GOG Expands Its Preservation Program With 3D Box Models
Arkadiy Andrienko
GOG is giving some classic PC listings a new preservation-focused storefront treatment, adding a visible "3D Boxes" section to their store pages. The Printable Big Box collection is still small, but it turns the old large-box presentation into a digital feature rather than a physical reissue.
The collection is currently limited to five games: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. GOG says those store pages now show the 3D Boxes section among the included Goodies before purchase, so players can see the feature before they buy.
Owners of those games can download a ZIP file containing a GLB 3D box model together with flat printable templates in PDF, SVG, and Adobe Illustrator formats. In other words, GOG is not just showing box art — it is providing materials that let users build their own version at home.
The update also affects the Preservation Program itself. GOG added Armikrog and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary to the program, while Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, and Myst received a separate update in the same release.
The project was made with Big Box Collection, which supplied scans of real physical boxes for the new models and printables. GOG also released a new interview with Benjamin Wimmer, the creator of Big Box Collection, to highlight the people working to preserve PC gaming history.
Physical media doesn't survive the way software can — boxes get lost, crushed, thrown out. Scanning them, and letting you print your own, is preservation in a different shape: the same mission that keeps these games running on modern PCs, applied to the objects they used to come in.
Does preserving classic game boxes as printable 3D models feel like the right way to keep PC history alive?
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