Comment on Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?

jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have never seen those before and I owned plenty of PS1 games. Is that how the American ones looked?

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, at launch in 1995 they were all like that.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Really?? I got a PS1 when they were pretty new and all of my games are in standard jewel cases.

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      • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The first 100 or so PS1 games in 1995 and 1996 were in the long boxes, then they shifted to the CD cases.

        www.giantbomb.com/profile/marino/lists/…/359078/

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• Carighan@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That's fascinating. Why where those like it? To not slide around so easily?

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it was just a design differentiator. Saturn and Sega CD cases looked like oversized CD cases.

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