![[PC] Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Edition (All 17 Games) - $4.99 (Was $19.99) @ Origin](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/14/285114.jpg?h=d014ae6f)
Seems like a great price, previous deal $9.78.
Verified the price in checkout to ensure it was $AU and not $US:
Electronic Arts Inc.
Command & Conquer The Ultimate Collection $4.99 AUD
Collection includes (17 games in total):
- Command & Conquer
- Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Counterstrike
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The Aftermath
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firestorm
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
- Command & Conquer: Renegade
- Command & Conquer: Generals
- Command & Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars: Kane's Wrath
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising
- Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
Spotted on HUKD for £6.24 (~AU $10.67), but it's even cheaper here at AU $4.99.
Interesting. When I was a kid, which would have been the same time as you, PC games could be easily gotten for $60 despite RRP being $80 or $90. I think that's how much I paid for RA1. I would go halves with a friend, since C&C games always came on two discs, with one disc per side, and we'd both play one side each and then trade when we're done. It worked really well, because each disc was able to play multiplayer, so with one copy of the game (2 discs) we could both play multiplayer against each other, and there was never any point in us buying two copies of the game.
This was true for every game until Generals I believe (expansion packs were a different story, but we did a different deal — he buys RA expansion, I buy Warcraft 2 expansion and we trade when done). Westwood were very pro consumer until EA took over (for Generals and beyond). So amazing. C&C1 was one of my favorite games of all time, along with Dune 2 and Warcraft 1+2.
These memories.. brings me back to those amazing days of youth.
I got lunch money each week, but instead of buying food, I starved at lunch time and saved my money for buying games instead. Not healthy but I knew I wouldn't die from it. We were good at finding bargains back then. I was able to buy a game a month (computer swap meet also took place once a month which was another cheap place to buy games, so it worked out perfectly). I guess you can say I was an Ozbargainer a decade before Ozbargain even existed. And man did I enjoy games much more back then than I do now, even though the games are technically better today. They just don't have the magic older games had on me, due to expectations growing exponentially and me being jaded, plus dickish moves by the gaming industry like freemium (aka nickle and diming), DRM, giant patches (day 1 or otherwise), very expensive yet very short DLC that never gets discounted (thanks EA), huge downloads and HDD space needed, always online, etc. Some of these are just the product of changing times, and not dickish moves, but the old days will always have a special place for me.