IF50 Ultimate Collector Bonus Box

For the “50 Years of Text Games” Ultimate Collector’s Edition, a premium pledge level for backers of the crowdfunding campaign, a box of special items was produced. Early computer games often came with “feelies,” bonus goodies from enchanted rocks to replica coins to secret decoder wheels, to draw players into their world (and sometimes, for copy protection). The box includes feelies that lent a tactile connection to an earlier age of digital gaming history.

Contents of the box include:

• a genuine piece of vintage paper punch tape from the 1970s
• A replica cassette tape of one of the earliest computer games released for home computers
• A floppy disk containing the contents of “50 Years of Text Games” and a bonus, original text adventure
• A hint book for the games included, plus a secret decoder wand

Many more details on the box contents are available here!

The box itself is a reusable display box, made from sturdy reinforced cardboard 8.5″ x 5.5″ x 2″ with a magnetic clasp and green pull tab, with an interior/exterior design featuring strings of text from classic interactive fiction games, printed in a gloss UV layer such that they catch the light in a cool way.

*** These are the last remaining boxes produced for the campaign! There are no plans to produce new runs of any of these items. ***