Sierra PC Game Collection - Remember these BIG Boxes?

Sierra On-Line was a massively popular game publisher in the 80s & 90s, which great games like King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, Gabriel Knight, and many more! I show some of the Big Box Sierra PC games in my collection.
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[@LGR]

Fantastic video right here, I'll never tire of seeing big box PC games being showed off. And I had no idea that voice-command edition of Aces of the Deep existed! Made a point to collect the rest of the Aces series, but I'll have to track that one down :D

[@ZANTYACS]

ily lgr

[@Powerhouse1]

You might be able to find it on one of your Thrifts if you look hard enough.

[@George_Azeria]

Red Barron Pizza Tokens still work, thanks for that Clint.

[@SebastianLinks]

Haha The red baron episode

[@kei_nishimaru]

Ok, Clint, I see you everywhere in comments of videos.

[@eckolwarlock]

Playing Caesar III for hours is one of my favorite gaming memories.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow was my favorite Sierra game! I finished it over and over! Great video, Metal Jesus! I love fridays :) Greetings from Portugal!

[@javidThoman]

Great game.

[@RinoaL]

5:44 that red barron pizza coupon is still valid. LGR used it in one of his videos to get 75c off a pizza haha

[@InnominatumNemo]

I miss Sierra Entertainment. The had some great game franchises, which would fill some holes, in the gaming spectrum, today.

[@ChadJessup]

Thank you for this video. It's a great reminder of how amazing Sierra was in its day. It's easy to forget that Valve and many other companies in the Seattle area wouldn't exist without Sierra's vision back then. Also, it and Lucasarts invented the humor in games that, while not in the forefront now, permeates video games to this day.

[@ryanjwebb]

I loved Sierra Online when I was a kid! Jones in the Fast Lane was one I loved after I had finished all the Quest series! And Dynamix was incredible as well! I'm so glad you mentioned those games! Great video!

[@MegaDrive20XX]

Wow this was one of the most insightful episodes I've ever watched! Thank you!!

[@BuckDat]

Man it's easy to forget how many Sierra published games I actually bought back in the day. Half Life, Homeworld, NOLF.... PC game boxes in the 90's kicked ass. Wish I still had all the Mechwarriors and I-76 as well.

[@Jakerocksteady]

Metal Jesus! I just found your website three days ago, curious to find just random collections to peer at while I was eating a sandwich, and fell in love with your videos. Great stuff, wonderful commentary that's perfectly paced and laid back to listen to, great collection too. This was my favorite time for gaming and sort of an "age of wonder" golden time for me. I was born in 83 so I was about 10 to 16 when I was playing these interesting PC games. I used to love Bullfrog's games (Syndicate Wars, Magic Carpet) along with Doom and Duke Nukem. When I got older, I discovered this great selection of FMV Sierra stuff (Beast Within, Phantasmagoria 2) and then got into the old point and click stuff. Brings back memories to see those monster-sized boxes. Keep up the great work, love your stuff! Thanks for letting me geek out real quick!

[@lennybrewster4673]

I'm a fellow old guy lost in the nostalgia of a more civilized age 👍

[@OSLP]

Oh my god, I loved the Sierra Games... and I still love 'em all to this day. My first Let's Play was about the glorious Quest for Glory/Hero's Quest. I stand firm by my opinion that LucasArts/LucasFilm Games and Sierra crafted the best adventure games back in those days. Damn, I envy your collection MetalJesus. You truly rock! Greetings from Germany, Osselpi

[@Aiijuin]

Leisure Suit Larry 1-6... Hands down some of the craziest, funniest series of games that Sierra made, which I've played back in the early 90s. Al and Ken always made an appearance in those games somewhere.

[@1337fraggzb00N]

Ken sent me

[@josemartin598]

I always appreciate your Sierra videos. I remember playing these games on old compact computers in the late 90s/early 2000s

[@GinSoakedBoy]

Nice video. I remember many of these very well. Gold Rush was actually one of my fave games back in the day, I played the two first Police Quest, the first King's Quest, Manhunter, and the first two Larry games. Great games.

