How to store large amount of loose Gameboy games?

[elvis8atari]

I'm starting to amass a pretty large amount of original Gameboy games and I'm looking for a way to store them.

What I'd like to do is keep them in a binder, in plastic pouches. But I'm not exactly sure how to find such a thing, and how to get the right size plastic sleeves to fit in a binder. And also, what kind of binder would be correct.

I'm wondering if anyone else has tried such a thing, and might have advice on what kind / size of binders, plastic sleeves to get. And where to get them.

[Emperor Megas]

Collector cards sheets come in standard sizes. You'd have to actually go out of your way and search for ones that aren't the size that you need. And binders are easy enough to find practically anywhere. Anything sold that's 3-holed (loose leaf paper, collector card sheets, CD sheets, etc.) will fit in a standard 3 ring binder, so card sheets will/do fit in standard binders. The kind of binder you want is/are going to be the large capacity ones, since GB games stack pretty high when you have more than a few.



You can get binders at any office supply store, or any store with an office/school supply section, and you can get collector card sheets at any comic store, or place that deals in trading cards. They're also (both) sold in Walmart. They're also perfect for store loose TG16/PC Engine hucards, if you happen to have any of those (though TG16 games are almost always found complete).

[Gameguy]

The binder method is ok but if you have a lot of games it gets full fast. A large shoebox should hold everything fine.

[Trebuken]

I have a binder similar to the one pictured (perhaps a bit bigger). It has 8 pages with 9 games in each page (trading card sized). So that's 72 games. A shoe box would certainly save space, but the pages can be alphabetized for easy searching. You can also attach a gameslist to the cover of the binder. Some of the binders have slots to insert a cover on the binder.

Trading card size is the best I've found. They seem overly large (length and width), but they are designed to hold the much thinner cards so they expand for the cartridges and hold them snugly.

[Duke.Togo]

Cardboard Velveeta boxes. Perfect size for loose GB carts.

[slapdash]

Cardboard Velveeta boxes. Perfect size for loose GB carts.

That's what I use, but one might question the potential consequences to one's health to eat enough Velveeta to store a large collection of GB games. :-)

[M.Buster2184]

Collector cards sheets come in standard sizes. You'd have to actually go out of your way and search for ones that aren't the size that you need. And binders are easy enough to find practically anywhere. Anything sold that's 3-holed (loose leaf paper, collector card sheets, CD sheets, etc.) will fit in a standard 3 ring binder, so card sheets will/do fit in standard binders. The kind of binder you want is/are going to be the large capacity ones, since GB games stack pretty high when you have more than a few.



You can get binders at any office supply store, or any store with an office/school supply section, and you can get collector card sheets at any comic store, or place that deals in trading cards. They're also (both) sold in Walmart. They're also perfect for store loose TG16/PC Engine hucards, if you happen to have any of those (though TG16 games are almost always found complete).

Megas beat me to it, but I was going to recommend the binder method. Any plastic sheet meant for baseball cards should work pretty well, also, as previously mentioned, you can alphabetize the games and label the front so you know what games you have in that particular binder.

[InsaneDavid]

Sterlite containers, same way I store all my Atari VCS cartridges. Take a few carts with you to work out what size fits smoothest and then buy a few containers.

[hellraiser]

I haven't tried it but these seem like they would work.

http://www.centercoin.com/coin_suppl...inyl_pages.htm

[VideoGameRescue]

I just thought of this but are the cartridges small enough to fit into baseball card sleeves? Im thinking they won't but that would be a great way to store GB games.

[eggwolio]

I just thought of this but are the cartridges small enough to fit into baseball card sleeves? Im thinking they won't but that would be a great way to store GB games.

Wow! I can't believe this hasn't been suggested yet!

/snark