BEST GAME CASES - Happy Console Gamer
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Johny talks about his favourite video game cases
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So I filmed and had this episode edited 3 weeks ago and almost released it last sunday but put up games I Played Recently.
I have not even watched Scott The Wozs episode, pure coincidence!
But UA-cam is big enough for people to talk about similar topics!
The fact your holding Lunar just warms my heart. I’m still holding my breath waiting for that Lunar series retrospective! Lol 😂 awesome job as always keep up the good work bro glad your back to uploading.
I thought that was kinda funny. By the way I HAVE used the memory card slot in PS2 cases sometimes when I went to compete with friends in Armored Core III back in the day. However I did also have a generic CD jewel case specifically for PS1 cards that carried 4 cards. I even separated my save files by game type. Two RPG specific cards a card just for action games and one for shmups. As for some of my favorites overall? I loved the PS1 and PS2 cases as well as my Dreamcast games. But I have a special type of nostalgia for that era because that's when I started buying my games on my own with my own money. Before then either they were gifts from family or they were my older brother's buys. The first console that was specifically mine having been the PS2 and the Dreamcast. My brother wanting nothing to do with the Dreamcast because he was spending too much time going up to date some married chick in Toronto that he met on EverQuest. A woman who ended up being his guild leader's wife no less. Yeah, that was awkward hearing about at the time. I was sitting there playing PSO and there my brother was bragging about being the other guy for this woman with four kids. Always pissed me off when he would pull the cord from my Dreamcast modem so he could go and flirt online. I thought it pathetic really.
Eh feels weird watching Scott because he is younger then me lol
I think this is Jesus's way of demanding a happy console gamer Scott the Woz crossover episode.
This is the kind of obscure hardcore gaming content I need. Incredible. Something 99% of consumers wouldn’t notice or even care about - and HCG has a vid on it
The best part about games back in the day was reading everything in the manual.
Yeah, I take my time reading them so I can feel more comfortable playing the game and there was still stuff I missed. I remember playing FF7 in middle school and loved it. I played it again later in high school reading the manual again before I played and realized I didn't even know about materia growth the first playthrough.
I never did this. So many gamers seem obsessed with manuals and having memories of reading them. I never took them out, just didn't see the point of them.
Kevin manuals were life for me for some reason. I remember reading each cover to cover many times.
On the toilet
I loved to take the manual with me when i had to go to work. Couldn't wait for work to be over to get back home to play again.
But times have changed massively and tbh, i don't really enjoy playing video games anymore.
Games are not appealing anymore and almost everything is digital. Even CD versions are another 50GB download at least and my gosh, all the day one patch crap...
I miss the days when you bought a game, came home, plugged it in and the game was loaded within seconds and you could start playing.
Manuals were always nice to look at. Especially the artwork.
Glad to see you are feeling better Johnny. Puts a smile on my face every time I see a new happy console gamer video. Please do some fighting game content!?
Man, i really miss game manual especially the color ones with gorgeous artworks and cool comic strip like MGS 2, No More Heroes, etc. Johnny, maybe you can do “Best Manual Book” for your next video?
The thick PS1 cases in the PAL regions were prone to cracks.
Unreal how flimsy they were lol
That´s right but I still prefer them in look and style.
The PAL Dreamcast cases were a nightmare!
I think they were better than a CD case though, you can read the names without being close up.
Please do a handheld cases episode, i would love to see that
PS Vita has hands down my favourite game cases.
Simple. Clean. Kingdom Hearts.
Agreed
Same
Switch should had cases this size, the ones they use look so silly when you open them.
100% absolutely love them myself.
thanks man, it was really fun to see these things. and its really really fun that i come to youtube day by day and i see you upload a new video! really makes me happy! :)
Loving the consistency on these uploads
Without nostalgia, I’d probably say the switch cases are my favorite.
half the size and twice the price
I'd prefer them to be 3DS size, but they probably did it to distinguish new Switch games from 3DS games
I just wish the spines were a little easier to tell apart instead of just text. It looks nice and unified when you have a few games but it gets harder and harder to find the game you're looking for after a while. Otherwise, big fan as well
Me too
@mazrimalthor the multiplats have exactly the same content but cost far more on Switch. Resident Evil 4 for example.
Love your deep dive into these topics! This is very cool! 🙃
I always loved seeing a CD and Sega Saturn cases. The grande size, the great art. It’s definitely a great trip back to my childhood.
Fun watch, you continue to do videos we never thought we would want til we see them :)
I was so bummed out that they got rid of manuals. I remember pouring over them.
