Ugliest "Greatest Hits" packaging?

[ZeroAX]

It just made things even more inconsistent that's why I don't like them (aside from the obvious cardboard vs clamshell). The black was neutral and was in line with the look of the system and Sega's marketing. I guess times change and by the time the red ones came out the whole "attitude" campaign was kind of over, but they could've rode it all the way or, like I said, just kept things consistent.

I always associate the black boxes with the Genesis' hey day, and the red ones with kind of a 'blah' era. I'd like to compile or see a list of quality games in the black box era vs the red box era though. There's some good ones later on despite my feelings (Ristar, Vectorman, Castlevania Bloodlines, etc.)

I just wanted to add that over in Europe we had the much more appropriate BLUE Mega Drive boxes, instead of the red.

which I think you can AT LEAST debate that it looks better than the original, while the red Genesis boxes (question: were ALL red Genesis boxes paper ones btw? Cause Sonic 3 EU comes in a blue yet plastic box, while S&K is in a paper onw), just look ugly and....well....red is hte color of Nintendo, SEGA is blue....how hard was to get that right?

[isiolia]

(question: were ALL red Genesis boxes paper ones btw? Cause Sonic 3 EU comes in a blue yet plastic box, while S&K is in a paper onw)

Nah, quite a lot of the red spine Genesis games were originally in clamshell cases. The shift to cardboard came later than that. Some games, like Earthworm Jim, have both versions out there, I think due to Majesco using cardboard for reprints.

Sega did use blue in the U.S., but for Sega CD. Yellow for 32X, white/off-white for Saturn (and then silver for some), purple for Game Gear... It was a fairly unified look for them.

[ninjainspandex]

Really glad the greatest hits color scheme bothers a lot of people, saves me a bunch of money because I don't GAF

[Jrecee]

The neon green ps1 cases don't bother me. Maybe because I like neon green? I prefer them to the PS2 cases... maroon? Blech. At the end of the day I don't go out of my way to avoid player's choice stuff though, except maybe some of the one off bad examples like that genesis greatest hit. As long as I have at least a few to stack next to each other on the shelf I don't mind.

Looks good to me!

[Jagosaurus]

I actually don't mind the JPN Saturn greatest hits releases with the white border & red spine. Looks sharp for that type of packaging IMO.

I really dislike the PS3 cases that are red.

[KayJay]

I don't usually care. As long as it's CiB, i wouldn't care weather or not it was covered in polka dots!


I do, however, have preferences within them. I don't like the PS1 greatest hits a lot. PS2 & PS3 greatest hits look good though, and the red color doesn't bother me.

My favorite is the GC "Player's Choice" It's yellow at the bottom, and a small line at the top. I usually don't even notice if it's 'greatest hits' or not.

[Soldier Blue]

I actually really like the green PS1 greatest hits and anything green in general, since it is my favorite color. I don't care for the red PS2 greatest hits, or the yellow Gamecube one.

[Hazerd]

Greatest Hits/Platinums/Selects/Players Choice, are good to buy if they include extra DLC, like GOTY edition Hits.

[Erik_Twice]

I just think it's beyond dumb to make your product look uglier on a shelf because it's a reissue.

[alienjesus]

It just made things even more inconsistent that's why I don't like them (aside from the obvious cardboard vs clamshell). The black was neutral and was in line with the look of the system and Sega's marketing. I guess times change and by the time the red ones came out the whole "attitude" campaign was kind of over, but they could've rode it all the way or, like I said, just kept things consistent.

I always associate the black boxes with the Genesis' hey day, and the red ones with kind of a 'blah' era. I'd like to compile or see a list of quality games in the black box era vs the red box era though. There's some good ones later on despite my feelings (Ristar, Vectorman, Castlevania Bloodlines, etc.)

I just wanted to add that over in Europe we had the much more appropriate BLUE Mega Drive boxes, instead of the red.

which I think you can AT LEAST debate that it looks better than the original, while the red Genesis boxes (question: were ALL red Genesis boxes paper ones btw? Cause Sonic 3 EU comes in a blue yet plastic box, while S&K is in a paper onw), just look ugly and....well....red is hte color of Nintendo, SEGA is blue....how hard was to get that right?

To be fair, both the master system and mega drive had a black and red colour scheme, so red isn't that crazy a choice.