Sega Saturn Game Cases

[Mendoza]

Yeah its almost not worth bothering to get them for me. Even when you get them their not practical for storage. The import cases were so much better.

i love long boxes!

but i wonder why the ps1, sega cd, and saturn chose to release games in that form since no other media was released like that.

I wonder if it had to do with the format being new for games and so they wanted it to be distinct. I can't understand why sega stuck with them after seeing how bad they preformed with the Sega CD.

I'm not saying the cases don't look good, but their just too much style over substance. They just crack too easily even with good care. Personally i would suggest going the coverproject route, but thats me.

[Hobie-wan]

I wonder if it had to do with the format being new for games and so they wanted it to be distinct.

I'm sure that's why. Same reason Xbox games are in green cases and Wii in white. Also the bigger boxes have more shelf presence to grab your attention in the store. Remember how PC games used to come in big boxes, as did CDs when they were taking over the bins previously used for records?

[flojocabron]

they did that to show off their new products.

long boxes were used to take up shelf space! And to get customers attention.

when they were new consoles, products needed to be flashy. and so long boxes were made.

[Mendoza]

I wonder if it had to do with the format being new for games and so they wanted it to be distinct.

I'm sure that's why. Same reason Xbox games are in green cases and Wii in white. Also the bigger boxes have more shelf presence to grab your attention in the store. Remember how PC games used to come in big boxes, as did CDs when they were taking over the bins previously used for records?

Oh yeah, I remember my first pc game box being gigantic!

Come to think of it, big box vhs was like that too.

[Onyxthecat]

I read they used long boxes for the PS1 because they didn't manufacture enough of the regular ones and had to use different ones.

[AppleQueso]

Yeah its almost not worth bothering to get them for me. Even when you get them their not practical for storage. The import cases were so much better.

i love long boxes!

but i wonder why the ps1, sega cd, and saturn chose to release games in that form since no other media was released like that.

Actually many of the earliest music cds were longboxes

[final fight cd]

Yeah its almost not worth bothering to get them for me. Even when you get them their not practical for storage. The import cases were so much better.

i love long boxes!

but i wonder why the ps1, sega cd, and saturn chose to release games in that form since no other media was released like that.

Actually many of the earliest music cds were longboxes

i didn't know that. but then again, i was born in 84 which i think is when cds were first being pressed. obviously, i wouldn't remember them. but i do vaguely remember that cd jewel case were put in large plastic holders when bought from a store.

[Mendoza]

I recently made a cover for my caseless copy of Virtua Fighter 2, and i have to say even in black and white on normal paper the image i got from the cover project is damn good.

I cant wait to see how it looks on proper paper through a good color laser printer.