Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

davyK

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

More of a GameCube case guy myself. Those tiny discs were just too much fun and also had the satisfying memory card spot.

You press the centre to release them from the case (don't you?) Just the way the console works too.

regmcfly

Worst cases?

I'm going to say Vita. I did prefer the US style CD case to the chunkier EU ones for PS1. The latter due to so many languages for manuals I assume.

Diluted Dante

DVD cases were fine when we had manuals. Lovely thick ones.

Without them, cases may as well just be disc size.

davyK

The cardboard Nintendo ones purely on the basis of longevity.
Then PAL Dreamcast , made of the most brittle substance known to man while being awkward to open.
Then probably the early PAL Saturn games with that awful cardboard front.

davyK

Diluted Dante wrote:

DVD cases were fine when we had manuals. Lovely thick ones. Without them, cases may as well just be disc size.

Yeah - I long for the days of manuals - but even the JP Saturn games which come in a standard CD case come with a rather nice manual (which doubles as a front cover).

LivDiv

davyK wrote:

The cardboard Nintendo ones purely on the basis of longevity. Then PAL Dreamcast , made of the most brittle substance known to man while being awkward to open. Then probably the early PAL Saturn games with that awful cardboard front.

This.
I seem to remember Gameboy boxes being particularly difficult to open without creasing the box.
I do like the little plastic cartridge cases GB games came with though. They made the boxes shelvable without worrying about the games getting damaged as much. Game Gear had these as well.

LivDiv

VHS boxes were satisfying, cardboard sleeves less so. Double VHS boxes were monsters. I remember having a Sooty double pack that had the videos side by side, absolute beasts. It was about the size of me when I received it.

Diluted Dante

regmcfly wrote:

I did prefer the US style CD case to the chunkier EU ones for PS1. The latter due to so many languages for manuals I assume.

EU PS1 for me. US ones are basically jewel cases aren't they?

davyK

Diluted Dante wrote:

I did prefer the US style CD case to the chunkier EU ones for PS1. The latter due to so many languages for manuals I assume.

EU PS1 for me. US ones are basically jewel cases aren't they?

Aye - but the EU PS1 cases aren't bad actually. Although later ones felt more flimsy and were more brittle. JP PS1 are jewel cases so I presume the US ones are too.

afgavinstan

Sorry for what I have done to the film thread. But it's true.

Worst? EU Dreamcast hands down. Things just fell apart. If it wasn't the hinges it was the wee blue bits that held the disc in. Little folds happening to inlays all the time. Nightmare stuff.

afgavinstan

Also I'll never forgive the old Hamilton branch of Game selling me a copy of Rez on PS2 preowned but it was in a generic black dvd case, not a PS2 case of any kind. And the lovely big letter P in black marker on the disc, manual, and barcode for good measure. Terrorists.

regmcfly

Diluted Dante wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

I did prefer the US style CD case to the chunkier EU ones for PS1. The latter due to so many languages for manuals I assume.

EU PS1 for me. US ones are basically jewel cases aren't they?

Yeah. First two I bought in the States were THPS and MGS and I just remember them seeming much cooler than the UK ones which had a bit of the Fisher Price to them.

EvilRedEye

afgavinstan wrote:

Also I'll never forgive the old Hamilton branch of Game selling me a copy of Rez on PS2 preowned but it was in a generic black dvd case, not a PS2 case of any kind. And the lovely big letter P in black marker on the disc, manual, and barcode for good measure. Terrorists.

For what’s it’s worth, I think all copies came in a black case. I remember mine being in a black case and all the image results for ‘Rez PS2 PAL’ are in black cases.

davyK

afgavinstan wrote:

Also I'll never forgive the old Hamilton branch of Game selling me a copy of Rez on PS2 preowned but it was in a generic black dvd case, not a PS2 case of any kind. And the lovely big letter P in black marker on the disc, manual, and barcode for good measure. Terrorists.

Fuck me.

davyK

EvilRedEye wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

Also I'll never forgive the old Hamilton branch of Game selling me a copy of Rez on PS2 preowned but it was in a generic black dvd case, not a PS2 case of any kind. And the lovely big letter P in black marker on the disc, manual, and barcode for good measure. Terrorists.

For what’s it’s worth, I think all copies came in a black case. I remember mine being in a black case and all the image results for ‘Rez PS2 PAL’ are in black cases.

Need to check mine.

regmcfly

davyK wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

Also I'll never forgive the old Hamilton branch of Game selling me a copy of Rez on PS2 preowned but it was in a generic black dvd case, not a PS2 case of any kind. And the lovely big letter P in black marker on the disc, manual, and barcode for good measure. Terrorists.

Fuck me.

Some G Force shit right there

GooberTheHat

I miss this stuff.

regmcfly

My dad has that bottom left poster framed in his office because he's probably the best civ player in the world.

EvilRedEye

I think I actually bought a big box copy of Civ II on eBay at one point because I wanted the feelies.

regmcfly

My dad's office is that Civ 2 poster and then mounted copies of every official Pink Floyd studio album. It's chaos.

SpaceGazelle

GooberTheHat wrote:

I miss this stuff.

Yas. PC was a class above everything when it tried.

hylian_elf

My Rez copy also came in a black case.

regmcfly

Just dug out my all time favourite DVD.

It's the Criterion of the Royal Tenenbaums, and I loved it because for years it gave me so much teaching material. The concept of mise-en-scene is writ so large across the initial sketches that it does teach kids that maybe things are placed on screen for a reason. What a beautiful set.

afgavinstan

Physical media is class.

hylian_elf

Shame about the movie.

acemuzzy

I think I have that civ ii box somewhere!

davyK

davyK wrote:

EvilRedEye wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

Also I'll never forgive the old Hamilton branch of Game selling me a copy of Rez on PS2 preowned but it was in a generic black dvd case, not a PS2 case of any kind. And the lovely big letter P in black marker on the disc, manual, and barcode for good measure. Terrorists.

For what’s it’s worth, I think all copies came in a black case. I remember mine being in a black case and all the image results for ‘Rez PS2 PAL’ are in black cases.

Need to check mine.

My PAL copy of Rez on PS2 is a blue case. It was pre-owned so it could have been swapped I suppose.

davyK

Criterion Godzilla BluRay packaging is a lark

nick_md

I got a copy of showgirls from cex for 50p

Paul the sparky

Dorty bugger

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