It's October!
and time for another selection of wondrous items I've received through the post.
So let's dive in, first up a little package containing a Lemmings: The Tribes CD by SFX.
Nice!
This CD has the 7" Lemmings mix, Bebop extended, Hamster Jam and I Think You'd Better Do What
He Says tracks.
Let's pop it on.
Less well known than the Super Mario Land and Tetris releases, these tracks are by the
guys who worked with KLF and although released in 1993 to promote Lemmings: The Tribes, it
pretty much went by un-noticed.
Shame.
Thank you to David Blackman for sending that in.
Alright, next a package direct from Amazon, and a note from Joseph.
"I couldn't resist having maple syrup we discussed on discord mailed out to you.
By the time you get this a copy of IBM DOS should be on it's way hopefully.
From Joe / Garoninja".
Heh, this is from a chat we had in my Patreon discord room.
So inside we find out that although many wouldn't, Buck certainly Would.
Awesome stuff, thanks Joe, I shall enjoy slopping this over every dish I have for the next week
or so.
Nice bottle as well, better than the cheap stuff I usually buy.
Another small bubble wrap envelope.
This time containing two little floppy disk cases, which I completely and utterly remember
having myself.
These are from a PD distributor I used back in the day, and you had these little individual
cases with different artwork depending on the category.
These disks both contain WAV files, so they have the Music label.
Yup there we go, Public Domain Nationwide.
So much nostalgia in these disks.
These were from Edward Hale I believe, so thanks very much!
Next up is an incredibly light box, sent over by air-mail.
I'd considered it was just an empty box, but no, this is actually a DreamBlaster S2, sent
by Serge Defever (apologies if I don't pronounce your name correctly there).
This little beauty can connect to an FM Synthesis soundcard and essentially convert it to some
high class wavetable sound.
I'll definitely be doing a proper video about this in the near future.
Thanks Serge.
So, another small box, and immediately I know what this is.
Look!
It's a tiny Starfox 2 for the Super Nintendo Classic Mini, in it's own box and everything,
it's even got an inner sleeve.
This was sent to me by twitter user @Make_Me_A, and of course it's not a real cartridge.
It's actually a 3D printed fake cartridge that you can pull apart and plonk on top of
your SNES Classic.
Look at it!
It's so cute.
There's no real point to it other than the aesthetic, but I find it highly pleasing.
It's actually a lot more solid than I'd imagined as-well for a 3D printed item, wasn't expecting
that.
Be sure to follow this outstanding fellow on Twitter for future 3D printed wonders.
Now we move onto the slightly larger boxes, and my oh my, this looks filled with wonder.
Not only if there a freakin' Sinclair Flat Screen Pocket TV which is making me moister
than the Titanic, but there's one of the 1980s Polaroid cameras.
Let's have a look at the TV first.
I've never seen one of these boxed, especially in this condition.
Wowww.
Inside we've got a manual giving us some essential operating guidelines, and the original sales
receipt.
Arena Electronics, sold on the 6th April 1985 at a cost of £104.95.
Roughly £300 in today's money.
The TV itself is stowed in this felt bag, and oh yes, look at this wondrous piece of
Sinclair innovation.
On the back is the battery compartment, it's actually a flat lithium 6V Power Pack.
You don't often see these nowdays, it just slots in there and probably gave minutes of
power back when it was new.
Of course, at the moment there is no charge, and there probably never will be.
But you can power it from the mains, so stay tuned and we'll take a closer look at this
in the near future.
The Polaroid camera is almost identical to a model my cousin had in the 80s, and it's
even got some power, although it'll need some new Polaroid photo paper to print on.
I'd forgotten how bulky these things were, but again, this is worthy of it's own video
at the very least.
Thank you very much to Peter Barker for those items, they're very much appreciated.
So last, but by no means least, is this mammoth sized both, and if I can get it open, you
can see it contains wonder upon wonder of nostalgic excitement.
There's really no other way to approach this than by running through each item, most of
which are Amiga games, but there's some PC titles in here as well.
First Caesar Deluxe, with it's deluxe manual and double density disk.
It still staggers me that most games fitted in 880KB, in the Amiga's case at least.
Pinball Fantasies for the A1200 next, followed by, Civilization, King's Quest I (Quest for
the Crown), Wonderland with its sublime box art, The Destiny Knight Clue Book for the
Bard's Tale II, which is really everything I want from a book.
Quartz and Mega Traveller 1, International Championship Athletics, Cadaver (a brilliant
isometric Bitmap Brothers title), F-16 Combat Pilot, The classic that is Speedball...
What's this?
Knightmare!
What a beauty.
I've been meaning to play this for a while now.
The Monsters, PowerMonger by the favourable Bullfrog Productions, Archipelagos, The Wheels
of Fire compilation containing some of my favourite driving games, Star Trek 2th Anniversary
(which I'll definitely be playing), A somewhat flattened Gold of the Realm, One of my favourite
games of all time; Railroad Tycoon (the disks and manual are here aswell), International
Karate+, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fusion, The Bards Tale II (to go with the clue book).
Turbo Cad for Windows.
9 times out of 10, I often get more excited about applications like this than actual games.
It just feels so damn productive and creative.
Then we have Pagan Ultima 8, which is actually for PC.
Check out those specifications.
Fields of Glory, again for PC.
Then this, the Complete Universal Military Simulator.
This looks like it could take a lifetime to learn alone.
Which is great.
You can't beat deep software like this.
I mean, check out the box.
Pinball Dreams, Conflicts in Civilization for Civ 2, a Sound Blaster 32 manual which
is essentially night time reading for me, along with some other CDs.
Then there's this sealed copy of the Bitmap Brothers Compilation for PC, which is amazing,
but leaves me tormented as to break the seal or not!
Prince of Persia 3D with a 3DFX sticker on the box for added elation..
"It's good to be the Prince".
Civ, Call to Power.
Colonization, again for the PC, before we're thrown back to the Amiga classic, Loom, which
is terribly exciting.
Then we have various other CDs, manuals, things.
A Matrox Mystique manual which intensifies my excitement further.
A 586 motherboard manual.
I mean, this is all stuff directly from the era of PC gaming I love the most.
Any of this could have been mine back in the 90s, even this Know How CD-ROM, which I definitely
had at one point.
I can feel the nostalgia just looking at it.
More disks, some loose, some boxed, all amazing.
Followed by Evolution from the Discovery Channel.
The COSMI Forms Maker & Filler which looks compelling - to my eye at least, and then
another box of CDs, including this Special Edition 4 Pack of Gremlin games which I owned
myself.
I think I picked it up for a tenner at Woolworths, and I played all these games to death.
There's also some sealed Microsoft titles, such as Microsoft Golf, and jut to confirm
this is my era, a copy of Star Trek TNG, A Final Unity.
I really need to get back to completing that.
I could go through all these other items individually, but we'll be here all night, so I'll just
stack them up here and say a massive thank you to Colin Smith for sending it to me, I
am blown away by your generosity.
In fact, I'm blown away by the generosity of everyone who has sent things in this month,
and you can be sure that there will be many videos made from your wares.
That's all for this month's collection, so hopefully we can do this again in November.
Until next time, thanks for watching, and have a great evening!