Moved to a new web site! More Info!

I started this little free blog to see if there would be any interest in finding out about our games.  We now have almost 200+ people visiting the site per week, so we've invested our time in a new web site so check it out:  http://blog.gamecaseworld.com  
True, I like the interface here at Blogspot better and it's easier to toss images up on, but we needed a  more robust platform to post pages and additional information. 

Some of the new items I have posted:

• Photos of the Sega cases (and the cases page)
  Photo of manual in cases (still working on more of those)
• More about having custom graphic design commissioned (for a reasonable price I might add).
• Contact information including address, phone number and even Google Chat
• More photos of EVERYTHING (whew that's a lot of work)
• What kind of paper we use and printing process etc. etc.! 

As of writing this, Christmas 2011, we are working on:
Adding a bunch of N64 and  a page about them
Adding more SNES to the web site (70+)
Offering blank cases for sell in the amount of 10 per box

A lot of the content comes from people like you sending us inquiries and asking really good questions that prompt me to build a page full of photos about it. 

So whether it's Christmas where you are or mid summer when you read this...please check us out at http://blog.gamecaseworld.com

Virtual Boy, and our Virtual Boy Game Cases

This last summer we had the good fortune of picking up a Virtual Boy and some games at a sale.  Here is a summary of what a Virtual Boy is...

Virtual Boy was a video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo and released in 1995 for $180.00 in the US. It was the first video game console that was supposed to be capable of displaying "true 3D graphics" out of the box.  Only 14 games were ever released for the North American market.  The Virtual Boy, despite price drops was considered a failure.  The 3D graphics were impressive but monochromatic. Nintendo was working on the N64 at the time of the Virtual Boy's release. 
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Boy

Screen shot of Mario's Tennis from Virtual Boy

 The Virtual Boy was infamous for what could be an urban legend - that it caused migraines, nausea and even, some have claimed, permanent injury.  Although I couldn't find confirmation whether this was true or not (although I've been personally told that after about five minutes a rather nasty headache ensues...) I found this quote that would logically support the idea this might not be the best head set to wear....

Nausea can and will occur in people using VR headsets because the information received from the eyes doesn't match the information received from the balancing organs in the ears. Balance is kept using both optical and gnostic information. -- source

 We have 14 covers for the original Virtual Boy Games in our shop.  They are basically Nintendo GBA cases but the clips hold the slender games.  They also line up nicely along other Nintendo games like the GBA, GBA Color etc.

Free Shipping Day is Here! And Save an Additional 10%

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December 16th is Free Shipping Day, and we have free shipping at both our web store, GameCaseWorld.Com and our eBay Store.   Freeshipping.Org has put together thousands of businesses that guarantee your package will arrive by xmas and have free shipping.  Online shopping is the best way in the universe to beat those crappy crowds at the mall. 

This Christmas I've ordered 8 NES Catridges from eBay as presents and will be needing nice cases for them.  Game Case World is great for packaging carts for the serious gamer and it's not too late to order or to save 10% on our web site.  Just enter the coupon code  MRSPOCK to save 10% on your entire order + free shipping.  Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us here at Game Case World.

Final Fantasy III for the NES in English - the game case

I wanted to show you a super cool game case cover we just finished up for a repro cart, Final Fantasy III for the NES on GameCaseWorld.Com.  This reproduction is in English and the original Final Fantasy III was only released in Japan hence Japanese.  It is also hard to put on a cartridge so reproductions can be hard to find. This is a cart we don't have in our collection - but wish we did! 

A collector contacted us and wanted to know if we could take the one of the usual Japanese covers that are out there and make an English version to match the English Final Fantasy III repro cart.  After a few questions he let us know he wasn't overly picky about the design of the case, as far as it matching the sticker on his cart.  We try to make sure that the cartridges and the cases match. 

I started with one of the Japanese covers that exist on the net. 

Japanese (Fan Made) Final Fantasy III Cover

So there are a few items on this cover that need to be changed and added in order to make it a proper English translation cover.  First it isn't in the regular NES template.  The back description is in Japanese.  Below is the finished English translation copy for Final Fantasy III.  Similar to the Japanese format we found, but of course in English and stylistic features added and re-arranged. 
 

English Language Version Final Fantasy III Cover Reboot

This prints up nicely and we used the actual gem icons from the game for bullet points and recreated the verbiage that is iconic to the early 90's gaming scene. It is not a direct translation, which we could not locate.  I darkened the front figure slightly and when printed there is a nice contrast between the FFIII logo and the image in the background.

Luckily the original Japanese language case was very simplistic which allowed me to move around the logo and play with the case far easier then my typical 'start over from scratch' method.

Photo of Finished Case

 This isn't our first reproduction cartridge game case, but definitely my favorite. 

Save 10% With Coupon Code + Free Shipping Day is the 16th! + NES Prices Lower!

Game Case World is now featured on the huge and ever growing December 16th web site Free Shipping Day.Com  Our listing is beside hundreds of great big brand stores and shops so we are very excited to have this exposure.

Additionally we wanted to help send some traffic to our main web site, GameCaseWorld.Com where we have a thousand more titles then our eBay shop.  Tons of people have already tried out Game Case World's web site and found the same top of the line service and products.  It's actually easier for us to send out products from our own web site then going through eBay.  So to help convince you....we're offering 10% off every order on every item in our web site store with the following coupon code.  MRSPOCK

Save .99 cents off of SNES
.79 cents off of all PS1 games   etc.

Save .99 on Earthbound when ordered from GameCaseWorld.Com

We dropped the price of NES from $14.99 to $10.99!

You get the math!  Save on every single game you purchase AND free shipping! 

We're taking advantage of some holiday down time to case up some loose cartridges ourselves. NES game cases are now online for sale and have been doing great.  With the influx of so many sales we were able to lower the price a full FOUR dollars. The feedback and love for these modded cases is fantastic.  We're so happy to offer them for the first time ever. 

Almost too much news for one blog post!

Our link on Free Shipping Day's Web Site

NES Titles Are Here!

First of all I would like to invite everyone to check out my page on how NES cases are made from modified SNES cases.  We didn't know if we could ever offer NES cases for sale online because of the time and complexity involved in creating the modified cases, but we've decided to give it a shot - so these cases may or may not be around forever (hint: would be a good time to order.)

And definitely check out the superb collection of 456 NES covers from our store GameCaseWorld.Com. Chances are - you will find what you are looking for, and if not e-mail us and we can probably create it or find it.   In addition this week I added a page to the blog about our SNES cases so be sure to check that out! :)

It's been a year in coming and a lot of work, but the NES project is finally here.  I hope you all like them.  

Screen shot from GameCaseWorld.com

Cheers Everyone! -Paula