I raided the thrift shop today and found some old games. I mean, really old. I’m talking about 5.25″ floppy disc old. They are all complete packages too. However, they honestly can’t be considered games– all 5 of these packages are expansion packs. And one of them is apparently an expansion pack to other expansion packs of an original game– think about that for awhile.

This first group caught my eye because they all carried the logo of Three-Sixty Pacific, Inc.. I recognized them because I bought their game Theater of War ages ago. I really don’t remember playing it much. I think I mostly bought it because the cover art claimed that it was the “World’s first Super VGA game.”

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• Harpoon BattleSet 4: Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf: Expansion for the game Harpoon, in an odd packaging format that looks like a small vinyl album
• Megafortress Mission Disk 1: Operation Sledgehammer: Expansion for the game Megafortress, in the same small album form factor
• Harpoon Designers’ Series: Battleset Enhancer: This is the one that appears to be an expansion for other Harpoon expansion packs– “Creates 12 all new scenarios for each Harpoon BattleSet you own. Up to 48 new scenarios in all!” From this, I think we can definitively conclude that there were 4 BattleSet expansions.

Here are 2 expansion packs for the LucasArts game Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.

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• P-80 Shooting Star Tour Of Duty, on 5.25″ discs
• He 162 Volksjäger Tour of Duty, on 3.5″ discs

Here’s a grab-bag of other items from the same raid:

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• Hocus Pocus & Mystic Towers: Companion CD-ROM: I’m not absolutely certain, but this appears to be yet another expansion pack, this time for the Apogee games Hocus Pocus and Mystic Towers; either that or they’re shareware sampler discs
• Earth & Beyond: The Online Role Playing Galaxy: Space-themed MMO that was reportedly shut down in 2004
• Dr. Brain Thinking Games: IQ Adventure— oops, I already have a copy of this, but with different packaging
• Ollo in The Sunny Valley Fair: I got this early childhood-rated game against my better judgement; thankfully, it’s already in the database
• MX vs. ATV: Unleashed: It puzzles me that this has a Scholastic publisher’s label
• DinoSource: Not a game, but good, quality, ancient CD-ROM material

And a few more recent acquisitions:

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• Dogfight: Battle for the Pacific
• My Little Pony: Oops, I already had a copy of this; I guess one can never have too many
• Star Miner: Another of those novel, small, Pocketware CD-ROMs; this looks like a re-badging of a dressed-up Asteroids clone