I have a "BIG" box full of nearly all the titles mentioned thus far (and then some) and I can't count the number of times that I have been tempted to simply dump them all, but somehow something just stops me.
IMO both Lucas and Dynamix had some of the best manuals.
I'm such a sad case that I purchased both BOB-TFH and Falcon (1.0) two months before I even owned a PC, if I remember correctly I also pre-ordered SWOTL as soon as it was announced, then I think I had to wait about a year or more before it arrived apparently the development time blew out
Not to mention the fortune I had to spend on magazines just see the one or two screen shots of any upcoming Sim’s I was interested in.