Nice surprise..

[_Matt_]

I've always believed that I binned most of my console boxes from when I was young. I was the sort of kid that just mercilessly ripped the machine out the box as fast as I could, chucked the box to one side and got on with playing. I never put the machines back in the box and never saw any of the boxes again once I'd opened them on xmas day, and have regretted it ever since. I still have all my consoles but most of the older ones are unboxed apart from some of the pc engine stuff.

So it was a bit of a surprise today when my dad phoned me and said he's emptying the shed and has found some old boxes that he wants to chuck away. How they found there way in the shed I don't know, my dad must of just stored them away just incase anything went wrong with them.

Anyway, after him also recently finding 2 pcb's that I bought in the early 90's that I had completely forgotten I owned I think it may be worth raiding our parents homes more often!

Not gaming related but also an old G10 box. Memories.

I will be revisiting this raid location soon as I also noticed a bin bag full of He-man figures I want to swipe

 

[thermal_treasure]

Nice to see they are still in good condition. The SFC and Master system boxes are a thing of beauty and the Lynx takes me back too. I used to love playing Gates of Zendocon on that thing, what a crazy machine.

 

[Bensonrad]

They look in excellent condition too, nice find. I do the same with my kids stuff, the packaging all gets discarded the second they open it, but I store it away in the loft, just incase its needed later on in life.

 

[_Matt_]

They look in excellent condition too, nice find.  I do the same with my kids stuff, the packaging all gets discarded the second they open it, but I store it away in the loft, just incase its needed later on in life.

Me too, it's always a battle with the wife though. I have to sneak them in to the loft while she's not looking.

 

[Body pop]

Nice find !
That master system box ,gave me that buzz again looking at it
Like when I got my master system the day it came out ,thinking i really had something that was gonna play arcade games properly
Hang on and the mystery game ,well they done the job at the time ,wonderboy and choplifter were more impressive though

 

[_Matt_]

Yeah it's amazing the way just looking at something can take you right back to that moment for a split. It's a great feeling.
Wonderboy was brilliant on the master system, still is.

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

Did you really have JP consoles as a child? So lucky.

I remember seeing them in the game shops as a kid but they were really expensive. Ended up getting a PAL SNES and my mate got a PAL Mega Drive and so we could play the different gamesneo-geo-mvs2019-05-21 18:13:46

 

[mysticmonk]

Nice discovery!

Also that g10 brings back memories, had lots of fun with one way back

 

[_Matt_]

Did you really have JP consoles as a child? So lucky.

I remember seeing them in the game shops as a kid but they were really expensive. Ended up getting a PAL SNES and my mate got a PAL Mega Drive and so we could play the different games

Did you really have JP consoles as a child? So lucky.

I remember seeing them in the game shops as a kid but they were really expensive. Ended up getting a PAL SNES and my mate got a PAL Mega Drive and so we could play the different games

The Megadrive was released towards end of 1988 in Japan and towards end of 1990 in Uk so it was a massive wait for the official release in this country. I got mine as soon as the importers finally got hold of them in this country.

I think the megadrive cost £179.99 with Altered Beast and the Super Fami was £225 with Super G n G. Trying to remember where I got them, a company called C.I.S. rings a bell for the Megadrive and possibly Console Concepts or Raven for the Super Famicom. Good times

 

[_Matt_]

Nice discovery!

Also that g10 brings back memories, had lots of fun with one way back

What was my parents thinking letting me have a gun like that at 16. I used to fire it in the house and little metal balls would be ricocheting all over the show. Bloody idiot

 

[new666uk]

Fantastic find. Love it when you find something you'd thought long lost. I got loads of boxes of Lego from a loft dig at my Dads. I had the bricks but didn't know the actual packaging had been kept too.

 

[tb2000]

They look in good shape still! I still had the boxes for my Spectrum +3 and Megadrive at least 10-15 years after buying (Spectrum one was a bit ripped but still all there) but they disappeared probably 15 years ago at least. My Megadrive was the Asian version which I think looked pretty much the same as the Japanese one but my box was definitely a bit different in design to yours.tb20002019-05-24 10:18:22

 

[mr_ppp]

Great condition boxes there, always good to keep them safe! I myself have a box of boxes stored away - ranges from megadrive, megacd to spectrum +3 boxes all safely kept for the time I may sell some off - none of them are in as good condition as those (bar the megacd one)