Did anyone ever even keep their N64 game boxes? It feels like everyone just kept the cartridges and threw away the boxes
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Did anyone ever even keep their N64 game boxes? It feels like everyone just kept the cartridges and threw away the boxes
I wanted to but my parents made me throw them away, same with my gameboy boxes. I liked having them but they thought I was just hoarding trash.
and they were right.
I was between 5 and 10 for most of the N64's life cycle, I just liked the pictures and would try to draw them sometimes. The extra money from the boxes would have been cool.
>they were right
with that decision they just costed him hundreds if not thousands
The boxes were cardboard pieces of shit that looked terrible, so most people threw them away.
Yes, I have all of mine from when I was a kid. I have all my old game boxes.
Why would you throw them out?
Nobody was thinking about collecting then, not even parents. You had to open to play the game which is different than boxes for say, action figures. Which have their own artist following and shit.
Yeah we were kids and didn't know that obese manchildren would pay a premium for old cardboard packaging decades later.
Then youre a moron if you didnt notice the trend with barbies and shit. Toy story 2 has a collector keeping the boxes to preserve value as a fricking plot point.
I was too young to care and I never knew anyone that kept them either.
I believe the beanie baby bubble bursting killed a lot of enthusiasm for collecting shit.
I didn't even keep my PS2 and PC boxes
Why not?
Just got one of those plastic holders that let you stack up a billion CDs
Okay. Why?
Took up less space, also half of my games were those burned copies you bought at the local fair for 5$ with missing FMVs and the name drawn with a sharpie
>Paying for pirated discs
I never understood kids who did this.
at least during ps1 times basically nobody had cd burners and internet. but i did loan sometimes game from friend and tried to copy it on some computer at parent's work place where they had cd burner for some reason
>at least during ps1 times basically nobody had cd burners and internet
I knew loads of people who did in the UK. I remember almost everyone in my school playing Simpsons Doom on their dad's computers at home.
well those cost lots of money until late 90s. not something that normal family had on their computer
>Not something a normal family had
By the start of the 2000's almost every family I knew had a PC. And I lived in a rural ass farming town. Normal people could/were burning PS2 cd's all the time in the 90's.
ps2s didn't really exist in the 90s tho. mid 90s cd burners were still hundreds of bucks if not more
I live in a slavshit country and back then internet basically wasn't widely available yet, and definitely not good enough for downloading a full game
People didn't download games back then, usually. You'd borrow or rent a legit one, rip it, and burn the iso onto another disc and return the original. Discs were dirt cheap.
No. There is no reason to keep trash.
Yes? Who the frick threw these away? I don't know a single person that did. Most people had the N64 carts in a stack/third party case/all in one box, but every kid I knew still had the boxes somewhere with the manuals inside.
didn't have N64 but had snes and kept the boxes
I still got some but they're not in pristine mint condition, some creases here and there.
why would i keep the boxes when i'm fricking 9 years old at the time
I did and I was younger. I liked looking at the artwork and would copy the pictures onto paper.
I never kept them and none of my friends did either. Same with the NES and SNES.
But when gen 6 rolled around with the discs and DVD cases, those I always kept. Same with future gens. It just wasn’t practical until that point
>It just wasn’t practical until that point
Sega games always came in plastic cases.
If you so much as glanced at an N64 game box it would disintegrate. Meanwhile my PS1 israeliteel cases are all mostly pristine.
I can always just print new boxes.
No, they felt like trash as a kid. It would be a pain in the ass to put the cartridge back into the box every time. And because they were cardboard you would end up tearing them eventually. Only people old enough at the time to consider collecting them would have saved them.
>Only people old enough at the time to consider collecting them would have saved them.
I was 5 and I looked after my boxes. Gameboy too.
>Only people old enough at the time to consider collecting them would have saved them.
Kids younger than that were buying Pokémon Cards and keeping them safe. You don't know what you are talking about.
Shit was impossible as a kid, the boxes were flimsy shitty cardboard.
Same deal with gba games
No I didn't even keep my N64 or games.
Having a crack addict for a mother sucks.
I've got every snes/64/GameCube/Wii/wiiU/ console and game I've ever had and all the boxes
I'm genuinely surprised most people don't keep the boxes. I recently went up to my mum's house to collect all of mine from the Master System to the GBA.
can't stand box packaging, looks nice but a nightmare to keep in decent condition.
I had every game console conceivable at one point. nowdays I only have a PS5 with digital games. always sold or gave away games growing up. so many times I basically gave away like 5 games just to get a israelite bucks store credit at game store...EB games was the one I used to go to. before that it was funcoland. also sold every console I had the same way. I always been bad at holding on to things. I just dont care.
no i always thought holding onto paper boxes was for losers, i had enough trash in my bedroom
Yeah, because they're flimsy shitty cardboard boxes that nobody used to care about until collector israelites started making a huge deal about it.