Konami's plastic cases/paper boxes

[lobdale]

Does anyone know when/if Konami switched to the plastic cases for their Famicom games?  I have seen auctions that sometimes have boxes like this:



Is this just a homemade thing?

Edit:  Actually, now that I look more, this particular seller has all kinds of games with these plastic boxes... maybe he has scans of all the boxes and just prints them out and adds these cases to maybe increase the value?  (Anyone know where he'd be getting the cases or a source for those scans?)

http://openuser.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/user/enjoygamesunlimited

[Parodius Duh]

Must be old namco plastic cases maybe with custom insert?

[UglyJoe]

Yeah, I don't think Konami ever used plastic cases.  Even late titles like Akumajou Densetsu were still sold in a cardboard box.

[lobdale]

The seller even has Rockman/Bionic Commando in these same cases with the inserts.  He must either run a store or have the kind of collection that has allowed him to do box scans and then create these inserts, and probably as was mentioned he buys a bunch of old Namco sports games for a hundred yen a pop and salvages the cases for these custom inserts. 

None of the auctions include manuals, so he's just "adding value" to cart-only auctions.

I gotta say though, it's a pretty neat idea if you've got tons of space to spare anyway.  I wouldn't mind doing it just for my Konami/Capcom games, if I had access to the original boxes anyway, which I don't.

[P]

Couldn't it be rental versions of the games? In Sweden there was a company who imported NES games besides Scandinavian Nintendo. They replaced the normal boxes with plastic boxes, that normally is used for rental movies, and rented them out. Sometimes people forgot to put the manual back in the box when returning the games so instead of including the manual they printed a miniature photocopy of the manual and glued it inside the plastic boxes. You had to really strain your eyes to be able to read it.

[Parodius Duh]

Couldn't it be rental versions of the games? In Sweden there was a company who imported NES games besides Scandinavian Nintendo. They replaced the normal boxes with plastic boxes, that normally is used for rental movies, and rented them out. Sometimes people forgot to put the manual back in the box when returning the games so instead of including the manual they printed a miniature photocopy of the manual and glued it inside the plastic boxes. You had to really strain your eyes to be able to read it.

Nope. Famicom games which were rented came in a clear game case with rental information on it (company, how many days rental, etc.),  with no insert. The Box would be on display and then you go to the counter and would ask for the game, like most other rental outlets.