Game Packaging - Scott The Woz

Scott got 45 minutes out of this?
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Music Used:
"Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes
"File Select" from Sonic the Hedgehog 3
"Gnat Attack 2" from Mario Paint
"Lip's Theme" from Panel de Pon
"Area 3" from Blaster Master (NES)
"Chill" from Dr. Mario (NES)
"Bridge Zone" from Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear/Master System)
"Password" from Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
"Emerald Hill Zone" from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
"The Day the Wool Stood Still" from Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred King (SNES)
"Episode 1-1" from Comix Zone
"Battle Mode" from Super Mario Kart
"Chun-Li Stage" from Street Fighter II (SNES)
"Collision Chaos (Present) (EU/JP)" from Sonic CD
"Paternal Horn (Spring Valley)" from NiGHTS into Dreams
"Pirate Lagoon" from Diddy Kong Racing
"Forest of Fairies (Level 1)" from Jack Bros.
"Blizzard of Coast" from Sonic Shuffle
"Training Mode" from Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
"Stepping Wind" from Namco X Capcom
"Boss Battle" from Bomberman Max 2
"Trophy" from Super Smash Bros. Melee
"Sky World" from Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space
"Layton's Theme" from Professor Layton and the Curious Village
"Elec Man Stage" from Mega Man: Powered Up
"File Select" from Super Mario Galaxy
"Dojo" from PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
"Honeyhive Galaxy" from Super Mario Galaxy
"Decalburg" from Paper Mario: Sticker Star
"Equipment" from Miitopia
"Blurry Flurry" from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
"Pleasure Quarter" from Gravity Rush
"Main Menu" from Kirby Star Allies

[@gusngabby2214]

I like how Scott can take a topic like “Game Packaging” and turn it into an incredibly entertaining 45 minute long video

[@atohsiguy9946]

'Big project' -Scott on twitter

[@devinfrench4924]

Agreed. Hes good at what he does

[@jacobh9344]

This comment is how I discovered the length of this video.

[@Pendji]

Not really a tough task given the variety and decades of history about it.. You wanna see people write 200 pages about stupid niche topics, go to university.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

He's quite the chatty soul.

[@dabricio]

I feel like Scott didn't even write a script for this one he just started talking

[@deathstrike]

My only caveat with the box art video is that while I am well aware Scott is a Mac user, he is missing out on some of the very best artwork available for PC. I collect vintage PC game (pre 1996) and it is some of the most beautiful artwork you can find hands down. Games like Dynamix Red Baron or EA original big box Need for Speed. The list is endless and needs a video like this to cover it. GET A PC Scott!!!! LOL

[@dabricio]

@@deathstrike Scott is our precious innocent nintendo boy, don't try to change that, will you

[@RoxyChown]

i like the theory that he comes up with an opening joke and then bases the rest of the video off it

[@Henshingod]

I think he used some variant of the word "denote" 5 times, so yeah, sounds accurate.

[@justcameronbeinglazy8173]

He’s #5 trending on gaming

[@Ed-hp7gd]

Can we just appreciate Scott’s attention to detail and running jokes? At the start of the video when he’s describing his illnesses he says he has “Bed Bats”, and as some will remember in one of the early 2017 videos he visits Bed Bath and Beyond but one of the letters isn’t lit up so it says “Bed Bat and Beyond”. God damn I love this man

[@OriginalGameteer]

Guess he got infected with the Bed Bats while he went shopping there Someone should REALLY deal with the Bed Bat issue imo

[@AmazingStudios01]

Like ants

[@playstationpapi747]

Please tell us more

[@zackcolosky9908]

also to add on to that there's the notion that he got bed bats because they feed on his bed bugs. i swear few people in the youtube sphere can write on Scott's level

[@hiddenmosaic]

also the "i really like 7" at the beginning then when magnavox odyssey comes up

[@Daku93]

Two things: My European Gameboy Player came with the disc in a normal DVD sized case. Not the Japanese one. The European DS Boxes are thicker because our manuals include multiple languages and are potentially thicker.

[@BrySkye]

Yup, would just confirm that. Will point out it was essentially a day 1 Gameboy Player, so it's possible a change was made later in the production run, but yeah. Player disc came in a normal sized Gamecube DVD case, complete with a proper, full colour sleeve insert like a game would.

[@Rawk__]

Counterpoint to the DS argument - a lot of other pal Nintendo systems have the same thing with their manuals, and the boxes were the same size. The best example I have is DK64, the manual for my copy is incredibly thick, and has multiple languages, but the box is the same size as all the others. Not saying you’re wrong by any means, but moreso pointing out how utterly ridiculous our chunky DS cases are. Also, fun fact, I have a couple of American import DS games, and all of our manuals fit in their cases perfectly… but no, we must chunk, thanks Nintendo!!

