Least Favorite Video Game Spines 

I await the sequel video: Most favorite video game pancreas’s.

Scott is the only man I know who would spend 25 minutes bitching about Video Game Spines and I love it

SCOTT'S STASH IS THE MAIN CHANNEL

Scott and video game spines, name a more iconic rivalry

In Final Fantasy VI, when you use X-Zone, the enemy disappears. That's why you don't have anything on X-Zone's spine.

Scott The Woz is truely the autistic representation the world needs the most

I love when scott talks about shit like this

As someone who works in a used game store, I have several grudges to hold: - MAG for PS3, specifically the greatest hits version, has the word "Title" written in black arial text off to the left. It blends in a little with background but once you see it you'll never unsee it - Unreal Championship Platinum Hits for original Xbox is clearly using a mockup rather than the proper platinum hits template. The Xbox logo is cut off slightly, the font for "Online Enabled" is completely wrong, there's this weird rectangle behind the title, it's a mess. - Pretty much every console has a game with a blank spine. WWE 2K14 on PS3, Evil Genius 2 on PS4, X Zone on SNES like Scott mentioned. The 360 has 2: Let's Dance and the platinum hits version of Condemned: Criminal Origin. - Days Of Thunder on PS3 has by far the hardest to read spine I've ever seen. The logo is super crowded already and it's shrunk down in the middle of the template. - Devil May Cry 4 is also pretty hard to read just due to heavily stylized, dark coloured text on a black background. - Not a spine but on the back of the box for Golden Axe Beast Rider on 360, it says "Battle Increasingly Savage Enemies In Melee Comb" - Several NES games have the publisher's name on the end label but not the name of the game, I believe most of them are Jaleco games like Bases Loaded

You know what bothers me? When an eBay or Mercari seller uploads 10 photos of a game’s box, but doesn’t include the spine. Drives me bananas.

I saw a picture somewhere online of someone who was so annoyed by the Switch having all red cases and they custom-made spine coverings for every game in their collection to make them unique and colorful. I've never been so impressed and so disgusted at the same time by something so minor. Seeing all that work put into it was inspiring and the end result was WONDERFUL, but seeing that huge block of red on the shelf was also beautiful in its own way!

"Half the appeal of the Wii is, 'Look how sleek and minimalistic the spines are!'" - Scott

0:48 "Might as well start with the console that started it all" Scott says over a Wii U game

Unbleeped cursing at 0:42. I am here for it

We can feel it Scott. You're running out of minuscule things to talk about. The L button is coming up.

This is the scott the woz video I've always needed

Scott struggles with alphabetical sorting for 25 minutes

The Platinum Hits of Condemned Criminal Origins on 360 has no text on the spine at all. Genuinely thought the copy I bought had a printed cover

As a fellow game collector, I definitely understand this sort of ocd with particular game spines.

This is why I try to avoid steel books. They stick out on the shelf

Hey Scott, I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible impact your videos have had on my life, particularly during some of my darkest moments. While I have been clean for the past 3 years or so, I've been battling addiction for many more years than that-cocaine, crack, heroin-it's been a long and difficult journey. And while I've made progress in my recovery, there are still days when the weight of it all feels overwhelming to say the least. I'm 29 years old now, and getting it together after being a complete and utter loser since high school is REALLY weighing on me now, especially since I'm broke as FUCK, but no matter what, I am trying as hard as I can to keep it pushing! In the midst of these struggles, your videos have been a beacon of light for me. Your humor, insight, and genuine passion for gaming have provided me with a much-needed escape from the chaos of my own mind. It's amazing how something as simple as watching your videos before bed can bring a smile to my face and ease the burden on my shoulders. It's actually the only time I find myself truly smiling as of recent. I know our lives couldn't be more different-I'm sure you've never faced the same demons I have. Most of them, anyway-but somehow, your content speaks to me in a way that few things do. It's a reminder that amidst the darkness, there is still joy to be found, even if it's just for a few moments. Regardless how different our lives may have BECOME, it seems we followed a pretty similar path, or at least were raised pretty similarly, until the "divergence" for lack of a better term, lol. The way you made a joke about not wanting people to know you played nintendo (the 3ds in particular) because it was MUCH cooler to be playing COD, or some other generic fps game (you made some sort of stinky crotch joke LOL) really is just one of many examples of the similarities of our younger lives, before I went through a tragedy where my first girlfriend, and coincidentally, the first girl I ever fell in love with and had a true relationship with committed suicide. So thank you for being a source of laughter, inspiration, and hope in my life. Your videos have made a real difference, and I am forever grateful for that. Keep doing what you're doing, and know that your work is touching lives in ways you may never fully realize. That's the entire reason I'm reaching out. To ask you to keep it going, for all of us out here who may not have ever shared such a story, or such a feeling. With sincerity and love - Chris. PS - No AI didn't write this, I just put in a lot of effort to come off as educated and not some dummy. Lol.

I can't tell you how cathartic these videos are for me. Even among my most nerdy of game collecting friends, I can't share these sort of sentiments.

