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!

@HappyConsoleGamer

3 жыл бұрын

But KZread is big enough for people to talk about similar topics!

@humorouserrectis5791

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@anime-mun

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mephianse81

3 жыл бұрын

Eh feels weird watching Scott because he is younger then me lol

@PL4Y3R_ON3

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is Jesus's way of demanding a happy console gamer Scott the Woz crossover episode.

The best part about games back in the day was reading everything in the manual.

@newgameaaaa

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@leecroft7311

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@alanlee67

3 жыл бұрын

Kevin manuals were life for me for some reason. I remember reading each cover to cover many times.

@extremesegaa9239

3 жыл бұрын

On the toilet

@topperharley7142

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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.

@arcadeutopia3035

3 жыл бұрын

Unreal how flimsy they were lol

@patrickhein6986

3 жыл бұрын

That´s right but I still prefer them in look and style.

@dreamcazman

3 жыл бұрын

The PAL Dreamcast cases were a nightmare!

@TheDneaves

10 ай бұрын

I think they were better than a CD case though, you can read the names without being close up.

I was so bummed out that they got rid of manuals. I remember pouring over them.

Please do a handheld cases episode, i would love to see that

PS Vita has hands down my favourite game cases.

@poopikins

3 жыл бұрын

Simple. Clean. Kingdom Hearts.

@Dusty_B

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@BirdieImagineeBCH

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@leecroft7311

3 жыл бұрын

Switch should had cases this size, the ones they use look so silly when you open them.

@adambloodfist3368

3 жыл бұрын

100% absolutely love them myself.

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.

Your passion for phantasy star makes me wanna try it someday.

@DRock7977

3 жыл бұрын

Please do you wont regret it, start with number 1 on emulator the first 4 are awesome especially 1 and 4.

@LedZeppo32

3 жыл бұрын

His love for Phantasy Star inspired me to download the first one on the Switch. I enjoyed it.

@DRock7977

3 жыл бұрын

@@KrisSilverMusic I never knew it was on switch good tip.

@michaelromeo9567

3 жыл бұрын

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..) kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5-XpryihZffgZs.html 😉

@HelvecioGomes

3 жыл бұрын

👍🏽

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.

@cooldude4643

3 жыл бұрын

half the size and twice the price

@poopikins

3 жыл бұрын

I'd prefer them to be 3DS size, but they probably did it to distinguish new Switch games from 3DS games

@suappie2118

3 жыл бұрын

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

@igorlucena11

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@cooldude4643

3 жыл бұрын

@mazrimalthor the multiplats have exactly the same content but cost far more on Switch. Resident Evil 4 for example.

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

@dmace81

3 жыл бұрын

I always remember the smell of games I rented depending on the store. Its wierd but I miss it. lol

The Neo Geo one reminds me of a VHS case lol good times.

3:02 I see you Johnny, sneaking the Streets of Rage soundtrack in the background ;) Awesome video as always!! :)

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.

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!

Fun watch, you continue to do videos we never thought we would want til we see them :)

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.

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.

Awesome Johnny. Love these Sunday videos thank you sir

It's crazy how different some of the boxes are compared to pal games

Great video. Love seeing all the different cases.

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.

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

Love your deep dive into these topics! This is very cool! 🙃

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.

That Super Mario 3 case is beautifully preserved. Whoever initially owned it (assuming you're not the original owner) took lovingly good care of.

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

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.

Seeing the old NES and SNE games that are still in their boxes gives me goosebumps.

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.

I do remember game cases for consoles and computers and handhelds fairly well from the mid 80s on wards. Been a crazy ride lol

Always LOVE when a new HCG video pops up feed! More please!

The ps1 and dreamcast cases were very different in the UK.

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.

Nice to see the evolution of cases. In the uk we got different sega cd, psone and dreamcast :)

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 )

Lolol feeling ya on the PS2 memory card holder inside the case usage 😂👌🏽

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!

I love that Link's Awakening shirt you are wearing! That's awesome!

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.

Love my Sega CD/Saturn cases, but damn do those hinges break easily.

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.

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🤔

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.

I too like the double sized PS1 and Dreamcast cases, and sometimes you got a chunky manual or two inside!

I love the PS1 cases, nostalgia definitely hits hard with these. Seeing 1 always takes me back to a simpler,happy place....

One of my favorite parts of the collection is literally the presentation of cases lol.

Hello from Alaska! Johnny what is that sick tune playing at 03:00? Great show as always!!

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.

I like the camera angles from your POV while you're showing things.

My favorite is the dual sided PSX cases. They felt so substantial.

For the PS1, before the long "box" cardboard case there were 2 different cases. The first one was clear plastic like the saturn games (1st release of tekken). Then there was a hybrid plastic/cardboard box like the toshinden 2 game. Finally they became cardboard longbox, just before the cd case.

You're on fire with these videos man, keep up the great work!

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.

