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| marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: shawndude82 on December 13, 2019, 12:17:43 am ---How hard is it to find a game in it's original box? Every time I see a picture of someone's collection, I never see the games in the box, just the cartridge. I think I would rather have the full deal. Box art is pretty. --- End quote --- Welcome to the forums! You will meet many amazing people here. It's one of the only true gaming sanctuaries remaining online. :D As for your question. Seldom. I'd say at least half of all boxes have been trashes years ago. And about 25-40 percent are in collector hands. depending on the game. So really you either have to pay out the wahzoo. Or just go cartridge. For example, a game like earth bound for just the cart is maybe 300. With the box, someone will have no problem getting thousands. It's just that much of a leap. Boxes are also extremely delicate, so finding ones that aren't squashed, missing books, water damaged or torn gets even harder. Especially with consoles that are older. |
| hoshichiri:
--- Quote from: sworddude on December 13, 2019, 08:13:30 am ---Also if where going by your method switch and ds and 3ds cases should be useless thrown out since a cardridge in those cases has a way smaller ratio than say snes n64 and especially nes with them boxes. --- End quote --- Ummm… --- Quote from: hoshichiri on December 13, 2019, 07:58:13 am ---Depends on the console & the box itself... if the box was designed as an easy-access holder to be used during the game's life, they aren't hard to find. --- End quote --- Like the Genesis, DS & 3DS are plastic clamshell cases. Protective, easy to open & re-close at a moment's notice- of course people kept them. If they came in cardboard boxes that involved pulling out a paper tray to get to your game, and you had to risk tearing/crushing the box every time you handled it, they'dve gotten tossed like their Game Boy counterparts. |
| shawndude82:
--- Quote from: marvelvscapcom2 on December 13, 2019, 10:34:21 pm ---Welcome to the forums! You will meet many amazing people here. It's one of the only true gaming sanctuaries remaining online. :D As for your question. Seldom. I'd say at least half of all boxes have been trashes years ago. And about 25-40 percent are in collector hands. depending on the game. So really you either have to pay out the wahzoo. Or just go cartridge. For example, a game like earth bound for just the cart is maybe 300. With the box, someone will have no problem getting thousands. It's just that much of a leap. Boxes are also extremely delicate, so finding ones that aren't squashed, missing books, water damaged or torn gets even harder. Especially with consoles that are older. --- End quote --- Thanks for the welcome! It's been a long journey getting here. I'm happy to have found you guys! Earthbound is one of the games I had BF (Before Freedom) and I had to sell it, box included (though I kept the strategy guide). So I'd love to be able to find it again, as well as all the other games I couldn't keep. So buying them cib is probably more personal for me than to than to other collectors. It makes sense that they'd be harder to find because, like you guys said, many of them were bent, broken, and destroyed upon first purchase. I have my mom to thank for keeping mine mostly intact. She reminded me to clean everything up when I was done with it, always put my games and VHS's back in their boxes, don't be messy. So I was a neat kid :) I mostly want NES, SNES, and Genesis games, but I'm interested in the anything really. Especially some JP games that never made it to shore. Example, I've wanted Wonder Project J since I saw a preview of it in Nintendo Power (which I'm also trying to find all the back issues of.) And the Cho Aniki series is on my list too just for how bizarre it looks. The Zelda games for the CD-i are a must. I heard so many horrible things about them I can't resist! ;) Rarer games are appealing, as I'm sure you all know. I have saved searches on e-bay should they ever pop up. Like I said in my intro, the Nintendo 1990 World Championship gold cart is going to be mine. It's not even a question, I will get my hands on it. I'm new to collecting so bear with me. I'll probably be asking a lot of stupid questions. Should be fun ;) |
| wartoy:
Some of my collection has original boxes and cases. Older stuff like nes,snes,game boy and a few others I'll buy without boxes but I prefer cib if possible. |
| Warmsignal:
It's hard as balls. Nobody kept that candy wrapper-esque stuff. I'm sure some of them literally went into household furnaces along with last month's Xmas tree. It was kids toys, it meant nothing back then. But yeah, for me it pretty much has to be complete if it didn't come in a cardboard box. No way I'm paying 4x as much for some cardboard packaging, when I've actually perfected the technique of recreating them myself with photoshop, a printer, and a sliver of cardboard material. |
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