The reason we got ugly super nintendo in the USA.

[CatPix]

I doubt the percentage of kids that would go to the trouble of putting their cartridges back into their flimsy cardboard packaging even came close to the 1% mark.

So you mean that I got incredibly lucky when I found all my Intellivision games in box?

And all the Interton games in box?

 

What about the games I exchanged at school? My goodness, all kids I knew were so careful that they kept their boxes? That's a lot of 1%.

 

And again, no, I don't look for CIB games that much, because they are more expensive usually.

Right, there is a lot more Nintendo game loose, but that's because used good shops do threw the boxes at the time to save space.

Edited June 27, 2013 by CatPix

[Lentzquest]

NES games always came with those black plastic dust sleeves, implying that the boxes would most likely be thrown away. We saw things like that with Nintendo all the way until the N64. Early year SNES games came with those cool dust caps, Game Boy games came with plastic clamshells, and Virtual Boy games came with dust caps. It's very cool that some people kept those flimsy cardboard boxes, but I believe the industry's assumption was that most people threw them away. I still do if it's not a game that's special to me.

 

Edit: Intellivision games are often still in box because they housed overlays, manuals, etc, in pockets. Finding those CIB is more akin to the Genesis.

Edited June 27, 2013 by Lentzquest

[Atariboy]

So you mean that I got incredibly lucky when I found all my Intellivision games in box?

And all the Interton games in box?

 

What about the games I exchanged at school? My goodness, all kids I knew were so careful that they kept their boxes? That's a lot of 1%.

 

And again, no, I don't look for CIB games that much, because they are more expensive usually.

Right, there is a lot more Nintendo game loose, but that's because used good shops do threw the boxes at the time to save space.

 

If you and and quite a few other children you had as friends carefully kept their boxes, I'd very much consider you as outliers where gamers of all ages are concerned. Cardboard is something most everyone considers disposable and I doubt you will find many classic gamers that would want to disagree with that. There's a reason why many games run for such a premium when they're complete.

 

And I didn't say that 1% of boxes exists. I was talking about how common it would've been for the average individual to store their cartridges in their original box when not in use when the boxes were thin and flimsy like North American Super Nintendo game boxes.

 

They're not one and the same. Thanks to already being a classic gamer (Although I don't consider myself a collector; I have this stuff to play it, not to line my walls with it), I have all my Super Nintendo boxes from the 1990's including those my two consoles came in, all my game boxes, and my Super Game Boy and Game Genie boxes. Yet nothing has ever been returned inside of one except for my Super Nintendo mini that I bought as a spare in the late 1990's during a Wal-Mart sale after confirming it wasn't defective.

 

I thought they were neat so I hung on to them. But never once were they utilized as a reusable storage container for their contents unlike plastic Sega cartridge cases, CD jewel cases, DVD style cases, etc. And even in more recent year where the packaging is durable rather than mere cardboard, is important for the protection of the media, and is obviously intended for the contents to be kept in when not in use, loose games are extremely common

Edited June 27, 2013 by Atariboy

[Seob]

I guess it's more of a culture thing. Although a lot of boxes got trown away here in the Netherlands, a good many survived. I was always the type that kept boxes for stuff, even for electronics.

I always kept them so i would fetch more money if i wanted to sell them. Oke, the boxes for those hotwheels and lego got thrown away, but the boxes for my 1/24 scale and 1/18 scale models i kept. And this was when i was 12 or so.

Back then people who lived in Europe didn't have the throw away mentalitie that the US had. U can see that in a way wheremthe US car manufactures put out new models more often, while european manufactures hold on to a model longer.

[Shephda]

As much as I love the Super Famicom that was released in Japan at the end of 1990....I loved even more the first prototype that was shown to the press in late 1988:

 

I like the US version way better, in fact it's my favorite Nintendo console as far as looks go.

[BydoEmpire]

I like the US version way better, in fact it's my favorite Nintendo console as far as looks go.

Agreed 100%. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, I guess. I think the US SNES looks cool.