Comments on: Storing small memory cards

By: Mary Anne Hoben

Mary Anne Hoben — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:28:33 +0000

We got these for our kids when we bought the DS’s because we were taking them on the plane with us to Disneyland:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....tterer-20/

It’s called a G-pak Organizer and comes in a couple different colors. It’s about as big as an old fashioned lunch box and carries EVERYTHING! The game console, charger, accessories and up to 30 games.

Highly recommended!

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:08:29 +0000

It seems pretty obvious to me that Red Coyote was being facetious. Unclutter your sense of irony, folks. :p

I got a nice memory card zip pouch free with my Canon 5D. Free, of course, being in quotation marks since the camera set me back a few months’ mortgage.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:22:23 +0000

I made my own case out of a tin mint box shaped like an original Nintendo controller. I have scraps of shelf padding inside too to keep the cartridges from shifting around.

The box only holds 6 games, which really forces me to edit for a trip. I like having a selection for planes or at bedtime, but I don’t intend to spend the whole trip playing!

I keep my game boxes and manuals, but I don’t travel with them. They’re too big and they don’t force me to edit my selections.

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By: Kalani

Kalani — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:56:19 +0000

Best post EVER! I keep my Nintendo DS in a cloth-ish makeup pouch. It has a zipper. The pouch is big enough for a handful of the older GBA games, and I keep the DS games in the little hard plastic boxes they came in. I’m with Glenn– I’m one of those sticklers that believes the boxes are pretty and part of the product. They are on a bookshelf with other small books, with manuals intact. If I’m going on a trip or something I’ll just generally carry the game in the DS, loaded and ready to go.

By: cakemix

cakemix — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:34:53 +0000

what a great thread!

for the games that i like to keep with me, i have a really cool little matchbox from a rockabilly club in berlin that holds a few DS cards…it’s cute and it makes me smile!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:04:47 +0000

Glenn, just get rid of them. Trust me, you won’t miss them when they’re gone! Keep the manuals for special games, or ones with manuals that are honestly more than the health warnings and playing/installation instructions, but just recycle the rest. You’d be surprised how much rubbish they cram into those boxes – and how much space those boxes take up – once you’ve put it all in a pile on the floor!

I’ve kept one game box, a proper box, from the early 90s, as it has special memories for me. All CD/DVD games are in zip-up wallets, and now I know what to do with my DS games (currently in a small box). My boyfriend has lots of DS game boxes he doesn’t want to part with, so I hope these storage solutions might change his mind.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:28:47 +0000

Gamers of the world unite! Why is there this stigma attached to gaming? I’ve parlayed my experience in gaming and game programming into more than a few successful business enterprises. Not to mention meeting so many good friends.

Unfortunately, I am plagued by my compulsion to keep all the original packages from my games. I have a few book shelves filled with the game boxes. Hmmm… I guess I still need to resolve that.
Help.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:56:09 +0000

For both my PSP and my daughter’s DS, I like to keep the original game cases with the games and instruction manuals in them on bookshelves. We both have cases for our systems that hold three or four games, which I find is more than enough to carry around at once.

By: gypsy packer

gypsy packer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:28:38 +0000

Excuse that typo!

By: gypsy packer

gypsy packer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:28:11 +0000

If you find a memory card holder which is nonstatic and will hold microSD cards successfully, please post it to this site. I’d give anything to get rid of all of my backup disks, DVD’s and CD’s in favor of smaller storag!

By: Jirka

Jirka — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:52:35 +0000

Are you mostly a PC gamer or a console gamer? Do you play casual or “serious” (hard-core, time-consuming) games? In any case, no need to justify it, I genuinely believe (based on my 25 years of gaming) that it is the best way to develop a wide range of skills (including conceptual/strategic thinking) AND especially PC gaming can be VERY uncluttered

By: Melinda

Melinda — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:46:30 +0000

Red Coyote, that was just plain rude. You don’t have to like what others like and they don’t have to like what you like.

I found that post very helpful Erin, thanks for sharing that product. My husband got all excited when he saw the first manual holder pictured. We have memory cards for games and also cameras that seem to go missing too often. Nothing worse than not knowing where the photos are of your holiday, but knowing that they exist on a tiny card!

By: barefootwriter

barefootwriter — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:34:09 +0000

It’s because she’s uncluttered that she has time to be both studious *and* play games. Am I right?

Games aren’t just for teenagers; if you go in for arthroscopic surgery, you should pray your surgeon is a gamer, as gaming has been shown to drastically improve surgical skills. And if anyone is an exemplar of studiousness and years of effort, it’s the guy who’s cutting you open.