Great video. Very nostalgic. I remembered my Sega Genesis times with this video, and how happy I was when I got my Genesis for Christmas in 1991.
Awesome Johnny. Love these Sunday videos thank you sir
3:02 I see you Johnny, sneaking the Streets of Rage soundtrack in the background ;) Awesome video as always!! :)
Great video. Love seeing all the different cases.
Great video! I always see retro games in stores with just the cartridge so it was cool to see the cases. One you didn't do was the Xbox one cases which are a little weird they're thinner then the PS4, have uniformed boarder colors on the spine and for some reason the disk is on the left side when you open them not on the right its almost as if every case is backwards. I would have to say I love the PS1 and Switch cases the most!
Your passion for phantasy star makes me wanna try it someday.
Please do you wont regret it, start with number 1 on emulator the first 4 are awesome especially 1 and 4.
His love for Phantasy Star inspired me to download the first one on the Switch. I enjoyed it.
@@KrisSilverMusic I never knew it was on switch good tip.
Play them all. And then play Phantasy Star Online 2. It's free and a big uptade will come out soon. (Technically it's PSO 3 but SEGA want to keep PS02 players..) ua-cam.com/video/1kcDZiU4yQ8/v-deo.html 😉
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Always LOVE when a new HCG video pops up feed! More please!
You're on fire with these videos man, keep up the great work!
Very cool video, excellent idea for a topic to cover. Was fun going back in time. My favorites are probably the sega ones and atari 2600 (i'm a little older than you don't think you covered this one here )
Your videos always keep me entertained, I appreciate it
This is such a fun topic! I also have a huge soft spot for the PSone double-CD cases. After FFVII, they pretty much became a symbol of a big, epic game, to the point where some single disc games would still come in double-sized cases.
And if course, the Switch is a huge favorite. I'm a pretty big fan of the cases for smaller media, I know you didn't talk about handhelds in this video, but I adore the cases for PSP and Vita games, too
Great topic! The larger cases such as 3DO were all about shelf real estate in the shops. I worked in an independent games shop back when the 3DO came out. The bigger the box the easier it would catch the customers eye over the competition. Back then there were more players in the field, it wasn’t just Sega and Nintendo anymore so the newcomers had to try and make themselves stand out and get noticed.
Was waiting for the Sega Saturn & Dreamcast, maybe some N64, but once again thank you superb video well done!
This was a really good video. Hope you keep felling better and your family too.
This video appeared at just the right time, Thanks Johny. I wanted to collect one game from each system and I was curious what the cases were for each.
Hello from Alaska! Johnny what is that sick tune playing at 03:00? Great show as always!!
Look at Johnny showing off his Panzer Dragoon Saga 🤣 Jk love the vids Johnny!!
Was hoping for a digital version but most likely never happen now with the original code being lost.
Lee Croft damn I didn’t even realize that was the case. Was hoping if the first game remaster did well we could get a rerelease of that one as well
Imitation Station great tip 👍🏻👍🏻
I must admit this was more interesting than I thought it was going to be 😊. Was cool going back in time, neo geo was such a monster. Great to see you have the new japan / fire pro game on PS4 as well.
I love that Link's Awakening shirt you are wearing! That's awesome!
Nice to see the evolution of cases. In the uk we got different sega cd, psone and dreamcast :)
Love that Seiken Densetsu III / Trials of Mana soundtrack in the background. My ears perked up when I heard "Nuclear Fusion" during the TG-16 case exhibit. =D
Hey, this was a really good video idea topic!
I love the Jaguar boxes. To have a little screenshot from the game in the corner, the Jaguar logo looked amazing and uniform. Just a great box.
The ps1 and dreamcast cases were very different in the UK.
Great topic Johny. Very interesting take. Cheers
It's crazy how different some of the boxes are compared to pal games
For me it is the PAL PS1 cases, theres something about the embossed PlayStation font on the side which makes it feel unique and elegant. Delicate sure, but very distinctive from the generic CD jewel case.
On a side note, i also appreciated on PS1 how platinum prints didn't compromise the cover art!
Love seeing the mattel sticker on the smb 3 box. I live in the lower 48 but have a cib nes action set from canada and it has mattel stickers and mattel distribution stickers on it too.
Thanks for the video pal. I appreciate your existence :)
PAL PlayStation (much thicker than a regular CD case) and GameBoy cases (when they used to come in individual plastic cases inside the square outer cardboard box) are definitely my most nostalgic.
Great ep. I really think the Genesis clamshells are a solid design, especially the ones that had the red stripping which unified them. I also am fascinated by the long Sega CD jewel cases with the blue striping, so damn cool.
