| 19 OCT 2002 at 11:20am |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I just don't have the space to keep them. It's very sad.
I do have a few, though (X-Com 3, Fallout, Baldur's Gate 2, Lost Eden, RAMA, a few others). But I lost my QFG5 game box .
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 2:53pm |
mszvPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Hi,
Take out the inside cardboard and throw it away. Then, open the bottom and top flaps, and flatten the box. Usually, it will flatten very nicely. You can store a bunch of game boxes in a small space.
If you want to sell the game, you can unflatten it, and put in some additional cardboard to keep the box sturdy. The box will be in OK, but not great condition. I don't sell my games, myself, but I think this would work.
Regards, mszv
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 3:14pm |
itsgood2slideIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I still have all my boxes under my bed at home
My favourites I keep in a special box though
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 3:26pm |
GayleSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Hi,
I am such a clutz that sometimes trying to carefully open the tape on the top of the box I rip the top a bit especially if a game I have been waiting a long time for (yes, the little kid is always lurking inside us).
I do have some boxes, but because of lack of space, I usually throw away the ones that are not for favorite games.
One thing I am very happy about is that the industry finally made smaller boxes for the games. Less natural resources used.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 5:40pm |
JonasKyratzesSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 280
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Yes, but they're using plastic. Plastic = evil. On the other hand, paper = dead trees.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 5:41pm |
| Deleted User | When I first started playing games I either sold or traded my used ones. Big mistake. Now I wish that I had most of them back.
Then I started tossing my boxes because of space problems. I put the game and all of it's documentation into plastic Zip-Locks. Another big mistake.
Now I keep EVERYTHING. I have around 150 games and about 1/3 of them are in the Zip-Locks - the rest are in their original boxes.
I have no clue what will happen to my collection when I pass on (bad thought :-/). My sons and grandsons don't care for adventure games. My husband doesn't like games at all (except for the original version of Silent Hunter).
Why do I save them - because you never can tell when you might want to play them again. And it makes me feel good to have them.
Harrit@JA
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 6:24pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | I save every box, manual etc... from every game I buy - One of these days (and it's rumored to actually occur for some) my children will move out and I'm going to build display shelves, and create a personal game room!
I want it to look just like an Egg Head store, with all the various gaming categories on display and a PC constantly running demos of the latest releases.
Weird eh?
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 6:31pm |
CerberusPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I threw out all my old carboard boxes recently, didn't really see the point in hanging on to them (after making sure all the documentation and manuals were "filed" in a random heap within a plastic container).
I'm glad they've gone over to the smaller DVD style boxes - they look a lot better and you don't get that "is that it?" feeling when you open a HUGE cardboard box to find a single jewel-CD case with a couple of discs in it.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 6:37pm |
JudySpace Cadet
Posts : 173
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Status : Offline | If anyone is tempted to throw out their game boxes, DON"T! Post here first. You'd be surprised how many people will buy them. Including me.
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 7:01pm |
sennebecGuild Master
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Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By mszv (19 OCT 2002 2:53pm)
Hi,
Take out the inside cardboard and throw it away. Then, open the bottom and top flaps, and flatten the box. Usually, it will flatten very nicely. You can store a bunch of game boxes in a small space.
DUH, what a great idea
i too, like many others, threw boxes out when i first started gaming...
then i started saving them and find i'm running out of space .... and hiding them from my boyfriend (who thinks i spend too much money on my adventure obsession) is getting near to impossible !!!
this will surely solve my dilemma ... thanks
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:07pm |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Yes, absolutely. Indeed, unless a game is rare and I may not find it again elsewhere, I won't buy it unless the box is in mint condition. You should see me at the shelves in a retail store. I'm a total freak, scrutinizing boxes for dings, dents, scuffs, tears, creases etc. I hold one up next to the other, compare and contrast... it's a very time-consuming process Oh, and Ebay sellers almost unanimously dread having a game on which I might bid. The questions, O goodness, the questions!
.gita
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| 19 OCT 2002 at 8:21pm |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
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Status : Online | Hey Beautiful ladies and the guys that are with them,
MSzv, you're right, "to take out the inside cardboard and throw it away. Then, open the bottom and top flaps, and flatten the box. Usually, it will flatten very nicely. You can store a bunch of game boxes in a small space." I've been doing this for years by storing the boxes in a box; it's greaaaaat and I've never thrown a box away. Then I can tell people that I have a Box for Boxes. Yea...
InlandAZ, I've always LOVED the idea to "one of these days (and it's rumored to actually occur for some) my children will move out and I'm going to build display shelves, and create a personal game room!" Although I don't have kids, I don't have room in my apartment, I store the boxes at my mom's house. I will one day make a display room, but it will be called, "The Adventure Library/Study." There will be displays of all the Adventure games and other games too plus history books of the GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME. Things like that. I actually used to have a special case for displaying stuff like collectable things and knickknacks. Then I decided to put doors where the case was and the case couldn't fit anywhere else.
