Welcome to the wonderful world of new packaging standards. I hate it with a passion.
I started a thread on this as soon as I heard about it last year: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/msg00258.html "Lee K. Seitz" wrote: > > I went to my local Wal-Mart today and dropped by the software aisle. > My internal reaction went something like this: > > Gah!!! What are these?!? Are these PC games??? [Picks one > up.] Yeah, I guess they are. They shrank! > > The boxes are about the size of DVD movies, but two or three times > thicker. They're still cardboard boxes, though, not DVD-style plastic > cases. I presume they still have the same ol', plastic CD cases > inside. > > I'd heard some talk about the software game industry standardizing > their boxes a year or two ago, but didn't realize a decision had been > made. So will I start seeing all games coming out in this packaging > from now on? (If it's not a budget, bare CD case, that is.) Or is > this primarily some new requirement that some of the big stores (like > Wal-Mart) are imposing on companies if they want them to stock their > games? Regardless, I'd guess the effect would be for all companies to > start selling all their games in these boxes because it would be > prohibitive to print two different styles of each box. > > So, now the Infogrames and Hasbro Interactive releases of the same > (Atari) games are different for more than just the HI logo changing to > Infogrames. Do I have to collect both versions? 8) On the bright > side, the smaller versions of Pac-Man: Adventures in Time and Revenge > of Arcade are about $5-10 cheaper. > > -- > Lee K. Seitz * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/ > Wanted: Vintage Pac-M*n necktie > (The asterisk is to keep from mucking up people's Usenet search > results. Replace it with an "a", if you didn't know.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
