1Up Looks at the History of Game Packaging

1Up has a feature about the history of computer game packaging from 1980 through to the present called “Shrink Wrapped”. An excerpt: In the bag: Starting small Picture this: Back in 1980, some snot-nosed punk (and ComputerLand retail employee) named Richard Garriott coded a little RPG for the Apple II, which he called Akalabeth: World of Doom. Lacking the funds or the connections to get it published in any sort of professional capacity, Garriott hand-copied a stack of labeled disks and in