How do you store loose Atari 2600 carts?

[NayusDante]

I've never found a good solution to this. Atari carts are short, fat, and generally not shelf-friendly. How do you display them on your shelves? Sideways with the label facing you? Standing up? Loose in a box?

[Arkhan]

I stack them label out in shelving units.

These shelving units are known to most as milk-crates. I prefer to call them stackable shelving units.

[Nebagram]

My 2600 collection is small so I can store them easily enough in a tub. When the collection grows, the solution is clear: bigger tub. (and a bigger clear tub, at that.)

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Sideways with label facing out. I have customizable shelving, so I space it to match the cart size. This proves to be a problem with the M2 carts or other "weird" carts, but any shelving solution is going to have issues taking those into account.

[Pantechnicon]

Just stack `em, like so.

Most the carts aren't a problem with respect to size and proportion. Imagic titles jut out a little bit, and there are some oddball brands like Xonox, Commavid or Konami which just go off to the side.

The worst ones of course are M-Network which don't lend themselves to stacking at all but I found a neat way to stack them too: Alternate M-Network carts with Imagics. Put an Imagic on the bottom of the pile and then place the skinny side of the M-Cart on top of it with the wider cartridge edge hanging off the back. Makes for a nice tall stack. I'll post a picture later tonight to show what I'm talking about.

[Nature Boy]

The worst ones of course are M-Network which don't lend themselves to stacking at all but I found a neat way to stack them too: Alternate M-Network carts with Imagics.

I actually put a small piece of felt on the carts (like what you buy for the bottom of chairs so that they don't scratch hardwood floors). That basically gives the top part of the cart the same width as a regular cart and you can keep your games alpha sorted!

I have two shelves for my 2600 games: one for the half dozen or so I have in boxes (placed like books I guess you'd say), the other for the carts (which are stacked like the pic in pantechnicon's post).

[DDCecil]

Standing up on the shelf like this:

[jonjandran]

In the garbage......

Joke guys, joke please don't send a Ninja Assassin after me.


Seriously though I have mine in a plastic bin. The kind that slides under the bed. Keeps them nice and neat and dust free.

[aaron7]

I just piled em up.

Here's a little of the collection:

[Raedon]

tupperware tub atm just like all my games ... in storage. :P