Oh gosh, spine cards... I feel like if the game has it then cool! If it doesn't, who cares? As far as displaying them goes, I'm with Black Tiger on this. Unless these games are displayed facing outward, (like on a wall maybe) side-by-side in a shelf would just look unappealing and asymmetrical to me. Not to mention that if I wanted to play a game, I would just... want to play it, not turn it into the ritual of carefully unpacking part of a mantle piece of LOOK I HAZ COMPLEET GAME. Don't get me wrong, if you
do collect spine cards, good for you. You like 'em cuz you like 'em and that's all that should matter. For me, I got to live in the heyday of this console and have had the pleasure of opening that new game, whatever that game was, for the first time. And I'll never forget that feeling.
Back on subject, I got my second copy of Dracula X on YA for 7900 yen plus 1600 yen with fees and shipping, I had sold my original (and not so pristine) copy in 2007 and have long since regretted it until I got this last copy. They were obi-less but back then no one gave a crap, or we were all young and dumb. Prolly the latter