[@riton349]

Yo that makes sense. Wonder why the DS ones were so shitty compared to the 3ds one.

[@BottlebobGames]

god damn, I always wanted to write that, but everytime i forgot. Thanks for mentioning that!

[@ashtar3876]

Oh yeah, the DS cases are indeed super fkin thicc

[@snapl3s715]

This episode has a lot of “Shoot, Scott owns that?” in it.

[@joebradley1495]

Impossible! No one can dodge emerald splash

[@ASLB247]

Yeah. I mean I was like “Shoot, Scott had Doom 32x?” When I saw it.

[@Ken_5710]

Shut, Shut it! Shut,Shut!

[@Fabiola-bh1th]

Chill TM HIERUPHANTO GREEN

[@somerandomuser2234]

@@joebradley1495 ledledledledledledledledledledledledle

[@thebootster]

This is secretly the biggest, “showing off my game collection flex” in history.

[@chopsmccartney6786]

I know what he spent his stim checks on.

[@ckcez]

Haven't you seen his episode on his game room?

[@PremiumCheeses]

Not like he did an entire episode on his game collection

[@SHcMOOK]

thats ALL of Scott's videos and its not secret at this point hahaha

[@Imhungry36]

Oh ya i didn't know that mama mia

[@SavageMontreal]

28:23 PAL DS games were thicker due to the larger manuals inside, which contain several European languages, as opposed to just English (and perhaps Spanish) in the US releases. 3DS are the same thickness as they no longer provide manuals for their games.

[@douchebagkangaroo69]

Like ants

[@ChrisStoneinator]

Actually, I found out when I got some NTSC 3DS games last week that our cases actually are slightly thicker still. They're the same thickness as your old DS cases.

[@nintyfan1991]

Some NA games have French too. Likely due to Quebec in Canada.

[@teathesilkwing7616]

⁠@@nintyfan1991real funny man, Quebec isn’t real

[@liammustapha6643]

20:50 "It's completely pointless" They actually do have a functional purpose. These 'spine hats' are called Obi strips. These are used to provide translations to Kanji for the Japanese market. The cover art was unchanged for the Tetris and was in English so it was just an extra hand in helping the consumers know what the hell they were looking for or buying!

[@zachattack1279]

But Japanese Saturn and Dreamcast games looked completely different compared to NTSC-U cases why where they not in Japanese to begin with?

[@killjoy8372]

So that's what the obis are for, you see them with Japanese CDs too and I always wondered why they were included

[@SnakebitSTI]

Japan just has a minor obsession with excessive packaging, always looking to be that little extra bit wasteful. It's not like they're only included when it's necessary to translate the title on the spine or something. On that note, some of those old double cases have the game title in katakana on one side of the spine and Latin letters on the other.

[@AmericanIdiot2002]

me: can barely write a 3 page essay on a topic i'm majoring in scott: 45 minute video on video game box art

[@thecommunist2646]

I can barely write An essay on my country

[@ipadmail2736]

@@thecommunist2646 our country*

[@thecommunist2646]

@@ipadmail2736 yes comrade help me establish the soviet union and make our country

[@RadTheMann]

*plays ussr theme on saxophone*

[@mbdg6810]

45 minute 45 seconds exactly nonetheless

[@mootwo_]

Description: Scott got 45 minutes out of this? Me: yeah but you still haven't gotten 23 minutes out of the L Button, we're waiting

[@xirabolt]

Well, 50 minutes. Had to play at 0.9x to understand half of what he's saying

[@jr2904]

@@xirabolt English isn't your first language or something?

[@tough-guy]

two words. madden 08. we're still waiting for the documentary of it Scott.

[@derpadothebird2106]

Guys that'd be too easy

[@pod650]

Damn thing stops working and you gotta blow it.... (You can have that one for free Scott)

[@SpongeMagic]

Fun fact: the "spine hat" that Scott talked about on the JP Dreamcast packaging is called an "obi" (Japanese for belt). These are found on not just Dreamcast and Saturn cases, but almost every CD. They were generally used to quickly denote what title was which with the artist, background behind the CD, the barcode and the price.

[@nek0mancer_uwu]

i got one with the Japanese copy of Danger Days by MCR and i refuse to throw the obi away

[@SnakebitSTI]

They're included with books too.

[@vap1777]

13:29 I love how earthbound gameplay is played while he mentions large boxes in the USA, seeing as earthbound had an absolutely massive box in the USA.

