Those were great! The only one I really remember is the Bards Tale for the
Atari ST. Awesome art, info. Ahhh, so much for progress....

Dan

>From: "Piringer, Frank" <Frank.Piringer--msnyuhealth.org>
>Reply-To: alternatereality-From-byock_-hotmail.com--alternaterealityarchive.com
>>Subject: Does anyone remember...
>Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:23:34 -0400
>
>...the big, flat, record-album like sleeves the old computer games used
>to come in? The Bards Tale series, The Seven Cities of Gold -- was it
>just EA games, or did Broderbund use them too? I used to love the big
>cover art and correspondingly oversized instruction manuals that used to
>come tucked in the sleeve on the front panel. They were more like
>narrations - they had an introduction, and were sometimes written as if
>from a character in the game, with incomplete lists and everything.
>
>I just bought a new game from Target this weekend, and sighed when I
>realized it was just a DVD case with a cardboard wraparound. The
>instruction manual looked like a folded brochure. They really don't
>make em like they used to.
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