How Are You Protecting Your Game Collection?

[dlevere]

It is an age old question. How to protect your gaming library. Sure, there were some companies that provided protective sleeves for “some” of their titles. Nintendo did this for pretty much all of the NES games that were officially licensed. They also did this for “some” of the Super Nintendo games they released - eventually opting to drop the little plastic sleeve (many experts state that this move saved Nintendo a nickel per game).

That is all find and dandy if you still have those sleeves. For most gamers buying titles loose, or used, those slip covers are LONG gone. There are aftermarket options for SNES and others but what about the Atari 2600? Atari never really addressed this issue.

Global Game Gear is stepping up and doing it for Atari - over 30 years later.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...?ref=user_menu

http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2016/...00-collection/

[nensondubois]

I remember when Funcoland had all sorts of wildly bright NES covers. Those were he days.

I had covers on my game collection before the idiots at the house I used to live at had a shitty water setup and damaged most of my games and boxes few years ago. I stopped collecting games for the most part since then, at around the same time I stopped posting on forums. I hope the people I lived with still have my stuff in their shed or there will be trouble. I may start collecting again at some point.

I have my GB/GBA stuff but I want my NES, SNES, etc with the console back so I can recover my game collection.

[bungholio]

The easy way I protect my games is by copying them to my computer to copy them to a few different external hard drives. After that, I no longer care about what happens to the physical copy because I can either play it on my computer or play it on a console. Keep your hard drives safe in different locations and you'll never need to care, except for hard drives randomly going bad without warning or reason.

Those big thin plastic sleeves for Nintendo games weren't all that special, nor were the tiny plastic ones for SNES games. No amount of using them prevented you from needing to clean the cartridge the correct way or maybe even disassembling your Nintendo to clean that out the proper way too.