I take a look at numerous methods to give video games custom cases and/or labels to display them on a shelf better. Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz Twitter: / scottthewoz Facebook: / scottthewoz Instagram: / scottthewoz
Could just make Scott, Sam, & Eric (or SSE, as I like to call it) a full-blown Game Grumps-style series where Scott just loses his mind over time playing his backlog while Sam and Eric just shoot the breeze.
with the really simple edits and cuts and wording this feels like a mini-scott-the-woz and i love it. a cozy, easy to chew scott the woz viewing experience
As a kid I would make box art in Microsoft word and print it out and put them in spare cases. I didn't realize photo editing apps existed at the time and I'm still impressed with what I could do in word alone.
@@JoePCool14 I'd definitely recommend something else, I rember it feeling so intuitive when I was younger but damn I tired a few years ago and just couldn't lol Plus your thumbnails look really good for using word, imagine what you could do with real editing software.
@@lor8262 Thank you. If I get into it more, I definitely want to try using something else. Even something free like GIMP. But it takes time to learn new software so I always end up sticking with what I know.
@@jacobmonks3722 That was Majesco being cheap. The cardboard ones were assembled in Mexico, which means it was made by them. The boxes were lower quality and the manuals were in black and white
@@chalkyi8681 other than a complete mess like a dirty room who really says you are doing it wrong. When I see other collections I see people celebrating it saying" cool " and jazzed and such. I don't see people saying " you dumbass that should be over there." And when someone that says that tends to be labeled toxic.
During quarantine I finally said to myself im going to start collecting and to years later I finally put my feet even deeper into collecting by buying a full GameCube and so thank you Scott I would have never found the hobby without you
I feel the same way about needing to “see” my games to remember to play them sometimes. It’s why I kinda stay away from digital games most of the time. I’ve accidentally bought a game physical that I already owned digitally because I didn’t remember that I owned it digitally already. Obviously, that’s totally on me. I also totally lost my childhood copy of Pokemon Silver a few years ago and that was when I decided to get case for my GB/GBA games.
I double-dip digital and physical on purpose, but it depends on the circumstances. A. It's a niche game I want to support, i.e. I bought Gravity Rush 4 times and "bought" it one time. I redeemed it on Plus on Vita, bought it digitally after my Plus lapsed*, then I bought it physically on PS4 and then digitally years later when it was on sale for $10. B. I bought a game either physically or digitally, and now the other is available at a deep discount. I paid $15 for the Jak and Daxter PS3 collection years ago, then sometime later it was on sale digitally for $3 (PS3). Why not buy it at that price? I prefer physical copies in order to know I'll always have access to them, but I do like the convenience of digital.
I’m actually about to start collecting some of the Custom Game Cases boxes for my GB/GBC/GBA collection. Unfortunately, my collection got sizable before I could start getting the cases, so I’m gonna have to play catch-up with that. So glad I found this channel! Love it just as much as the main channel!
Scott, you have helped me SO MUCH. I did not know about CustomGameCases and it has saved me. I really wanted to display them, and to me this is the best way to do it.
Scott and I really have the same views and feeling on a lot of things especially in relation to collections but his humour in main videos is hit or miss for me so I love videos like this, thank you scottniak
damn i don't see scott the woz really do videos like this but to be honest, i love seeing a more relaxed experience from him, especially as his projects get bigger and bigger, it's just kind of a nice switch-between that i love
This video really changed my collection for the better. Since it was posted I've been able to get cases for just about all of my GB, GBC, GBA, and Virtual Boy games and they look amazing on the shelf. Thanks Scott!
I started grabbing custom game cases for my NES-N64 games, I love how they look on the shelf, I'm super nostalgic for the 3D modeled 90's box art so I love having it just for the box art alone.
I know a lot of others are saying it but I gotta say I like the way Scott just kinda talks about the game collection and getting to peek a bit behind the show curtain. The personality and "cinematic universe" of the Scott the Woz persona is still incredibly entertaining, but I like the down to earth talks too :)
im doing the cassette case thing for my gameboy/ advance games. the only hassle is trying to make box art because i cant figure out how to use the cover project. but it looks so good! and i have a cassette rack coming in the mail so it will look even better!
