Who kicks themselves for throwing away boxes as a kid?

[Mr. Wardner]

I'm happy to report that I did keep every one of my SNES boxes and manuals...and I'm particularly proud of my factory sealed Castlevania IV that I originally bought from Toys R Us during their final game clearance for $10!

[cbroddy]

I regret throwing away my Atari 2600, Super Nintendo boxes when I was younger. Now whenever I see a boxed game I put it into one of my bins.

[diskoboy]

*right here*

I regret throwing away my Odyssey 2 master strategy series boxes and parts out. All 3 of them.

I was 6 years old.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Oh yeah, GameBoy (B&W) boxes back in 1990-1993....god I kick myself daily...

I had CastleVania Adventure..Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle...Nemesis...Solar Striker...Gargoyle's Quest...Yoshi...Double Dragon...Battletoads in Ragnarok's World...TMMT Fall of the Foot Clan....Super Mario Land...Metroid 2 Return of Samus...and so many more

I had all the boxes..and the one I kick myself for the most....a complete Mega Man 5 GBY.

I had to throw them out because I was running out of room and couldnt find no place else to keep them

[briskbc]

I never really bouht new games as a kid (still don't) and there weren't any used game stores around back then so I pretty much just rented. I did throw out a Metroid box but that's not a big deal

[smokehouse]

As a kid I was insistent on keeping my boxes intact. There are only two problems though:

-I was rather poor and had few games, a boxed NES, boxed SNES, Super Mario 2 and Final Fantasy II. Everything else was either rental or borrowed.

-What boxes I did have went in the trash when I went into the ARMY. My parents chucked them out! Needless to say I was rather pissed.

[fishsandwich]

*right here*

I regret throwing away my Odyssey 2 master strategy series boxes and parts out. All 3 of them.

I was 6 years old.

Ouch!

[Pantechnicon]

I never kept any 2600 boxes circa 1981-1984, the peak of my new 2600 game buying days. Unless, like o2william, I was doing something creative with the boxes, such as cutting out the fronts and making placards on my walls.

Rogmeister's comments pretty much match my own. To add to that, I just want to remind you young'uns that back in the late 70's/early 80's we didn't have a culture, reinforced by international Internet communication, that stressed this notion of immaculately preserving everything you buy on the basis of potential future value as a collectible. Games were commodities, and the packaging was incidental. Likewise, if you look at the accessories Atari and others offered at the time for cartridge storage, they were designed to hold carts, sometimes manuals, but never the boxes.

I keep boxes now if I get them, but I still store the boxes and display the carts loose. But in the context of the period in which I was first exposed to gaming, I don't regret throwing out anything.

[diskoboy]

*right here*

I regret throwing away my Odyssey 2 master strategy series boxes and parts out. All 3 of them.

I was 6 years old.

Ouch!

Tell me about it...

[jajaja]

About the really old boxes i dont think it matters THAT much, but it sux of course. I remember having Bart VS The World box in pretty good condition. It was laying in a drawer for many many years after the NES was dead. When i started collecting i think my mom had threw it away or its stored somewhere hidden