[@AmazingStudios01]

Like ants

[@JacobHillSBD]

Scott made a 45 minute video about game boxes we're one step closer to that pormised 30 minute video about the Left Shoulder Button.

[@deadpoolcomics]

Jacob Hill that will probably be his 200th 2 hour episode special

[@ChocoAlmond]

AY WOAH! he said 23.

[@JamUsagi]

Is this the one that broke on every DS Lite I ever held?

[@sooperdoopercooper5040]

No your dumb. Never ending live stream about pushing down the right joy stick

[@sprthrwwychnnl73]

WE WANT L

[@FormulaFanboy]

Scott: uploads long special video Scott: takes a break Scott: COMES BACK WITH VIDEO LITERALLY ONLY ONE MINUTE SHORTER THAN THE SPECIAL ONE

[@AlbertFingernoodle959]

I figured this would be a shorter video, but NO! It’s 45 minutes long! Amazing!

[@samuelthehobo4441]

Is this supposed to hint at something? Probably not

[@abie6539]

ikrrrr i saw that it was 45 mins long and just thought “holy crap wow”

[@aidenbutterfield754]

45 minutes of goodness

[@FormulaFanboy]

I don't really do the "eDiT ThANkS fOR aLl tHE lIkES" thing but I must admit, it feels really cool to be top comment on Scitt's video. I will enjoy it greatly while it lasts.

[@Natendo]

Scott - I know this is over a year old and you'll never see this comment, but the "Only For" on the Gameboy Advance games was because parents were getting confused between Gameboy/Gameboy Color and Gameboy advance games, thinking that the GBA game would work on GBC, when of course it wouldn't. Ending in an open game that couldn't be returned. It's sorta like the Wii U syndrome - when I worked retail parents thought the Wii U was just a Tablet add on for the original Wii.

[@somebody_a_guy]

Which is part of why the WiiU failed. Interesting how they made a mistake they avoided in the past.

[@Natendo]

@@somebody_a_guy the Wii was one of the best selling consoles in all history, so they wanted to keep trying to ride that hype train and install base, however by keeping the name they did the opposite. People had already moved past the Wii and it just seemed like a 300 dollar attachment for the same system. I'd say it was a similar mistake made through different intentions. Shame since the Wii U had potential. Glad the Switch was a home run however.

[@somebody_a_guy]

@@Natendo You hit the nail on the head!

[@PosthumanHeresy]

@@somebody_a_guy It's even funnier than that. This also came up with the NES and SNES back in the day, and they successfully dealt with it then. Hence the Only For Super Nintendo stickers. They literally did the "ride the hype train and keep the name" and made it work. 20 years before they screwed it up.

[@capedcrusader5692]

I can't believe it took me THIS long to realize Professor Layton's theme was playing during the segment on DS cases. Hell yeah.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

A fellow Layton fan, I see.

[@moondane3907]

"...for the last 45 minutes" wait... what? oh... damn

[@mbdg6810]

*45:45

[@flyingtorch4336]

Wait...

[@vinylsketch]

In that moment was, from every viewer, a collective "wtf"

[@jommysalami227]

Your profile pic looks like mr.cruel

[@virtueisdead]

time flies wtf

[@justsomeguy1998]

"Scott Flexing his beautiful collection for 45 minutes"

[@ianwagner3603]

You figured it out... but I’m afraid I can’t have you spreading this information 🔫 between you and me kid, I’m sorry 💨🔫

[@WrathfulCrane10]

I wasted 45 mins of my day

[@Retro_taco]

@leviplayesgames did you mean watched an entertaining video filled with clever comedy and information?

[@DylAppleShorts]

Correction: Scott b*tching about the way cases look

[@DylAppleShorts]

@@Retro_taco yes I believe that is what he meant

[@savagegamer474]

I gotta be honest, this is one of the best videos he’s ever posted. No flashy special effects, no big cast, just pure video games.

[@connorschultz380]

33:50 to defend Mario and sonic- red + blue = Yellow. If other crossovers "had" been a thing on the wii, and they all had a yellow spine, it would have been cool

[@mysticaxolotl8215]

Never even thought about that!

[@makecowsnotwar]

I’ve always treated graphic design as the quote from Futurama: “When you do things right, they won’t know you did anything at all.”

[@poorlydrawndoggo3647]

Thats deep

[@gustrrer2409]

O

[@Glory2Snowstar]

That is an absolutely amazing quote and I thank you for letting me know it exists. It is pretty spot-on, nobody speaks up until something’s done wrong in most cases. Criticism is important, but we should spend more time praising things that do stuff right. Would get more positivity out that way.

