I have a soft spot for physical editions of games, especially ones that have a ton of pack-ins with them. I think the first time I felt fully immersed in a game was with Dragon Warrior for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I had played it at my cousin's house at a time when I had not yet gotten into Dungeons or Dragons, or even after 2nd Grade when my love of knowing things really started. So I spent a while trying to figure out how this "chain mail" worked, and how I could send it to other towns in the game. I decided it was probably a bad luck thing, like a chain letter, and gave up trying.
Anyway, probably a year or so later, my best friend from school got a Nintendo Power subscription, which came with a copy of Dragon Warrior. This promotion was actually responsible for a lot of my peer's introduction into RPG's. Well, he sold his copy to me before he even got it, and made back his magazine subscription money. So this edition of Dragon Warrior came with all sorts of pack ins and goodies to it that really changed my perception of the game. First off, a picture of chainmail was right there in the booklet, it was armor, duh. But there was also great pictures of shields, swords and in game items. There were posters of these things and also grand maps of the world, and maps of the dungeons. I actually memorized the dungeons by directions in the dark lol It was "hold down until you bump a wall, then go right till you bump a wall, now head down until you bump a wall again, and stairs". Made total sense to me as a kid, and saved torches lol
I still have all this stuff, though the maps are not in good condition, as I once had it taped to my wall like a poster. For long times I would imagine myself with Erdrick's sword, and artbooks of various games are something I enjoy looking at(especially the WoW artbook and FF9's artbook). It would not be till Final Fantasy 12 that I would earn Erdrick's sword again.
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