Original purpose of Spine Cards has me baffled ...

[TheClash603]

No game is complete unless you have all the programmers, musicians and graphic artists locked in a cage in your basement.

Haha.

Looks like the only chance I'll ever have at owning a complete game is Insanity.

[Lilgrafx]

I think Spine cards, have more or less to do with the Record industry, then the CD industry. However, it also contains alot of useful information, and should be considered a part of the packaging of a product. As somebody mentioned, many Spinecards have information that would clutter the art. As with most Western products, we obviously know this by heart, ( and I am sure get annoyed with seeing "includes free demo, blah blah, with a big bright sticker ) In fact that is what a Spine card does. Instead of sticking crap all over the box, let they did before, you have one thing.

Spine card + booklet + cd + bonus ( stickers, fill out card, advertisment ) = more value.

Without a spinecard the game is not complete, however that should not stop you from making a purchase. I see three kinds of buyers.

1. The person who wants to play, but have a higher valued product.
2. The collector who wants gleem at their aquired unused goods ( person from Kirby 3 ).

Otherwise, the PCE would be a useless hardware, and we could just emulate, and run everything off flashcards. It is like going backwards in time for me, emulating on the computer

I hate more the buying something without a spine card? Something that is sealed. Because I know it has a value far more greater, but then I am stuck gleeming at it all day long. Then what is worst, is when the god damn case is cracked inside the sealed game, or you can hear something inside that is broken, or moving around. :-#

You know unlike most of the time I'm going to give you some constructive criticism. Regal I'm sure you're cable of posting comments that can spark debates and give a interesting point of view on a subject. But for christ sake dude your writing is all over the place, honestly it's near impossible to get one sensible though out of the huge comments you post. You should really try to articulate yourself better before posting. I'm sure what ever you're post is great, but as it's written I don't know what the f*ck you're talking about. Maybe I'm not the one to tell you this since I got like a B in 9th grade English this year, but just read over you're post out loud and try to slim them down to make you're thoughts clear and concise. Thanks         

[Otaking]

but as it's written I don't know what the f*ck you're talking about.        

With Regal's posts you have to look deeper, he knows what he's talking about, there is a message behind the message, then hidden behind the message.
It's like how deep does the rabbit hole go? well Regal dug the rabbit hole, and now he's playing Linda with the Architect!

I mean if it wasn't for his posts we wouldn't be aware of Don King taking over the world with donuts in the next millenia!