[@ct2651]

@Daniel Heidenreich the god in the stars right. Technically that god was awesome. I mean, its possible.

[@ct2651]

@@Glory2Snowstar i do not do much review, but i do mostly positive and rare music album in my pastime.

[@themiddleclass7062]

Everyone: I can’t wait for Scott to makes great and detailed video Scott: B O X

[@tczmiel1855]

Haha box go brrrrr

[@ZAWFUL]

Unrelated: the ridge on the ds box logo is supposed to be the shape of the original ds console curves.

[@Tftapodcast]

I have rewatched this episode so many times now. Yet I am still interested and laughing. Damn Scott is good

[@Kapeeshy]

Like ants

[@magicalnewsmaneditsbumpers4374]

I’m eating peanut butter crackers at 11:11 and watching a 45 minute video about game packaging. My life has peaked 19 years in.

[@jasonandrews7355]

Mainstream outlets can't spend 5 minutes on a AAA game review, but my man Scott can spend almost an hour talking about freakin game cases. Love it.

[@Dead_Metal]

The reason why the European Ds case was a lot thicker than the American one was because the European manuals contain multiple languages.

[@sweetasterium]

Yep. Also the health and safety booklets. US ones tend to have English, Latin American Spanish and French. The PAL ones have: English German French Spanish Dutch Portuguese Italian Danish Norwegian Finnish Swedish

[@Retku22]

Exactly.

[@yespeace]

Sometimes even Russian

[@user-te1fn8cj5r]

In Canada because we have 2 official languages but used the same DS case as the US some games had the issue where the manual was too thick and the manual cover would tear off. Rest in peace my Digimon World Dusk Manual.

[@suppengroove]

excuse him. he's an american. they usually don't have any common sense for non-american things

[@PikaLink91]

7:45 "...in North America and Europe" THANK YOU for acknowledging our existence!!

[@PoutingTrevor]

"This is a three-finger job!" - Scott the Woz on pleasing my wife

[@KatZEdition]

Scott needed to stay a virgin so he went for your wife after divorcing his

[@benjaminschmitt1562]

If Scott got 45 minutes out of this, then he can easily get 23 minutes on the L button.

[@SlammedOnGasoline]

Benjamin Schmitt I’m still waiting for it.

[@runningoncylinders3829]

But the R button has great action commands. Usually L is something weak like camera controls. Sometimes you gotta mash L and R alternatingly! I love mashing those buttons to make Mario Party wind!

[@SlammedOnGasoline]

Runningon Cylinders in speedruns of super Metroid you have to spam both of them to move a pixel forward while running.

[@hicg3876]

Confirm

[@thesparkspectre1237]

Scott: "Hmm, I wonder what the collective gag for my next video will be?" *Finds hospital gown lying on the streets* "Ah, perfect."

[@ballisticblocker9163]

39:10 They actually don’t look to bad in my opinion. The problem I have is that (in my library) Lego Jurassic World and Pokken Tournament have the white stripe at slightly different heights so they don’t line up correctly and it ruins the look.

[@daviddwarmachine]

If you bought "Links Crossbow training" in the set with the Wii Zapper, it actually does have a standard box.

[@mrhelitosis7564]

Really?

[@logjitzu]

I really just watched a grown man talk about boxes for 45 minutes.

[@turniue]

Scott isn't a grown man He's an Eldritch God

[@SageArdor]

Grown man is kind of subjective

[@cookieface80]

Do you have a link to that video? I watched Scott talk about boxes for 45 minutes instead.

[@BitchChill]

Yup

[@videomakermiller8188]

IS THERE ANYTHING ON THAT ISN'T ABOUT BOXES

[@maximillianshah164]

The Scott the Woz thumbnails need to have the “Only On” labels

[@roxynano]

THIS NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY SCOTT THE WOZ!!!

[@AxxLAfriku]

WARNING I am the unprettiest human alive and I need YT to afford my house and the desires of my two girlfriends so please observe my highly stimulating videos, dear max

[@MaxLoafin]

@@AxxLAfriku *supposedly has a house and two girlfriends* *Asks for pity views*

[@TFD500Official]

especially with the N-Gage.

[@slug8039]

AxxL the only channel I keep my Adblock turned on is yours.

[@hanafuda]

The Japanese Saturn and Dreamcast games' jewel cases' "spine hats" are called _obi_ and are also very common on books, CDs, and DVDs as well; indeed, "Does it come with the spine hat?" matters to collectors of Japanese media.

