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| Do you buy or keep your retro consoles with the box? |
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| azure:
I prefer to have my consoles boxed, but there are a few I don't have the boxes for. Mostly my original consoles I've had since release. |
| sworddude:
I always try to get cib in excellent upwards condition. I don't do this for history reasons like some here apparently :o but just for the simple fact that some boxes look nice. I will not get all box variations but I try to get nice looking ones pack bundles of games wich have nice looking box art. but I'm also ok with normal edition boxes for allot of consoles. I have pretty much all my consoles hooked up on multiple screens some spare ones of the main systems however my spare consoles and handhelds are also stored seperately nicely in box though, the boxes can be sturdy but it still is cardboard, just imagine stacking the boxes up with heavy consoles inside them or worse with empty box on the bottom while heavy ones with a console stacked on top, I highly doubt boxes would stay nice that way quite a waste if you have excellent console boxes or special editions. but if only the styro foam and inserts and manuals are in there not that much damage can be done. Not to mention if you would leave them consoles in the boxes it is an absolute pain to get them in and out of the box especially with the styro foam or those shitty cardboard inserts. It's quite a hassle I'm pretty sure other people can imagine what I am talking about with pretty much every tv console. |
| stealthrush:
The last new system I've bought was Nintendo DS Lite which I kept the box, as for systems I grew up with my parents threw the boxes away. Various systems onward I've bought used without a box. |
| kingrat101:
I try to get consoles with boxes, I have trouble getting rid of boxes in general. I just got a new PC headset, and decided to keep the box, found my mouse box too haha. Consoles though, yes, I try to buy them with the boxes, I typically have multiple consoles though, keep one in the box other, more beat-up ones, I use to play and have hooked up. |
| ferraroso:
I really like having the console boxes whenever it is financially possible, but since I like having them ready at hand to play, I never keep them in the boxes. And this is something I've been doing since my childhood in the 80's. I always like to keep the boxes for accessories (like controllers) whenever I can and, if the item is special in some way, I will even keep the receipt. I'm missing the boxes for around one third of the consoles that I own, but I am always trying to find them (if the price is reasonable). |
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