Genesis tab cutters anonymous.

[forsigmar]

In all seriousness, probably less than 1/3 had tabs by the time they got into my collection. The games themselves are not mint collectors jems either. Most are well played, some are old rentals and there are quite a few that are missing the manuals. The entire top row is sports games too. The tabs I did cut were done with an exacto knife so it looks really clean, almost like the tab was never there. I just like the uniform look of them all lined up without a tab sticking out every 5th game.

[Hobie-wan]

In all seriousness, probably less than 1/3 had tabs by the time they got into my collection. The games themselves are not mint collectors jems either. Most are well played, some are old rentals and there are quite a few that are missing the manuals. The entire top row is sports games too. The tabs I did cut were done with an exacto knife so it looks really clean, almost like the tab was never there. I just like the uniform look of them all lined up without a tab sticking out every 5th game.

See, what you should have been doing it rehabilitating them and giving them prosthetic tabs so they all felt better about themselves and could continue with happy productive lives.

[Gamerforlife]

When I was growing up and buying Megadrive games, I absolutely hated the tabs and so would always cut themn off.

Now I REALLY regret doing that. Now that I'm older, more of a collector than a player (don't get me wrong, I love playing, but you know, adult responsibilities and all that), and have a gained a slighlty OCD trait to collecting games, I just find myself seeing it as damage to the box. It's hard to explain, but it just feels less complete to me.

I will buy games with the tabs cut off, but if I had a choice between the two, I'd want one that isn't cut.

The box is UNDER the tab. The tab is just this stupid little generic thing they stick on top of it. Try looking at it that way.

What's the point of tabs anyway? You're not hanging the games for display in a store, you're putting them on shelves in your home. Those tabs are for retail purposes only and are pretty much useless once the game was purchased. I'm pretty OCD about a lot of things but even I don't obsess over something so generic. Now spine cards for saturn games, that's different because every game has a unique one. I can see someone obsessing over that. The way I see it, generic things aren't worth collecting or obsessing about. Only unique things

[forsigmar]

I do see both sides of this debate. If every single of my games had a tab I probably would have left them as is. Seeing random tabs sticking out of a shelf of games was annoying to me.

[Reprise]

When I was growing up and buying Megadrive games, I absolutely hated the tabs and so would always cut themn off.

Now I REALLY regret doing that. Now that I'm older, more of a collector than a player (don't get me wrong, I love playing, but you know, adult responsibilities and all that), and have a gained a slighlty OCD trait to collecting games, I just find myself seeing it as damage to the box. It's hard to explain, but it just feels less complete to me.

I will buy games with the tabs cut off, but if I had a choice between the two, I'd want one that isn't cut.

The box is UNDER the tab. The tab is just this stupid little generic thing they stick on top of it. Try looking at it that way.

What's the point of tabs anyway? You're not hanging the games for display in a store, you're putting them on shelves in your home. Those tabs are for retail purposes only and are pretty much useless once the game was purchased. I'm pretty OCD about a lot of things but even I don't obsess over something so generic. Now spine cards for saturn games, that's different because every game has a unique one. I can see someone obsessing over that. The way I see it, generic things aren't worth collecting or obsessing about. Only unique things

Well yeah I can see your point, I'm not that OCD about it. It's not like I'm re-purchasing all the games that I've cut the tabs from, so I can have a tabbed version. Just saying if I had to choose between having one with the tab and one without, I'd choose with. I still buy games without the tabs.

[BoringSupreez]

I have only cut one tab before. It was Alex Kidd in Miracle World. I only did it because the tab was already half broken off, and looked stupid that way. Other than that, I keep the tabs on.

[Jrecee]

I have heard about accidents happening when cutting tabs, and more than just the tab gets cut. By that point they just decide to cut the whole thing and start giving it hormones. But at the end of the day you've got a box that doesn't know what it is. It doesn't feel the way about tabbed boxes that everyone says it should. It finally gives in and gets a prosthetic tab because in its manual clasp, it knows it's the right thing.

[samsonlonghair]

I have heard about accidents happening when cutting tabs, and more than just the tab gets cut. By that point they just decide to cut the whole thing and start giving it hormones. But at the end of the day you've got a box that doesn't know what it is. It doesn't feel the way about tabbed boxes that everyone says it should. It finally gives in and gets a prosthetic tab because in its manual clasp, it knows it's the right thing.

This made me grin.

[Scooter]

There were an awful lot of boxes born without tabs in the first place, are some of you guys gluing tabs onto those when you get them?

[Jungell]

There were an awful lot of boxes born without tabs in the first place, are some of you guys gluing tabs onto those when you get them?

If you were born without legs you'd need a wheelchair just as much as the guy who got them chopped off!