Kaiju Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Personally I want to play everything...if for only a handful of times. see what I missed out on back then, then Im the box and on the shelf.. Anyways my question is. I noticed the few times I got any new old stock, the box seams to be buckling naturally under the old seal. Outside of unwrapping obviously, how do you guys battle this? Or is there a point where the box buckle = seal and it remains the way it is from that point on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) I inspect my boxes each year and if I start to see the wrap is contracting I will remove it. You can't reverse it insofar as I know. Edited March 12, 2018 by Curt Vendel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Anyone ever try lightly steaming a warped box? Imagine it drying in better shape so long as you had it straightened out. Or might make it worse. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I'd imagine it would get worse and shrink. And things that shrink are not good. And perhaps even condensation could collect under the overtight wrapping and adhere it to the box, making unwrapping a damaging operation. Best bet is to relieve the stress by cutting the shrinkwrap or remove it entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Not talking about steaming a shrink-wrapped box. Talking about repairing the crushed box after you removed the shrink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Ohh of course. I've steamed some boxes myself. Or rather put them in a really humid environment and lightly pressed out some kinks. It can work and it's kind of an art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiju Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 So the mindset of a collector of sealed games isnt to keep them sealed and resell st a premium, when it comes to these older systems at least. But more to assure it is intact complete and the cart is in working order? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 I can't speak for anyone else but I do have a few sealed 7800 games. My mindset is just that I enjoy preserving something exactly as it would have appeared on store shelves when I was a kid. Gaming, to me, is a full experience. It's not just about seeing pretty pictures on a screen. It's also about going to a store, picking up that game, holding it in your hands, and the anticipation you feel about being able to take that cartridge out and play it later. That's part of the experience, and there's really no way to re-live that with an old system, but you can at least get close to it with a sealed game. Of course, *opening* a sealed game was also part of the experience, and I've opened one or two of my sealed 7800 games. But I don't need to open all of them; reliving that once every few years is enough. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiju Posted March 13, 2018 Author Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) I totally agree, I mean I still have 3 Toys R Us tickets I held onto somehow..just a quick glance at these bring me right back. . one for Super Mario 2, another for Godzilla and the last for TurboGrafix Cd system....i sware when I expand my game room, Im going to have homedepot color match this ToysRus yellow for my walls.. The point of this topic really is I ended up with a couple sealed games and I rather not leave them sealed if its going to continue to compress the box, that line where the benefits of a sealed copy turns into a negative ...if that makes sense Edited March 13, 2018 by Kaiju Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Could always cut some slits in the shrink wrap to try to prevent further warpage, but really... sounds like you should just remove the shrink altogether and enjoy your games. It's what they were made for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Sealed or non-sealed. It's physical semantics. Put the fucking thing is Zip-Loc baggie and you're back to being sealed again! And as a bonus you can put desiccant in with it and make it air tight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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