You're speaking my language! Casing up my Game Boy games was a huge ongoing project for me a few years ago. I probably cased up close to a hundred GB, GBC, GBA, VB, and GG games. GBA was easy by buying cheap DS games and harvesting their cases. I think one time I bought like 7 copies of The Bachelor and 13 copies of Deal or No Deal on DS because they were being sold for like $1 each at Walmart and they reliably had the GBA cart slot. For the remainder, I would buy newer blank DS cases straight from Nintendo (since that was the only type they sold), then swap those cases with my older DS games that had the cart slot. Customgamecases was a godsend for GB and GBC cases. I tended to print and cut the box art myself, but they really came through on some games with box art that was extremely hard to come by. Whatever resources they use don't line up exactly with The Cover Project (even searching the forums) so they really came through in the end. Stuff like Mobile Golf (Japan only) on GBC - NOBODY has Mobile Golf! But they sold me a case with the artwork. Awesome stuff. I also started on this before they made custom VB cases, so I was one of those maniacs who carved up DS cases with a box cutter. You'd have to stick cardboard between the plastic sleeve and the case itself, then carefully cut out the DS card holder, then trace and cut some craft foam in the shape of the inside of the case with a shape inside that to hold the VB cart... it was nuts. But it worked! I was also clever enough to do this on red DS cases since Nintendo fortunately sold those as blanks as well. You'll also HATE what I did for XL sized carts like WarioWare Twisted and the GBC rumble games. I took two DS cases, literally drilled matching holes into them and bolted them together with actual nuts and bolts, THEN did the box cutter surgery. Only this time you had to go straight through the back of one case and the front of another in order to make a case deep enough to hold the cart. Then for the artwork you bizarrely had to print off two different pages and kinda line them up since you still had two different sleeves. It was an absolute hackjob but I couldn't stand the thought of an uncased game. And now they sell custom cases for those too... could have saved me hours if I had just been patient!
This is a fantastic video about a topic you've made very interesting. I think the way the new Scott the woz episodes seem to prioritize jokes over information really made me miss the older videos where we'd just get a lesson on novelty videogame history. Very good video.
7:40 There are shops (one literally just called Custom Game Cases and another called Gaming Relics) where you can get the sideways art. CGC tends to have the better cases while GR has better artwork from my experience (the mainline Pokémon games have accurate artwork through GR while the artwork isn't as accurate on CGC's website despite CGC having better cases). Either way, cases are great if you have the manual and game but not the original box as people sell the authentic cases on E-bay for WAY too much (as opposed to ~$4-7 each on either of those sites that I mentioned). Edit: GR apparently doesn't do art now (according to a reply), and CGC has improved their art now. Times change!
17:50 Oops, should've waited until that point there. lol Yeah, I can vouch that they're a great solution. I use them for all of my cartridge based games.
@@IamAJoe RGC and CGC are both great. While I might gripe a bit about the accuracy of the artwork for CGC (some liberties are taken at times), but the cases themselves are top notch (besides Nintendo's cases, obviously). Edit: Sapphire has been fixed, so I've edited my comment for correctness.
@@GabMacedoo Yeah, SNES tends to be SUPER accurate. It seems like GBA and GBC are the ones with some accuracy issues as some color patterns don't match the original boxes. Edit: Removed the statement about Pokémon Gens 1-3 having the wrong artwork as they've been fixed now. Seems like CGC is upping the art quality at this point, which is nice!
For the N64 games, I bought a Nail polish display rack to mount on the wall. It looks great and I can fit my favourite 40 or so games on it. There are a variety of sizes and designs.
Honestly this more improv-y Scott is pretty cool. It feels like he's really talking to you(though not saying the scripted and polished episodes are inferior)
I've bought some custom cartridge trays off of Amazon for my N64 and Game Boy Advance titles, and they work perfectly. And those cases are EXACTLY what I've been looking for when it comes to storing my loose cartridges.
Scott I like this channel more than your first one. Please never stop uploading here. You feel very relatable, I feel like we could've streetpassed back in 2013 and played maro kart together
I love the idea of casette tape cases for GB games. It's super easy to find casette racks in thrift stores too, so they're easy to display in a compact way. I may have to do that!
Main reason why I end up getting the custom cases for NES and SNES even though they already have labels is because I also enjoy collecting the manuals and the custom cases are the perfect way to store them while being displayed nicely
I recently started ordering from Custom Game Cases as well. They make amazing cases. Trying to get all of my cart games boxes up…it’s gonna take a while.
I love this video, someday I hope to complete my collection and be able to display them all in cases so I can see what I have, cause it does make me want to play the games more.
There truly are a lot of games that just weren't made with a case. It's especially an issue with some of the more obscure games where I want to preserve them, but have trouble when all I have is the physical game.
