How do you store your pre nes games

[Jim Pez]

i know the pre nes games did not come in plastic containers or have sleeves. Do you just stack the carts on a shelf or in a container ?

[enoofu]

Depends on the system, as quite a few systems used media like 3 1/2 - 5 1/2 floppies including the Fanicom or Tapes and usually all those games would come in some sort of plastic container or paper sleeves

 

Plus some games would be loaded with inserts including maps, huge manuals, screen overlays, copyright protection charts and joy stick/keyboard overlays

 

Some game systems also had game storage inside them which was a internal compartment that you could fit around 10-20 games inside

 

Cardboard boxes were usually kept and reused unless you didn't have room, and usually carts on a shelf or in a container both worked ok

 

SNES/Nintendo boxes were usually pretty hard to reuse back in the day though

Edited October 6, 2016 by enoofu

[high voltage]

pre-NES games had boxes to arrange on the shelf

 

 

 

And they also had plastic boxes

 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2016 by high voltage

[Noah98]

I use photo boxes for my pre-nes systems.

[+GoldenWheels]

I got a good deal on a TON of those smaller Music Mate cart holders off of ebay a year or two ago. Something like 80$ for 30 of them shipped. Cool things, they are modular, you can build a rack to fit your space, and they hold Atari (2600, 7800, 8 bit), Coleco, Intellivision, etc.

[VectorGamer]

On multicarts

[HoshiChiri]

Boxes and bins- carts are pretty durable, you don't really need any fancy cases for them- just something to keep the dust off.

[spacecadet]

I really wish I could have a bunch of built-in shelves just for my games like some people have, but no, I just keep them in bins I bought at Target. Except for a few special cases (rare or otherwise noteworthy games), I don't think you really need to be too precious about these things.

 

I've been storing them this way for like 20 years, and they've always been fine. I worry a lot more about my CD-based games, which I'm temporarily storing the same way, although I'd really like to reverse that decision once I can get a shelf that's the right size for my basement.

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I use Sterlite brand 3 drawer wheeled storage carts from Target. They hold Atari carts quite nicely I think, fitting 48 per drawer.

 

[madhatter667]

Everything lives in Sterelite bins, except for disc based games. Games in bins get baggies to minimize scuffing, and crud.

[CatPix]

Disc based games before 1985?

[0078265317]

http://mvvg.blogspot.in/2014/11/storage.html

[madhatter667]

It was more a general statement about how I store stuff, as opposed to specifically pre-NES...though my floppies also chill in bins.