OK but...I still don't see your point of bringing this up.
I brought it up because
you brought it up, implying that having only those two uncased (half-cased?) games is the norm and that there's no good reason for anyone else to have more. You're wrong on both counts.
Almost all of my collection is PCE. Most of it was accumulated years ago. Even now it takes more work to find a case-less PCE game than one that's complete but it was even moreso a decade ago.
Incomplete disc games aren't terribly common, true, but it's not at all difficult to find cheaper, loose hueys. Also, there's quite a few games that never had regular cases (mooks, special hueys, demos, etc.); they may not be top ten material that everyone should own, but neither are they games that
nobody would want.
Are you saying I'm undermining my own argument by not looking harder for shitier copies of things? Truly, I don't know WTF you're on about.
I'm saying there's nothing wrong with buying complete games
or incomplete games and making your own case, which is exactly what I said in my previous response had you bothered to read more than the first line before pitching a hissy fit.
And it has nothing to do with "wanting to play" the games. If someone actually wants to play Order of the Griffon that's one thing, but some toner sniffing ***-ager who collects a US Air Zonk on purpose and then has to put in effort to make a shitty cardboard box for it and wrap it in plastic when he could just get PC Genjin for half the price and have a way better case that doesn't need extra plastic to protect it and a full color manual. Those guys...yeah, I feel comfortable calling them stupid and if they pisses them off then they go take a flying f*ck at the moon. That's stupid behavior. That's what stupid behavior looks like in action.
I'd agree with you if you were just mocking those that go full out and try to repro everything under the sun (boxes, obis, registration cards, etc.), but you're off base lumping all repro stuff together as 'only for slobbering idiots'. It's not a black and white world. I didn't have to go hungry to make cases for latter day TG-16 games, replace damaged spine labels, make translated spine inserts, or print inserts for games that didn't come with 'em; but they sure do come in handy, letting me readily find specific titles without having to first pull 'em off the shelf.
As for the egg game. I'm not "proud of my ignorance", a$$hole. But I'm not ashamed of it either. I had never heard of the game until that one thread and haven't had time to look it up yet. What the f*ck is your problem with that? I'm not strutting...or whatever it is you're getting at. I was just saying "I have no opinion of that game since I don't know what it is at all." I don't know what hidden message your antagonistic as hell ass imagined but it isn't real.
Like I said in the second sentence (another one you couldn't be bothered to read), Motteke Tamago specifically isn't the point. It's but one of many games that never had real cases, where your only choices are fake cases, equally fake generic cases, or leaving them homeless.
