Custom 5200 cartridge box

[+discotronic]

I did a search and didn't find what I need. Hope someone here can point me in the right direction. 

 

Is there anyone that makes custom boxes for 5200 games? More than anything I'm looking for a box for my Adventure II game and a couple other loose homebrew games to put on the shelf with my other homebrew games. They don't need to be an actual reproduction box and this isn't going to be something for resale. 

 

Since a full on printed 5200 box is probably cost prohibitive I was thinking maybe something along the lines of a plastic VHS style clamshell case. My preference would be that the case be somewhere close to the same size as an original 5200 box. It would also need room for a manual. 

 

Any ideas?

[ledzep]

On 12/1/2019 at 12:23 PM, discotronic said:

I did a search and didn't find what I need. Hope someone here can point me in the right direction. 

 

Is there anyone that makes custom boxes for 5200 games? More than anything I'm looking for a box for my Adventure II game and a couple other loose homebrew games to put on the shelf with my other homebrew games. They don't need to be an actual reproduction box and this isn't going to be something for resale. 

 

Since a full on printed 5200 box is probably cost prohibitive I was thinking maybe something along the lines of a plastic VHS style clamshell case. My preference would be that the case be somewhere close to the same size as an original 5200 box. It would also need room for a manual. 

 

Any ideas?

 

The only thing I could find (not looking hard) was this -

 

https://www.retrogamecases.com/shop/products/game-cases/game-cases-atari-5200/

 

But not sure if that's what you mean.

 

What I was actually looking for was custom cardboard boxes for some of my Atari 5200 games.  There was a guy who used to do this but I guess he doesn't anymore?  Marc Oberhäuser -

 

http://www.freelancer-games.com/

 

His site doesn't really list the boxes anymore.  I was hoping that he might do some custom boxes for Video-61 games (I bought a couple, Venture and NovaWolf, might buy more games) since they come in small boxes with minimal artwork glued on.  Or at the least, sell blank boxes (if I felt like gluing on my own stabs at artwork later).

[+discotronic]

On 10/8/2021 at 11:53 PM, ledzep said:

What I was actually looking for was custom cardboard boxes for some of my Atari 5200 games.  There was a guy who used to do this but I guess he doesn't anymore?  Marc Oberhäuser -

 

http://www.freelancer-games.com/

 

His site doesn't really list the boxes anymore.  I was hoping that he might do some custom boxes for Video-61 games (I bought a couple, Venture and NovaWolf, might buy more games) since they come in small boxes with minimal artwork glued on.  Or at the least, sell blank boxes (if I felt like gluing on my own stabs at artwork later).

Marc still makes the boxes and does most of his sales on Etsy.

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AtariGameBoxes?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=889260126

 

There are a few boxes that I need to get as well. The great thing about his boxes are they are very well made and come with the cartridge insert. I've seen some boxes were the question should have been asked "why bother?" because they are made so cheap.

[ledzep]

19 hours ago, discotronic said:

Marc still makes the boxes and does most of his sales on Etsy.

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AtariGameBoxes?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=889260126

 

There are a few boxes that I need to get as well. The great thing about his boxes are they are very well made and come with the cartridge insert. I've seen some boxes were the question should have been asked "why bother?" because they are made so cheap.

 

Oh, thanks!  I will look into that.