The Famicom is Spreading!

[Christine]

Well, so...

Over the past month or so my Famicom game collection has swelled. It began as a cute little pile of things on top of my faux leather "valued game" NES tote when I was still waiting for my Famicom to arrive. Since then, with a few judiciously placed orders along the way, it's no longer even feasible to stack the things, not to mention my two disk games with more on the way.

A year ago I spent some time hunting down a bunch of those wooden cabinets made for the N64 and they have saved me from my life being invaded by N64/SNES games. I know the NES had some classy storage solutions like those plastic cases meant to enclose the system, controllers and games, and some cooler things like wooden cabinets that various people have made over the years. Yet I can't find anything like that for the Famicom, outside of the game briefcases that you see here and there and which you can't fit Splatterhouse in anyway (which is important because Splatterhouse is the sort of thing you want to bring with you and show to people, even people you don't know!). I've noticed that Famicom games are pretty similar in size to Mega Drive games, but I can't find any acceptable storage solutions for that system, either. Without having to go out in the garage and mess around with power tools or buy an amazing glass enclosed lighted bookshelf, does anybody know of any solutions for a classy way to store / display Famicom cassettes and disks?

It doesn't have to be official, but at least aesthetically pleasing, because what's better than showing off your collection.. to... yourself?

[manuel]

Satoshi Matrix uses stuff called "Universal Media Cases".
You can read about that here: http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=995.msg30762#msg30762

Display those on a nice wooden shelf and you have a beautiful showcase.

[senseiman]

I have the same problem.  I've got about 150 Famicom games now and no effective way of storing/displaying them.  At the moment they are in stacks on a bookshelf, which isn't a very acceptable solution.  Every time I want to play a game I end up knocking stacks over trying to find the one I'm looking for and it just ends up a mess.

Generally I like the look of Famicom carts a million times more than the boring gray NES carts.  HOWEVER the one advantage that the NES carts have is that the game's label is visible on the top of the carts so you can see the title when the games are stacked.  Most famicom games don't have a label visible on the sides of the cart so if they are stacked you have no idea which game is which unless you can guess from the color of the cart.   

This makes storing famicom games in a way that they are easily accessible way more complicated.

This is the bane of my famicom game collecting existence. 

[nintendodork]

I have all my carts in these small boxes..they're pretty feminine, but they're good at their job.  They each hold 11 carts.  I've filled up one, and I'll need a third box when my recently-ordered games come.  I try and organize the games somehow, so this next box will contain all my pirates so far..which would be 4...I think.  As for my disks, they just are stacked in their cases on the opposite side of the Famicom from where my carts are.


I know it's not up to PatMan33 standards, but it's good enough for me.  I'll have to do something else once I fill my third or fourth box, though.  Because they just become stacked, then, too.  I'm not sure where to fit put my RAM adapter when I'm not using it, because it doesn't exactly fit in the box very nicely.

[Rob64]

I don't have much of a collection yet, but so far I've been able to keep them in the styrofoam casing of the famicom box and left the cover out for display ontop of the case for the tv.

[FamicomFreak]

Ah yes I used to do that back in the days. I would have like three boxes with games in them....now it's kind of hard to keep them all in a shoe box especially when your collection starts growing at massive rates!

[Christine]

I ended up finding a polished bamboo box at Target. The good news is that the boxes are stackable and lock together and can do so with around 30 standard size Famicom cassettes inside. The problem is that they aren't cheap and anything even slightly taller than a standard size cassette means that the boxes don't fit together snugly. So in the next few weeks I'll probably end up buying another one so they can stack up nicely and give me plenty of room for expansion.