TDIRunner's Collection

[TDIRunner]

Atari 5200 cases are complete.  

All of these were hosted on the site.  I love the style that I'm using here because it matches the Atari 2600 style, but in a different color that helps distinguish between the two.  However, the covers hosted on the site have a light blue Atari logo on spine that I think is sort of hard to read when it blends in with the darker blue background.  So I changed the logo to white.  No offense to the original creators.  Their work is still amazing.  I also had to revise H.E.R.O into the style that I was using since it was only available as retail.

Atari 2600 is next.

[TDIRunner]

And Atari 2600 is done.

[sheep2001]

Looking good.  Which systems do you have left to tackle?

[JakeHC]

They look phenomenal, looks like I'll be adding an atari to my list. Those covers look awesome!

[TDIRunner]

Thanks everyone!  

So what’s left?

Well there are some easy projects and some really difficult projects.

The easy projects are the following:
•   SNES - There's a lot of these, so it might take a few nights, but I have all the covers I need.  I'm going with the vertical custom spine style
•   32x - Same as SNES except not nearly as many.  While I'm at it, I'm going to alter the spine slightly to remove the numbering at the bottom and alter Shadow Squadron's spine to match the others.
•   Disc based games - The vast majority of my disc based games are CIB.  But I still need to go through and find the ones that I've had to print covers for and make sure they are on the good quality paper.  
•   Fairchild Channel F - only need 4 of these...... hint, hint.....  

And now the more difficult projects:
•   NES - I'm holding off on purpose because I'm still hoping for Shadowfox's cases.  Since I salvaged some of my already modified cases for Atari 5200 and Fairchild, I now have several NES games sitting without cases at all.  I don't want to print out anything until I know for sure what my covers are going to go into.  I'm a little worried that we haven't heard from Shadowfox recently, but I still have faith that it will happen.
•   Master System - Honestly I haven't decided what I'm going to do with these.  Currently they are all in original Sega cases.  For the few Master System games that were not CIB, I was able to take one of my Genesis cases for it.  However, now my collection has grown and I have more SMS games then I do original Sega cases.  I'm considering putting them into UGCs, and that's probably what I'll do.  The other problem is that SMS games are not very uniform on the spine, so it will require a lot of work to get them to match.  I did it for Genesis, so I guess I can do it with SMS too.  
•   3DO - This project will be quite an undertaking for me.  Other members gave me the idea.  Sheep did this with this Atari games (I think) and Bear did this with his NES games.  My plan is to take the clear box protectors for 3DO games and make custom inserts that fit inside.  In other words, I'm going to try to make custom long boxes for my 3DO games and keep them in the box protectors.  I'll keep the games that have original long boxes in those boxes.  I'm hoping that my custom boxes will look good sitting next to original boxes.  This will be a difficult project for me, which is why it will probably be last.

[sheep2001]

Master System, I have a complete US cover set done by coelho1980, that i THINK has uniform spines (large grid), would have to check. I'd hold out for shadowfox Sega clams for these if i were you, I think they look much better in a black clam than UGC, but your call obviously. 

Fairchild - just fired up photoshop to have a go at the next one.

3do - as I've done the box protector thing for my 2600 games, I don't mind helping with a uniform template you can drop the front/back artwork into.  Would need some input as to what style you were after.

Not so difficult after all eh? lol  

[TDIRunner]

Master System, I have a complete US cover set done by coelho1980, that i THINK has uniform spines (large grid), would have to check. I'd hold out for shadowfox Sega clams for these if i were you, I think they look much better in a black clam than UGC, but your call obviously. 

I've considered this as well.  That's part of the reason why I'm pushing SMS off until the end.  Sega cases and UGS are very similar in size, but the covers are just different enough that I can't print them out until I know for sure which size I need.  I am like you in that I prefer the look of the black Sega case.  But I also realy don't want to have to wait and wait for the cases to get made.  I can't decide now, but I figure I don't have to decide until I get my other projects finished first.

Fairchild - just fired up photoshop to have a go at the next one.

Awesome!!

3do - as I've done the box protector thing for my 2600 games, I don't mind helping with a uniform template you can drop the front/back artwork into.  Would need some input as to what style you were after.

I still have to give this some thought as well.  I know it might sound weird coming from me, but for some reason I might want to go with a retail look on the 3DO boxes.  I know I'm typically more of a uniform spine kind of guy, but for some reason I just really like the 3DO boxes.  Plus if I go with retail, I only have to make the boxes for the games that I don't have long boxes for  (about half my collection).  Then again, I might change my mind and go for some type of uniform style and create a box for every game.  Decisions, decisions (and first world problems  )  Thanks for your offer to help.  I appreciate it.

[Arseen]

Very impressive looking.

[sheep2001]

You could always put your boxed 3do games inside the box protector, along with a custom spine to match the others. 

[TDIRunner]

Oh, I almost forgot.  I also have the Atari Starpath Supercharger games to case up.  I have about 5 or 6 plus the Supercharger itself.

Those are the cassette tape based games for the Atari 2600.  Fortunately I have boxes for almost all of them.  Even though the cassette tapes are small, I’m still thinking about using UGCs. I'll probably try to go with the same format as the Atari 2600, but with some type of unique identifier. 

One way of looking at it is that the Atari Starpath Supercharger is to the Atari 2600 as the Nintendo e-Reader is to the Game Boy Advance.

I need to get those boxes scanned.   

[TDIRunner]

Fairchild Channel F games are now cased up.  Thanks again to Sheep for making these awesome covers.  This makes me want to add to my collection.   

[sheep2001]

Those look great! 

[TDIRunner]

I knocked out my 32x collection tonight.

Half of the US set...... but who's counting?  

[FritzWhite]

Looks hot!

[TDIRunner]

Done.  The label didn't turn out perfect, but I'm happy with it for now. 

Thanks to Shenske for the label.
Thanks to KMSoulja for the cover.
Thanks to Wiggy for the cover style that I converted KMSoulja's cover into.