They weren’t made for a collector’s shelf. These cases were all supposed to be in the trash by now. These cases weren’t built for a decades-long lifespan, lined up on bookshelves, trading hands over and over. The infamous fragility of the Sega jewel cases is a product of the evolution of video game packaging-and the way that we make collectibles out of things that were meant to be disposable. Now there’s a war over who gets to replace everyone’s cracked Sonic CD cases.
Then they found out that, against all odds, they had competition. After personally fretting for years about the lack of Sega CD game cases, both parties thought they’d corner the market on these obscure supplies.
One is coming from the publisher Limited Run Games the other is from a collector in Alaska.
What’s surprising is that now there are two. It’s taken decades for anyone to offer a solution.
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