Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 21, 2010, 09:36:41 PM
Title: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 21, 2010, 09:36:41 PM
Wii Games Aimed At Teens And Up Get Black Boxes (http://www.siliconera.com/2010/01/21/wii-games-aimed-at-teens-and-up-get-black-boxes/)
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Starting this year, all Nintendo games rated CERO C and up (that’s 15+) will be packaged with black boxes.
Nintendo announced the change shortly before the release of Zangeki no Reginleiv, Nintendo’s first “M” rated (well, M equivalent) game in Japan. Previously, CERO C (15+), D (17+), and the rare Z (18+) used standard white covers. CERO C games include Ghost Squad, Disaster: Day of Crisis and WWE 2008 Smackdown vs. Raw. Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers, No More Heroes, and currently every Resident Evil game on the Wii.
The black boxes are meant to be another warning for parents, on top of the colorful CERO labels on the spine and the CERO stamp on the cover. This packaging may actually have a benefit too since these games will standout against the basic white box art.
So far, Nintendo is the only company to do this. CERO C and even heavily restricted CERO Z games are not required to have different boxes or covers in Japan.
I'm really hoping hey do this outside of Japan. That box art for Reginleiv look much better on black.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: EasyCure on January 21, 2010, 09:43:31 PM
as long as they don't make E rated games yellow or pink, i'm down for this. That box actually looks pretty sweet in black (though not all cover artworks will).
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Mop it up on January 21, 2010, 09:44:04 PM
Oh good mop, that looks hideous. I hope this doesn't infect other territories, as I hate it when colours like this ruin the uniformity of a system's games.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: MoronSonOfBoron on January 22, 2010, 02:37:48 PM
Oh good mop, that looks hideous. I hope this doesn't infect other territories, as I hate it when colours like this ruin the uniformity of a system's games.
Geeze, didn't New Super Mario Bros. Wii get anything right?
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Invincible Donkey Kong on January 22, 2010, 06:15:55 PM
Just popping in to inform everyone that I've decided on hot pink boxes for Rated-M games. We'll see just who the real hardcore are. :reggie:
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Mop it up on January 22, 2010, 07:08:21 PM
Oh good mop, that looks hideous. I hope this doesn't infect other territories, as I hate it when colours like this ruin the uniformity of a system's games.
Geeze, didn't New Super Mario Bros. Wii get anything right?
Actually, the red case is the only thing it did wrong.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: King of Twitch on January 22, 2010, 07:59:11 PM
You guys really care about that stuff or are you OCD?
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Mop it up on January 22, 2010, 08:04:00 PM
I have collector's OCD, but I can't speak for anyone else. I think we (collectors) are the only ones who care about this sort of thing.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: King of Twitch on January 22, 2010, 08:04:54 PM
How does it affect your collection abilities?
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: NWR_insanolord on January 22, 2010, 08:06:01 PM
The red case bothered me a bit, but not as much as the games that used a non-white background on the spine of the case (such as Lego Star Wars and Geometry Wars: Galaxies).
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Mop it up on January 22, 2010, 08:09:18 PM
You guys really care about that stuff or are you OCD?
I guess you missed the weird people last gen who said they would pay more to get the non-Player's Choice/Greatest Hits/Platinum Hits version of a game. Nevermind the fact that you only see the box when you are getting the disc out or putting it back in. Thankfully I have never met anyone in person who is so anal that they have a problem with the box (other than the crappy custom made ones GameStop uses).
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: King of Twitch on January 22, 2010, 08:47:55 PM
Well those were fugly
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 22, 2010, 09:07:28 PM
Which ones? The GameCube Player's Choice titles had a very small yellow bar at the top, you could barely notice it.
The PS2 Greatest Hits boxes, on the other hand, were bright red and pretty ugly. The worst of the three were the Xbox Platinum Hits boxes.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: King of Twitch on January 22, 2010, 09:31:34 PM
Tiger Woods would probably qualify for this.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 22, 2010, 09:43:11 PM
The red case bothered me a bit, but not as much as the games that used a non-white background on the spine of the case (such as Lego Star Wars and Geometry Wars: Galaxies).
