I Am Going To Open A Sealed Final Fantasy III Snes (kinda)

[Cryomancer]

Well, maybe. And I should say "sealed". Anyone ever seen a game like THIS before?

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/7213/p1010077xm2.th.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1010077xm2.jpg)




It's the cart, in what might be the actual snes box cardboard holder. There's also a photocopied manual in the back, and the whole thing is wrapped in a heat-sealed bag that is very loose (and actually has a hole in it anyway).

Anyone ever find a game in similar condition, any ideas how it got like this? Pretty sure i got this back when i worked at goodwill, been sitting on it a few years though so I could be wrong. ANY reason whatsoever NOT to open this thing? anyone WANT it like this?

[Snapple]

Photocopied manual? Boo.

Sealed games are meant to be opened or sold. Keeping it sealed is a waste, especially since it's not factory-sealed. It's obviously just a reseal.

[walrusmonger]

Some dude lost the box and used a shrink wrap machine to reseal the cart inside the white box holder. It's not sealed, crack that baby open and play it if you have any interest in such a "bleh" (by my point of view) series.

[suckerpunch5]

this thread was a big letdown. I thought someone was going to be cracking open a big-time factory sealed game. instead, it is just a reseal. meh

[Cryomancer]

Yeah the title was more for laughs. And ultimiately I DON'T really care to play it that much either, and we actually do have another copy I could try if i really wanted to...but this thing just mystifies me by existing.

Why would anyone go to the trouble to "reseal" and copy the manual? And then who would buy it? And then why would THAT person give it to goodwill? Hmm, maybe the resealer himself donated it....

[walrusmonger]

Maybe the guy turned himself into an snes cart and is waiting for an unlucky goodwill patron to open the seal so he can pop out and murder them?

(makes just as much sense as photocopying the manual then shrink wrapping it all together)

[Cambot]

Maybe the guy turned himself into an snes cart and is waiting for an unlucky goodwill patron to open the seal so he can pop out and murder them?

I'm going with walrus - the perfect crime!

[Blitzwing256]

quite a few years ago thats how ebgames/software etc would store used snes games, they'd put the boxes out for sale and shrink wrap the game in the carboard part of the box, they'd also shrinkwrap the empty boxes as well, i have a ton of games like that myself.

[wallydawg]

I was thinking goodwill did it so the manual wouldn't get lost. Not that someone wouldn't just freaking break the seal, jack the game and leave the packaging there.

[Cryomancer]

Well, if I'm correct in my thinking that i got this from goodwill, then it was ME who they donated it to directly, so that theorey, although good (IF goodwill would think for two seconds about how they sell their games), is probably incorrect.