Just looking for some insight, mostly just wanting to know 'which came first' for any given game.
Asking because was pricing out a copy of Castlevania Bloodlines (complete in case) and saw copies with the red cardboard box on eBay as well.
Thanks!
Genesis cases vs. boxes
Just looking for some insight, mostly just wanting to know 'which came first' for any given game.
Asking because was pricing out a copy of Castlevania Bloodlines (complete in case) and saw copies with the red cardboard box on eBay as well.
Thanks!
someone can correct me if I'm wrong (it's likely! : P)
The snap lock cases were for most Genesis games first. The cardboard ones didn't start showing up until around the time Genny 3 did- when they were marketing the unit + reprinting games for as cheap as possible?
The copies with cardboard boxes are Majesco rereleases.Originally Posted by pfp
The first cardboard ones I remember were around when Shining Force II and Phantasy Star IV were released - somewhat ironic since they had this cheesy packaging and were both very pricey games when released.
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Cardboard box games that were reprinted were rereleases from Majesco AFAIK, but other companies used cardboard boxes only such as Accolade.
Im not entirely sure when the cardboard boxes came into being but the plastic cases were used by nearly everyone except for Accolade who used boxes that always reminded me of smaller PC game boxes. I thought that some of the later releases came in cardboard. I know that 32X games pretty much all came in the cardboard cases so I assumed that that was about the time the changeover was made
Not all cardboard games were re-releases. Late in the Genesis's life span they simply switched. Much to the annoyance of all.
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Is there a list of games that are ONLY in cardboard boxes? Ones that didn't have a snapcase release?
I think sometime around the release of Sonic and Knuckles they started with the cardboard boxes. Sonic and Knuckles was one of the first games with a cardboard box, that much I remember. So it had to be around 1994ish.
I got S&K and Jurassic Park Rampage Edition for Christmas 1994 and both were quite unusual to me as they had the new cardboard box redesign.
It's pretty annoying alright, years down the road. Much like most Nintendo cases of yore, the cardboard Genesis cases are a pain to find in good condition, let alone store carefully. Sadly my copies of S&K, JP:RE, and Earthworm Jim 2 have all but disappeared so I don't have to deal with that specific issue until I reacquire them, perhaps Ristar too.
Some early EA Genesis games were in cardboard boxes.
I remember the excuse that Sega gave when they switched to those was that they were worried about all of those plastic cases winding up in landfills and thought the cardboard was better ecologically.
Sure - and the introduction of those sucky black and white manuals at the same time was coincidental - probably had nothing to do with cutting down costs.
When I come home from a long day in Hell, there's nothing I'd rather reach for than a fire-brewed bottle of Styx Beer. Made from the filthiest waters from our own River Styx. Styx Beer is a third more toxic than any other regular beer. The worst beer - the filthiest beer - the deadliest beer. It's Styx Beer!
The color ink obvously was lead based and therefore they didnt want it damaging the environment when the paper case fell apart.
You know I can understand the scarcity of CIB games from the paper box era but I still can't understand why Boxed early Genny games are so hard to find at least compared to just the cartridges. I mean yeah sure paper cases are not durable but did people actually throw out their nice plastic cases and the instructions all the time? Because I alway kept my games nice and complete
Same goes for Accolade too. I think these boxes held up better than the revised official Sega ones as I see more of these in good shape than the mentioned.
I've known someone who just kept the discs for PS2 games and threw out cases and inserts, there are people like that though I personally keep all packaging.
o.O I'm sorry. I can understand throwing out the boxes for cartridge based systems, but for disc based systems there is no excuse.
"Except for maybe those annoying Sega CD and Saturn US cases. What was Sega thinking when they used those instead of jewel cases?"
NES, Atari 7800, Genesis, SNES, Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Atari Flashback 2, Limited Edition Red Wii, PS3 Slim, GBC, GBA, GBASP, DS Lite, and PSP 3000.
Didn't GameStop/EB/Funco and that ilk throw out the majority of their boxes, even the "nice plastic" ones? I always attributed the shortage of plastic boxes to that.
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You'd think if the game came with the manuals they would want to keep those so people could know what to do. (Remember this was pre internet)
NES, Atari 7800, Genesis, SNES, Saturn, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Atari Flashback 2, Limited Edition Red Wii, PS3 Slim, GBC, GBA, GBASP, DS Lite, and PSP 3000.
I hate the cardboard box cases because you can't stack them on top of one another without damaging the bottom and middle ones.
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My copy of Phantasy Star IV looks crappy in its cardboard box next to the rest of the Phantasy Star series.
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