It’s not the first package I got from overseas this year; I got the Animusic and Animusic 2 DVDs from Chris in mid January (and I’ll have to write about them!) But this package deserves an instant mention. I got it from Bwlag (real name is confidential), a great guy who is helping me in my Links golf sim series collection. Since he spent a significant amount of money in acquiring items for dumping and preservation, I offered to buy some from him so he could recover a bit. However, as you can see in the side picture, he has sent me much more than I expected.
If you can see the brown box at the back, that’s the size of the package. Just by seeing that size I got speechless (well, I was alone, but if I weren’t, I would have been speechless). I opened it and discovered all the things you can see in the pic. First, a huge envelope containing the empty boxes of several Links Championship Courses, Links Trial Nine, and Links 386 Pro. Under the envelope, I found a large amount of non-empty boxes, and some CD cases. I haven’t checked yet the exact contents of each box, but as far as I can tell, this is the list of things I got:
- Links: The Challenge Of Golf; two boxes, one of them unopened.
- Bountiful Golf Course for Links Challenge.
- Prairie Dunes Country Club for Links 386 Pro.
- Mauna Kea for Links 386 Pro.
- Pinehurst Resort & Country Club for Links 386 Pro.
- Firestone Country Club for Links 386 Pro.
- Castle Pines Golf Club for Links 386 Pro.
- Bountiful Golf Club for Links 386 Pro.
- Cog Hill Golf & Country Club for Links 386 Pro.
- Links LS 1997 Edition ‘Legends In Sports’.
- Links LS 1998 Edition.
- Valhalla Golf Club for Links LS
- Phoenix Country Club for Links LS.
- Oakland Hills for Links LS.
- Links 2001 (first edition).
- Links eXtreme.
Needless to say, I am absolutely impressed by the amount and quality of all he has sent. And certainly I doubt he has recovered any money with this transaction! Links has always been one of my favourite computer games, I’ve been playing it for years, probably since 1992. So I’m quite sentimentally attached to all this stuff, and I can finally say I have some of these games in original form. I specially appreciate the unopened box of Links: The Challenge Of Golf, which is a great collector item, and Links 2001 which is my favourite Links edition.
Thanks Bwlag for all this, and for the rest of you: Mwahahahaha, suffer from that green jealousy, green as the course fairways I have! Mwahahahahaha! (Vincent Price’s evil laugh style.)
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