Since the Playstation era, video games have largely come in permanent cases to protect them from dust, damage and whatever random juice your kid is spilling all over your house. But until the mid 90's most cart-based games came in cardboard boxes that were usually discarded because they were flimsy or thoughy to be worthless.

Today, those cardboard boxes can often be worth as much if not more than the games themselves because so many of them were pitched in the garbage. Complete game collectors treasure those old cardboard boxes since they are needed to store and present those old games in the same way we saw them on the shelves of Woolworths or Sears when we were children.

But as the cardboard boxes protected your games, what protected the boxes? After all, we want to keep them as pristine as possible, protecting them from sunlight that fade the artwork and moisture that damages the cardboard.

So there's storage boxes for these storage boxes?

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Yup, enter videogameboxprotectors.com (catchy name, right?). Before I begin, let me state that I am in no way connected to or an affiliate of this company. I did meet the owner by chance a long time ago when he was just a hardcore NES collector and he's simply someone who turned his passion for game collecting into a business that provides a much needed product to the game collecting community.

This small company is entirely focused on selling protective plastic cases for practically every game system out there. While they started out with popular consoles like the NES, they eventually branched out to providing protective cases for everything from Nintendo DS to Amiibo figures. They even sell protective boxes for loose carts, which is a Godsend for systems like the Nintendo 64, which didn't originally include dust jackets to protect the cart contacts like the NES and SNES did.

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The boxes they sell are manufactured from PET plastic rather than PVC because PET does not become yellow and brittle over time as PVC will. Its the perfect way to store and protect your video game collection and they're affordable too, with pieces coming in at under $0.60 per protector when purchased in bulk.

In short, if you're a serious retro game collector, videogameboxprotectors.com has protective cases for practically everything in your collection and I highly recommend checking them out.