Hello There, Here a Descent Collector’s Intro 8-)

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Hello everyone 🙂

After a good friend of one on facebook passed me information of this new Descent, a game series I have been collecting the past 20+ years, I was really surprised!

Here the original Topic of the Descent/Freespace Collection at Interplay Forums:
http://www.interplay.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=912&p=85234#p85234

The reason for me being so surprised is that I have been collecting the original Descent & Freespace game series since October 24, 1994 and seeing a Descent 4 like idea pop up even beinga prequel, well I am willing to support his project as well and I really really hope you lot will succeed.

So here my story and my Descent/Freespace colelction, something msot of the Descent & Freespace community people know about, I just want to give you lot my insights of the ebst game ever created by mankind.
After some years of collecting and being a Pyro Jockey for over 20 years all way back since it all began on October 21, 1994 when the first Descent Demo rolled out I was hooked immediately, and since then I waited for every part of the series to arrive but never thought about this collecting feeling which I started about 2 years ago and now it has turned into a Descent obsession some call it Obi’s Descent Archive and others a museum heh.

Anyways name it what you all like here’s some new pics and I want to thank alot of you for helping get a few of these rare wanna haves.
Today I gave each album a new sub section so here’s the collection 105 parts as I have counted them all yesterday after adding a Descent mission disc and a Spacetec IMC Cooperation Spaceorb 360 game controller .

As I registered to this forum a few days ago i thought I’d add a topic of the World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection, the one I have collected and gathered the past 20+ years 😎
What I did is divide it all in to sub groups, all the Product names speak for themselves, click it and you enter the sub gallery of that item .

Descent Series

Descent 2 Series

Descent 3 Series

Descent Combo Packs

Descent Linux Series

Descent Macintosh series

Descent Playstation Series

Descent Books

Descent Mini Posters

Descent Mouse Pads

Descent Misc Items:

Descent Freespace Series

Descent Freespace 2 Series

Descent Freespace Combo Packs

Descent Freespace Books

On October 21, 2010 this lovely set arrived from MasternX, a guy that has a contact with one of the cleaners that worked @ Interplay HQ back in 2003 to 2004, when it was being cleared after it shut down xD

So here’s the parts in a one shot:

That frame hung in the Interplay HQ Office hallways, them CD-R’s are host software of Descent 1 and 2, the one with the scratches is the Descent 1 Alpha disc, this is where it all began before it was going final, the one from 1996 is the host disk for Descent Anniversary Edition me thinks hence the date of the disk, unless some Interplay Employee’s can help me out here!

This came to me all thanks to MasternX from this website:
http://forums.my-collections.eu/

This is probably one of the most rarest of all items I was given as a gift, after helping a friend Acquire a rare 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A2 2600 [Week 26 Year 2000] from an ex-3dfx engineer for a good deal, my 3dfx report can be read here @ EVGA Graphics to see my3dfx background, just for the ones that are questioned about this xD
http://forums.evga.com/3dfx-Voodoo5-6000-5000-World-Owner-Lists-Reseach-What-I-did-for-the-3dfx-communities-m2185131.aspx#2185131

Here a Pre-Production Sample of Descent3: Mercenary USA! This is the Pre-Release version which is Factory Sealed in the original factory cellophane + NOT FOR RESALE Decal under the seal on the box! A very rare sight

Click to Enter!

Great and many thanks to a good friend of mine from Minnesota, USA he goes by the nick name of “rottentreats” he’s from the 3dfx forums Falconfly.de
This is certainly a gift of many words 😎

Here all the four variants of Descent I and II The Definitive Collection all are Factory Sealed in their original cellophane! These items are from 1998, so it’s been like this for the past 16 years… 😀

All four variants top view
Top left is EUR version without D3 Demo
Top right is USA Version with D3 Demo
Bottom left is Big Box USA version with D3Demo
Bottom right is Sleeved USA version without D3 Demo

All four variants rear view
Top left is EUR version without D3 Demo
Top right is USA Version with D3 Demo
Bottom left is Big Box USA version with D3Demo
Bottom right is Sleeved USA version without D3 Demo

Descent Freespace Battle Pack EUR & USA top

Descent Freespace Battle Pack EUR & USA rear

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

And here the entire Collection 96 of 102 items, my floor was not large enough xDDD 😆
Even though I have 105 items hence the odd D1 Game expansion disc and the Spaceorb 360, these pics were made a while back, back on March 16, 2013 to be exact 😎
But it will give you an exact idea on how large this collection is if all in one space :ugeek:
New pics will be made again sometime when I get an other odd 20 new items or so

Top lot:

Centre lot:

Bottom lot:

Entire Lot:

The other items I forgot to take new pics of were these:

Self made Descent based Mouse pads:

Descent 2 Promo Mousepad, a Gift from D2X-XL Moderator Frustikus

Descent 2 & Freespace 2 Case Mod:

PyroGX from Descent 2 Release painted in 1996:

Hercules MK III, Vesudan Dreadnaught & Shivan Carrier from Freespace2 Painted in 1999:

Descent IV: Invasion RTF file of Floppy Disk:

Here’s a video I made of that massive collection today after recounting it all 🙂

The latest added items are the following:

Item 103
This ultra rare 1998 Descent: Freespace: The Great War Interplay Developer’s T-Shirt
Front:

Rear:

Item 104:
JukeBox Collection for Descent French D1 Mission Disc

Pic is from the seller, I will make a better documented photography of this odd item.

