my collection was, I didnt really buy any of them like, recently, they were all bought by me through saved allowences and birthday money from grandparents back when they were new. Well, the CD Rom versions came out after the games original release in a few cases, but I still bought em back when they were on the "NEW" shelf....

Hee, sorry, I meant to comfort you!

If it's any consolation simmilar things have happened to me. ;~

You may be able to recover them if your Mum knows who she gave the stuff to. I'm sure the charity would return them if you explained the situation for a couple of blankets and some cans of soup. But you should act fast.

Nah, I'm sure theyre gone, and to where? I have no idea. Probably some kid with dirty hands smudging up my manuals trying to figure out why his "new" Sam & Max game wont play on his Windows OS....

Lovely article elTee!

Nice article indeed :)

I've gone on some ebay adventures myself; spent some money there to build a nice collection of lucasarts games. It's not complete (and probably never will be) but I decided to halt my collection purchases however. Because it's expensive. The fact it's addictive makes it even more expensive. But the games I have got now, I'm taking good care of. They're shelved and not to be touched by dirty hands, etc :P Hmmm, im not sure why i started typing all this, guess I just recognize the collector you are in myself too.

Nice article indeed, except it ended a bit promptly, just when I thought it was going to hit off on its own subject.

Great article, elTee. Interesting parallels with the movie world and speculation on how the way games date so quickly might figure.

Though it was really only for nostalgic purposes that I kept my old LucasArts boxes stowed away from mother's tidying sprees, I have often wondered if they'd reach serious 'collectable' status someday.

Especially that kooky triangular Day Of The Tentacle box. Admittedly, it's now inevitably bashed up and creased all over, rather than in the pop culture collector nuts' preferred 'mint in shrinkwrap' condition.

Even if classic game packaging and merch does start fetching big bucks in my lifetime, I feel like selling them all would be (nerdily and tragically) a big 'maybe'. All the happy memories tied up with those boxes, code wheels, hint books, and other merchandise makes it tough to part with them for oh-so-crude money. These are indeed 'bloody good old games'.