If you’re like me then your recreation cartridges are sliding round within the backside of a drawer, or hidden within the basement, or nonetheless gathering mud at the back of your video games consoles.
Shameful, I do know, however I include excellent news to vary that.
A brand new firm known as Books4Games has lately launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign for his or her upcoming cartridge show items on Kickstarter.
Book4Games is an organization based mostly within the South of France that specialises in making customized show storage options for retro-gamers and online game collectors. It was based in 2021 by a small group of individuals with a unending ardour for retro video video games and popular culture of the 80s and 90s.
This workforce additionally work full-time jobs whereas constructing this and are hoping they will pursue their ardour of constructing superior merchandise for retro avid gamers if the Kickstarter is profitable.
The precision storage and show items home your cartridges in a foam rib cage permitting you t exhibit the spectacular artwork that many retro cartridges have to supply.
Some editions just like the Gameboy show has separate foam padding that may match cartridges with or with out their protecting circumstances.
We had the chance to check the Book4Games prototypes, and we had been happy to see that even Gameboy Advance cartridges match inside it when stacked! it’s our new favorite solution to retailer our greatest Gameboy video games and greatest Gameboy Color video games.
This is their second kickstarter, and their closing try at reaching €8,000 in backing to make this a actuality. They have learnt from their earlier errors and at the moment are again with a refreshed product, with further high quality and higher art work.
The workforce have partnered with distinctive illustrators to create restricted version circumstances to retailer your cartridges in known as “signature sleeves”. The regular shows have a extra primary, minimal look which we personally dig, as if it’s meant to appear to be it’s in a retro museum.
The nice function of this product is that not solely are you able to retailer them and stack them away, however you can too use them to show them on a shelf, or as a backdrop in your movies for instance!
Books4Games have expanded into a large variety of consoles, for instance, they’re launching show options for the next consoles:
- Gameboy (with out case)
- Gameboy (with case)
- Game & Watch
- Nintendo 64
- SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis
- FAMICOM
Each sleeve solely prices roughly €24 on Kickstarter making it an inexpensive resolution for storing your video games in an inventive method.
It additionally makes an important reward for your self or a pal that has a retro gaming assortment. We’re excited to see the place Books4Games heads to after this, and we’re sure they’ll be retaining us retro avid gamers pleased for years to come back.
We want them the most effective of luck with their crowdfunding marketing campaign, and don’t neglect if you happen to’re backing them, you’re serving to out a gaggle of pals make one thing cool for the retro gaming neighborhood, which is tough to do in a time of financial disaster.
A 29 yr previous fella that’s had a Gameboy habit ever since he was a toddler. Brandon is the founding father of RetroDodo and created a YouTube channel with 240,000 subscribers devoted to retro gaming merchandise. He now desires to create the No.1 website to showcase the most recent retro merchandise from across the globe.