[@techspecxify]

Oh man the nostalgia...the nostalgia.- what a feeling! My thoughts too...you cannot have what once was, you cannot replace original.

[@MurrayNJ08]

Great collection. Love collecting Sierra and PC Games.

[@carinafreeman6432]

This brought back so many memories. My first game was Gold Rush - I even completed it. Then the Leisure Suit Larry series. I don't have the boxes anymore, but I still have some of the games. Thanks so much for this video!

[@ReefGuzzler]

Awesome collection and video! Im a long time fan of sierra. Grew up on all these games!

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

I had a lot of these "big box game" boxes up until I moved a couple of years ago. Their imagery really helped you visualize the games and put you in the mood to buy them. I owned "Gold Rush!," "Codename: Iceman," "The Colonel's Bequest," "Rise of the Dragon," the King's Quest series, the Space Quest series and the Police Quest series. These are just the few I can remember. I probably owned about half of Sierra's entire catalogue of games.

[@BlitzvogelMobius]

That Breach 3 box looks fucking amazing! Such good art on those old big boxes.

[@denisemead1271]

Sierra was my absolute favorite gaming company in the 90s. Leisure Suit Larry was the first PC game that I bought for my very first PC. Thanks for these videos. A great walk down memory lane.

[@retrohoodie]

thank you for letting me go back in time, I remember each game... nice collection

[@prophismusic]

This was one of my favorite MJR videos , hands down. i always love to see classic pc games. thanks for doing what you do every week brother! the (first) sierra age, such a unique time for gaming development.. so nostalgic. roots man. roots.

[@StephenBrown919]

King's Quest... I have so many good memories of those games. Space Quest too.

[@SidBarnhoorn]

Absolutely love the Space Quest series! Glad to have the boxed version of them. 😊

[@MerlinMAVK]

Really enjoyed watching this. I had virtually every one of these myself once upon a time. Only a few still here with me.

[@88DreadGT]

I remember playing the Leisure Suit Larry games at my friend's house in the late 80's and early 90's. In 2000 I got the LSL Ultimate Pleasure Pack and got to finally play LSL 6: the Talkie and LSL 7 Love for Sail. Awesome games. Never played any of the Space Quests but my friend had them all and I remember the music being pretty cool. Nice video!

[@NightingaleSong]

Great video. Space quest was my jam in the 90s.

[@foo2913]

Awesome shirt! One of my favorite box arts of all time.

[@EPICAP1]

The artwork looks beautiful

[@Movieman1885]

Great video dude! I scored a shrink-wrapped copy of SQ4CD and SQ3 with the snout and visor off ebay a few years ago, prized possessions indeed! I loved all the goodies the games would come with...the holy grail of my collection though...SQ1EGA with misprinted box! Only 15 bucks from Germany! Some people have no idea what their selling! lol I know you get this a lot but thanks for all the awesome work you did at Sierra! Chainsaw Monday will always be a black day in the history of gaming. Thank God for Kickstarter!

[@bf1255]

Man, I played a lot of those games growing up. I totally tossed them along with the Packard Bell circa 2000. Thanks man, great memories.

[@flcobra]

You rock Metal Jesus!! Thx for all the badass content man....

[@dtimm612]

Besides Oregon Trail and number crunchers in school, first real PC game I played was Space Quest 3, blew me away. Been a Sierra fan ever since, thanks for the video, love the boxes. Favorites are SQ3 & 4, KQ6, LSL7, and all the little gems like Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

[@browsertab]

Love it! More people need to know the huge contribution Sierra made to gaming and technology! Graphic adventures, PC gaming, soundcards, CD-ROM, SVGA, FMV, online gaming, hint books, magazines, the idea of game designers as auteurs - Sierra was a pioneer!

[@dosnostalgic]

Oh, man. If it's not all of your Sierra collection, I'd love to see the rest! Thumbs up.

[@incrediblyStupid678]

Homeworld

[@todd12278]

oh wow! Talk about a trip down memory lane! I still have all of my old Sierra games. As a matter of fact I was just telling my 11 year old about Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmasist. Great Video!