Scot is the only human in the world who can make this video

I totally feel this, but I also have another niche complaint: when games of a series flip-flop between their series titles and game subtitles being first. The Super Mario Advance series is a prime example: some are Super Mario Advance _: _____, while others are _____: Super Mario Advance _. I want them to be together, dammit!! I just end up defaulting them all to Super Mario Advance _ being first lmao

Only Scott could upload a near 30 minute video talking about how the left side of a physical videogame's art looks like, then get angry at it, and actually get people to sit and watch. It's that kind of talent that makes him incredible.

Scott ranting about video games box spines is my Roman Empire.

The most annoying one I have is Chip n' Dale rescue rangers for NES. On the spine for the cartridge it just says rescue rangers.

I think it’s good putting all the Disney games under D, that way if you’re looking for a Disney game they’re all chunked together.

PAL PS2 spine art would drive you nuts. They're mostly uniform with a white background and black text in a single font, but because of the amount of games released for PS2 there's every single exception you can think of. A different font, two different fonts in a single spine, completely misaligned text, additional art on the spine, different colored backgrounds and there's even some games with full-color NTSC style spines for no good reason.

I wish they really committed to the black spines for M rated Wii U games. I remember seeing this gorgeous design for Bayonetta 2's box art that used it and I was so disappointed to find out it was fanmade and not the real thing.

This kinda gives me an idea for a Scott’s Snippets compilation. “Anything but the Game, Please?”, which uses the videos he did on game controllers, game packaging, game titles, literally anything but the games themselves.

scott and his relationship with spines like hes got scoloiosis

It might be fun to arrange your game collection by publication date, at least for a little bit. You'd probably be able to see the evolution of box design across a console's lifespan.

I feel this. In addition to a bunch of the ones you mentioned, Dreamcast spines bugged me because they went from white to black about halfway through the console cycle.

"You may have heard me complain about the spines... before so now I'm going to go through my collection and find all of the spines"

I don’t have a problem with game boxes for the most part, but I do have a pet peeve of my own: I’m collecting the One Piece manga, and for some reason, volume 56 has completely different designs for the Shonen Jump and Viz Media logos on its spine, and it bugs me to no end. And of course Jeff Foxworthy can stay on the spine of Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? That much is obvious.

if anyone but scott made this it would be an uncut rant about game box spines recorded on a phone that would never pass 200 views

I have watched the Game Packaging Woz video several times hoping that I can manifest this long awaited sequel.

This just in: local gamer banned from all dating apps because he wouldn't stop asking for "spine pics."

I could listen to Scott talk about shitty packaging for hours on end, as a matter of fact I will right now

13:35 Putting Jeff Foxworthy on a Wii spine makes it 100 times better

Never ceases to amaze me how still the golden doodle stays for these long continuous shots

Anyone else unironically love Scott’s Stash more than the main STW channel? I like letting the man be honest and shit it’s fun

One of the most chaotic spines in recent memory is the one for Mon-Yu, specifically on PS5, since it contains the 30+ word sub-title on the spine, whereas the Switch version only has "Mon-Yu".

Scott: DO YOU LACK A SPINE, BROTHER?! DO YOU NOT HAVE FAITH, BROTHER?!

Special mention goes to PAL region Switch games. Seemingly every other region has decided to justify the spine titles towards the the top of the spine, except PAL for some reason. They instead center their spine titles. So if you have a physical collection of multi-region games, which can be understandable given some games only get physical releases in certain regions (Square Enix, for instance, loves only releasing physical versions in Asia for some reason), PAL games stick out on the shelf like a sore thumb.

Scott complaining gives me life

DS spines are my favorite, Nintendos first party stuff especially always has such great legible logo art and I love them all having different colors or designs underneath themed with the games. All the kirby ones have a different kirby on them too :)

Is this the guy who owns Sonic 2 with a line?

3:25 - 5:25 this is why I don’t sort my games alphabetically, and instead sort them by company, then franchise, then series, then release date. You all might think that’s more complicated, but it makes more sense to me than having the games be out of order and not having Mario and Zelda next to eachother (plus, for me, it’s just easier to remember, as for me, I have to go through half the alphabet most of the time just to remember where something is alphabetically).

*FINALLY* Scott made a whole separate video to complain about spines!

It’s funny how Scott didn’t get into Pokémon to the extent that, when musing about Product Number 03/PN03 being in about the same place in the GameCube catalog no matter which name it uses, they forgot how there’s a bunch of Po(…) titles because of Pokémon.

Hardcore Fans will remember that he forgot to mention how he didn't like Shenmue's spine because it makes it look like he has two Shenmue's

Scott is so obsessed with how his games look on his shelf. One might even think he’s a “shelf collector”.

It always amuses me when people praise the Switch spines for being uniform, because that is the reason I have all of mine hidden away. They're so aggressively nothing that I either put them somewhere that I don't need to look at them, or just place something actually aesthetically pleasing in front of them.

