Weirdly Packaged FFIII (US)

[Cryomancer]

Alright, back in my days working for goodwill I would occasionally (aka whenever possible) use my powers of attendant to score myself game junk before it was shipped off to the sorting facility. I think that I was in the right to do so, for I was in a town of freakish trendism, including adults buying PT cruisers only to later trade them in for H2's because they were popular. As such, I felt that rescuing items formally owned by these people from falling into teh hands of others like them was noble. I once found a Vectrex and Dreamcast with several games sitting outside before hours IN THE RAIN. Someone had to give them a decent home. Anyway, enough justification, on with the point here.

One of the items I obtained within the duration was a copy of Final Fantasy III us for SNES. Odd that people would donate that to begin with, but here's the weird bit. The cart is loosely shrinkwrapped. Not sealed in box, but more like...a cardboard border of sorts, possibly normal box stuffing but I can't be sure as I haven't seen a full boxed SNES game in years. Anyway, loose cart in a little white cardboard container, label facing up, Also in the bag, is what appears to be a photocopied manual. I haven't opened the loose seal as I was curious to hear what the rest of you might make of this. My only guess is it might be some sort of former rental copy, but I don't see any stickers or marks on the cart's front.

If anyone has any input on this, please elighten me. If my description isn't enough I can probably set up some pictures later but there's really not much to see.

[Daria]

The shrinked cardboard border sounds a lot like the packaging I used to buy my preowned GameGears games in from Target (I think it was target? Maybe Walmart?). I think at the time they were buying out old rental stock to resell.

Anyway the game definately sounds preowned.

[TheRedEye]

The shrinked cardboard border sounds a lot like the packaging I used to buy my preowned GameGears games in from Target (I think it was target? Maybe Walmart?). I think at the time they were buying out old rental stock to resell.

Anyway the game definately sounds preowned.

With me it was KMart.

[Cryomancer]

Come to think of it I remember a similar program with gameboy carts at a Kmart as well, it was odd as there were some non-US games. Thanks for unearthing that memory guys. That may actually be the kinda of thing this is then.

[Querjek]

The shrinked cardboard border sounds a lot like the packaging I used to buy my preowned GameGears games in from Target (I think it was target? Maybe Walmart?). I think at the time they were buying out old rental stock to resell.

Anyway the game definately sounds preowned.

With me it was KMart.
Yeah, same here. Those games had blue borders that typically said sometihng like "OMG USED GAME ONLY $19.99!"

[Daria]

I didn't think my parents did a lot of KMart shopping when I was a kid, it was almost always Walmart or Target. But who knows. Could have been KMart.

And yes it was odd they sold imports, I bought a GameGear version of Yu Yu Hakosho 2 there (where ever there is) because it was entirely in Japanese and curiosity got the better of me. Bought it just to see what it was.

[Cryomancer]

Makes me curious as to where the games came from / other details of the deal in question. The town I was seeing JP gameboy carts in is definitely the last kind of place I'd expect to see them, and there were no places taking used games for many, many miles.

[delafro]

Alright, back in my days working for goodwill I would occasionally (aka whenever possible) use my powers of attendant to score myself game junk before it was shipped off to the sorting facility. I think that I was in the right to do so, for I was in a town of freakish trendism, including adults buying PT cruisers only to later trade them in for H2's because they were popular. As such, I felt that rescuing items formally owned by these people from falling into teh hands of others like them was noble. I once found a Vectrex and Dreamcast with several games sitting outside before hours IN THE RAIN. Someone had to give them a decent home. Anyway, enough justification, on with the point here.


You can justify, but still, might be ripping off fellow serious collectors by doing so. Yeah you gotta save that Vectrex, but on the flipside, us collectors gotta protect our sources.

[Cryomancer]

Yeah, I occasionally thought "what if some little ghetto kid gets this nes for xmas and grows up to be elite game design messaiah" or such, I didn't take everything. But the area is really such a overbearing religious / jock-friendly / factory-worker-farm community, and the regional goodwill is pretty corrupt as well, figure it would likely be better off in my hands then shopgoodwill.com or whatnot.

[Promophile]

But the area is really such a overbearing religious / jock-friendly / factory-worker-farm community.

You just described 1/2 of America, which I like to call "the Bush half".

[atomicthumbs]

My FFVII has a weird little mistake on it. In the description on the back of the case the word "masterpiece" looks all fouled up. the "i" is about 1/6" higher than the rest of the text in the line, and even overlapes the "e" next to it quite a bit. Don't know what the hell is up with that, but I found it amusing that "masterpiece" was the word that was all effed up.

[Cryomancer]

Mine is the same, so it's probably not too uncommon. I was always amused by that too.

[atomicthumbs]

Mine is the same, so it's probably not too uncommon. I was always amused by that too.

Yeah, I guessed that it was from the first couple of runs or something. Or someone thought that it would be funny or something.