[@sebastienrossignol6373]

I have so many great gaming memories with sierra games! One of my favorite series is the Gabriel Knight series. I especially loved the FMV one: The Beast Within. So much fun.

[@eldude-iv8dw]

Space Quest! I had a random thought about games I played as kid, this helped me figure out what it was I played. Thanks!

[@brillopad6901]

Very cool collection!

[@omerpa]

I love those big boxes, I have a ton of Sierra box games, it's my #1 collection

[@emilianovillani]

Awesome games , great graphic adventures at that time , i'm still playing some of them and the experience is still great.

[@RyonMugen]

I didnt know you worked for Sierra!! Dude your even more awesome in my book!

[@warrengonline]

THANK YOU METALJESUS!!!!!! Japanese Thexder! I've been looking for THAT VERSION and THAT box since the 80's. No one ever knew what I was talking about. The box is awesome and the game looks awesome and hard as all get out! For that, thank you and.... I forgive you for not showcasing Creep Night or mentioning 3DO. ;). Thanks man.

[@nakedfunk]

Homeworld - one of the best games I ever played. And oh....Police Quest I on my Amiga...wow...such simple graphics, but so much joy.

[@MilenioOscuroComics]

Awesome video, great memories, i absolutely love Quest for Glory 1!

[@Locomamonk]

a lot of classics featured in this video, that was really fun to watch

[@CooperMcKay]

awesome video! I grew up playing Sierra games. I'm especially fond of the space quest series, I found Space Quest 1 and 5 in bargain bins when I was a kid. I'd like to collect more Sierra big boxes, I mostly have the collections series not the individual boxes.

[@IFailFirst]

Thexder was my first introduction to Classical music. I remember Moonlight Sonata was the theme song. Played that sucker on a Commodore PC 10-2 IBM clone with CGA graphics, 640k of memory, and an Adlib soundcard. That 8088 processor screamed along at 4.77 MHz. I remember the poster that came with Thexder, and had it hanging on my wall. Thank you, +MetalJesusRocks, for that memory!

[@msuli80]

Yep these games were a big part of my teenage years, used to get the hint books with the revealer pen too!

[@hajimethefool]

I've never really played PC games when I was young, but the few ones left a mark in my heart. Torin's Passage, Hype The Time Quest and Warzone 2100, such memories

[@Vulture2264]

I sent this video to two of my older brothers who played a lot of these games back in the 80's and 90's they loved the nostalgia.

[@Konsker]

love some of sierra's classic games

[@scoebot5453]

Oh the memories of the quest games (King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Freddy Pharkas). I remember being in my teens, and going to visit my brother who was 10 years older. We would drink, and play those games all the time. My sister-in-law would come down around 4 in the morning, yelling at him to go to bed. Then they would get up the next morning, and I'd still be playing. I would also mention to them, how they might have some phone charges from calling the Sierra Help Line. I swear I spent some weekends at his place, and only got about 3 hrs total sleep.

[@sierrakobold6896]

Awesome video, and the fact you had worked for Sierra made me even more intrigued. I love to find as many retrospective videos of the original Sierra game boxes because being born in '88 I was introduced to Sierra by a friend with older brothers who grew up with sierra and therefore he exposed me to QFG and SQ as a kid but I did not buy the games till the latter part of the 90's, which was kind of the last chance to get the final Sierra game series collection releases and never had the original individual games. When the vga SC1 games, both original and remakes were released and they had also EGA versions of those games, like SQ4 and KQ5 etc., where the EGA versions separate products or just extra floppies included in the typical and more common VGA releases? didn't know if you were able to answer that

[@rocksteady31]

Great stuff MJR! I played Phantasmagoria when I was too young lol but it was awesome!

[@DosGamerMan]

Nice collection! Wish I had had the cash earlier in life to collect big box games.

[@Saint_Cuthbert]

Wow, I completely forgot about Shivers! Loved that game back in the day!