5:42 “hmm, where did I put that cursed SNES cartridge? Oh, probably the one with a blank end label, that must be-never mind, that’s just X-Zone.”

This feels like a spiritual sequel to the Scott the Woz episode on game titles and I’m all here for it.

Scott is lucky he doesn’t live in a PAL region, because we struggle with our spines! My GameCube collection looks like shit because some of the spines are entirely silver (players choice), some have the logo and colour, some have just plain white with a standardised font. Similar issue with the Wii, barring the players choice so not as bad. Some have logos and some have standard fonts. It’s just a bit irritating seeing how much better the game spines look when they’re consistent!

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage for the PS1 also has the weird parenthesis around the number 2 for some reason.

Scott: 0:30 Also Scott: Time to record a 25 minute video about the topic.

This madness rivals that of most Lovecraftian Protagonists

Honestly the feeling of watching your physical game collection grow over time is really nice. I got my first job so I could collect gamecube games and still do

the most nitpicky video of all time. i love it.

9:10 scott is an incredible human being. i don’t know anybody else who even thinks about Disney’s Tarzan Untamed

He has something in his voice that makes me want to listen to him all day. I could talk about his bathroom and it would still get me amusing .

You’d enjoy the PAL PS2 spines which are ALL standardised black-on-white plain text… *with the exception of Super Bust-A-Move*

7:40 This has tripped me up at my game store.

Got off work and packed my bowl, now I get to unwind to some Scott stash coziness

This is the most "Scott Wozniak" video I've ever seen.

I absolutely love the PAL PS2 spines, they're very minimalilstic with just the text on the white background. I love the consistency of them!

24:50 that is one of the most accurate things ever.

It’s so funny because if any of my other switch games I own had different fonts on the spines I’d be mildly annoyed, but with The Binding of Isaac being literally my favourite game of all time and I play it the most out of all my switch games, having it stand out in my library I find REALLY cool and handy!

Describing Jeff Foxworthy as a "little character" is wonderful

That impression at the end was spot on. I swear, some of these RU-vidrs talk like they have food in their mouths.

No matter what topic you decide to do, just listening to your opinion on video games warms my heart 🫶🏻

Scott: a smoker “My friend says it looked like I got this from a SMOKERS house!!” Scott: *lights a Marlboro Red*

Well well well, Mr.Scoliosis here has an opinion on spines. Who would’ve thought

I loved Thai ramble about spines. I don't know if it's been done before but, on the topic of game art I think it would be awesome to just discus some box art you like.

I think my least favorite are the switch game cases, specifically because of their sides. I find that I have a hard time reading the names of games due to the bright red background with white text. This isn't that bad for me owning them, shopping for them is a whole other story. I remember needing assistance to find a game once at an EB Games because of that.

I really like the PAL PS2 spines. Sure, they're a bit boring, but they're readable and consistent. Only gripe is when games have the first letter capitalised but other games are in all caps. Like Final Fantasy X is spelled like this but then when it comes to X-2 its FINAL FANTASY X-2. The ps1 might be better in that regard since its in all caps, but i dont like how multi disc game spines look.

i just watched the old video game spine video yesterday lol

i like how niche these videos are getting

I had the same exact Disney dilemma at work last week while alphabetizing the PlayStation games. I feel your pain. 🤣

I got a custom sticker sheet of N64 end labels, and I love them. Makes it easy to pick em out

I always create an order with games that are important first: Smash first, Mario games (adventures first, then sports), Yoshi/DK/Wario, Zelda, Metroid, etc. That way I always have collection of games next to each other.

Before even watching this I knew Scott was going to have a field day with the Xbox one/Series cases.

This is the most Scott subject matter of all time

"People care about their spines" is a phrase you can say both in a medical congress and a Scott the Woz video

The Jaleco NES games(Bases Loaded 1-4, City Connection) are maddening

❗️My Timestamps: 4:47 I put my copy of 'P.N.03', my favourite GameCube game, in a silver "Player's Choice" case as it goes much better with the box-art. Also, I no longer have a GameCube. 19:13 We never had the 'red spines' here in the 🇬🇧

I think the C in CastleVania at 2:40 was made smaller to fit the logo better on the spine, but they kept the V the same because it was less work and "still fit" XD

I was checking my copy of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse from LRG and the spine doesn't even have the Nintendo logo.

I feel so seen whenever Scott makes a video about packaging

love a good stimming video from scott

I enjoyed Scott talking about worst cases of video game scoliosis

How could you not talk about the XBOX ONE spines, I remember when I first seen them and I swear they look clean af

For the 'after Switch' 3DS games Nintendo kept the previous logo on the spine in the PAL region but changed it to red only on the front of the cover

Me: Aw, c'mon, it's a little Jeff Foxworthy looking at you! Scott: Him, he can stay Me: Good man

Perfect video for a Friday night at home lol.

The black-label version of Tekken 2 calls it "Namco Tekken 2" (same font and spacing) on the spine. The Greatest Hits version fixed it though.

0:44 hol up did he say fucking uncensored?!