Item 105:
And the infamous Spacetec IMC Cooperation Spaceorb360 Game Controller! xDDD

Force n Torque Sensitivity
Patented SENSITIVE FORCE n TORQUE technology built into the SpaceOrb™ 360 PowerSensor ball senses up all the pushes, pulls and twists that you apply among the axes and translates them into fluid and smooth movement in your game – with over 1,000 levels of speed!

Pretend its Your Head
Think of the PowerSensor as your head, and move the head in the way you want to move on-screen. To move forward, just push with your thumb on the back of the ball (or head), and youll move down the hallway. To move backward, pull from the front of the ball, and you’ll go back. To look left or right or spin, twist the ball from side to side and youll look or spin on screen.

This Interesting controller was especially designed for any 6DoF based game, the Descent and Forsaken series were famous of this 6DoF technique being used.

Powerful Digital Interface
Adding a true DIGITAL interface through a powerful serial port and how fast and how slow you move in your game depends on how much force you use on the PowerSensor ball. To move forward slowly, lightly push the ball forward. To move faster, increase the pressure until you reach top speed. The SpaceOrb is a 10-bit device allowing for over 1,000 levels of speed. With the Customizer, you can fine tune axis sensitivity exactly to your needs. You can even adjust the sensitivity of EACH AXIS with our new GameMaster software.

The Spacetec Space orb 360 is a real worthy item for the World’s Largest Descent / Freespace collection, this way it will keep on growing and hereby I also increase our nice descent / Freespace Reference.

Item 106:
A good friend from the Sol Contingency Community made the 3D Printed model of the infamous Pyro-GX Starfighter, this wonderful piece was sent to me to respect the collection and archive I have been maintaining all those years:

Rear angled right view:

Facial view:

Rear view:

Belly view:

Here a pic I made to give you an idea of it’s size, as I have compared it with Descent 2 EUR and the CD Case 🙂

Anyways that is about it from my part alongside Descent & Freespace collecting I build Mult core Dual CPU based server/workstation system, I am 2CPU Hardware Moderator @ 2CPU.com as Gold Leader.
http://forums.2cpu.com/

If any help is of need to build the ultimate server feel free to join or ask me in person I will do my best to help you on such things as well 🙂
Also I help 411OverKill.com:
http://www.411overkill.com/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=8455

EVGA Graphics with certain PC Renovation projects, VGA card Maintenance guide and also creator and maker of the EVGA MODS RIGS +1 list for Chrome M Dragon and the EVGA Community it’s self 🙂
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1277006&mpage=30#1588237

Before my Descent life i used to Beta test 3dfx Voodoo5 5000 & 6000 Class Engineering Samples for the 3dfx community I wrote a report of that which you can see here:
http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2185131

Anyways II can go on, but I think I will keep it to this for now and I really look forward how this project will unfold.

My favorite of all time is Dimensions for Descent Factory Sealed which is extremely rare it also has the original price tag on the box, even being this was a map disk of 75 D1 maps made by D1 fans across the world , there is also Levels of The World but that is something more common that this beauty.

Descent2 EUR

Descent II The Infinite Abyss

The Descent Macplay series are very cool too:

The Three different D3 USA’s Mac/ PC / Linux

There are just so many I love, it’s often hard to really choose just one ^_^

Item 108:
Also I backed Descent Underground with a sweet 250 USD Pledge as Backer #3144! 🙂

Well here’s the latest addition Item 109

Descent II: The Infinite Edition USA 1997 Factory Sealed! Still new in Cellophane Shrink Wrap!

Top:

Rear:

Side a:

Side b:

And where it is stored 🙂

Meet Item No: 110!

Spacetec SpaceOrb 360 Mint in Box:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Space-orb-360-reallife-3d-game-controller-joystick-vintage-/231836888101?hash=item35fa8e2c25:g:g0YAAOSwFMZWtQlT

And the drivers & manual are steal sealed 🙂

Major thanks got to PyroJockey for finding me this ultra rare item 🙂

Item 111 🙂
Overload by Revival Productions !

I pledged 50USD via Drakona with PayPal and she credit carded the money to their Kick Starter page 🙂
And hey that works too right 🙂

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

[tueidj]

Quite the unfortunate username contraction you’ve got there.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

tueidj wrote:

Quite the unfortunate username contraction you’ve got there.