[@IronBeagle2003]

Man oh man I love the early PS3 box art, Spider-Man font and all.

[@breadbox3987]

“Shapes, fuck em” The entire plot of borderline forever

[@notarmani4804]

You said it better than me! That’s epic.

[@ciphergacha9100]

Yeah

[@trifortay]

I don't know why but that comment reminds me of the "Muscle heads? Hate 'em!" in ff6

[@Water_Me_Loan_64_YT]

Yes.

[@lucasdellamaggiore]

"I F***ING HATE CIRCLES!!!!"

[@Thoomas2001]

2:54 I like how Scott zooms in on the very tiny "Gluten Free" when there's a much bigger "GLUTEN FREE" just below it.

[@kistertheartist]

I never noticed that Honestly scott is the perfect KZbinr because of the fact hes puts so much effort for things that last like 5 seconds Perfect example: him moving his whole desk and everything on it outside Or him spending like 30 minutes on one line of dialouge just because they cant stop laughing at the fact one of his friends is yelling "FU## TENNIS" *Or* renting out a whole community center to film a video on numerous occasions OR him buying 12 corn dogs from Sonic O R him stacking 30+ game just to knock them all down *O R* You get the idea These little details/massive commitments are what makes Scott's videos so good

[@uknownada]

@@kistertheartist I like how buying corn dogs is one of your examples.

[@kistertheartist]

@@uknownada yes He bought 12 corn dogs He had the cojones to say "I'll have 12 corn dogs" To a sonic employee With a straight face

[@Fede4Cod]

It’s funny how you made me look closer to the brand logo and realized how Delallo claims to be made in Italy but i’ve never seen it on the shelves (i’m Italian). Then i went to Google to search for it and discovered that their only office in Italy is 5 minutes on foot from my home. Might gonna check it one of these days.

[@dalestone3152]

27:36 i think the reason they put “live enabled” on the og xbox spine is so that when someone is scanning through their games on a shelf, its easier for them to pick out a game that they can play online with friends. (Or COULD back then)

[@WaveStricker]

I watched 45 minutes of a person talking about boxes, and I loved it.

[@FamiliarGecko]

And then there is PC... The land of game-case-design-consistency anarchy.

[@digitalrainstorm3546]

For as fragmented as the PC market is now if you look at the old big box packages for DOS through windows 98 they actually had a suprising amount of standardization.

[@rabidredpanda2888]

@@candle340 I only have one PC game did left, and it's for a toy story 2 minigame collection

[@Pinkcatninja]

Love how you literally end up with pc games (and software) in the board game section at thrift stores because who the hell can figure out if it is for a computer or not.

[@4ofFive]

Nowadays, it's not "what case is it?" it's "what case?" And then I go to a target and find PowerStudio 2013.

[@johnrousseau7130]

@@candle340 you reminded me of the last time i tried to buy a physical copy pc game, it was cod;bops4 i got a black Xbox one style case and a fucking cardboard cd with a download code i was genuinely pissed

[@AmazonessKing01]

"Would it kill them to be more consistent?" "They are too consistent" - Scott The Woz

[@spongebobfan78]

To be fair, they've been consistently inconsistent to the point that being consistent now is very inconsistent.

[@diamond_dogs]

Duality of man

[@agentclank8183]

@@spongebobfan78 I had to reread this one to get what you said. Nice.

[@inkygoat]

inconsistenty is a fun quirk of gex

[@douchebagkangaroo69]

Like ants

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

I think some of the disc based games came with needlessly long cases so they'd be the same size as VHS tapes, and therefore nicely on the same shelves.

[@Strymes49]

me before video: "how tf did scott manage to talk about boxes for 45 minutes?" after video: "...never underestimate the woz"

[@FacelessGamer66]

He is the same man who made a video on manuals in game boxes

[@Bigman-gl2qr]

Never

[@zuhairjamshed641]

Scott: “Why is the PS2 case blue for no reason?” Also Scott: Has a blue border around all of his videos for no reason

[@LuEz49]

Marion GAMING wow, my guy

[@jigglypuff452]

Marion GAMING *SAME*

[@sadtoad250]

Well, the blue is part of the branding tbh

[@onhold1706]

I am never gonna unsee that now...

[@IAMDBC]

@@jigglypuff452 how tf you just now realize Scott's blue ass border??

[@MrM4DM4N]

Great video! Video game packaging is seriously something I enjoyed and needed, I appreciate you for making it!

[@leonardo.diCATio]

I love how each console you went through, you used a song from a game from it in the background. Such a nice touch.

