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Two types of SQ1 black box

NewRisingSun

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I don't know whether this has been mentioned somewhere else, but I just noticed something that I did not know before: there are actually two variants of the black flipbox of Space Quest 1 AGI! The earlier one, which contained game version 1.0X (dated September 1986), has a line pattern that is difficult to reproduce with normal scanning, which is why I used flash to make a picture:
SQ-10X.jpg

while the later one, which contained game version 1.1A (dated November 1986), had the line pattern removed and is just plain black:
SQ-11A.jpg

Here are both side-by-side:
SQ-both.jpg

This means that there are four box variants of AGI SQ1: black box with pattern, plain black box, slipcover with screenshot, slipcover without screenshot. One could also count the slipcover with the inverted half-dome as a fifth revision.
 
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