Sometimes, collecting can be a real pain in the butt...

[jacobus]

Here's an example - I have been collecting the early Synapse titles in their flat packaging for several years. These "flat packs" use the same artwork (although the images include an extra quarter inch - cut off to make them fit onto the boxed Synapse format) and include either diskette or cassettes. I was quite sure (after much research) that this packaging format extended only to the first 8 titles (Dodge Racer, Protector, Chicken, Nautilus, Slime, Protector II, Shamus and Picnic Paranoia). So a month or so ago when I had some free time, I mounted all of them in a nice frame and added them to my other Atari items on display.

 

 

No more than 2 weeks went by and guess what showed up on eBay?

 

 

Crap! I was so sure that Claim Jumper had never been released in this format! So, down comes the frame, out everything goes and after a bit more swearing, measuring and more swearing...

 

(I shoved Reptilian in there just to fill up the space)

 

I now worry that the next title, Fort Apocalypse may have been released in this format as well. Anyone know?

[+Random Terrain]

I thought I was going to see a photo of a bunch of games sticking out of your butt. I held my breath and clicked. I was kind of disappointed and relieved at the same time.

[Ransom]

That's a very nice display you have there!

 

But I know what you mean when it comes to carefully planning for a nice display, putting it all together, and then finding out that it's not going to work for one reason or another.

 

Maybe we should all take up "collecting" pirated disks?

[JacobZu7zu7]

I thought I was going to see a photo of a bunch of games sticking out of your butt. I held my breath and clicked. I was kind of disappointed and relieved at the same time.

 

Nah, I didn't expect that... unless it was posted as, "a real pain UP the butt"

 

Are you sure it was your "breath" that you held??

 

OH! SNAP!

 

PS, That snake is gonna bite that cowboys crotch...!