[@philippelafortune2873]

Great video.. enjoyed watching every second of it! - I really loved those Big box PC games with all of its great content. I miss those in today's games. Not from Sierra but my most cherished CIB big (huge) embossed box PC game in my collection got to be "Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor Collector's Edition, Forgotten Realms D&D role-playing game released in 2001 by Ubisoft. This was a limited edition of 40,000 copies. The game came on 2 CD-ROM jewel case, with its copy of the Pool of Radiance Novel book, an original D&D pen and paper table-top module, the Original Game Soundtrack Audio CD (w/33 audio tracks), and a PoR bag filled with 7 polyhedral dice and the PoR Poster Map and very nice game manual with D&D tables. Hmm, I wonder how much it is worth today?

[@MrNiceguy3210]

I loved Sierra games. I remember looking at the back of the boxes and seeing the picture ads that would come up while installing the games that would make you want to buy another one. I remember wanting to get No One Lives Forever XD.

[@InstAg80r]

Thexder, space quest, and A-10! So many good memories with those!

[@valecrassus7835]

The Sierra adventure games were my introduction to the world of PC gaming, mostly the Space Quest games. Once I started playing games on the PC, I didn't bother with platforms again. Sort of a dual edged sword--I almost entirely missed out on the game systems of the 90s. Seriously, I rarely touched the SNES or Genesis...I think I watched someone play an N64 a few times...and I don't think I've ever personally laid eyes on a Saturn or a Dreamcast. It's been nice remembering some of the less known games I could not for the life of me remember the title of until finding your channel (Hunter Hunted and Rise of the Dragon, in particular). My main regrets these days are not having many of these titles and the appropriate OS/hardware to run them. From what little experience I've had, it can be challenging or impossible to run games from the early 2ks, let alone the 90s and before, on modern PCs running Windows 10.

[@CircuitsandCoffee]

Great video! LOVE those big boxes :)

[@shreknet]

Wow that Gabriel Knight box brings back memories. Gold!

[@Thephotondust]

You can really appreciate the box art of the older games. Especially those drawn by artist. Interesting

[@javidThoman]

I appreciate your Sierra content. Very cool that you worked for them. I can understand it's not the same as it was then. Nothing ever is.

[@lennybrewster4673]

I miss those big box games. Dig the shirt too. Super underrated game!

[@AdriftForWeeks]

Oh my god I'm so jealous! Big box collecting is the most fun thing ever!

[@corgibuttz2550]

Really enjoyed the list. Growing up my dad had many of those odd ball games, and I loved to sit and watch him play them. Gold Rush, Man Hunter, Quest for Glory (my favorite), Heart of China, Willy Beamish, Thexder, Larry. I really hope your video sparks some interest in the younger generation to return to the 80s and try some of these old games :)

[@ultimategamingrealm]

Very awesome my friend! Sierra is one company that makes the best games period!

[@TheLancelot7979]

I think that Sierra coming back again is an epic event since I cannot wait to see and play these game IPs once again in a fresh perspective. I still have a lot of these old Big Box PC games and disks etc.

[@theseob]

Loved golg rush. Great game collection. Lots of great memories.

[@bayareadrifter415]

Sierra was EPIC. Brought back so many memories!!!!!!!!!

[@HoorayTV21]

Love big box pc AND mac games which are way harder to find. Got a copy of Space Quest 3 with the embossed cover a few months back. Good stuff!

[@josh212121]

Just starting to collect some big box PC games, ones I used to have as a kid but.... sold off. argh soo soo dumb. But it's really good to collect for and they just are awesome to look at!!! :) Really cool video would love some more PC BIG BOX videos in the future.

[@Caridani23]

Growing up in the 90's and looking at the pc games sections on eb games and gamestop and even walmart was so impressing that I would had wish I had a pc back then to enjoyed them but my parents couldn't afford one. But at friends house and playing them was awesome experience!

[@mellul1701]

Great vid, I had completely forgotten that some of these titles were also published by Sierra.

[@zman1508]

I got a copy of tribes 2 from my IPT and Metalworking teacher a few years back. Along with a metric ton of older PC games. Apparently the previous teacher had bought a bunch of big box PC games for some reason. They were never used and sat unopened for years until my teacher started giving them away to students who aced a test etc. I love big box PC games and I wish I had more of them.

