Random_Taffer on 26/5/2017 at 12:12
Quote Posted by taffersshadow
I would love to own an original box set as well. Unfortunately, when I was 12, I wasn't "allowed" to have mature rated games - and a game with the title "Thief: The Dark Project" definitely wouldn't have flown with my parents if they knew.
I vividly remember buying the games in the electronics section of a store, running to the store's bathroom and chucking everything but the disks themselves. Much easier to hide from my parents.
Time flies - that was 19 years ago now...
Hehe. You're in good company. I never quite had to to that, but I did have to hide my violent video games from my mom as a kid. I remember the look of horror on her face when she caught me chainsawing enemies in Doom.
A few years later she became less strict as I was a good kid and was going to play them whether she liked it or not at friends houses or what have you.
She never had too much of a problem with Thief, though.
taffersshadow on 26/5/2017 at 19:32
I was allowed violent games after a certain age too. Context was important for my parents. I think it was the idea of a game where you were a "thief" (the bad guy) that wouldn't have appealed to them. Can't recall my exact reasoning at the time. I do remember taking a sharpie to the disk to remove "The Dark Project". It may have been that the title made the game sound slightly occult themed? For them, Doom was fine as you were killing demons. Dark Forces was fine - stormtroopers (helmeted soulless drones). Wolfenstein - nazis. Soldier of Fortune - terrorists.
However, for some reason, any game with swear words wasn't okay - but blood and gore? That's fine - so long as they didn't swear when you were mowing them down. Headphones solved this problem.
Anyway, I've come across thief in jewel cases quite a few times in various thrift stores over the years, but never in the original boxes. I've long since stowed all my game boxes away, but I'd definitely display a thief box with pride if ever I owned one. I even get nostalgic about thief just seeing my triangle tomb raider boxes...
TannisRoot on 27/5/2017 at 01:55
My parents were also against me playing M rated games as a young lad. Thief never bothered them, but interestingly Day of Defeat got them in a tizzy because it was a "war simulator".
I used to cut up my pc game box art and paste / tape them in binders along with the manuals....kind of wish I hadn't done that. Made sense at the time?
By the way, that's a sick poster Corsair!
john9818a on 31/5/2017 at 16:11
I had all of my game boxes including Thief Gold and Thief II but one day I threw all of them out to get rid of the clutter. :(
When I first started playing PC games there were no M rated games. The only violent events were being shot at by stick-man enemy airplanes in Flights Simulator 2 and being caught by a witch in King's Quest.
Phantom on 5/6/2017 at 23:09
Quote Posted by User 205
Off the topic: What is actually the special thing about Thief: Deadly shadows premier collection? I own that version since two years ago and still know what differentiates it from the normal version.
No difference in the game, only the packaging. The premier collection came out later as a value product at a lower price. This was before the days of Steam sales and Humble bundles, publishers would redo the packaging at a smaller size or at a lower cost to save money when discounting the games.
Constance on 2/11/2017 at 08:12
Quote Posted by Brethren
Alright, since we're showing off a bit:
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Love the prices.
Well, I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not… but just in case that might help, Lazy Game Reviews recently made a video tutorial on how to remove most of such annoyances from game boxes : (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2if5bcEoQV8) here.
Tarhiel on 5/6/2020 at 22:30
Hiya everybody,
Is there somebody amongst you, who would be willing to sell Thief II trapezoid box edition, ideally unopened (not a condition)?
Any help finding it would be appreciated.
Thank you.
PinkDot on 6/6/2020 at 08:51
I read this thread and I could not believe. Guys - it's only a shape of the box!!! Come on - save your bucks for something more valuable in your life. It's not like you're going to get a brand new experience - you all know the stuff very well. It's just a shape of the box...
