Wii, WiiWare & Virtual Console

Topic: Do you throw away your game boxes?

dings · 2010-11-25T04:14:55+00:00

I ask this because of all the games in Game Stop that have a Game Stop made box. It seems weird to me to throw away the case for a Wii game since it's a perfect place to store it, and even weirder to throw away DS boxes since the carts are so small it's easy to lose them. I guess some people might want to put their DS games in some storage book to take with them as carrying more than a few game boxes could be too much. When I was younger I (or maybe my mom I don't remember) threw away all the cardboard NES - N64 game boxes because they were cardboard and would get all beat up over time. I did keep the Genesis boxes that were plastic though.

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ArmoredGoomba
Mon 6th Dec 2010

no way

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Z_Bone
Tue 7th Dec 2010

I still have the original gold Ocarina of time box as well as the majora's mask box. They're both kind of beat up though.

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Gamesake
Thu 9th Dec 2010

KingMike wrote:

Gamesake wrote:
As soon as the game's warranty runs out I torch the cardboard box. I don't recycle game boxes for fear of some creep reselling them, and I can't keep them around my house because it would ruin the Feng Shui (That's also why I can't buy a red Wii, it would be hell on my creativity gua).
That is the strangest reasoning I've heard. If you don't care to save it, why care if someone steals and sells it? Or why don't you sell it?
I'm not desperate enough to pay in situations where the box/manual are worth several times what a loose game is (16-bit RPGs are probably a good example of this. They generally weren't very popular until they were years out of print. So, it happened with games like Chrono Trigger and EarthBound that the packaging became highly sought after by collectors.)

There are people who sell the box/manual for several times what a loose game costs- and I want no part of it. That's why I destroy my cardboard game boxes. My trash will never be another man's treasure.

If someone wanted an old box for nonprofit I'd just give it to them, but resellers are slime.

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Wizzy
Thu 9th Dec 2010

Nope.

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SilverBaretta
Thu 9th Dec 2010

No. Never. And I never will.

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Chrono_Cross
Thu 9th Dec 2010

SilverBlacktail wrote:

No. Never. And I never will.

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SKTTR
Thu 9th Dec 2010

I throw away all boxes. I have nice collections of discs sitting in the dust under the carpet.

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SMW
Thu 9th Dec 2010

I have never thrown a videogame box/case away. I still have my boxes from SNES, N64, and GameBoy games. I don't store the actual games in their cardboard boxes, though. Instead I have the boxes all lined up on bookshelves and the cartridges in a drawer. I keep the manuals inside the boxes, though. Disc-based games I keep in their original cases, obviously.

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segacandy
Thu 9th Dec 2010

I find it ludicrous that anyone would throw away a game box. Just WOW.

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brooks83
Thu 16th Dec 2010

I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from throwing away all my old NES and SNES cardboard boxes

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N64Link57
Sun 28th Oct 2012

About ten years ago when I got a gamecube I would throw away my manuals. A few years ago I started to regret it and now I keep all my games in their cases and go on ebay and by the manuals for my old games

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MrWalkieTalkie
Sun 28th Oct 2012

I would never dare to even think of it!

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Banker-Style
Mon 29th Oct 2012

I keep my cases cause they're so beautiful.

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RevolverLink
Mon 29th Oct 2012

I threw them out/recycled them back in the days of cardboard boxes, but I've kept all of my cases since then.

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bezerker99
Mon 29th Oct 2012

I still have my SNES and N64 boxes. I don't have any of my NES boxes, but I have every NES instruction manual still.

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CanisWolfred
Mon 29th Oct 2012

Not since the Disc age, but I do store them in a box downstairs while the discs are in a Binder.

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Hokori
Mon 29th Oct 2012

Hopefully soon I can transfer my data and just sell all my boxes

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