Spine Cards for japanese games

[dwarfduder]

I only recently started buying japanese games:

can anyone tell me what are spine cards for ?
do they effect the price of games if there is there is not one??

regards
duder

[nickellingworth]

Spine cards are just little pieces of card around the spine of the game case, they normally have information like price on them, not having one does affect the value of a game as collectors like to have complete copies of games (ie with a spine card).

[RallyDon82]

could always reproduce them if someone did some high quality scan ins of them and a high quality printer, though thats being crafty, muwahahahahaha.

[dwarfduder]

thanks

for the info.

Duder

[neonecko]

Spinecards also protect the case materials from sun-fading which you will also notice on a lot of games that don't have them. This is usually only the case of course if the cases are directly facing sunlight.

[chizzles]

That is assuming you keep them on the case...

I don't think anyone actually gives a shit about them enough to have them on the shelf with the game, most people keep them in the case.

[Yart]

Yeah. I'm obsessed about having the spinecards with the games but even I keep them in the case.

I mean, just that extra piece of cardboard everytime you want to open a game case is annoying as hell. Even when handling it.

[talkingbook]

Japanese music CDs usually have them too. Seems like a waste of paper to me.

[termis]

Their purpose was just to contain random info about the game/cd, which was then meant to be thrown away once package is cut open. I guess you can compare them to say, those big-bold stickers on music CDs letting consumers know that a certain hit track is on the album.

As stated by others above, collectors want these, but I'd think most casual folks wouldn't care that much about them. I won't throw them out if I get them (I'll stick 'em between the manual or something), but I couldn't care less if my used copy of the game/cd has it or not.