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    Default Did you/your family keep the cardboard game boxes?

    My mom kept all the boxes and manuals, stored them away and kept them in excellent condition. She sold them with the games for next to nothing at a garage sale in the mid to late 2000s.

    I heard Funcoland used to stomp on the boxes and then throw them away lol

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    Only a few of ours survived, and I have no idea why those did. The rest we tossed, if we even had them to begin with.

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    Yeah, my parents always insisted on keeping boxes for everything in case the game "broke." Sadly it's mostly just relatively inexpensive GBA games, but there's a few good ones (FF Tactics, Oracle of Seasons on GBC, etc)

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    I don't necessarily think my parents did, but I did. Though when I moved for college I left a lot of the boxes packed away in a box at home (just the boxes and manuals, not the games and systems). When my parents moved they all disappeared. There's a good chance they saw it all as garbage and threw it out, I don't really remember.
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    I kept all of mine from back then, mostly Genesis or Gameboy boxes. I don't have the system box for my Genesis though.

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    I wish I had.

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