Last thing... Red I agree with you about being "very happy about is that the industry finally made smaller boxes for the games. Less natural resources used." The conservationists have been trying to do this for years and years. It's good that they finally have done it.
This is the funny thing though. All my friends think I'm the weirdest person and such a dork for saving all of my boxes; they laugh at me. "You're buying Grim Fandango on eBay? Just go to BestBuy." "I want the box." "Why? That's dumb, you idiot." hahahaha... But the funny part is that they're the ones loosing money...Muhahaha
I gotta do stuff but I'm not wearing my Squeaky shoes,
SVT RBs
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 2:52am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
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Status : Online | I keep them. When I'm done with a game, I stick it back in the box and stuff them in the attic.
[url=http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1136331866/0#0]GAMES FOR TRADE!![/url]
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 3:31am |
bistroSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 240
Joined: 15 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Not a single box saved. Just don't have the room. Glad they are coming out in the smaller boxes...maybe I'll start saving those.
One thing I hate though are the strategy game boxes. Beautifully rendered heroes and monsters, but in the game they look like ants and you can't make out details----whazzup wid dat? Gotta save the box just so you know what the characters really look like.....
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 5:08am |
FongoIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Harriet: Please adopt me!!!!
I'm Moo-Moo the cow, I eat lots of hay....
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 5:16am |
STooGE4444, EastCoastDoom...Schattenjger
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Status : Online | I'll adopt you. And then you can pretend that I'm Harriet. It'll be fun because I glued my squeaky shoe.
~rbeeler SVT &&Name's STooGE$$$$ Valpurgius TNT; it's not PLURAL&&[img]http://www.riseaboverecords.com/sleep/image/sleepfront.gif[/img]&&151.Generally speaking Sludge Doomsters are Angry, Gothic doomsters are sad, funeral doomsters are barely breathing, death doomsters are dirty, drunk and dribbling, Stoner Doomsters don't care, drone doomsters are out of it and traditional Doomsters are permanently pissed off, mainly with other doomsters
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 5:31am |
AlpineSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | justG... I cracked up when I read your post... it's like I wrote it myself (except for the Ebay part)! Unfortunately (for anyone who is with me at the time), I also do the same thing when I'm buying fruit in the grocery store. When you go to the computer store with friends do they usually bring a book along?
Judy... I can totally relate to your post also. I regret throwing out the boxes of some of the games I bought in the early nineties. Fortunately, I did keep the boxes for my favorite game series (AITD's, Zork's, GK's, Tex Murphy's, etc.) For the last 5+ years I've kept all the new boxes and will continue to do so in the future.
InlandAZ... I too get nostalgic when I think about the good 'ol EggHead days of the early nineties!
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 5:40am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
Posts : 544
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Alpine, your turn - you cracked me up. The mental image of me at the grocery store molesting the fruit is exactly what I had in mind (ok, that's redundant) when I wrote that. LOL. As for my friends, they're either geeks like me who have as much fun in a computer store as I do, or they're not, in which case they don't accompany me at all
.gita
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 10:40am |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 208
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Bah before really starting to collect I threw away my Simon the Sorcerer boxes, Neverhood, Magnetic Scrolls collection and some others I will probably never find again!
So no more throwing away boxes again for me!
As for storage problems, yep it's gonna be a problem soon!!!
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JoY
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 11:43am |
bleepnikPrivate Detective
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | *drool*
.gita (I need a job)
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 12:00pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 208
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Aargh someone is slobbering over my boxes
JoY
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 12:36pm |
JudySpace Cadet
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Joined: 17 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | Joy, that looks just like my bookcases at home right down to all the boxes piled on top of the bookcase.
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| 20 OCT 2002 at 1:06pm |
JoYSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 208
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | hehe...I could use a third one, but have no room to put it :-/
I refuse to get rid of the boxes though...
JoY
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| 21 OCT 2002 at 3:00am |
collectimaniacIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Definitely save boxes, although that said, it's mainly the boxes of olden days that are the most valuable . . .
Some people, especially those lurking eBay, are collecting JUST for the packaging, not even gonna play the game!
Personally I love the graphics on some of the old stuff. I buy them because of the pop-culture collectibility. It's the same reason today are collecting and spending lots of money on vintage advertising like from the turn of the century. It just looks cool.
So, in that case, you can toss the Loch Ness Cameron Files box.
JoY - that just looks so pretty . . . . I'm getting a crick in my neck just thinking about it . . .
Kimmie
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