Hello again,
I recently purchased three bookshelves to put my collection on display. Two of the bookshelves are going to be dedicated to solely SNES games, as I have over 700 now, (getting close to completing the library - I'm so excited!). My real question is: Is it that bad to stack the games on top of each other flat?
I have heard people say that doing this will cause the labels to imprint, possibly causing damage due to the weight. I personally have not had issues with this in the past, but I have heard a lot of different things from different people. Have any of you had issues damaging your carts in this way? Sliding them up sideways seems far less convenient. Not only are they a lot harder to read this way, but I can't really utilize the vertical space on the bookshelf if I decide to do this. Each space between the shelves is approx. 1 - 2 ft., so most of the space would be wasted unless I stack them on top of each other sideways, which just sounds like a mess. If you took a game out, all three rows would slide down sideways!
I know that the best possible solution would be to build specialty shelves that allow each row to be stack sideways with many tightly packed shelves per unit, but that just isn't what I'm working with.
If I were to stack the flat, about how many can I stack before I reach the "max," i.e. the maximum number before label damage is possible. Considering the shelves, I think I'm looking at stacking 15 or so on top of each other per row.
Please let me know any advice that you think might help, and game on!
-Chris