[@dustee985]

Scott can literately talk about tables for 4 hours straight and I would still be entertained.

[@luigi7834]

Yeah, and then I'd go rewatch it when I don't know what to watch

[@asa_andromeda]

@@luigi7834 same

[@angel_aki]

The hours I’ve spent listening to Scott think about things I otherwise I wouldn’t give even half a shit about

[@dustee985]

@@angel_aki Bro same, idgaf about game packaging. 😂

[@mide8845]

Anime pfp, so yeah, checks out

[@corruptedminds5679]

If I remember correctly, All Game Boy Advance boxes had an "Only For" label because GBA games weren't compatible with Game Boy or Game Boy Color.

[@Thumph]

Exactly. A LOT of people were still using their GBC in the GBA and even in the DS era, so adding that little tag might have saved a lot of kids parents from ruining Christmas. 😅

[@dundidely1519]

@@Thumph haha I remember when I was a kid, parents got me a gamecube with no games for Christmas. Saw the grandparents later in the day and got some xbox games...

[@mattfromwiisports5328]

James Dunbar wow rip I’m lucky my mum knows the difference between all consoles

[@Elazam]

Yeah I think so, Also they could say it, because yeah, the GBA-versions were more or less allways exclusive, so yeah, double-clarity

[@DatBisa]

As they also did on GBC games...

[@BenChaverin]

Hey Scott, just wanna let you know your videos have given me so much joy over the years. Sending lots of love your way and a big thank you

[@pratt17648]

I loved hydro thunder so much. None of my friends remember it. At all. I'm so happy to see it in this video 19:28

[@facepalm5058]

I should really get to sleep, it's getting late... Scott: GAME PACKAGING

[@dinogaming8539]

Yes

[@eeli8295]

Exactly my situation, I'm already getting a ridiculously low amount of sleep and now this

[@A1Animator]

here before this becomes top comment for no reason

[@madmanwithamic4396]

It’s 3in the morning in my country

[@kermitlovers1039]

same lol

[@imspinningfree]

The larger DS boxes in europe were to accomodate the larger manuals. Many manuals had English, French, Italian, German and Spanish translations. With manuals becoming smaller by the time the 3DS came out, with Digital manuals becoming preferred, europe's boxes also became smaller, in line with other regions.

[@theundeadgentleman4998]

It also wasn't a universal thing for PAL boxes, Australian DS cases were _usually_ the same as the ones used in NA but every now and then a game would use the larger European boxes, usually the ones that would sit in a clearance bin.

[@PhinioxGlade]

TheUndeadGentleman usually the smaller cases were English online titles, where the larger were Europe reprints or imports. Hence all those random age ratings

[@louaial-obaidi3998]

@@theundeadgentleman4998 The inconsistency of DS boxes on the Aus market was the bane of my existence back in the day. I hate the Euro style boxes, they're so chunky and I don't need a five language manual, I only speak 'strayan.

[@Robman92]

And they add Scandinavian translations! No wonder they were big

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

I love the thicc EU DS boxes as I'm used to them. They are satisfying af for some reason. 😊

[@kicapanmanis1060]

Personally I super love the oversized Western Gameboy logos on the boxes. Has a certain charm and looks really cool when you put a bunch of them together side by side.

[@JamesJimmyMcGill]

I like imagining that the carpet is fried rice.

[@gluesniffer1471]

ok

[@KingKKoolTM]

I now can’t unsee it

[@hzfg]

We should make scott eat it

[@ethanb6576]

Luka Dedić are you suggesting that Scott is a carpet muncher?

[@mrcheese8597]

Glue Sniffer N gage cartridges are sd cards

[@SaxophoneODST]

Everyone: I can’t wait for Scott to makes great and detailed video Scott:Boxes

[@samcotter6236]

AND HE DELIVERED

[@thisprojecthasbeenclosed6257]

L m bmb

[@williammarengon9308]

@@samcotter6236 I love Scott because of this kind of videos, is not a video essay about something deep, is just talking about something that doesn't matter in an entertaining way

[@thisprojecthasbeenclosed6257]

I didn’t know I replied to this I’m sorry LMAO

[@SaxophoneODST]

William marengon:it’s not a video essay Scott: 38:54

[@obamius4521]

Man I wish Scott made a Video about the cd or cartridge art

[@greenberrygk]

31:03 Nick Robinson would be proud of Scott for owning this game

[@Thonder]

Yes

[@theaveragejoe6320]

Basically just "Scott bullies Europeans for 45 minutes straight"

[@wildhooman6475]

reasonably so (this post was made by the I want to leave the usa pls help gang)

[@fusokku9212]

@@wildhooman6475 (this post is has a shared opinion with latinamerican gang)

[@aganhim]

At least we had a real case for the gameboy player... ^^

[@ggnicklu]

WHY DO WE HAVE THESE STUPID TRIANGLES FOR WII, WII U AND SWITCH CASES IT LOOKS SO STUPID AAAAAA

[@theaveragejoe6320]

Ps1 ‘platinum hits’ were really bad in pal regions as well

[@ltb1345]

Lusacarts made the color of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars’ spine dark blue instead of their usual yellow. I don’t know why, lol.

