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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: Warmsignal on February 26, 2022, 11:06:23 am
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Are they meant for the garbage?
The former me would agree with that. However, as my obsessive compulsive tendency continue to spiral, I've increased my habits on this in last 5 years. Well, actually I've sort of always saved my store receipts since the early days of game collecting... and now I even save the price tag stickers. I don't really have a good reason to save those, I used to rip them straight off and trash them. Now usually place them inside the game case. I guess it's to reflect back on how much I paid. It would have been interesting to have done this more often in the past, especially with systems like the Nintendo DS, showing where every game I paid $12 for is now a couple hundred complete.
Of course, this stuff is just trash ultimately. I have a shoe-box full of receipts and lot of receipts are also inside of the cases. To me, it just feels like an obsessive habit that I wish I didn't have, but maybe some day someone will find it all the more intriguing to see the evidence of where all this stuff originated from.
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I sometimes see an old school receipt with my retro games with say cube snes sega ps2 games alongside the budget bin or full retail prices that people paid for them way back. in those rare cases that they are still there I'll just keep those within the game cases for fun. only if the condition is still nice and tidy however.
Price tags I will remove unless it ain't on a notable spot plus if they where to look nice. the price tag and title of said game can look pretty nice.
I don't however store them in seperate boxes if it's not within the games I just trash them. It's a small blast from the past in my eyes.
I don't do so for current or last gen though.
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I try to keep receipts for games in their case and any stickers that may be on the plastic wrap.
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I used to keep receipts in the boxes. Some of the games I've held onto like my preorder copy of the first Uncharted... I still have the receipt for that. It was kind of neat to look back on it late last year when I put that copy in a shadowbox. Receipt still lives in the box which is now displayed on my wall.
As for price stickers... they were always removed and tossed. I preferred to see the full box art than see an ugly price tag slapped on it.
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I used to take them all off. But now, some of them are kind of nostalgic. I mean if I find a game with an old rental sticker or an old FuncoLand sticker, it's like a relic of the past and I keep them on there.
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A few yers ago I would have absolutely answered remove them all! The game needs to be in as pristine, original condition as possible! However, my attitude has changed somewhat since then.
I feel like all video games have a destiny of their own and price stickers and other signs of the game ending up in one place or another over time are a part of that history. While it happens less and less, I love coming across old price stickers from places like EBX, Game Crazy, or KB Toys on old games, and typically if its from one of these older bygone game stores I will leave the stickers on for retail posterity. However, if its a Gamestop sticker or generic price sticker I typically remove it. Sure, someday I might regret this when Gamestop or Best Buy are gone, but for now I really don't care and would rather gave the game looking clean and nice.
So I guess you can say I remove the stickers and clean up probably 95% of my games these days with a few exceptions here and there.
Oh! and one cool, uncleaned game I have is actually from an independent rental store where I used to rent all my movies and games back in the early and mid 90s. It was a place called Famous Video and I rented pretty much all my Genesis and SNES games from there back in the day. I found a copy of Soldier of Fortune on the Genesis that still had several Famous Video stickers on it. Despite having never played that game, the fact that it was among the many games I browsed as a young kid that game is one of the most special and important in my collection, and one I will never sell. You can bet I will never remove the stickers from that game.
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Oh! and one cool, uncleaned game I have is actually from an independent rental store where I used to rent all my movies and games back in the early and mid 90s. It was a place called Famous Video and I rented pretty much all my Genesis and SNES games from there back in the day. I found a copy of Soldier of Fortune on the Genesis that still had several Famous Video stickers on it. Despite having never played that game, the fact that it was among the many games I browsed as a young kid that game is one of the most special and important in my collection, and one I will never sell. You can bet I will never remove the stickers from that game.
That's always a treat. I've got a copy of P.O.W. for the NES, which has a sticker on it from my long defunct local video rental store I used to rent all of my games from back in the day. Most likely a copy that I scanned over at one point as a kid, when all I had to go on for choosing a rental was the cover art itself.
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Oh! and one cool, uncleaned game I have is actually from an independent rental store where I used to rent all my movies and games back in the early and mid 90s. It was a place called Famous Video and I rented pretty much all my Genesis and SNES games from there back in the day. I found a copy of Soldier of Fortune on the Genesis that still had several Famous Video stickers on it. Despite having never played that game, the fact that it was among the many games I browsed as a young kid that game is one of the most special and important in my collection, and one I will never sell. You can bet I will never remove the stickers from that game.
That's always a treat. I've got a copy of P.O.W. for the NES, which has a sticker on it from my long defunct local video rental store I used to rent all of my games from back in the day. Most likely a copy that I scanned over at one point as a kid, when all I had to go on for choosing a rental was the cover art itself.
That's the thing, Soldier of Fortune is definitely the type of game I would have picked up and looked at back in the day, which i'm 99% sure I did at one point or another. That alone makes it even more special that I have it and not a game like Madden 95 or Beauty and the Beast which are two games that would have never interested me back then.
