Steam rakes in almost a billion in 2010

[Kageru]

I think a lot of older gamers remember the first time they bought a big retail box of air and a CD.

[Yegolev]

Floppies.

[Merusk]

What Rasix said. I am now in the stage of buying old games off Steam or GoG just so I can ditch my boxed copies.

I do the same, kinda. I don't plan to ditch my boxed copies, but when I make my next (and hopefully last) move into a much(!) bigger place I plan to have my boxes on a shelf, in the same way you have a bookshelf filled with books you've already read. Of course, most of those these days are DVD cases, since I ditched 95% of my big card boxes years ago.

I broke mine down and laid them flat in a box with this exact plan in mind. Somewhere in my storage unit is a 36x18x18 box filled entirely with old computer game boxes stored in this manner that I'm probably just going to throw out when we move.  It seems silly, now.

[WayAbvPar]

My friend and I used to judge games by the weight of the package- if it was hefty, it had a big ass manual and was more likely to be interesting.

[Koyasha]

My friend and I used to judge games by the weight of the package- if it was hefty, it had a big ass manual and was more likely to be interesting.

Hah, this is true, I used to do that too.  If I picked up the box and it was very light it kind of gave me the idea it might not be all that interesting cause it didn't require a 200 page manual to explain how to play.