Completeness:How to know if your boxed game is complete.

[yellowgameboycolor]

I need help guys. I keep seeing all of these CIB, Boxed & Complete games on ebay and it makes me interested. But just how do you know if what they have is complete? Is there any way to make sure that what you just bought is a complete set?

[Collz69]

Depends on what you are collecting, you need to know your area of collecting.

There's a lot of variation depending on region & system, especially the Nintendo stuff, like SFC have a small green piece of paper in them (a warning slip) & some have a piece of card showing game controls eg: super donkey kong, some like Cotton 100% & Final fight guy should contain a music CD.
Then there's the RPG's that often contain maps.
I used to collect NES games & a lot of them would have posters included like GB & snes games, this depended on the publisher.
(obviously the Nintendo carts should also be in a clear plastic bag for 100% completeness)

Sorry, I don't think I've helped you much

[yellowgameboycolor]

No actually you did. It's just so hard to find gameboy games that are really complete -_-

At least for me anyway.

[Mukki]

Unless you buy a sealed game, and open it, it is difficult to know if your game has everything that it originally came with. The best you could do otherwise would be to watch what usually comes up on ebay with specific games. Also keep track of the inserts that certain publishers included during specific years as there is usually some consistency here. If you really have to have everything absolutely complete then educated guesses will get you quite far, but you can never be sure unless you open a sealed game. It really depends on how anal a collector you are.

[maD_mAN1983]

i know some of the NES games i had came with advertisment flyers and such, but sometimes when a friend bought it brand new a little later it didnt have the advertisment flyer, so i find it kinda hard to know what is really complete or not, if you want all those ads and flyers.
but for myself i don't care that much as long as the manual is inside the box with the game, i have some ads and flyers around here for french game and french NES, not sure what boxes they belong to or anything, so i just keep them in a drawer with my loose manuals i don't have the game for

[yellowgameboycolor]

Man this means I must change my ways ~_~

It sucks having OCD and being a video game collector! My wallet bleeds and so does my brain X_X

[Killingbeans]

The only extras I really care about are maps for RPGs. Those are nice to have.

The rest is just too much of a jungle to fight through.

I think some of my Master System games are more complete than they originally were. I had a tendency to hoard the game catalog posters and just put them in any boxes that didn't already have one