[@JaredConnell]

So many memories! I used to love all the Sierra games. When I was young I used to play Willy beamish all the time on Sega CD, it was definitely one of my favorite games of all time

[@n-o-i-d]

Viper Racing!!! That's my childhood right there. I loved the damage model, it was so fun and revolutionary at the time :)

[@gtitus76]

My top favorites were all shown on here. Leisure suit Larry, Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, and the Caesar games.

[@altrogeruvah]

I had a couple of these too, as well as Betrayal In Krondor / Betrayal In Antara, great RPGs! I love Sierra!

[@handznet]

Great vid Jesus. Love the bigboxes. Have King Quest 6 brand new here from recent thrifting. Sadly its hard to find those here now.

[@OverlordZephyros]

HOMEWORLD!!! ... I still have the GOTY edition box and disc ... my childhood right there

[@78vinyl97]

I loved ground control.had lots of fun playing it

[@Imperium83]

Robert E Lee: Civil War General, yessss! It seriously got my nerdy butt into gaming. Parent's picked it up at a garage sale for me when I was eleven for $3 knowing how much I enjoyed history. Such an awesome strategy game that got me hooked into strategy games. Still play it to this day. :)

[@DanieruShidebuteru]

I collect big box computer games too! I basically just hunt the local auction site for old games though lately I have been buying through Ebay after arranging forwarding service to ship to my country. I think one of my fondest memory of hunting and finding interesting old games was when I bought a complete in box expansion to Diable called Hellfire because as much as I am into the Diablo series, I honestly never heard about an expansion for the first game! To tie it into this video of yours about Sierra PC games collection, that expansion oddly was not released by Blizzard but it was developed and released by a division of Sierra (It has a logo of Sierra in the bottom). It's quite rare to find nowadays but I don't know if it's worth a lot of money. But when I found it, I was so happy because I never heard about it and it was dirt cheap! 10 bucks or something.

[@wnslw84]

Cool video and collection! Just like you I threw away all the boxes while moving. Still have the games and the manuals, but I am trying to get back as much boxes as possible. It hurts going to a retro convention and seeing all these boxed games and remembering I used to own most of them as well :P Nowadays I'm trying to collect mainly FMV games like Tex Murhpy, Black Dahlia, Ripper, X-Files, Spy Game etc. The games weren't that good when they came out but there's just something about em..

[@jexthegamer]

This was such a cool video!

[@posey9573]

So many radical games. I've never been able to get into PC gaming but I love hearing about retro PC games. The boxes and manuals are always so interesting; old console boxes don't have the same appeal.

[@VirtualRobotsRevolt]

big box pc games are awesome. I wish i kept mine from back in the day. Thankfully got a couple now these days. Tomb Raider last revelation and Ultima 9 both CIB. Got em at goodwill for a couple bucks each :-)

[@sasshole8121]

I love how the Phantasmagoria box still has the shrink wrap even thought it has obviously been opened and the box itself isn't in the best of conditions.

[@lucidloon]

Wow, I have never seen a boxed copy of GK1. It's glorious!

[@dragonsneedtobereal]

Space quest was funny?! I was terrified of it when I was a little kid messing around on my grandparents' Tandy. Great video and so cool you were a part of a really unique and awesome era of video game history.

[@TurninTrackOut]

Dude. I've been trying to remember the name of the game Tribes for YEARS. I used to play the shit out of that game with my best friend growing up. I remember loving it so much. I have to go watch some game footage.

[@JesseH76]

Funny you make this now. I've been feeling very nostalgic for Sierra games lately, been watching The Space Quest Historian play through and he does a lot more on his channel, you should check it out.

[@AdoptedMike]

Thanks for the video. Brings back a lot of memories. :) I wish I would have saved my big Sierra boxes.

[@user-eg2jk6ne7q]

Awesome Daggerfall shirt! Also Lords of Magic was my jam when I was a kid.

[@Darkovika]

My brother one day surprised me with No One Lives Forever. I couldn't believe how awesome it was- I was obsessed with it. Whenever I got stuck, I just started over. I knew the beginning by heart XD