While not games, two things I would absolutely die if I ever found are the VHS copies of Mortal Kombat or Godzilla 1985 I used to rent all the time from that rental store. I probably rented each of those movies about 10 times each as a kid and watched them easily over 30 times during that period of time. I'd literally request to be buried with those if I ever found them. Unfortunately I'm sure the only place where those movies are buried is in a landfill somewhere under 25-years of garbage at this point.
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I put receipts in game case and restick the price tag to inside of case if possible.
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If there is a sticker over the sealed game wrapping I try preserve it and them sitck it on inisde the case - Had this with my Last of Us 2 Stellbook & FFVII Remake on PS4.
If the sticker is on the case promoting review scores or bonus content I leave it.
Store stickers I don't consider part of the oriignal product so they go.
Receipts I sometimes keep in the case.
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While I have seen some interesting novelty with people finding old retro games and still having the receipts and seeing them bought from stores that are defunct or were pricey or very cheap, receipts and price tag stickers go directly into the trash for me. Heck, most games don't even have price tags on them anymore that I've seen unless you are buying a used game from Gamestop. Best Buy might, I forget, I haven't bought a game from there in years at this point.
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I remove price stickers, but that's all.
Receipts? I never keep those.
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If the game has the case I keep them.
If don't and they are from games with a date from last week and the name of game being from "Super Mario Galaxy" to "Mario Game Wii Super".
I have no problem considering it recycle material.
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Original price labels can stay. Recent price labels from a modern game store or second-hand store I will remove.
Original price labels even on a newer release might not make sense to keep, but that store might not exist in the future. Same goes for rental labels, I leave those on. Here are some examples:
https://imgur.com/gallery/sS89R
https://i.imgur.com/sPB6JJF.jpg
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I only save the receipts if it shows the title of the game on it.
If it just says Xbox 19.99 etc., it goes in the recycle bin.
I use to put the receipt in the jewel case with the games until it bled through to the instruction manual one time. They go in a box now.
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I usually toss receipts, price tags I remove if it's a used game, but if it's new I'll usually leave it on the cellophane.
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Price tags go in the trash. Receipts will either follow or be slipped in the case behind the other inserts.
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I generally don't acquire any items with pricing labels directly on them, so this isn't an aspect I usually experience. For modern items with pricing labels, they are removed. For older items, labels remain, and especially so if the labels are from independent or defunct stores.
For sales receipts, they are also kept. Sales receipts allow me to look back at an item and have a clear indicator as to my history with the item—when? and where? are certainly answered, but sometimes why? can too just by reading the receipt's information. I like preserving my own personal history with the items in my collection.
Straying off a little off topic, this is also why I keep records of when I play games. By doing so, I'm able to recall a lot of different aspects of my life during that moment, whether it be types of games I was interested in to more personal recollections such as who I was as a person. More information of any kind allows for memories to stay fresh.
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I generally don't acquire any items with pricing labels directly on them, so this isn't an aspect I usually experience. For modern items with pricing labels, they are removed. For older items, labels remain, and especially so if the labels are from independent or defunct stores.
For sales receipts, they are also kept. Sales receipts allow me to look back at an item and have a clear indicator as to my history with the item—when? and where? are certainly answered, but sometimes why? can too just by reading the receipt's information. I like preserving my own personal history with the items in my collection.
Straying off a little off topic, this is also why I keep records of when I play games. By doing so, I'm able to recall a lot of different aspects of my life during that moment, whether it be types of games I was interested in to more personal recollections such as who I was as a person. More information of any kind allows for memories to stay fresh.
That's an interesting point. I also find that being able to recall when I got a game, or a system, etc, helps me to also recall the bigger picture of specific chapters in my life and everything that was going on at the time. Like recently, I've been sort of romanticizing the Wii U again, and I can vividly recall the when, and the where of getting my console for the holiday season of 13'. I remember the weather out, I remember unboxing it by the fireplace. I remember how my nephew was just a new-born at the time. I remember playing NSMBU over at their house on the living room TV, before he had ever even built his own dedicated gaming room. What an endeavor that was, as I helped a bit in the construction of an unfinished basement, huddling around an area heater in the dead of winter.
These things that we collect are a lot more than just inanimate objects to sit on a shelf, they're also experiences, tied to each of our own stories.
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Are they meant for the garbage?
Yes.
Get a personal document scanner if you must keep proof of purchase, otherwise you're just hoarding paper.
[...] but maybe some day someone will find it all the more intriguing to see the evidence of where all this stuff originated from.
The person you end up selling your collection to 50 years from now will take a gander at that shoe box, quirk their brow as they mumble, "what the fuck is this shit" under their breath, chucking the whole thing in the trash. Nobody cares; it's freaking paper.