[@PyroPuffs777]

Clone Wars had blue as its main color. The opening credits and message were in blue instead of screen crawl yellow.

[@polario2840]

You spellt lucasarts incorrectly

[@TheIllustriouBlueJay]

LucasArts doesn't make the Lego Star Wars games.....

[@PyroPuffs777]

TheIllustriouBlueJay they did. They helped make all Star Wars games until they were shutdown during the merger.

[@KyleoftheViridianForest]

I honestly didn't realise this!

[@mrsnowman42069]

5:48, no wonder people thought that the first ps3 looked outdated, i mean, it's the same font as on the NES

[@RedPanda5442]

35:40 consumers trying to figure out if xenoblade chronicals 3d plays in 2d or 3d 🤔

[@gaminggrandpa5777]

scott: talks about many many games box art youtube: mario paint

[@FireLock49YT]

I was thinking the same thing but youtube doesn't put that there, the youtuber does and in my opinion makes it 10x funnier XD

[@tem684]

What is happening with Mario Paint exactly?

[@gaminggrandpa5777]

@Radicola ! he never even talked about mario paint tho

[@tem684]

@Radicola ! Oh ok thanks

[@theemptylegend0]

*flawless logic*

[@munyvgm]

Imagine how silent recording 45 minutes of footage of holding up different cardboard boxes and plastic cases was

[@TylerFurrison]

Nah he just read the script the entire time and just did really well with lining things up

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

@@TylerFurrison Nah, the Audio quality of the voice-over segments is clearly better than when he’s speaking to the camera, plus he’d be checking the script quite a bit, so he likely recorded the voice over and recorded the box displaying separate.

[@cadeyoung4406]

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 it’s a joke buddy

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

@@cadeyoung4406 I’ll let Tyler say whether it was a joke.

[@teeby2037]

@@mr.stuffdoer8483 it’s obvious a joke

[@Jo-ew7lw]

i remember being a kid and not being able to open gamecube cases because of how well made they were compared to something like a used ps2 game in a sleeve

[@SlaterRecordsTV]

DS cases were difficult for me to open when i was younger lol

[@areloTET]

26:08 the fact that he picked up one of the most expensive GC games

[@TimYoungofficial]

Added bonus: On the front of Wii packaging, the bubble that the “Wii” logo is in was inspired by the side profile of the Wii remote.

[@requiem165]

O

[@bonlesspizza5705]

Wow, sure is intresting but i sure dont care

[@GalaxyElijah]

Bonless Pizza Just ignore it if you dont care

[@bonlesspizza5705]

@@GalaxyElijah sure is intresting but i sure dont care

[@jamison1368]

Bonless Pizza based

[@yuki_dawn]

Eu person here with a few things to note for y'all: Our cases are often fatter because the instruction manual inside of it has multiple languages in, and is therefore WAY bigger than US/JP instruction manuals. By the time we hit 3DS, they stopped including instruction manuals, and such, the cases got to be smaller and more in-line with the rest of the world. Also the EU Dreamcast cases are rad and I won't hear anything against them!

[@danielc2958]

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense

[@allypitts3794]

That's actually super interesting! In Australia we got mix of the eu and us cases, so half my games are in the clear ones and half are in the black ones. I always wondered why

[@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579]

Cool fact. Wonder if it was hell to collect the case.

[@hammi9573]

yes, game manual and "health and safety booklet" in mutliple languages.

[@ConnorDMoody]

Thank you. I was about to share this. I’m in the US but I bought the Tingle DS game and was like TF...about how thick it was and looked it up. Or maybe I noticed the 13 instruction manuals in the front took up a lot of room.

[@thethree13o]

why do I like this channel so much I literally listened to a man rant about video game boxes for 45 minutes and I still like his videos

[@jayjam_]

I listened to 45 minutes of Scott complaining about something I mildly care about. The guy really can make me watch anything.

[@jayjam_]

I just remembered that this is one of many cases where Scott does nothing but complain about box art for a whole video.

