What console had the best game cases?
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What console had the best game cases?
What console had the best game cases?
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Not those cheap PS1 ones that
Had the PS1 cases been uniform it would have been nicer. Though the plastic ribbed ones have been hit hard by time. Most of their labels are peeling off because the glue fails.
best: ps3 bluray case
second best: ps1 israeliteel case
Bad take
Genesis Clamshells are the best hands down. Worst was PAL Saturn cases. I complained the stateside ones were horrible in a thread a couple years back and some euro anons opened my eyes to just how worse theirs were.
i forgot about the PAL ps1 cases. I love how all the spines match and make a sort of "video library" on a shelf
The only downside is their tendency to develop cracks if opened even slightly too quickly.
Loads of mine have cracks. Really damages the resale value.
The one benefit of the NTSC PS1 israeliteels is that you can swap all the pieces. I must have swapped like 50 case parts out by now
>RE Director's Cut
The soundtrack was so awful.
It was the Director's Cut Dualshock Edition that changed the soundtrack...
The durable ones like Sega Genesis cases and the DVD cases of the 6th gen onwards.
>and the DVD cases of the 6th gen onwards
pretty soulless though
although very convenient since they were mostly all the same.
The green xbox israeliteel cases had soul
I don't want to make a thread just for this so I'm gonna use yours just to say that the Famicom probably has the best cartridges
I miss colored carts so much, the wold became a bit lamer the day the last pokemon carts weren't colored.
I remember being so hyped up everytime I saw that red Maximum Carnage cart, even if the game turned out to be shit.
Bottom tier helpfully claimed by the N64’s bullshit cardboard boxes. Might even lump in the Game Boy line as well, hard to buy games today that aren’t beat up.
PAL Dreamcast cases were worse than cardboard boxes. A moronic, overly-complicated design that was also incredibly fragile. Every part of it was prone to fricking up, from the hinges snapping (which would result in the front/back falling off from gravity alone) to the teeth which held the disc(s) in snapping off to the spine getting smushed down if you opened the rear door to access the manual. Whoever designed them was a fricking moron.
I'd still say Saturn boxes were worse simply for the fact that the original cardboard boxes didn't even have clips to hold the manual in.
Dreamcast cases are still bad though. Maybe only a third of games I've bought second hand had a case will all the teeth to hold the disc.
No problems with my US or JP cases, though I hear horror stories constantly about PAL. Which I can't really remark on, since most of my PAL are sealed, and the ones that aren't, aren't broken yet.
But it seems like Sega of Europe really wienered that one up bad from what I hear.
Xbox cases were the best
No idea why other console companies decided to be morons and not use colors
I always hated the NTSC PS2 cases for that reason. There's basically no external tell between a legit game and a well-printed bootleg without opening the case. At least yurop had the blue ones.
>Xbox cases were the best
Not the flexbox ones, I bought splinter cell chaos theory and it has this horrible box, you need to pull the disc hard to get it out
Daily reminder that the long PS1 cases were just reused/repurposed Saturn cases.
The cardboard long box version were still absolutely better than Saturn cases
ps1 israeliteel cases
I really like the SEGA CD/Saturn/PS1 long boxes, even if they're not that durable they just look super cool
I kinda like how the gamecube cases look, but then I remember 6th gen and beyond is just standard dvd/blu-ray cases. I wish N64 games had their own cases sometimes.
Genesis clam shell, but the crap EA ones and eventual slip covers ruined things. So Master System which is universally clamshell.
The plastic genesis cases are fantastic but frick Sega for eventually switching to the cardboard shit. My vote would be FDS
>The plastic genesis cases are fantastic but frick Sega for eventually switching to the cardboard shit.
This.
I have no idea how they could get the boxes so right... and then so wrong in the same generation, why such a downgrade? What were they thinking?
they changed to the paper slip covers for environmental reasons.
Yes, and apple removed the power brick and headphone jack and charged us the same price to save the environment
I don't agree with it, it's simply the stated reason. It literally wasn't cheaper for them to package them in all paper.
I mean, Genesis/SMS are miles better than Nintendo's cardboards, but they aren't better than other game cases. The plastic isn't anything to write home about and they changed the layout 3 and 4 fricking times if you consider the cardboard boxes as a new variant
>NTSC Gamecube
my fave, they are sleek and have excellent quality
>NTSC PS1 israeliteel cases
the gold standard
>NTSC Dreamcast
same as above
>NTSC NeoGeo Pocket
never had one, but from photos they seem perfect
>Neo Geo AES
the size is mesmerizing, yet the plastic holding the cart is filmsy and can break easily
>NTSC PS2
it just werks
haven't never seen one of those, but they look goddamn incredible being roughly the size of a floppy
for the shittiest has to be the Sega CD cardboard ones
>for the shittiest has to be the Sega CD cardboard ones
The worst would be the 1st gen PAL Saturn cases. Just a piece of flimsy cardboard which gives the disc virtually zero protection.
PAL cube cases are superior. Nice push button disc release as opposed to japs dumb cardboard slipcovers and the burger cases which can develop a death grip on the disc with the spindle. For any of my really good games, ive replaced all the cases with the pal versions. Best would be japs form factor in size with the release press.
