[STEAM] GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time

[Steam 0]

Those who remember PC gaming in

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

may have fond memories of the "big box" packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those days by adding downloadable 3D models and printable, foldable high-res packaging scans for a handful of PC games on the platform.

Thus far, the "Printable Big Box" collection on GOG is limited to just five games: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Players browsing those games on the GOG store will now see "3D Boxes" listed among the included "Goodies" before purchase. Owners of those games on GOG can download a ZIP file containing a version of the box art as an animated 3D object file (in an easy-to-open

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

) and a "flat printable template" in PDF, SVG, and

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Illustrator formats. Those downloads allow for what GOG calls "a proper papercraft project for anyone who misses shelves full of PC game boxes."

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

The 3D model animates to show the front flap opening. Credit: GOG "Physical media doesn’t survive the way software can—boxes get lost, crushed, thrown out," GOG

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

. "Scanning them, and letting you print your own, is preservation in a different shape: the same mission that keeps these games running on modern PCs, applied to the objects they used to come in."

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up