Broderbund had those too.
I think my favorite package of all time though was
when I got Wishbringer. Infocom always had some great
stuff packaged with their games.

--- "Piringer, Frank" <Frank.Piringer--msnyuhealth.org>
wrote:

> ...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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