DS game boxes

[99blackballoons]

Hello! I have had a DS of all types since 2005 and as you'd expect I have been buying games since that that time. At this point, the game boxes are starting to pile up. I used to keep them on the bottom of a CD rack but my collection has outgrown those shelves. I keep all the game cartridges in an index card box so the boxes themselves aren't all

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[pockycrusader]

I store all of my video games in one of those great big, really deep underbed drawers. They're wide enough to put two dvd cases across from one another lying on edge horizontally, and I can still lay stuff on top of it flat.

You would think, with the push to make everything green these days, they'd do something about the excess packaging of video games. DS cartridges are the size of SD memory cards, there's no need for a cd-sized box. Hardly anyone actually consults the manual packaged with the game these days (most of the time when you buy a used one, there's no manual, grr), and the "health and safety" instructions are extra paper no one even bothers reading (plus it's usually the first screen of the boot up).

[99blackballoons]

this is a great idea thanks! i just bought some underbed boxes for my art supplies as well and there is still some more room under there that I could get one for games!

I agree, I have never been so sure why the boxes are so big and why they switched from cardboard to plastic in a time of going green. But I do like having the boxes around and I can't say any of the boxes for my GBA or GBC games has survived for the simple reason that they were cardboard and the same goes for the manuals! So I guess I do appreciate the plastic case, but it could definitely be smaller.

[hintomint82]

I consult the manual! :D In the time that it takes me to get home with my coveted prize (by bus; I use the city bus to get around) I usually browse through a game's manual so I'm familiar with certain concepts and controls before I start.

I will say, though, that it does seem pointless for them to include such thick-sized manuals when most, if not all games nowadays, have a tutorial mode that goes over that stuff with you in-game.

[rokusabarou]

Me too! I still read the manual...

But yeah, the tutorial stage does make manuals kind of obsolete...

[ch0copockii]

...If by 'store' you mean what part of my bookshelf are they stacked on now, then that's easier. >.>;

I actually have no real way of storing the boxes. I'm one of those OCD-people who try to keep everything in the best possible condition for the longest time, so my PSP boxes are stored in the part of my desk where a keyboard would go (if I didn't have a laptop), my DS games are in two separate GameStop bags to keep the dust off, the PS3 games are on the shelf in the TV room lined up like books and my GBA boxes are in an unused drawer. All with the games inside.

Not sure what that says about me... :/

[99blackballoons]

It sounds like you're in good company here with keeping your games very clean and well organized :D Good idea with the gamestop bags I hate dust!

[lunelight]

Vertically stacked and alphabetized on a bookshelf. 8D

I have a shelf on my bookcase for DS and PS2/3/P game boxes, so it's basically an ever-evolving game of Game Box Tetris! (I'd store them but I like to have them handy when friends borrow games.)

[littlepunkryo]

I do mine this way too, except I also put DVDs up there.

[rokusabarou]

Same here!

My OCD-ish tendencies show when I store my video games.
They're all alphabetized, and lined up neatly on their own shelf. (Next to a little tachikoma figure.)
I like to keep all the cases and manuals in excellent condition (for some reason).
When I'm not playing the games, they go back into the boxes, too. I'm not very used to storing them in the case with the DS like you're supposed to...

[99blackballoons]

I have a friend that keeps all the cartridges in the boxes when she's not using them too. I want to be that way! But when I go somewhere i have a very hard time deciding which games I want to bring so I keep all the DS cartridges in an index card box so that I can carry them all with me to a friends house. I never trust those little elastic band pouches in the cases that are supposed to hold a cartridge!

[rokusabarou]

Yeah, the cases make sense for travelling.
Mine's a hard case (very nice), with separate compartments for the DS and the games, but for everyday at the home kind of storage, I definitely have all the boxes, still. xD

[ichiban_victory]

IKEA has become my best friend, since now I can store all of my game cases (DS, Wii, or otherwise) on media shelves. I've even alphabetized them for ease of use, but mainly to appease my need for order. ;)

[99blackballoons]

Media shelves...I didn't know there was such a thing! I'm going to look into those :)

[ichiban_victory]

I didn't either, until I was exploring the store. Now, "Besta" is indeed my best friend when it comes to storing game boxes. ;)