Longbox Playstation Collection (once again!) COMPLETE!

[Goodwill Hunter]

After a few months of chasing some phantom longbox titles that appear on various and sundry lists floating around, I'm finally ready to declare my Longbox Playstation collection complete. I believe the following list has every U.S. Playstation game released in longbox format...102 total. If you've got something to add, you better have photographic proof to back it up with, because at this point I'm not believin' it until I'm seein' it!

U.S. Longbox Playstation Titles (102)

Agile Warrior F-IIIX
Air Combat
Alien Trilogy
Assault Rigs
A-Train
Bases Loaded '96
Battle Arena Toshinden
Battle Arena Toshinden 2
Brain Dead 13
Bust-a-Move 2: Arcade Edition
Chessmaster 3D
College Slam
Criticom
Cyber Sled
Cyberia
CyberSpeed
D
Darkstalkers
Defcon 5
Descent
Destruction Derby
Discworld
Doom
ESPN eXtreme Games
Extreme Pinball
Fade to Black
FIFA '96 Soccer
Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
Geom Cube
GEX
Goal Storm
Gunship
Hardball 5
Hi-Octane
In The Hunt
In the Zone
International Track & Field
Johnny Bazookatone
Jumping Flash
Jupiter Strike
Kileak: The DNA Imperative
King's Field
Krazy Ivan-ni
Lemmings 3D
Loaded
Magic Carpet
MLBPA Bottom of the 9th
MK3
NBA Jam T.E.
NBA Live 96
NBA Shoot Out
Need for Speed
NFL Gameday
NHL Face Off
Novastorm
Off-World Interceptor Extreme
Panzer General
PGA Tour 96
Philosoma
POed
Power Serve 3D Tennis
Primal Rage
Psychic Detective
Raiden Project
Rayman
Resident Evil
Return Fire
Revolution X
Ridge Racer
Rise 2 Resurrection
Road Rash
Romance of the 3 Kingdoms IV
Shell Shock
Shockwave Assault
Silverload
Skeleton Warriors
Slam N Jam '96
Space Griffon VF-9
Starblade Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter: The Movie
Striker '96
Tecmo World Golf
Tekken
Theme Park
Thunderstrike 2
Top Gun-Fire at Will!
Total Eclipse Turbo
Triple Play 97
Twisted Metal
V Tennis
Viewpoint
VR Soccer '96
Warhawk
Arcade's Greatest Hits-Williams
Wing Commander III
Wipeout
World Cup Golf: Professional Ed.
Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
X-Com UFO Defense
Zero Divide
Zoop


Here's a shot of all the games squeezed onto my gameroom floor:




And here's one of the box spines:




Pretty sure that this is the only part of my Playstation collection that's ever going to be completed...Dangerboy's record is very safe from me. Thanks to anyone out there who helped me pick up a longbox title over the last year!

Rich

[Drexel923]

Cool stuff...congrats.

[tholly]

wow...very nice collection.... a lot of time, $$ and effort went into that....pics were very impressive...congrats

[Ninja Blacksox]

I tear up a bit every time I see "Return Fire."

One of the greatest multi-player games E-V-E-R. No game has ever inspired as much actual violence amongst my group of friends as "Return Fire" did between 1996 and 1998.

So beautiful.

-A Boy

[Qixmaster]

an excellent collection. I can't even imagine the time spent on collecting specific long box games.

however....

looks like you are missing the long box version of space hulk. good luck finding that one.

-Josh

[-hellvin-]

That is quite amazing, awesome accomplishment. Congrats!

[tynstar]

Nice collection and great pics.

[Dahne]

Those look all sorts of awesome, all together like that.

Why the early switch from long boxes to jewel cases, anyway? Besides the obvious convenience factor.

[LiquidX01]

Thats good stuff.

Do you mind if I save your picture and use it for future reference? I would like to do that sometime when the extra funds kick in.

[Ed Oscuro]

Dayumn...I remember seeing Krazy Ivan demoed at some game store (a Funcoland?) about five years ago...seems like quite a while now!

[SoulBlazer]

I'm pretty sure the change from boxes to CD cases was due to price, stores being able to fit more of them into the same spot, and the longboxes not being the best format for 2 CD's.

Remember boxes are the first to go to save money. The first batch of Intellivison games had boxes that opened like books and a window for the game. Then they switched to the open at end style that has been used ever since. And INTV tried to get rid of boxes and instructions all together and just send games in ziplocks with a sheet of instrcutions, but customer complaints caused them to go back to boxes.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Wow!! That is sweeet!!!!!!!!!,,Congrats..


What would you say the hardest one...was to find..?

[digitalpress]

Nice job, Rich! Thanks for the pics, too.

[Querjek]

Holy crapcakes, that's great!

[kainemaxwell]

Nice job on the collection!

[Goodwill Hunter]

Thanks everyone, it was fun to put together, with the exception of the last few months of finding nothing but air on those phantom titles. Most titles I got for between .99 and 4.99 from a really cool Funco manager who would let me check out new longbox arrivals before putting them on the floor...sadly, he no longer works there . The last title I got was Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams...which of course showed up at a local gamestore a few days after the one from Ebay showed up. Probably my best find was a $10 BIN for a Psychic Detective that was mint and complete...never seen that one in the wild. I got about a dozen of these through Ebay, the rest through thrifting, rummaging, used game stores and trading.

Rich

P.S. If there's a longbox Space Hulk (not on any list I've seen so far) out there, show me a photo!

[captain nintendo]

Awesome collection and nice pics.

[rbudrick]

Are there games that have both plastic and cardboard long box versions? Also, are there any other kinds of longbox?

-Rob

[fahrvergnugen]

Very nice! I parted with my longbox games for $5 apiece recently, had no idea they were worth anything to collectors.

[Cauterize]

omg that is so awesome! i envy you.... which one is the rarest? and which one was the last one u needed?