[Androgeos Exeunt]

I have original CDs for both FS1 and 2, however I've managed to break CD1 for FS1.
The box has those stupid 5-way 'petal' things holding the CDs by the hole in the middle and it wouldn't let go of it and it snapped in half 

You have to like press down in the middle of them... and, if they give you a hard time, you need to, once you (successfully) get the CD out, break one of the petals so this doesn't happen. 

I despise those CD cases. Stupid things. Why couldn't they just keep to the basics?

[Stormkeeper]

I have original CDs for both FS1 and 2, however I've managed to break CD1 for FS1.
The box has those stupid 5-way 'petal' things holding the CDs by the hole in the middle and it wouldn't let go of it and it snapped in half 

HERETIC!! BURN HIM BURN HIM!!

[colecampbell666]

Could I have a pic of these petals? IDK what you're referring to, but I have an idea.

[tifi]

I haven't got any intact examples remaining to show you , but imagine this:



being in the hole, and you're supposed to push the bit in the middle to release its vice-like hold on the disc.
Only it doesn't work very well 

[Art Kelson]

Got my Freespace 2 Version, from a Gamemagazin...but it´s on CD...

[colecampbell666]

I haven't got any intact examples remaining to show you , but imagine this:



being in the hole, and you're supposed to push the bit in the middle to release its vice-like hold on the disc.
Only it doesn't work very well 

Oh, like certain PS2 games.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I haven't got any intact examples remaining to show you , but imagine this:



being in the hole, and you're supposed to push the bit in the middle to release its vice-like hold on the disc.
Only it doesn't work very well 

Correction: it doesn't work AT ALL.

[Marauder]

Bahahaha.

I got all three... though i have two copies of Freespace 2... The Sci-Fi edition, disk 1 was scratched, so i went back and bought another one. Cost an arm and a leg, but i got 'em.

As for FS1 and Silent Threat, got 'em for my birthday years ago 

You make me cry.  Ever since disk 1 of my FS2 getting scratched (by my best friend, too! though I lack proof), I never got to buy another retail version...

Though I still own disks 2 and 3, as well as FS and Silent Threat.

[EDIT] Upon reading other posts, is it just me, or did EVERYONE scratch disk 1?  Wow, this is just heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.

[jr2]

Guys, the Disk / Game / DVD / Skip / Clean Dr device works.  Trust me, I own two.   

[Roanoke]

Originally, I got FS1 and 2 on a Virgin "Red Label"  budget re-release. Later I got original, big box FS2 and FS1 Battle Pack (inc Silent Threat) off ebay for about £15 total. I've also got a D3 budget re-release.

I miss the old big-box games. Made 'em look special. Not like moderns or older console games with their titchy boxes/cases.

[Lukeskywalkie]

I got freespace one as some sort of bundle with a video card ages ago... Purchased Silent Threat from a thrift shop, but I no longer own it - I think it was destroyed. *sadface*

Once I saw the played the FS2 demo, I knew I had to have it. Looked everywhere, the best deal was ordering it from a video game conglomerate in England.  The only copy they had was a 'bundled' one as well, and they literally dug a 3cd package out of the back room, removed whatever was in it, and slapped a new label on it. I don't have any cover art, just a transparent case with three cds.  looking at it now, it looks like I bought it from a street ...ahem ...vendor. I can still see the original label under the new one "Smart Stens 1st Grade" and a product number.

I have products/discs 11164,11181, and 11182, apparently.

GB for teh win!

[colecampbell666]

GB? Great Britain?

[Lukeskywalkie]

[Al Tarket]

i have all three retail games while i was in england along time ago, i think it was early 2000 i got them, so 7 years back and not a scratch has come to any of them. so far my accuracy has been above what my usual is in my entire freespace gaming career, above 80% for primary fire and 85% for secondary fire, typically killing 750 plus ships in the process and one of them is a Deimos from Deneb and the other is a Sathanas in Pegasi (im not sure). 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I had to send FS2 back twice before I got a set that was readable and it was still scratched.  All 3 sets were factory sealed.  They look like someone ran sandpaper over them but still work.  Hard cardboard does not make a good CD sleeve. 

[Al Tarket]

should of got a refund!. lucky though we have Turey to save your skin.

[Goober5000]

*eats cookie*

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I knew that cookie had Goober written all over it as soon as I saw that post. 

[pecenipicek]

I have original CDs for both FS1 and 2, however I've managed to break CD1 for FS1.
The box has those stupid 5-way 'petal' things holding the CDs by the hole in the middle and it wouldn't let go of it and it snapped in half 

You have to like press down in the middle of them... and, if they give you a hard time, you need to, once you (successfully) get the CD out, break one of the petals so this doesn't happen. 

mine broke due to frequent usage 

(the petals, not the cd)

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The problem with the petals is that, if they break, your CD case becomes useless in holding the CD in place.