Do you keep 'extras' that sometime come with games?
I don't go out of my way to collect original purchase receipts, but when I find one inside a CIB I usually just hang on to it anyway. I mean why not? It's pretty cool to see the original purchase date of a game, or sometimes it's just a swift kick in the balls to remind you how much a game originally cost (like a Hexen 64 Receipt for $74.99+Tax, ouch). Do you guys hold on to these as well, or does anyone actually "collect" and pursue them?
And then yesterday I found about the coolest extra in a video game to date. If you remember the recent SNES vs. Genesis exclusives thread, I expressed my disappointment with Mortal Kombat on SNES. Well yesterday I finally started a meager Genny collection and got my CIB Mortal Kombat along with a few others. Here's the insert that was included, which I've scanned below:
Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but I definitely would have paid a dollar or two more for this CIB as opposed to one without it. A lot of the fun in collecting stems from nostalgia and reliving your youth. Well this article does all of that, it refers to the intended audience of the game as 8-13 years old (I was 9 at the time), discusses the controversy of a bloody game, and mentions that the SNES version has been dumbed down compared to the Genesis. I also forgot all of the hype surrounding the release of the game, the release day was dubbed as "Mortal Monday". I found it interesting myself, just wondering if anyone else has found anything cool in their CIBs.
And then yesterday I found about the coolest extra in a video game to date. If you remember the recent SNES vs. Genesis exclusives thread, I expressed my disappointment with Mortal Kombat on SNES. Well yesterday I finally started a meager Genny collection and got my CIB Mortal Kombat along with a few others. Here's the insert that was included, which I've scanned below:
Maybe I'm alone in thinking this, but I definitely would have paid a dollar or two more for this CIB as opposed to one without it. A lot of the fun in collecting stems from nostalgia and reliving your youth. Well this article does all of that, it refers to the intended audience of the game as 8-13 years old (I was 9 at the time), discusses the controversy of a bloody game, and mentions that the SNES version has been dumbed down compared to the Genesis. I also forgot all of the hype surrounding the release of the game, the release day was dubbed as "Mortal Monday". I found it interesting myself, just wondering if anyone else has found anything cool in their CIBs.
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