>opposed to japs dumb cardboard slipcovers
Jap GC cases are so shit I can't believe it. I used to wonder why so many people lost their Gameboy Player start discs until I found out they packed them in the garbage japanese cases. A case like that will never survive longer than a week in an american child's possession.
FDS games in their little boxes do look neat. Too bad that most titles outside of the Nintendo and Konami releases are kinda crappy.
neogeo cases. clamshell but its allll game baby
Sega Saturn.
BAYSED AND CASED
Chadturn wins again
Famicom Disk System cases were really nice. They would have been great for PC Engine games.
Why were they ridged?
For her pleasure.
I specifically even said ridged instead of ribbed to avoid this hackneyed reply, but thanks anyway. I should've just samegayged to myself because the reply was going to be so obvious and just got it out of the way.
you're welcome.
I think only the top one is, they repeated the design on the cardboard and israeliteel case longboxes but the actual ridges are just printed on
I like the GB small plastic case
Genesis black and white grid.
I think the Master System grid is better. Shame about the artwork though.
Genesis for the simple fact of going for a proper hard case while the US standard was cardboard, I loved these cases quite a lot, they felt premium and similar to a lot of VHS cases I had at the time, which felt appropriate since a lot of cartridges I had were based on films I had a VHS of, it was so appropriate and cozy, being a kid growing up with a Genesis is something I'm very grateful for.
I miss colorful and detailed manuals by the way, while hard cases have become a standard, it's a shame that a lot of the SOVL we used to have is now lost, when there even is a disk to buy really.
my only beef with genesis hardboxes is that there's a lot of inconsistency in spine aesthetics so it looks just bonkers on the shelf
Indeed, early on boxes were black, with that grid, sometimes at least, and then they changed it to red, for a more cohesive visual identity brand wide, with Game Gear being purple and SEGA CD being blue, it looks fine too, but the sudden change, for a color that stands out so much, was quite a pain really.
Ah, yes... sure.
Just group the black boxes together and the red boxes together. It's that easy
sure, that makes it a lot better, but i'm talking about the subtle things that frick me right in the OCD, like the "genesis" being both white and gray even on the same case type, phantasy star and royal rumble featuring a product number but 6pak does not, royal rumble has no sega logo, etc.
I like the Japanese Saturn ones
Aesthetically, NA Sega CD and Saturn
Practically, Mega Drive
just the plain transparent CD israeliteel cases. They take the least space I used to stack them up on CD towers.
I hate the american GC box, it grips the disc so hard
Japanese Saturn israeliteel cases. Slightly bigger than cd cases but super durable and feel premium. Only one person mentioned this in the entire thread.
>Slightly bigger
they're the same size.
NTA, but there are some that came in thicker cases. Not multidisc cases, they were just different then standard size cd israelitel cases. Dreamcast in japan also sometimes had them. Is kinda annoying because they wont slide into a standard size CD rack.
I don't know about Saturn, but some of the Japanese Dreamcast games actually do have a slightly thicker israeliteel case to accomodate a thicker manual. I know Third Strike and Jet Set Radio have thicker israeliteel cases.
kino
Do other companies put the logo on the spine?
Namco also did.
I think pretty much every standard Switch game case has the publisher logo on the spine.
3DS games did that as well
SNK did
I liked the Xbox 360's
I love how Saturn/Sega CD israeliteel cases look but I hate how easy they break and get scratched, so I'll go with Genesis.
This piece of shit is bad, the center thing is hard plastic and you have to pull the disc
There are some with a yin yang thing or a 3 parts one, that just plop the disc when pressed
Pretty sure thats a 360 case because that looks like a 360 case and my platinum copy of splinter cell has a silver case.
That's definitely a 360 case. 360s used a lighter shade of green with more yellow incorporated in them, Xbox was darker green with a more balanced red-blue character to it.
The box is wrong, bought it like that. This is a Chaos Theory box, came with the manual even, but it had Splinter Cell disc
It says flexbox in the bottom
I needed the game for future softmods
Neo-Geo without a doubt.
sega CD, Sega saturn and PS1 long boxes.
And sega genesis clam shell boxes.
Genesis of course. Those clamshells were quality.
CD cases are shit-tier since they always break easily and missing the manual usually also means missing the front cover art of your game too. The jap/PAL ps1 cases are even worse though, since there was no place for the manual to go (it just awkwardly sits on top so it falls out when you open the case). Also they're not standard CD israeliteel cases so when it gets cracked you can't just replace for cheap.
pc engine
PS3 by far.
PS1 cases get broken too easily
Genesis were bretty good too
For consoles, probably PC-FX. Those cases were like PC-88 & PC-98 cases. Windows9X had lots of unique cases, that shit over console cases.
Sega had the right idea tho, with their Genesis cases. Those could take a pounding. Unlike the shitty cardboard cases Nintendo used, which got damaged before they even left the store.
like 90% of my psx israeliteel cases have cracked just sitting on my shelf under no stress
It was the stress of their lives. Weighing down upon them.
no that was me
were they stacked horizontally?