what inspired you to get inovolved with covers

[dejimus]

as some of you know, i am currently working on a artical about this website and its community.
 im trying to get an idead of why many of you love making/viewing/ and printing custom covers

rather than just tell the world that this site exists, im trying to inform people why we do what we do, and why its a worthwile hobby/pursuit.

any input at all would be helpful, and i will give credit anywhere due

[Arseen]

as some of you know, i am currently working on a artical about this website and its community.
 im trying to get an idead of why many of you love making/viewing/ and printing custom covers

rather than just tell the world that this site exists, im trying to inform people why we do what we do, and why its a worthwile hobby/pursuit.

any input at all would be helpful, and i will give credit anywhere due

You can copy my responces from the other topic, feel free to use them as you please.

[dejimus]

thanks a ton

here is part of the discussion that led to creating this thread:

I'm not yet really in to cover making, as I lack the skill.

But I sloooowly start practizing.

So far what covers I have done are minor fixes to exsisting covers.

So far no-one has responded about the quality, but only hissy fitting on copying covers and claiming them as my own, altough I have always credited the original creator and told that I  have only done alterations and fixes.

 

what got you into all this in general though, not just actually making them, i dont make many cover these days, just due to time, but i still spend alot of time on the site just looking all the beautiful work ( and printing anything that would make my game collection prettier)

Oh. in general.

I wanted nice way of storing my huge ever groving game collection.
I think I was first just searching for boxes to store them, but accidentaly stumbled here, AND IT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!!! 
Since then I have done my best at providing raws, even by re-buying games for boxes and buyimng rarer games.

[juan0tron]

When I first started gaming I was always pretty obsessed with making sure all my PS1 games had complete cases. It was rewarding to sit down next to my shelf and be able to just look at all the art and manuals. I would draw covers for my games if they were missing them. Once I had access to the internet I could print out really low resolution covers, but it was often hard to print them to the right size, especially with jewel cases. One day I found a custom DVD cover for Metal Gear Solid on DeviantArt. I was so in love with the idea I printed the cover out immediately. A few quick Google searches later led me to a thread on CAG about PS1 DVD covers, and eventually that thread led me to this site, and I never turned back.

tl;dr I've always been obsessed with casing my games. Finding this site was like magic to me.

[Staf]

I like having my things on display. When I can see them, it makes me want to do things with them more. Play, read, etc. I once set up a display of styrofoam and cardboard just so that I could see all my games and have them displayed before I found out about this site.

[ShoothimNow]

What definitely got me started was trying to clean games which were already cleaned to play properly...





Mind you, my NES collection alone is like 9X larger,  I see 18 N64 games, I now have over 150, etc

[irvgotti452]

When I first started gaming I was always pretty obsessed with making sure all my PS1 games had complete cases. It was rewarding to sit down next to my shelf and be able to just look at all the art and manuals. I would draw covers for my games if they were missing them. Once I had access to the internet I could print out really low resolution covers, but it was often hard to print them to the right size, especially with jewel cases. One day I found a custom DVD cover for Metal Gear Solid on DeviantArt. I was so in love with the idea I printed the cover out immediately. A few quick Google searches later led me to a thread on CAG about PS1 DVD covers, and eventually that thread led me to this site, and I never turned back.

tl;dr I've always been obsessed with casing my games. Finding this site was like magic to me.

lmao I still have a couple of the covers that i drew myself. Even the screenshots! The first one i made was fifa soccer 96 for ps1

[Arseen]

These images show better organising of games that I have currently. 

[dejimus]

I see mega man games, that makes me happy.

[Anubis]

I was looking for a way to restore my GameBoy, NES and N64 game boxes, and I found a blog o a forum (I don't remember what it was) where they talked about the UGCs and they mentioned this site for obtaining the covers because of the great quality of the job done. They showed some photos of how would a collection look in the UGCs with the printed covers and a comparison between the raw scan and the restored cover (it was the Street Fighter II Turbo cover created by Mayor McCheese) and I thought: "Whoa! That's awesome! I'd love to learn how to do that and restore my boxes". So I started visiting this site and after some practice with Photoshop and Corel Draw (and better results with the second one) I registered and started trying to collaborate.

[dejimus]

I think this article is gonna end up being as much about game collecting as it about covers, I love the pictures.


@staf I love your styrofoam and cardboard gba shelf

[Staf]

Thanks! My intention was to paint it black after I got how I wanted it set up, but I found this site before I got around to that.

[dejimus]

My closet in college was old shelves filled withna hundred or so ps2 games with a chandelier hanging above them for lighting.... I found the Chandelie in a  trash pile and decided that itnwas the classiest wayi possible to see my games after my roommate went to bed