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[Starlight Lotice]

Hey all!

Something I noticed the other day that bugs me about Switch Spines.

I understand that different regions have the Text either on the top of the spine (US) or middle (EU) but when you have the Company's name on the spine...you either get the logo done across the spine...or going UP the spine!

It is annoying because I have two SEGA cases (Puyo Puyo Tetris and Sonic Mania), where the UK cover I believe does one but the EU cover (the one with the Yellow Triangle) does the other.

I have some form of OCD but I can tolerate the US/EU varients but when it is different on the same company but for different countries from the same continant...you have to wonder who keeps the uniformality.

I wanted to ask if this bugs you if you display them on the shelf and if the US/Canada/Mexico covers do the same thing as are not uniform?

Slight pet peeve that i thought would be interesting to ask!

 

[zenspider]

All my Switch spines are left/top justified, but yeah that would drive me crazy. DS was really bad with this if recall.

 

[Boss Mog]

I remember my EU friends being jealous of my US PS2 game spines. They were colored and had logos, PAL PS2 games on the other hand all had white spines with the title of the game printed in black standard font.

NTSC PS2 spines:

PAL PS2 spines:

 

[AV]

I remember my EU friends being jealous of my US PS2 game spines. They wear colored and had logos, PAL PS2 games on the other hand all had white spines with the title of the game printed in black standard font.

I loved the PAL PS2 spines. Then you'd get the odd one that ruined your collection. Or, god forbid, a platinum game, in fucking black and silver.

Plus the US has to put up with this shit:

Spoiler: big image

 

[GAMETA]

I remember my EU friends being jealous of my US PS2 game spines. They were colored and had logos, PAL PS2 games on the other hand all had white spines with the title of the game printed in black standard font.

NTSC PS2 spines:

PAL PS2 spines:

Tbh I prefer the European ones. Classy.

 

[kunonabi]

I dont have any switch cases but it still royally pisses me off that Nintendo added that awful red logo to the 3ds cases. It's such an eyesore that I just lumped all the red cases together instead of keeping a proper alphabetical order for everything.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

PAL PS2 spines:

wheres the puke emoticon when you need one.

 

[Nymphae]

Sometimes the NTSC's are a bit gaudy, but the PAL plain white is just too boring, it doesn't look classy to me, it looks cheap - reminds me of No Name brand up here in Canada.

Also, unless you keep your games alphabetical you actually have to read the spines to find the right game, which would annoy me.

 

[Yoshi]

I remember my EU friends being jealous of my US PS2 game spines. They were colored and had logos, PAL PS2 games on the other hand all had white spines with the title of the game printed in black standard font.

NTSC PS2 spines:

PAL PS2 spines:

But then they took Racthet & Clank and had three different font sizes on the spine for them. The idocy sometimes...

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I really like the variety of Switch spines, actually. I'm disappointed when a Switch game doesn't have a cool logo or a cool title on the spine.

 

[Ballthyrm]

It's not that bad, at least they are all the same-ish red.

 

[Windle Poons]

Super Bust A Move on PS2 had a coloured spine (PAL) it really stands out in all my other crappy white PAL boxes.

 

[Dr. Claus]

They are mostly fine for me. There are a few (like Super Bomberman R and the Warforged edition of Darksiders) that bug me, but they are few and far between. As long as they don't suddenly make the spines fuckin' yellow for their "Nintendo Selects" I will be happy.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

It's not that bad, at least they are all the same-ish red.

I absolutely love the Red (favourite colour), and to be honest I prefer the Nintendo logo going up the spine. (That Konami logo is annoying me, lol why did you show me that!?! )

I don't mind the game logo being on the spines either but I don't honestly get when they go for plain text, that they do this so with different fonts for the NA/EU ones.

As for the European Sony spines, I agree that they can look generic, but it's a clean look I can get behind if they can offer reversable covers to provide a choice.

Triggering
Me so bad

 

[kunonabi]

It's not that bad, at least they are all the same-ish red.

Man, I'm glad I'm digital for the switch. That much of that shade of red together is garish as all hell.

 

[Codes 208]

Tbh I prefer the European ones. Classy.

It seems everyone does because this gen that's what all systems do with every region it seems.

 

[Codes 208]

I kinda wish Pokémon had its own colors again like they did with the game boy games. (Including the cartridges)

 

[GAMETA]

It's not that bad, at least they are all the same-ish red.

NS cases are too thin to my liking... I prefered the 3DS ones...