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Post by luigi on Mar 6, 2007 15:07:10 GMT -5
I just remembered something that I had always wondered about...why did Earthbound come packaged in that giant box?
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 6, 2007 15:36:00 GMT -5
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 6, 2007 15:47:03 GMT -5
Yep, same reason Super Metroid did. Although even now I've had to separate my Lylat Wars box, because apparently the Rumble Pak required the box be around 4 times the normal size!
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Post by luigi on Mar 6, 2007 21:40:52 GMT -5
Super Metroid did too? Wow...definitely did not remember that.
Why do you think Nintendo used to do that with certain games?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Mar 7, 2007 5:06:38 GMT -5
I expect Kirbychu's first point was valid - great games that might not sell so well in America need an instant catch. Super Metroid and Earthbound come in great big boxes - who DOESN'T want what's in a great big box?!
Apparently it worked, so there we go! ;D
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Post by kirbychu on Mar 7, 2007 5:15:39 GMT -5
They had giant display boxes for some of the recent Pokémon games over at GAME. They weren't selling games in the boxes, but they were big enough to be recognisable from the other end of the store. And they were great. I wanted one. But then again, I'm now having trouble storing my super-awesome Lylat Wars box. So perhaps it's better that they gave me the regular-sized Ruby.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2007 15:31:34 GMT -5
the US Lylat Wars/Star Fox 64 box is the same width and height as a standard N64 box, but it's somewhere around three times as deep. It's not really that hard to store for us Yanks.
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Post by mrmolecule on Mar 7, 2007 18:15:42 GMT -5
Sorta like the WarioWare Twisted box.
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