Packaging quirks
Packaging quirks
Use this thread to list the interesting anomalies that exist that help drive Saturn game collectors nuts:
ASTAL: The only game (as far as I know) on the Saturn that has no title on the spine. Instead, it is a big void above the Saturn logo. Weird.
VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 & SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP: The only two games (again, as far as I know) released with a grey background color (oposed to the whiter standard).
MORTAL KOMBAT II: Instead of the standard hard plastic disc holder, this one has a really flimsy soft plastic. Cheap cheap cheap.
DAYTONA USA CCE NETLINK: Without the standard NetLink logo above the Saturn sphere on the cover, and overall just very poorly differentiated from the standard CCE.
List the rest of your observations here, and maybe we can make a definitive list.
ASTAL: The only game (as far as I know) on the Saturn that has no title on the spine. Instead, it is a big void above the Saturn logo. Weird.
VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 & SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP: The only two games (again, as far as I know) released with a grey background color (oposed to the whiter standard).
MORTAL KOMBAT II: Instead of the standard hard plastic disc holder, this one has a really flimsy soft plastic. Cheap cheap cheap.
DAYTONA USA CCE NETLINK: Without the standard NetLink logo above the Saturn sphere on the cover, and overall just very poorly differentiated from the standard CCE.
List the rest of your observations here, and maybe we can make a definitive list.
That's fly.
Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 2 -
This doesn't come in a standard Saturn CD case. Instead it opens up like a book with the manual in the front and the CD held in place on the last 'page'.
I don't know if it ever had a spine card, I got it used.
This doesn't come in a standard Saturn CD case. Instead it opens up like a book with the manual in the front and the CD held in place on the last 'page'.
I don't know if it ever had a spine card, I got it used.
-ImportBoy
Sega Saturn Information & Download Site - http://www.sega-saturn.us
kaneda@sega-saturn.us
Sega Saturn Information & Download Site - http://www.sega-saturn.us
kaneda@sega-saturn.us
Hmmm..very interesting thread...
The Sega brazillian publisher made cheap cardboard boxes with cheap black and white manuals... and some of the manuals with wrong translations... =/
some games came with posters and other stuff, some don't...
I really think they saved up some money doing this, but this isn't very demanded by collectors... only the brazillian ones, who like our version of the games, I generally valorize them more, because the portuguese translations, etc... =)
I'll post some pics later for ou guys who never saw this stuff... there's exclusive releases too! That was good days... when Sega was really strong... ^^
The Sega brazillian publisher made cheap cardboard boxes with cheap black and white manuals... and some of the manuals with wrong translations... =/
some games came with posters and other stuff, some don't...
I really think they saved up some money doing this, but this isn't very demanded by collectors... only the brazillian ones, who like our version of the games, I generally valorize them more, because the portuguese translations, etc... =)
I'll post some pics later for ou guys who never saw this stuff... there's exclusive releases too! That was good days... when Sega was really strong... ^^
I'm ready to play!
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Games: Sega Rally - Virtual On - Duke Nukem 3D
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Games: Sega Rally - Virtual On - Duke Nukem 3D
That would be great to see, Rogue!
I've noticed too that there seems to be three waves of North American Saturn packaging. The first is the best and the one we all love, with the shadowed logo on the spine and the grey stripes throughout. The second came about around late 1996, where The stripes were now gone but the manuals still backed by a thick outer cover. The last wave, for the scant few final titles like Burning Rangers, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon Saga and House of the Dead, were again without stripes, but the covers were now flimsy, and the shadow was removed from the "Sega Saturn" text logo on the spine, making it look very cheap and inorganic. Thankfully they stuck to the same big box packaging throughout, but it's a shame they cut the smallest of corners as the system fell in the market.
I've noticed too that there seems to be three waves of North American Saturn packaging. The first is the best and the one we all love, with the shadowed logo on the spine and the grey stripes throughout. The second came about around late 1996, where The stripes were now gone but the manuals still backed by a thick outer cover. The last wave, for the scant few final titles like Burning Rangers, Shining Force III, Panzer Dragoon Saga and House of the Dead, were again without stripes, but the covers were now flimsy, and the shadow was removed from the "Sega Saturn" text logo on the spine, making it look very cheap and inorganic. Thankfully they stuck to the same big box packaging throughout, but it's a shame they cut the smallest of corners as the system fell in the market.
That's fly.
Warp2063 wrote:I wonder if they just used whichever ones they happened to have laying around?
What I read is that the first set of black sleeves was to cover the initial run of preorders. The white sleeves were used when they printed 20k or so more of the game after the preorder demand was higher than they thought.
Netlink Games Owned:
-Duke Nukem 3D
-Sega Rally
-Bomberman
-Virtua On
-Daytona CCE Netlink Edition
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-Duke Nukem 3D
-Sega Rally
-Bomberman
-Virtua On
-Daytona CCE Netlink Edition
If you wanna play just give me a holla!
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ENEMY ZERO: Inside is a single holder for the disc and then three additional black paper sleeves. With cases as thick as they are it would have been possible to put in the extra plastic holder that fits into the case front and have a flipper in the middle.
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Duke 3D & Bomberman
Duke 3D & Bomberman
AO?Manji wrote:oh yea i remembered that Working Designs made different disc art for their games. AO, Dragon Force & Magic Knight Rayearth.
Magic Knight Rayearth. T_T The collector in me yeaaaaaaaarns to collect them all.
I have my Saturns, I have some of my games, I have a RasPi. Gotta put all this stuff together!