Original purpose of Spine Cards has me baffled ...

[Tatsujin]

how much did you just payed for that pompin world?

[Colossus1574]

how much did you just payed for that pompin world?

i'm sure he got discount for the sun faded spine card 
THERE! yet another purpose for spine cards, haha

[Samurai Ghost]

how much did you just payed for that pompin world?

I think the auction ended for around 300 yen, so with shipping around $5 or $6. Funny because the pricetag on the game says 4500 yen.

[TheClash603]

I didn't even know PCE games had spine cards for the first year I was buying them, none of my games have them.  I don't think they serve much purpose for US gamers in 2012, but Zeta is spot on for Japan BITD.

I think they are nice on Laserdiscs though, adds a new layer to the art.

[Samurai Ghost]

Yeah personally I'd probably just toss them when I got the game, but I know some people are crazy about them, so I just toss it in the manual somewhere in case I ever decide to trade or sell the game.

[Tatsujin]

how much did you just payed for that pompin world?

Funny because the pricetag on the game says 4500 yen.

yeah, that's why I had asked in the first place. would have been a ridiculous high price for that one

[Otaking]

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[Amadeusama]

I absolutely love this guy, and I don't mean this as a snide remark!
Check him out making coffee:

[Otaking]

Check him out making coffee:

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=9361.15

[motdelbuort]

Their actual use is that they came with the game/book/movie and that it's incomplete without it.

They also came with shrinkwrap, so is an item incomplete without that too?

Absolutely. They also shipped to retailers along with other copies of the game, so of you have only one copy, it's also incomplete.

[Black Tiger]

Some Japanese sellers have the logoed boxes that PCE games shipped in for sale. I guess that the most complete a game a game can be is when it's an unopened case of unopened games. Of course, noob collectors will say something silly, like how variations on "complete" is an oxymoron, but they're just jealous because of how pathetic their set collections are.

[PunkicCyborg]

What about the box that all the boxes of new games came in?

[sunteam_paul]

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

[Tatsujin]

lol true!