Cardboard boxes

[Anonymous No.8274726]

Something you consider worth the extra fee or completely overpriced?

[Anonymous No.8274836]

I don't buy video games or cardboard boxes

[Anonymous No.8274840]

>>8274726
They are pretty to look at and I would rather have a complete game with manuals and such, but it's generally not worth the price. I keep the boxes I do have in good condition, though.

[Anonymous No.8274852]

Nintendo never cared about their customers

[Anonymous No.8274858]

>>8274726
depends on the game
a lot of times the prices are similar (virtualboy, japanese releases, shovelware, etc)

if possible i go for it
although i would say its idiocy to pay hundreds of dollars for empty boxes al ebay

[Anonymous No.8274883]

boxes are for collectors only
not much else to say

[Anonymous No.8274889]

>>8274726
Cardboard boxes were an insult from Nintendo. They are dogshit. I threw all of mine except for my original pokemon gameboy games. I think the plastic reproduction cases are better. Pictured: I actually paid $9 per case a few years back for these. Worth it.

[Anonymous No.8274892]

This is what Nintendo should have given us

[Anonymous No.8274893]

>>8274726
If there is a $50 game i want that's $200 more because it's CIB i will just get the loose game.

[Anonymous No.8274896]

>>8274892
A souless etsy-tier repro is what they should have given us?

[Anonymous No.8274904]

>>8274896
These repro boxes are higher quality than the cardboard shit Nintendo fed us

[Anonymous No.8274923]

>>8274726
I never got charged extra for a box. Must be a bandwagoner thing.

[Anonymous No.8274958]

>>8274923
You probably only buy low demand games.

[Anonymous No.8274974]

>>8274889
Ooh those look nice, I am thinking about getting repro cases too. One thing I do not like about DS cases are that they are so difficult to open. Are these any easier?

[Anonymous No.8275007]

>>8274974
These are easier to open than DS game cases. However the website I got them from, retrogamecases.com, doesn’t have DS game cases available.

[Anonymous No.8275018]

>>8274958
Literally bought the game in OPs pic kiddo

[Anonymous No.8275020]

>>8275007
Oh that's fine, I was actually thinking about getting them for SNES/SF carts in the future. I just don't like the stiffness of DS cases is all and was hoping it is not the same.

[Anonymous No.8275029]

I've been trying to get a boxed copy of Doom 2 or Master Levels for a few years, but fuck the full retard prices. I've started collecting Doom shovelware releases instead...which are ALSO getting overpriced.

[Anonymous No.8275594]

>>8274904
That doesn't keep them from looking like shit.

[Anonymous No.8275606]

>>8274726
i still have all my game boxes but /vr/ tells me there's no point

[Anonymous No.8276025]

>>8274726
>Versione Rossa
Basado.

[Anonymous No.8276036]

Thinking of doing this with my spare Game Boy carts.
https://youtu.be/G7UiWwJzZZA?t=243
I've never been too bothered with original boxes, if I find a box with or without a game for a decent price, I might get it. But I've never been obsessed with getting a perfect mint collection of boxed titles. But I do love cardboard game packaging, they're so vibrant and nice to own.

[Anonymous No.8276040]

>>8274923
>>8275018
Low effort trollposting, everyone knows that buying games with the box included jacks the price up. Gameboy games and Pokemon games certainly not excluded.

This applies to clamshell boxes like the Turbografx 16 and Genesis/Megadrive and PS2/Xbox/Gamecube/everything after more than cardboard boxes like the Super Nintendo, N64 and Gameboy for pretty obvious reasons. The extra durability means that them being in good shape isn't as commoditized, and the durability means they were more likely to keep them to begin with. Sega Genesis collecting is one thing where including the box, while certainly jacking up the value for the game, doesn't do it quite as much as it would for a Super Nintendo game.

[Anonymous No.8276047]

>>8274923
>>8275018
Low effort trollposting, everyone knows that buying games with the box included jacks the price up. Gameboy games and Pokemon games certainly not excluded.

This applies to clamshell boxes like the Turbografx 16 and Genesis/Megadrive and PS2/Xbox/Gamecube/everything less than cardboard boxes like the Super Nintendo, N64 and Gameboy for pretty obvious reasons. The extra durability of clamshell boxes means that them being in good shape isn't as commoditized, and the durability means they were more likely to keep them to begin with. Sega Genesis collecting is one thing where including the box, while certainly jacking up the value for the game, doesn't do it quite as much as it would for a Super Nintendo game.

[Anonymous No.8276138]

>>8274923
There's literally never once been a period in all of the after market history where a CIB game was not more expensive than a loose game. Kill yourself larper.

[Anonymous No.8276373]

>>8274726
If you're collecting the cartridge plastic, which is just a container for the work of art and not art in itself at all, the cardboard actually has higher artistic value to be preserving. The game data is on neither plastic nor cardboard, but the cardboard has more than 1 sticker of unique artwork to it and likely contains the instruction manual which holds even more than that. If you're into physical collecting like you're a museum curator, the art and written word is more culturally and artistically important than the generic elements (ie the plastic casing and default chips inside that aren't even necessary to preserving the ideas recorded in the ROM data). Unique cartridges exempt obviously.

[Anonymous No.8276383]

>>8274726
They feel nice. But no, I won't pay $200 extra.

[Anonymous No.8277092]

>>8274726
I never buy a boxless game. But fuck paying extra for the box.
A game without the box and manual should be cheaper, not the other way around.

