just launch titles that were packaged differently, some in unused saturn cases. sony switched over to jewel cases after the first year, if im not mistaken.
just launch titles that were packaged differently, some in unused saturn cases. sony switched over to jewel cases after the first year, if im not mistaken.
McBacon, Europe didn't get any becase these stopped being produced before Europe got the PS (Last one was retailed in July 95) (see Mayhems post earlier in this thread).
Story goes something like this
Sony, feeling that their system was going to be a very good selling thing, bought up a good number of the Large Jewel cases from Sega because they couldn't get a good enough supply of ridged cases in time for launch. I've got a feeling that they went with these longer cases because they'd be similar to the American Saturn game cases, but be totally different (being black) and would stand out against the Saturn stuff. After less than a year Sony started to put all the new games (and a portion of the older ones) into standard jewel cases. Not a stupid idea due to these cases size and the fact that so many games were coming out, stores just didn't have the shelf space to devote to them.
These longboxes came out in 3 styles the Large Jewel case, the cardboard case and the Ridged cases. All the American games have on the left side (where the cd tray opens up) a printing that looks like the Ridge that was on the top of the spine on the Ridged case.
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already done, but awesome [to say the least ]
Do you really have a longbox PS1 Space Hulk? Does it have a longbox manual? Did you get it on Ebay for $23 a few years ago? Very small parts of the world are anxiously waiting for answers to these questions...and please post that pic of the back of the box!Originally Posted by jerome
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Triple Play 97 is my only longbox
I also think the early-mid 90s was a great time for the Playstation. Possibly because that time period was such a great time for video games, and the first Playstation games were completely different from the later ones.Originally Posted by CreamSoda
What ever happened with this thread? Is the list still correct with 102 longbox titles?
That is very nice indeed.
Dangerboy's Longbox work is HERE.
Go forth and find him variants he is yet to recieve!
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Ugh, I just realized how much updating I need to do on these pages.
To bring everyone up to speed,
Here's the article I did on the Space Hulk long box:
http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playsta...at_space_hulk/
There are now confirmed 2 or 3 long boxes for Space Hulk - none with manuals. Essentially display cases. Until a long box manual shows up, that's all it is. A pre-order / marketing display case.
As Stu mentioned, here's the long box page:
http://www.game-rave.com/psx/playsta..._box/index.htm
However, there are two additions I haven't added yet:
Road Rash has a new variant - a small jewel case T ESRB variant that matches the Greatst Hits case, only it's a black label.
King's Field's two box variants have matching phone card variants.
you have 102 long-box's, how many reg cd ps1 games do you have
Looks good. That must have taken awhile?
Some very nice work dangerboy. Thank you for updating the links to your page. I really enjoyed the Space Hulk article and the longbox page with photos and variants is truly amazing.
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The Playstation's biggest problem is what the Wii is currently suffering through. The most popular system is getting drowned in too many quickie-for-cash releases. Some of the system's best games came out late in the systems life, like Capcom Vs SNK, Gunslinger, etc.
You just couldn't tell from all the child game hand me downs and budget titles.
Yeah, the flood of crapware that was around circa 1999 was unbearable. It was actually one of the reasons I sold off my PlayStation collection.
Of course, a few years ago I had to rebuild my collection, mainly due to missing out on all the great RPGs.
Looking back, it has roughly the same percentage of worthy games as any other system. There was just a lot more crap to wade through.