What defines a "complete" SNES game?
This could also apply to Atari Jaguar and 32X games as well, and I guess any games that came in a cardboard box.
Now, when I think of SNES games when I actually bought them originally, they came with:
1. The actual outside box
2. The inside box that slides inside the outside box.
3. A small plastic bag with the SNES cart inside.
4. A plastic bag with the instruction manual and other advertisements in it.
5. The actual SNES cart
6. The little plastic dust cover on the actual cart
Actually, you could say there are really 9 items in most truly complete SNES boxes.
1. The outside box
2. The inside box
3. The plastic bag for the cart
4. The plastic bag for the manual and other inserts
5. The game manual
6. The little Nintendo brocuere thing
7. The little advertisement for Nintendo Power, or for the company that makes the game or whatever. There was always something else in there. Maybe a map for the game, or a special fold out poster for plays in a John Madden game or something like that. Or fighting moves in a fighting game.
8. The actual game cartridge
9. The plastic dust cover for the cartridge.
So when people sell these items as supposedly complete, do they really have all 9 or more items?
Yes, some games don't have dust covers, and some games don't have Ads or Maps or Posters in them. But still, they all had at the very least 7 items.
1. Outer box
2. Inner box
3. Plastic bag for cart
4. Plastic sleve for insturctions and other crap
5. Instruction manual
6. Nintendo paper thing
7. Actual cartridge
Every single brand new SNES game should at the very least have these 8 items, but I would expect that many would also have a little advertisement in it, or a map, or a poster, or a ad for the publishers upcoming games, or a Plastic dust cover for the cart.
So the total number of items could be like 11!
You know what sucks? Back in the day, when I bought Super Nintendo games, I would get the game home, and the first thing I would do is get a special knife, and slice the SNES box very carefully, where the game would look totally brand new, except that one little area was sliced, just so I could open the box and remove the cart and the dust cover. I would remove the cart and dust cover, if one was in there, but I would replace everthing else back into the box, and I would store that box away in a closet, and never touch it again, until it came time to sell the game.
Had I saved all those games, instead of selling them. I would have some seriously mint condition games.
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Originally Posted by Anthony1
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