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@AshFoxX you can get background art at vgmaps.com and cover art at The Cover Project. Also, if you have any access to a 3D printer, we'll be releasing the STL files at some point after the Kickstarter. While we like our display kits quite a bit, you can buy shadow boxes similar to the ones we used for the Zelda wall at most hobby and craft stores. We'll happily anyone do this themselves whether they support the Kickstarter or not.

@MitchVogel I was mostly all digital for a long time. I just started resurrecting some old retro classics. I even dug out a ton of Atari 800XL cartridges, tapes and floppies to play. There is something about the feel of the original system, at the exact speed it was meant to be played on a controller so sturdy you could play football with and it will still survive.

@RobNYC1977 Thank you I'm a bit of a hoarder myself.

@Dr_Corndog, We appreciate your input and thanks for liking the idea. As far as the price is concerned If we could make them cheaper, we would... small run manufacturing is still expensive. When all is said and done If we get backed at the minimum level after time spent fulfilling orders we will not have much (if any) profits. But what we will have is injection molds to make more mounts more cheaply. Injection molds are a great deal of the cost built in as they are several thousand dollars a piece. Sure, once you have the molds, the units are really cheap to produce if you can continue to buy them in high enough volume but you need a good demand make it happen. As far as the display kits are concerned I don't know if you have ever shopped for quality framing and mounting for collectibles but we are actually priced on the low end for what we are providing. You can certainly buy cheaper acrylic but we wanted high quality acrylic with a solid UV filter rating to protect the games from fading, good mounting hardware, and a quality backing board with an adhesive applied for attaching the art. Since we can't expect more than a small run of these, we had to price them accordingly, based on expected demand.

@RamrodDestroyer Thank you for appreciating the project. As far as being expensive we tried to make the display kits something that could be considered "Museum Quality" and that meant using high end UV rated acrylic and solid mounting hardware, we also have the backing board being provided with a self stick coating so you don't have to use glue or tape to attach your images. When all is said and done, we priced the display kits around what it would cost to buy and make a single display kit yourself without a bulk discount. There is also a bit of processing involved, drilling holes etc.. which is actually not as trivial as it seems, acrylic can be tough to work with. With respect to the mounts themselves, anyone one with a 3D printer can make them cheaply and We will be releasing the STL files in the future as well as resources to find the art we used http://vgart.github.io/ so we definitely encourage others to do this on their own.

@dronesplitter We feel your pain. I have a bunch of SMB level images mounted on their own in shadowboxes now because of this.

@readyletsgo I have a mount for my ET game as well but we didn't design any for the Kickstarter. The problem with the Atari 2600 cartridges is that some of them have the labels on so that they insert upside down. This doesn't leave us anywhere on the bottom to 'grab' the cartridge. But this is definitely something I'd like to do, I have a ton of 2600 and 800XL games.

@Kirk I'm one of the project creators and I wanted to thank you for your support.

@Konda I'm one of the project creators, I'm with you here, when we started the original project, we looked at is as a really "cheap" way to dress up our offices and bring out our games. As we assumed It can be relatively inexpensive to do this yourself, you are correct, especially if you don't mind putting adhesive on the cartridges. But we realized quickly that things get complicated when you want to make sure you don't damage the cartridge in any way by putting adhesive or tight fitting clips on it and its even more complicated if you want to be able to constantly remove it and replace it so you can play it or swap them out. You also want to make sure light doesn't damage the cartridges so with respect to the display kits, buying single sheets of UV resistant acrylic in single quantities can get expensive but getting them in bulk is much more reasonable. Also working with acrylic can be painful if you haven't done it before so drilling and mounting might be a challenge for some. For the record, when we started the original project, just for ourselves, we didn't realize how expensive it would end up being either. We tried to price the Kickstarter near what it cost us to do a single unit by getting things in bulk. Thank you for your input, we appreciate it and hopefully it will help us make our message more clear.

@JohnBlackstar Thank you. I'm one of the project creators. The good news is that we've made them easily removable and the mounts don't damage the carts in any way. We still want to play them too