Sealed Super Famicom Question

For Super Famicom games that were sold in Japanese stores New, were the boxes plsatic wrapped with the plastic tab in the box like in the US for SNES games? Does anyone have any pictures of a factory sealed Super Famicom game I could see?

 

They weren't sealed in plastic wrap, I'm not sure games for any consoles were until CD cases.

 

As far as I know, at least MarkIII games were plastic wrapped.

I saw loads of so called "new" SFC games on ebay, but there I couldn read any rule out of it. Some were "sealed" (in a folded way, like those seals from jpn game shops) and looked really new without anything on the foil and other weren't sealed but they also looked brandnew.

 

do you know then if all the games had the small white seal with some text on it where the box was opened from (usually on the right/top side)? kind of like a white piece of tape to keep the box closed?

 

Really? No, I didn't see something like that on them or at least, I never noticed. I thought those seals were only on plastic-box-based stuff such as MD or PC-FX and LE Boxes (i.e. a new Game Tengoku LE for SS, I noticed a seal like that on it).

 

alright, thanks for the responses, I guess I'm having trouble distinguishing between a used and new Super Famicom (SFC) if they don't have plastic or sealed on them :\ I have some pictures of what I was talking about earlier if that would help, thank-you : )

 

Gameboy, NES and Super NES definitely were in Europe.

 

We're talking about Super Famicom which is japanese

 

I fully disagree, Mark 3 games were not sealed..i have original facvtory caes of 20 Alex Kidd in Miracle World,Anmitsu Hime or Action Fighter,and they're not sealed...but it is for sure New Old Stock,with original 1686 Sega carton boxes!

 

Aye, I realise that but I obviously misread this:

And thought he was being generic! :-(

 

SFC games -- no way to tell if they're truly "sealed" or not. Well... none are sealed. No way to tell if they're "unused" or not.

 

Lawson/Loppi put them in a bag that was sealed and had the name and date for the game on it. It was for the pre-order Nintendo games and they still put them in bags today for other computers but I think they are kinda just for the pre-order ones and always seem to have postcards in them.

 

In Scandinavia however, nothing that nintendo produced were wrapped in plastic. No consoles, no games. Nothing. Maybe this was the case in Continental Europe? Please feel free to add any nfo on this important matter

 

In Italy Nintendo games were not wrapped. Systems were not wrapped.
Somtimes games didn't have any seal. You can distinguish a new item just by the cracks in the top part of the box.

 

really? I'm pretty sure that my friend with an sealed f-zero wouldn't agree.

 

Babu you are right, when it comes to snes, I have (when I think about it .. seen some sealed games. However, Im not sure all the snes games were sealed? But when it comes to regular 8bits nintendo games, Im pretty confident that the games were not sealed.. Feel to deny if my memory fails to serve me

 

well on NES I can't say anything.. just can't remember, but it might be true they weren't sealed.

edit:
After disscusing this with a friend we came up with theory that they might have been sealed, but the stores removed all the plastic before putting them out on sale. What we base this on is the fact that the boxes were in such a good shape..

 

I can only comment on American version of the games (cart boxes). But NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, GameBoy, GameGear, Etc all had some type of plastic around the boxes. My nes Jordan vs Bird still has most of it on the case.

james

 

In france, master system and megadrive games weren't "factory sealed". Sometimes, the distributor added a hard blister pack.
I'm pretty sure it's the same for the nes. Those just had a black nintendo sticker that sealed the box (pretty much the same than the sega sticker for sms games)
However, I had some super nes games in hand that had a blister with a nintendo leam very similar to the us blisters.

 

OK, PAL games for SNES were and were not sealed. Nintendo released games had the pull strip seal while others were shrink wrapped. Then there were other games that weren't sealed at all. I know all of this because I was head of HMV's games department.

Japanese SFC games were never sealed.

Yakumo