New Release: PC Accelerator Issue 2 (October 1998)

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PC Accelerator Issue 2

October 1998

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Thank you to chiavelli for donating this issue!

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"Deer Hunter sold more than a million copies, and everyone knows the game stinks. So the conventional wisdom is that orange sells games. Look for plenty of orange boxes coming to a store near you."

Prescient.

[kitsunebi]

Le sigh...the quote actually just makes me remember when PC games actually came in boxes, often with cool stuff like giant manuals, maps or strategy guides. Kind of hard to still be mad at Wal-Mart and Deer Hunter when there are other things to be upset about.

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I just thought it was especially funny in hindsight, given that "The Orange Box" was one of the most popular retail game boxes of all time and certainly one of the best.

[kitsunebi]

What's especially odd about that is that although I'd never seen or heard of "the orange box" (2007 is after I stopped paying attention to new releases), I kind of guessed it had something to do with Half Life before Googling it.. Weird.

Yeah, in case I haven't made it clear before, I'm not a gamer who also likes retro games...I'm a retro gamer who doesn't know jack about current games. Outside of the odd PC graphic adventure, I probably haven't played any games newer than 2005 or so...

Edited March 18, 2016 by kitsunebi77

[Areala]

Hello, Lara! What are YOU doing here...?

*huggles*

Areala