[General Discussion] Packaging-Palooza

A lot of useless junk comes packaged in with games. Subscriptions to Playstation Underground, instructions on how to avoid killing yourself while using your DS, company surveys, and on rare occassions an instruction manual. So, how much of that stuff do you usually keep? Hell, do you just toss the whole case out and lay the disc in a pile beside your TV? I know far too many people who actually do that to their games.

With DVD cases it usually varies. Sometimes I toss out everything but the manual, while other times I'll just leave it all in there. The advertisements and such are useless, but I like leaving it complete. Games that come in boxes (NES, GBA, etc.) I leave everything. With GBA games I'll even fold that plastic wrapper the cartridge is inside of and stick it back in the box. I think the only games where I always toss the ads come in jewel cases like PSX and Dreamcast since they get in the way too much.

A few years ago there was a local store that gave $1 store credit per box, and I sold off enough NES/SNES boxes for games I no longer have to get several free games. The owner's reaction was priceless when he saw the original ads still inside.

Jam it back in, in the dark.