 (1) Game Tape, (2) LensLok, (3) Space Traders Flight Training Manual, (4) 'The Dark Wheel' novella, (5) Ship Identification Chart, (6) Control Guide. |
ELITE 'Gold Edition' (UK ZX
Spectrum 48K) Not, perhaps, a limited edition - I don't remember the Spectrum version being available in any other form - but and exceptional piece of history all the same. This conversion of David Braben and Ian Bell's seminal space trading game is so old it even bears BT's old logo. Included along with the game are the Space Traders Flight Training Manual, a Ship Identification Chart, the novella 'The Dark Wheel', a control guide and the infamous LensLok. This version dates back to 1985. Bought from: The Notting Hill Games Exchange (40p!) |
 (1) Game CDs, (2) Music CD, (3) Making Of CD (4) Printed cloth map (5) Leatherette manual. |
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Complete (US PS) My latest, but probably not last, PlayStation purchase. I bought this essentially to complete my Lunar games collection, having already got Lunar 2: Eternal Blue and Magical School Lunar for the Saturn. What prompted me to buy it now, rather than later, was Working Designs' announcement that they were deleting the game as of 31st December 1999. The beautifully printed package contains 2 discs of Lunar, a music CD, a 'Making Of' CD, a printed cloth map, and a leatherette manual/artbook, which features interviews with some of the people behind the game, and a section of the official walkthrough. Bought from: National Console Support, Inc. |
 (1) Game CDs & Making Of CD, (2) Music CD (3) Leatherette manual/artbook. Omake Box containing: (4) 'Parchment' map, (5) Character mini-standees, (6) Lucia's Pendant. |
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Complete (US PS) Another brilliant package from the amazine folks at Working Designs. As soon as I learned about this boxed set, I had to get it. Even better than Lunar:SSS Complete, this set contains 3 discs of Lunar 2 and the 'Making Of' CD, a soundtrack CD in a separate slipcase (marked as having a second, demo CD from another package, but it's not present), another leatherette manual/artbook, and a funky 'Omake Box' containing the parchment effect map, miniture character standees and a full size replica of Lucia's pendant in a fabric pouch. Bought from: TheRage |
 (1) Game CDs, (2) Metal Gear Soundtrack CD, (3) Metallic Stickers, (4) Tip Cards, (5) Dogtags (6) Artwork Booklet. |
Metal Gear Solid Premium Package
(Japanese PS) You may well be asking "why buy these PlayStation games if you've got a Saturn? Are you some kind of moron?". Since you put it so nicely, I'll explain... I didn't buy the game, as such, I bought a limited edition package featuring the game. In this mighty silver box (cardboard), came a T-shirt, a serial-numbered FoxHound dogtag, a set of translated tip-cards (possibly English and Chinese - and Konami reckoned that they didn't want this exported. Pah!), a sheet of 'metallic' memory card stickers, a huge artwork booklet, a Metal Gear soundtrack CD (featuring bangin' choons from MG and MG2:SS, along with the main theme of MGS and a couple of tracks from Policenauts), 2 discs of Metal Gear Solid (in Japanese) and a demo CD of another game. At the time I discovered this, it was $90 (approximately £60), and the suggestion was that the European release would not be accompanied by a similar limited edition. Closer to the release date, they changed their minds, and prepared another, which sold for about...er... £60... It was dull by comparison, though, and I couldn't be bothered to buy one. Now they can't give 'em away. Bought from: TheRage |
 (1) Game CDs, (2) Artwork Booklet. |
Policenauts Boxed Set (Japanese) By comparison to the MGSPP, this is pretty minimalist: just the game and a small, hardbound artwork book in a plastic slipcase. Thing is, it's such an awesome game, and such a beautiful and comprehensive artwork book that it couldn't be much better. Add in the stickers (why are there always stickers?!) for your memory card and your Virtua Gun (find a black gun for best effect), and you've got one of the most simple, yet perfect, limited editions ever. A bargain at $75. I now also have the PSX version, bought from Computer Exchange for £24. Another bargain. Bought from: Superfami.com |
 (1) Game CDs, (2) Game World Map/Poster, (3) Stickers, (4) Mouse Mat (Type B), (5) Mouse. |
Sakura Wars Boxed Set (Japanese) This is a pretty cool puppy. Along with the game, you get a white Saturn Mouse and a mousemat. Going by a sticker on the box, there are at least two designs of mousemat, and I've got type B. Again, stickers feature, along with a world map/characters poster in this groovy little package. Certainly worth the £79.95 pricetag. Bought from: Otaku Publishing |
 (1) Soundtrack CD, (2) Game CD, (3) Comemorative 'Gold' Coin, (4) History Booklet, (5) the box. |
Sonic Adventure 2/10th
Birthday Pack Very, very cute. Crazy packaging, containing Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast, a Sonic music CD featuring tunes from all the games, from the oldest to the newest, a little History booklet, written in Japanese and (very bad) English, and a Gold Coin (which isn't really gold, unfortuantely). Bought from National Console Support, Inc. |
 (1) Artbook, (2) 3D pop-up poster, (3) Game CD. |
Cyberbots
Sega Saturn Boxed Set Quite an awesome alterntative to the basic game CD, I found this by chance, and couldn't resist. While the game is a strange cross between Capcom's own Street Fighter franchise and Sega's Virtual On (though it's technically a kind of sequel to Capcom's 1994 side-scrolling fighting game Armored Warriors), I'm a huge fan of the robot designs, and their interchangeable parts. The poster is quite an oddity - both physically three dimensional, and with a forced perspective to enhance the effect, it depicts a battle between ZeroGouki and Devillot's octopod machine. ZeroGouki seems to be the main focus of the artbook, too, featuring on the cover, and prominent throughout. Bought from: The Notting Hill Games Exchange (40p!) |
