PC Big-Box

The boxed PC era — 1990 to 2007.

1990 through 2007 — the boxed PC era. DOS games in oversized cardboard, Win9x and WinXP releases that filled retail shelves with physical objects you could actually own. Hangtabd catalogs the ~150 anchor titles across this span — id Software, Blizzard, Origin Systems, LucasArts, Maxis, Sierra On-Line, and the long tail of strategy, RPG, and adventure publishers who defined collector-grade PC packaging.