Opening Lots of Retro Tech Oddities & LGR Mail! March 2024



The first (and only?) LGR donations unboxing episode of 2024! Opening up a nice big selection of vintage hardware, software, oddware, computer games, and retro tech. Massive thank you to everyone who contributed this lovely stuff, it is all appreciated!

ā— LGR links:
https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews
https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews

ā— Links to various items and projects shown in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/@MusicDetectivesShow
https://powerpcme.bandcamp.com
https://www.shannonprints.com
http://pcmidi.eu/orpheus2LT.html
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheTreeRatSymposium
https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/in-space
https://www.zer0rei.com/store
https://treecer.com/en/store/product/zoo-tycoon-the-board-game-deluxe

ā— All background music licensed from:
https://www.epidemicsound.com

00:00 LGR Mailbag video begins
00:27 Teijin MO disks
01:03 Microsoft Bob t-shirt
02:19 Old SD memory cards
03:23 DataWare Mouse House
04:10 Abitare Chairs book
05:17 SimCity 3000 for Linux
07:33 PowerPCME Albums
10:47 Cart Zine by Shannon Spence
12:45 Orpheus 2 LT sound card
14:20 Gravis Ultrasound Extreme
15:49 Windows Holiday Sweater
17:25 3D Realms collectibles
19:45 Tiger Quiz Wiz
20:55 Custom mini arcade cab
23:35 Anders Enger Jensen music
25:29 Vaporwave Bryce 3D art
26:46 ATi All-In-Wonder, Pentium 2
29:22 Dick Tracy Fossil smartwatch
31:16 MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries
32:07 Zoo Tycoon board game
33:36 Boxed ASUS Eee PC
35:29 Star Trek TNG Mouse
37:25 Tyan Slot 1 motherboard
39:18 Dancing Baby, STB Nitro 64
40:57 KDS PC Controlled CD Tower
42:22 PC games from Taiwan
44:49 Apple II PC Transporter
47:06 IBM Model M5-2 keyboard
49:14 Compaq iPAQ Internet Appliance
50:40 And that is it!

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46 thoughts on “Opening Lots of Retro Tech Oddities & LGR Mail! March 2024”

  1. Rare boxed copies of Taiwanese DOS games(I think there is one game actually not for DOS but Win9x), holy sh*t! Kudo to the guy who sent them to LGR, those boxed copy of games with that good condition just so, so, so rare now… šŸ™‚

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  2. I had a few of the Loki games Linux ports back in the day. The Quake 3 port in particular had a really sweet metal box with the quake logo embossed. I still have the CD, but I really wish I still had that box. I really don't know what happened to it.

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  3. I remember wanting one of those ISA Windows Accelerators for my parents' 386 because some webpages had terrible dithering on a 16-color Oak VGA card. It would be awesome to see a benchmarking video comparing system performance of your accelerator versus a typical ISA VGA card on a 386 system.

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  4. That Eee PC – I nearly bought one of those way back in the day but I never did, opting for a more expensive but more future-proof laptop.

    I wish I still had my late 1970s Quiz Wiz. They were pretty neat little game machines, and I had no idea they persisted into the 1990s. The old ones were made by Coleco, and the old models have a certain charm to them.

    I hope we get an episode about the 75-disc CD changer!

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  5. Whoa, I never thought something I had a hand in would ever show up in an LGR video! I designed the PowerPCMe K-Mart tape (8:45)back in 2016, first cassette I ever designed. I’ve since had a hand in the art direction of over 100 physical music releases.

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  6. I loved those ATI All-In-Wonders back in the day. Just being able to watch a TV program in a window on your PC's desktop at the same time you were doing actual productive stuff in the other windows was an amazing thing, especially in the pre-streaming era of dial-up internet where over-the-air broadcasts and cable TV were pretty much your only options…

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  7. Of all the stuff in this video, those Taiwanese games are by far the most immaculate thing I see. Absolutely gorgeous art, beautiful condition, and obscure as hell overseas. Fantastic contribution by Brandon.

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  8. I have a small pile of Magento optical discs from my freelancing media days.
    I had this crazy idea that because they were a 'standard' like floppy discs, they would beat Iomega zip discs.
    I was wrong.

    Eventually my drive broke and i didn't replace it.

    I am sure with your audience and skills you will find a working old drive.

    I haven't, yet.

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  9. my gawd that msn compaq internet appliance is amazing. I love the boxes from that era and all the weird crap different companies tried. That thing looks like a straight up abomination and I love it.

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