MyNameIsVince wrote:I have one Genesis game and it's cart only. I probably don't care if it's cart only or CIB (hardshell cases, yes, cardboard boxes, no), once I actually get a Genesis and get games for it.
If I were starting over, I would go cart only for my GEN games...I'm in too deep to turn back now, however!
Oh yeah, because of those hard clamshell cases. Those are nice.
The only thing I do not like about the Genesis carts is that when you stack them on it's flat side, it looks like this (stacked on top of another video game cartridge for comparison):
MyNameIsVince wrote: Y U DISPLAY UPSIDE DOWN FONT???????
The Genesis one makes more sense. It's right side up if you're storing them vertically with the art facing you, or looking at the game in the system. The SNES label orientation makes a lot less sense really.
Gamerforlife wrote:Personally I hate custom cases or universal cases with printed artwork just because I view them as fake, and I hate anything that is fake. I love getting stuff CIB whenever possible, but if I can only get something as a loose cart, I'd rather keep it that way than get printed artwork or a custom case for presentation purposes. In my opinion, if you can't show the real deal box than don't show anything at all. There are plenty of nice ways to store and display loose carts anyway when boxes aren't an option. I'd prefer going that route than present something fake
I'm picturing this:
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
isiolia wrote:The Genesis one makes more sense. It's right side up if you're storing them vertically with the art facing you, or looking at the game in the system. The SNES label orientation makes a lot less sense really.
Genesis way makes sense if you have them in a rack that stands them up, yes. SNES makes more sense if they are like that picture in a rack that holds them horizontally. Those Gen carts would be picture down on a wall mounted rack. Gen carts are the odd man out as every other cart system that I can think of has them orientated like books, DVDs, tapes, and CDs where front image up on a table means the spine is readable right side up. Well barring the occasional CD that someone screwed up on the spines.
I don't have many cartridge based games so I prefer my cd games (Saturn, ps1, etc) to be CIB...I have the odd SNES game loose which isn't a big deal but I do prefer my GBA games to be CIB personally because I don't think they stack very well (and the boxes aren't too big)