It doesn't look as neat to have various colours of cases on a shelf as opposed to one uniform colour.
You know what Nintendo should do, is put a pic on the spine of a bunch of different games(in a series, from a specific developer, or at random) that when put together form one giant picture like some magazines used to do a few years back.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: KDR_11k on January 23, 2010, 03:19:52 AM
Designs were different here in Europe... Player's Choice had silver boxes, Wind Waker's limited edition came in a golden box.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Stratos on January 23, 2010, 04:07:39 AM
The red case bothered me a bit, but not as much as the games that used a non-white background on the spine of the case (such as Lego Star Wars and Geometry Wars: Galaxies).
It doesn't look as neat to have various colours of cases on a shelf as opposed to one uniform colour.
You know what Nintendo should do, is put a pic on the spine of a bunch of different games(in a series, from a specific developer, or at random) that when put together form one giant picture like some magazines used to do a few years back.
Nintendo Power did that when I subscribed in the mid-90's. You put them all together and it made pictures of Link, Mario and Donkey Kong.
Designs were different here in Europe... Player's Choice had silver boxes, Wind Waker's limited edition came in a golden box.
See, If i was a serious collector i'd wet my pants over that Golden box for WW and wouldn't lose sleep over the fat that it doesn't match the rest of my collection.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: UncleBob on February 04, 2010, 09:10:51 AM
See, If i was a serious collector i'd wet my pants over that Golden box for WW and wouldn't lose sleep over the fat that it doesn't match the rest of my collection.
If you were a serious collector, you'd buy both the gold and regular versions.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: EasyCure on February 07, 2010, 04:02:17 PM
point is i still wouldn't mind for the color difference in my collection :P
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Mop it up on February 07, 2010, 05:39:32 PM
A serious collector wouldn't display the gold case with the rest of the normal games, it would go in a display with other special games. So there still wouldn't be an odd-coloured game on the shelf.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: EasyCure on February 07, 2010, 06:26:55 PM
point is i still wouldn't mind for the color difference in my collection :P
You said "If i was a serious collector." You wouldn't mind it because you're not a serious collector, it seems.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Peachylala on February 07, 2010, 11:14:52 PM
I would like it in black just for the collector value.
Am I personally the only one that found the red box art for NSMBWii fitting...?
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 08, 2010, 12:43:29 AM
No. Mop it up seems one of a few who are looking for uniformity in their all white collection while trying to segregate the colored cases and ban them from the shelves of her collection.
Well, I have a dream, that one day, on the shelves of all gamers, we will be able to have game cases of all colors and labels. Red Cases, Black Cases, Blue Cases and Green Cases. I have a dream, that one day, all cases of all colors will be able to sit on the shelves of even the most avid collectors and just be cases. There will be no need for the cases of color to shed it's identity to fit into the predominantly white collection that most collectors enjoy today.
That is the dream I have. I hope you can share that dream with me.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Shorty McNostril on February 08, 2010, 12:44:31 AM
I quite like all the different coloured boxes. Adds a bit of spice to the library.
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: EasyCure on February 08, 2010, 01:56:54 PM
No. Mop it up seems one of a few who are looking for uniformity in their all white collection while trying to segregate the colored cases and ban them from the shelves of her collection.
Well, I have a dream, that one day, on the shelves of all gamers, we will be able to have game cases of all colors and labels. Red Cases, Black Cases, Blue Cases and Green Cases. I have a dream, that one day, all cases of all colors will be able to sit on the shelves of even the most avid collectors and just be cases. There will be no need for the cases of color to shed it's identity to fit into the predominantly white collection that most collectors enjoy today.
That is the dream I have. I hope you can share that dream with me.
Hallelujah!
Title: Re: Color Coded Game Cases Based on Ratings
Post by: Mop it up on February 08, 2010, 05:27:01 PM