Always loved how compact and sturdy DS game cases were.

@AbstractM0use

3 жыл бұрын

An added bonus, the earlier ones double as Game Boy Advance cases, too.

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!

@HKgaming86

3 жыл бұрын

nice

@swedishvintagegamer7189

3 жыл бұрын

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 :(

Your videos always keep me entertained, I appreciate it

I found the double CD cases for ps1 amusing when there was only one disc (looking at you vandal hearts).

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 used the ps2 memory card slots so much when I would go down friends' house

@TomLiKESLemons

3 жыл бұрын

Yep same! Did it literally every week

@DaakkuuYRS

3 жыл бұрын

Now I just use to store it, since I don't use my PS2 anymore. Which is helpful.

@chironthecuddley6144

3 жыл бұрын

I would've used it with the GameCube cases when I spent a the weekends at my dad's, but my memory card was made by Nyko, so it was too large to fit into the slot, so I kept the little case for the memory card all these years later.

@HKgaming86

3 жыл бұрын

@@chironthecuddley6144 I still have the little case that came with Mad Catz mem card

Love the trials of mana track in the background

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.

As i recall when i had my sega cd here in the UK, they was in small double cd boxes. Even though they held one cd most of the time.

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!

Here in UK for the single disc PlayStation games they were the fat cases, always felt weird getting a slim CD case. All our PS2 cases are blue too.

The european Dreamcast boxes was really beautiful and unique :-) My favorite gamecase.

Love the chat between the boxes.

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.

That Super Mario Bros 3 box is immaculate. Not easy to keep those in such condition so all credit to you.

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.

Hey, this was a really good video idea topic!

I really really miss manuals. Man I wish I still had my whole collection of games from Atarii to Colecovision. I can't even remember what a colecovision or attari game case looked like. I'm 47 btw.

I really love the PSVita cases. Small compact and fit nicely on my shelves.

@livesinalazywonderland4021

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, loved the size of vita cases, like adorable as cheesy as it sounds.

Just fought the black dragon on my psp copy of Lunar while you brought out your sega CD copy :)

Look at Johnny showing off his Panzer Dragoon Saga 🤣 Jk love the vids Johnny!!

@leecroft7311

3 жыл бұрын

Was hoping for a digital version but most likely never happen now with the original code being lost.

@MattyPBee

3 жыл бұрын

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

@MattyPBee

3 жыл бұрын

Imitation Station great tip 👍🏻👍🏻

I like the switch cases with recent gaming the cover art for the two Deadly Premonition games Are brilliant

@FrancisYorkMorganFBI

3 жыл бұрын

Yes the DP cases are really something special, right Zach?

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.

Great topic Johny. Very interesting take. Cheers

Something about the N64 boxes.. the artwork and everything.. definitely my favorite.

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.

I love the box for the Philips G7000 game "Quest for the Rings". It made the game feel a lot more magical as the game itself had horrendous graphics while the artwork of the manual was amazing. "Quest for the Rings" was 1 out of 3 games that incorporated tabletop gameplay. The other 2 were "Conquest of the World" and "The great wall street fortune hunt". Generally I really love the art style of the G7000 games from the European releases that were quite different from the north american releases.

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.

I love the plastic Sega cases. Clicky and blocky like blockbuster VHS boxes. The Sega CD case is also super cool. I like the dimensions and the thick sides.

Genesis is probably my favorite case, just simple and classic and no beat-up cardboard to worry about. Famicom disc system game case are great as well. Love the discs and the case.

Great Seiken Densetsu 3 music in the background!

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...

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.

In the UK our Playstation single CD games had the same size cases as the double disc games. So were both the same thickness.

Some PlayStation 2 game cases also had a spot for your memory card. It was usually an rpg or game that took longer to beat and the card holder was there so you would know which memory card it was on and also if you were bringing it over to a friend or relatives house to play where you left off. My friend was in the hospital battling leukemia and I would play Final Fantasy X while he watched. It seemed like he was holding on just to see the ending of the game because once I beat the game I went down to the cafeteria to get a bite to eat and when I returned I thought he was just sleeping. So, I let him be and went home only to get a phone call saying he had passed away.

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

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.

Great video idea. I loved it.

Man I wish I still had some of my older boxarts for games, some games I General I’ve had to just rebuy. At least now I’m at a point where I shouldn’t really lose anything else.

Thanks for the video pal. I appreciate your existence :)

Scott has entered the chat.

@me_mate_argyle

3 жыл бұрын

Totally thought this. Wild they had the same topic the same week. Definitely just a coincidence, but too funny.

@cozzy4447

3 жыл бұрын

redwingdog22 do u mean Scott the wozz

@danholo

3 жыл бұрын

@@cozzy4447 yeah. his newest (?) episode was exactly the same topic.

@IaconDawnshire

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I just heard his voice

@waterpig84

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, how original, it be cooler if he mentioned the woz