Sega Saturn/CD longboxes EASILY the best cases of all time as far as looks go. Just too bad they're so fragile
Neo geo and turbografx are really cool too, but I've never had one and they seem prohibitively expensive
Nah they look bad. Watch Scott the Woz game cases video
@@toooydoeur I've seen it and I don't need to watch anyone's video to know what they're like. I have a bunch of them lol
@@expsharevideogames okay but you should add IMO then
@@expsharevideogames cause I honestly think they are one of the worst "IMO"
I actually used that PS2 memory card holder a lot but I was younger, it was convenient when bringing games over to a friends houses and not having a loose memory card. Copy movable data onto my 2nd memory card and leave my main card at home lol.
I like the camera angles from your POV while you're showing things.
The Neo Geo one reminds me of a VHS case lol good times.
I love this PS1 PAL/Europe Cases, they were fantastic. Also the DoubleCD-cases of PS1 are great!! I think this 2 are defently my faves ones. What me realy drive nuts are the missing Instruction-manuals @new games. 99% of all games, these days, dont have any kind of Instruction-Manual inside. Bah... Great episode btw!! :D
My parents did exactly what you stated. I'd love to have my Super Mario Bros. 3 and Terranigma boxes still. Perhaps I need to find a print service that might help me with making custom replacements at some point.
Every time I watch your videos, my attention goes to that 7th saga snes game. I absolutely love that game! Unrelated, but did you ever play the rig "Brainlord" on snes? I never hear people talk about it, but its another of my favorites
Great video, I was always fascinated by how the cases changed over the years too! It's quite weird that the Famicom had landscape boxes, but the NES had portrait. Then with the Super Famicom and SNES they swapped round, so we could never have the same artwork as Japan on the boxes because of the different orientation! Strange decision...
Love my Sega CD/Saturn cases, but damn do those hinges break easily.
Lolol feeling ya on the PS2 memory card holder inside the case usage 😂👌🏽
One of my favorites is the earlier ColecoVision boxes that had the arcade cabinet on the front. The earlier Genesis cases is my other favorite. Right now, I’m re-acquiring my Genesis collection after selling it years ago but I’m only interested in those early black cases with the gray grid.
I love the PS1 cases, nostalgia definitely hits hard with these. Seeing 1 always takes me back to a simpler,happy place....
I'm so glad you're back
Ahhh! I’m in a warm blanket of nostalgia! Quality game cases, color manuals with unique artwork, occasional extras inside like mini walkthroughs. ....today, that’s still around. But it’s the deluxe edition🤔
Seeing the old NES and SNE games that are still in their boxes gives me goosebumps.
That Super Mario 3 case is beautifully preserved. Whoever initially owned it (assuming you're not the original owner) took lovingly good care of.
I do remember game cases for consoles and computers and handhelds fairly well from the mid 80s on wards. Been a crazy ride lol
Great video idea. I loved it.
The european Dreamcast boxes was really beautiful and unique :-) My favorite gamecase.
Very cool video, you should do a video but for the UK versions as there's alot of differences especially for PlayStation 1 & Dreamcast games.
The dreamcast cases in europe have a nice blue insert ,looks good always liked that,always loved the small c64 tape covers some times they were in a nice box.
SEGA CD cases looked cool, but they broke easily.
Great Seiken Densetsu 3 music in the background!
Johnny, I'm not sure if you missed it. But the Sega Genesis also had a plastic version of the 'red band' boxes, they were not just made in cardboard. In fact, one of my all time favorite console game cases were specifically those Genesis cases in plastic with the vertical "GENESIS" on the left side (the 'red band'). For example, just check the red band plastic case for the original Mortal Kombat, I have the original authentic one and it looks very good to this day. In my opinion the red band cases (in plastic) were the best one on the Genesis.
Sounds weird but I can smell the different system games when you open them. Like the nes games had a distinct smell when ur all up in it blowing it off. And the cd jewel cases opening them for the first time
I always remember the smell of games I rented depending on the store. Its wierd but I miss it. lol
I loved the PAL Dreamcast cases! They were fragile as hell so I bought a job lot of sealed NFL Blitz dirt cheap to replace my damaged ones. I really hope NFL Blitz doesn’t become a collectors item!
nice
Yeah it really felt like Europe and especially the UK was the home of the Dreamcast! However, PAL N64 cases were unfortunately much uglier than North American :(
Just fought the black dragon on my psp copy of Lunar while you brought out your sega CD copy :)
Well done! You should be a history teacher. Smooth and informative
I know you're not talking about PC games, but back in the day, I used to play a lot of them, and my favorite in terms of package was the Ultima IV game. It came in a box, as usual for PC games back then, but it contained a cloth map -- which I thought was the coolest thing I'd seen.