[Anonymous No.8277098]

>>8274889
>>8274892
Nice, I want that, but 9 bucks a pop is really pushing it shouldn't be more than 3 and I'm only willing to pay 2.

[Anonymous No.8277120]

>>8276138
I bought Evander Holyfields real deal boxing the other day at the local retro game shop. The game loose was $6 the CIB was $4. I went with the CIB. I assume the loose cart was nicer condition or something.

[Anonymous No.8277160]

disposable boxes are worth like 5$ extra, reusable cases are included in the base cost of the product.

[Anonymous No.8277189]

My mom would encourage me to save the cardbacks of my toys because they were "part of the toy". Because of her I save quite a few of my gameboxes, every manual and a lot of random game related media you cant really find on ebay. I have about 15 GBC boxes, 40 Gameboy manuals and 30 Game gear manuals.

[Anonymous No.8277195]

>>8277189
Lucky you, mine is a retard throwing away everything. It's a miracle I didn't end up a consoomer because of this bitch.

[Anonymous No.8277201]

>>8277195
Yikes. Do you know the cause of her cuntyness?

[Anonymous No.8277205]

>>8277092

[Anonymous No.8277209]

>>8277201
She's a typical woman.

[Anonymous No.8277235]

>>8274726
I don't buy cardboard boxes. I even threw away the last cardboard game box I owned about week ago. In hindsight, I should have sold it to some nutjob on eBay who would preserve it in plastic, but selling is such a hassle.

[Anonymous No.8277237]

>>8274726
completely overpriced and fucking burgers ruined the 2nd hand market with their CIB RARE and WATA GRADED bullshit.

[Anonymous No.8277242]

>>8277209
no, im being serious. Is it learned from her parents? abuse from siblings? ex husband? Or is it plain old poor diet and mental illness? It MUST have a cause, she wasnt just born shitty.

[Anonymous No.8277267]

>>8277242
Most women are like that, your mother is a clear cut exception.

[Anonymous No.8277312]

>>8277267
>most women
most of the women in my family are like that because they were raised like that. My grandparents treat each other like equals and loved their children unconditionally.

[Anonymous No.8277678]

>>8276047
High effort bandwagoner coping, everyone knows that these games were originally sold with boxes at no extra charge.

>>8276138
>There's literally never once been a period in all of my short zoomer life where I wasn't coping

[Anonymous No.8277695]

>>8277098
No offense dude but we aren’t in the 90s anymore. $2 to $3 USD is what the cheapest burger at mcdonalds costs in my high COL state (currently $2.67 neat my house btw). We don’t have a dollar menu anymore and fast food joints pay $19/hr starting wage. A $3 product isn’t even worth shipping because a vendor would loose money on their time spent on handling your order. Coomlectors are paypigs, so if they want a nice looking shelf then they can pay $9 dollars for their overpriced N64 games to look pretty. This is the modern economy.

[Anonymous No.8278030]

>>8277695
Thanks for blogging about your parents bad life choices brolet

[Anonymous No.8278041]

>>8277120
Well that's an obvious exception, it's not all the time that loose is in better condition than boxed. And some games that aren't high in demand aren't very expensive boxed to begin with. But just on principle, complete products cost more than incomplete 95% of the time.

[Anonymous No.8279624]

this is the only boxed game I have but I like the art so it was worth it

[Anonymous No.8279758]

>>8277695
I don't care. It's not worth that price. Simple as. I honestly can't give a shit if the manufacturer has to live in the slums to compensate.

[Anonymous No.8279763]

>>8277695
They actually only go for about $3, don't know where anon got $9

[Anonymous No.8280108]

I have s&k in box the art is cool

[Anonymous No.8280439]

Now that we're on the subject of cardboxes, I'd like to know if someone sells Mega Drive or Genesis gamebox protectors like pic related. Thye never have a snug fit for the hanging tab - I've only found two "models", where you either have to press it down and risk breaking the hanging tab or you're left with a gigantic space wide open to the right and left of the tab.

[Anonymous No.8280454]

>>8279763
The site that >>8275007 mentioned is charging $9 per case

[Anonymous No.8280520]

>>8274889
>>8274974
customgamecases makes the same ones and other styles for N64 that are 5.99 as opposed to retrogamecases' 8.99. I like the look of the mold that CGC uses better, although I haven't held either one in my hands.

[Anonymous No.8280527]

>>8279763
Where do you find replacement boxes with art for about $3?

[Anonymous No.8280536]

>>8280527
Not spoonfeeding.

[Anonymous No.8280625]

Boxes are cool, but I wouldn't pay more than a 20-30 dollar premium for one. If I had to choose, I would get the manual over the box.

[Anonymous No.8280687]

>>8280536
So you're full of shit, like I thought. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.8280713]

>>8280687
That wasn't me, just some random troll, sorry. But they're $2.03 on aliexpress.

[Anonymous No.8281814]

I pay for cardboard only if it's a game (or series) i'm invested in and works for display purposes

[Anonymous No.8282196]

i have pokemon red and blue boxes with no games. friend game them to me. i've never sold shit online before so i need to figure out where. ebay, mercari, facebook?

i also have a fuck ton of strategy guides for snes/genesis up through ps2/dreamcast/gamecube/xbox era.

[Anonymous No.8284812]

>>8274896
Based

[Anonymous No.8284940]

>>8282196
eBay personally, though if you don’t want to bother with shipping FB is easier for local sales.