Game Case World: Digimon Game Case

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

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.

Friday, December 9, 2011

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.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Spyro and Digimon Two New Exciting Bundles

Digimon World and Spyro Game Case Spines

We've had a ton of requests for both of these sets, and after working on them for three weekends they are now completed! "Digimon 1, 2, 3" and "Spryo the Dragon, Spyro Ripto's Revenge and Spyro Year of the Dragon!" There are a lot of reasons to love these sets.

First request by all our collectors is make the spines relate to one another so they look great on a library media shelf. Done!

Digimon and Spyro are great collectible titles that lately have become even more popular and sought after raising the price on the used market (namely eBay) and making requests for proper game cases increase. If these are not in your library already, now is the time to purchase them before they raise in price steadily over the coming year. We like to think of it as our 401k!

Shows the cover prior to putting
it into a hard shell case. Note
how all the colors and design relate!

Problem with making these cases was a lack of good scanned art work and tracking down original covers. It was NOT easy. And sometimes what I find is the original art work was really lousy, nearly unreadable and the graphics fuzzy. Hard to believe that some of these covers were published at all, guess it was the 90's. The European releases of the games had different covers and backs so in some cases the American and European covers were cannibalized to make one solid piece that met our standards. Sometimes I end up with something pretty original like on Ripto's Rage having the dragon fly buzz into Spyro's ear which is entirely new.

I know you all are going to love these, the bright colors and crisp art work rocks it out. Sure there are game covers out there in forums and so forth, but they typically have bad scans, no remastering and no trained designer going back through and making sure the cover looks as professional as if it was published today.

As always you know we use only the best paper and archival ink so the vibrancy and detail comes through. They use hard cases that won't go broke like the old jewel cases (of which I have none that haven't fallen apart with age). These lovely cases are now on our library shelves, a few more games cased - many more on our list to go. I make 1-5 cases weekly and we have many more to put on our web site we just haven't had time to. Rare RPG's coming up next!! Please drop by our web site or eBay store to pick a set up! Look below for links to the cases for sale!