Love the chat between the boxes.
I love your videos, Johnny. God bless you.
The way you put the manual back into the SMB3 box made my heart skip a beat...
What a great idea for a video! You should do this for handhelds, too.
It's also nice to see how there was a difference between regions in boxing, not only the box art. For example at Sega with the Saturn cardboard versions we had in Europe or the Blue Dreamcast jewel cases that where quiet unique, or cardboard Gameboy boxes in different sizes that came from Asian regions. Nowadays the cases seem all to be similar around the world besides artwork and title differences.
I too like the double sized PS1 and Dreamcast cases, and sometimes you got a chunky manual or two inside!
Johnny is my therapy.
Sins?
Xvideo is mine... but each to their own.
Man, that took me back. Favorites for me where the PS1 cases and the SNES. Also have a soft spot for the Original NES cases. I also liked the original Gameboy cases that a had full clear plastic case surrounding the game with a button to open them up.
Love the trials of mana track in the background
Man, that Resident Evil 2 case brings back all kinds of nostalgia! My favorite cases are the SNES. The SNES was the first console I remember getting when I was a kid. We had a NES when I was very young, but I was a little too young to enjoy it until later.
Great video.
This points out something interesting about the industry over the years, after a period of creative thinking and innovating, they are stuck on the "standardized" phase, and I mean not only on boxes (which arent even a thing now, they took artwork out, maps out, then they were just boxes now not even boxes anymore...everything is STANDARD, stories, gameplay, ALL THE SAME, thats why we go back to retro
My favorite is the dual sided PSX cases. They felt so substantial.
I never realized the we had so many different boxes in the European versions of the games! Saturn, Ps1, Dreamcast all are different and I'd say more interesting. We didn't have the standard cd jewelcases at all. Nintendo games have the same boxes though! Once again, great episode!!
It's worth mentioning there were at least three different styles of 3DO boxes, all long box size:
• There were the thin long boxes like the ones you showed.
• There were 'shoebox' style HARD long boxes they had lids that opened up shoebox style.
• And there were cardboard long boxes that were 'hinged' with a locking strip of black plastic that ran along the outer spine of the box.
The flimsy thin ones you showed in this video were easily the worse of the three.
Great topic, and best wishes to you and your family. Stay healthy, bro.
Wow, I never had a Sega, but that Lunar box looks awesome. They always did a lovely job with their cases thought... my Lunar 2 box for the Playstation was phenomenal and included all kinds of cool stuff.
Man the turbografx 16 was so unique and ahead of its time i loved that system had one when it came out,of course i begged my parents too buy me one lol
I really love how you been avoiding talking about next gen consoles or the ongoing price rumors and just sticking to nostalgic games. But some point you gonna have talk about it. 👍 Keep up the good work and family time.
I like the switch cases with recent gaming the cover art for the two Deadly Premonition games Are brilliant
Yes the DP cases are really something special, right Zach?
This is exactly the topic I’m super interested in. My favorite are NES boxes. I also really like snes,n64,switch and sega genesis boxes
Scott has entered the chat.
Totally thought this. Wild they had the same topic the same week. Definitely just a coincidence, but too funny.
redwingdog22 do u mean Scott the wozz
@@cozzy4447 yeah. his newest (?) episode was exactly the same topic.
Thanks. I just heard his voice
Yup, how original, it be cooler if he mentioned the woz
I'm a sucker for the DS, 3DS, and Vita cases. Similar to what you said about the switch cases, the size of them look nice. Plus, DS games had some really nice manuals.
North American SEGA SATURN cases are my all time favorite. Yes fragile, but if kept/found in good condition they are amazing. They have this shine on the front that illuminates the artwork so nicely when displayed. The later artworks that filled the entire cover are best exampled of this. A US Saturn collection also just look amazing all spined.
I gotta say I like the Vita cases a lot. They are like the Switch, which I would consider a second best.
They are small but not too small, they are rectangular which is nice to display the art of the game and easy to put on a shelf.
Just before watching this video I was looking at some of my GBA game boxes and remember seeing all these on the shelves at stores. Love Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced box.
I used the memory card holders back in the day. If I was going to a friend's house to play some games, it was nice to just pop my save file in the case with the games I was bringing over.
It did backfire on me once though. I traded in a GameCube game (can't remember what) and I didn't realize until later that I had left a memory card in the case and it was my only one. So not only did I lose my ability to save games, I didn't even get my 2 bucks for trading in a memory card!