Dat box art

[Tijn]

#277

Ok, most of you have probably never seen the Grand Prix Circuit box art (wink wink, nudge nudge, haha), so check this out.

Isn’t that something 😀 So 80s, haha. Great stuff.

[rnlf]

#284

It’s totally 80s! Not only the stylish sunglasses, also that the box art doesn’t look like the actual game at all, not even remotely. Perfectly 80s 🙂

I see now that the game also has Hercules Monochrome graphics support. That would be a fun thing to try 😀

[Tijn]

#286

It also offers the same 3.5″ disk ‘upgrade’ for $5. Seems to be a thing Accolade offers more often?

[rnlf]

#287

My copy of TD2 has the same at least. It’s probably something that happened during the time when machines from an original PC to things like fast PS/2s without 5.25″ floppy drives were used at the same time. I wonder why they didn’t make separate boxes for 5.25 and 3.5″ floppies though.

[Tijn]

#288

Yeah, I don’t know. But I do remember all computers still had 5.25″ disk drives all the way into the 90s, at least the ones I had access to. So I suppose shipping a game on 5.25″ was fine for everyone?

[rnlf]

#289

My first computer didn’t have one. And it was an AT “clone” with a 286 CPU. But on the other hand, there were 486 machines with it. Such weird times 🙂