Err… not the reply I was expecting? 😐

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

[Pumo]

Hey Obi! 😀
This topic is a MUST in every Descent-related forum to make it complete.

Behold ladies and gentlemen, the greatest Descent collector you’ll ever known!
As always, it’s an honor to have you here. 🙂

http://pumosoft.3d-get.de – Pumo Software official Website
– Pumo Mines progress: 60%

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Pumo wrote:

Hey Obi!
This topic is a MUST in every Descent-related forum to make it complete.

Behold ladies and gentlemen, the greatest Descent collector you’ll ever known!
As always, it’s an honor to have you here.

Yaaaaaasss thankies Pumo xDDD 😀 Having you here is a must tooz doh xD

HUUUUGZ Happy to see ya here too bud, Overload is my newest item xDDDD This si so full of Le FABS xDD
The FAB like the OVERLOAD it’s all REAL <3

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

[homeyduh]

So at $50, you won’t be getting the boxed backer edition :/

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Sadly not man I am 100% Disabled and I have other priorities as I bought an EPoX EP-8K3A+ for my 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 System project this motherboard even out rares Overload it’s not made anymore and I could buy one off a friend from Voodooalert.de and as always 3dfx is always the number one priority for me over any type of game, I am a retro gamer for the most of things, so as that goes I have to make choices.

Ah well It’s no big deal I have all the originals classics even the original; host disks of the originals as well 90% of my collection is so rare no one has ever achieved anyways, I am happy on what I have gained since October 24, 1994 for that part, no need to be ashamed 😉

I can always try obtaining the box of Overload & Descent Underground via friends or ebay or other methods, as a collector I have tactics on approaching people for items,it’s no big deal for me bud, my collection proves that enough already, it is after all the largest known in the world and having achieved that there cant be nothing more wonderful than that, my goal is reached as this collection goes and sharing it with other Descent fans communities, I would want nothing more this is our archive of everything that was made from beginning to this very day and onwards too.

Together we are keeping the Descent games alive, all what we need now is for Freespace to get some more love too, a Freespace 3 would be very interesting.

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

[dr-phibes]

No 56K warning this time around?

[noamloop]

Always refreshing to see true dedication 🙂

[D2Disciple]

I see this same post in every Descent-related forum across the ‘net…

… And I thoroughly enjoy perusing and reading it every time. As always, a real pleasure, Obi Wan 🙂

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

dr-phibes wrote:

No 56K warning this time around?

Not really needed it’s 2016 not 1994 man, ya know? Where i live everyone has high speed connections, pics load within seconds 🙂 Even the slowest connection is 20 times as fast as a 56K6 Modem, so nah it’s fine for what it is.

noamloop wrote:

Always refreshing to see true dedication

Many thanks bud, always happy to give every Descent & Freespace fan a trip down Memory Lane 🙂

D2Disciple wrote:

I see this same post in every Descent-related forum across the ‘net…

… And I thoroughly enjoy perusing and reading it every time. As always, a real pleasure, Obi Wan

Anytime bud I only did this because I was asked by the devs of Overload to do this so I did this for their community as well 🙂

The Forum code is somewhat different here but it’s alright for what it is now 🙂

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

[Xeme]

OMG, that’s amazing… I am not sure what to say. I have not clicked through all the links yet though.

[Hunter]

Obi has christened the forum! 😉 And Dr Phibes is posting from the past! Wow, what a thread. 😉

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Xeme wrote:

OMG, that’s amazing… I am not sure what to say. I have not clicked through all the links yet though.

Many thanks there man take your time it’s alot of stuff that I have been collecting since October 24, 1994 🙂
But I’m not gonna stop xD Still on the verge to find more 😀

Hunter wrote:

Obi has christened the forum! And Dr Phibes is posting from the past! Wow, what a thread.

Many thanks Hunter 🙂 Well I am non religious myself I don’t think I get the phrase, due to my dyslexia and Autism but I guess it does mean good 🙂
When the Space Orb 360 has arrived I will make better detailed photo’s of it but also the back of the box and such, acquiring a boxed Space Orb 360 was one of my primary goals, the last time I seen one was way back in 2007 on ebay it went for an idiotic 349 Euro which is roughly 389.13 USD I used http://www.xe.com to convert to USD 🙂
And I wanted it badly but not for that amount :X So this Space Orb 360 PyroJockey found me was the ultimate solution and that for 2016, it’s actually a remarkable find too 🙂

Here a new pic I made of my Pyro-GX model compared to my Incom T-70 Advanced X-Wing Starfighter from Poe Dameron 🙂

Here compared to my Incom T-70 & Descent II: The Infinite Abyss:

Here a closeup:

Holder Of The World’s Largest Descent / Freespace Collection:
https://playoverload.com/forums/topic/hello-there-here-a-descent-collectors-intro-8/

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