[@charalampospapaioannou2371]

Drinking game: Take a sip every time Scott roasts europe

[@nkfurlough]

Bye bye liver

[@oi7305]

@@iamthatoneguy7875 what

[@inceptsquad9516]

@@iamthatoneguy7875 what

[@therealmistermemer]

@@nkfurlough *the sound from when you close Super Mario 64 DS plays*

[@dx_ream9277]

@@iamthatoneguy7875 what

[@Wolfie15]

Scott: “How can I flex all of my games without coming off as a complete ass?” “OH I KNOW-“

[@raulphilipgoco403]

Have you seen his Game Room, and Boxart videos. He flexed his games like three times already.

[@Wolfie15]

dang, he has so many games lol

[@koenmetekohy1296]

This episode taught me that Scott is armed.

[@THEEJONESY]

your drawing looks bad

[@Wolfie15]

Ashton Jones I beg your pardon?

[@probablyafemboy4668]

Fun Fact: DOOM and DOOM II still had the "Only For" portion of the banner on the GBA ports. DOOM and DOOM II. Only for. I'm going to have a stroke.

[@johnfortnite1987]

Jeez

[@nicoleonyx9186]

All Japanese music CDs, even to this very day, come with an "obi", that cute paper spine hat lol. Still have no idea why but I'm not surprised they did it with video games as well

[@ChrisStoneinator]

The OBI has Japanese text, the spine underneath has English text. They're actually trying to help us I think? But we're too pernickety about completeness. Going off of CDs I've ordered from Japan, what they tend to do over there is either tuck the OBI folded inside behind the booklet, or keep all their CDs in plastic protective sleeves that hold them together, which they will often include when you buy them.

[@nek0mancer_uwu]

so THAT'S what i got with my MCR Danger Days CD from Japan!

[@ado-]

45 minutes of pure, unadulterated scoliosis? Scott, my boy, you've really outdone yourself this time. Not like you always go above and beyond, of course.

[@meta_7145]

@Gnylo uh i didnt ask for mario tennis ultra smash

[@kob4918]

Unfortunately a really boring video this time.

[@samuelthehobo4441]

Gnylo Ok.....

[@isaacf8820]

@kob you couldn’t have even watched the whole thing yet?

[@ado-]

I am feeling really humbled right now...there are 1000 incredible people (like you) who have subscribed to my KZbin channel! Wow!!! Thank you so much to those of you who have checked out my KZbin channel (The Budget Equestrian) and subscribed and subjected yourselves to my craziness on the videos.

[@Twingamingx]

We have thicc boxes in Europe to fit manuals with multiple languages

[@jayisgreg1787]

Interesting. -An American

[@ruigoncalves11]

Yeah, I remember ps1 manuals with a lot of detail being super thick because it was literally 6x what it was normally hahaha

[@alexanderthegreat4460]

Oh... makes sense

[@MichaelHill-sg8ks]

Not gonna lie, as a European, whenever I see those thin ps1 cases from North America, it always confuses me a bit. I always think they look like someone lost the original box and just stuck them into a random CD case.

[@Slenderquil]

Wii manuals in America had two or three languages sometimes, so I'm impressed they never had to make the packaging bigger

[@tsitra360]

"I'm leaving the door open now." Ah, that's how the robbers got in.

[@shiningskarmory6730]

To me this is just a 45 minute rant about game packaging and I love it

[@breadmilkYT]

This guy could literally make talking about the X button for an hour, entertaining

[@aidanredding8058]

He would never make that, at least not before his 20 minute video on the L button

[@itsastikbotparty8149]

“Now the PS3 x button” “Why the hell do they call this the action button what does x have to do with action?”

[@jenhaley]

I would be fine with scholarly reviews of the concaved vs convexed SNES gamepad buttons. I'd love if controllers still did that.

[@gavinthecrafter]

(X) Doubt

[@biblemanldfhveanorzvae7828]

Don’t give him ideas

[@sergeantguy8887]

Scott the Woz: Uploads after a long deserved break Everyone: The Return Of The King

[@lxnelystar]

then makes a video about boxes

[@FazeDonkeyofficial]

Welcome back Scott

[@gezbit]

yea

[@echoes28]

beat me to it, dude XD

[@mr-moose-man]

The return of the *WOZ*

[@campo1889]

You should divide the PAL SNES boxes from the Italian ones, the German ones and than the general PAL ones. THIS because in Germania they almost had the same template as the USA ones. Than the general PAL are different and each game has its color instead of the general black we had in Italy (and we also had the GIG logo on it) :))

[@yowatchie]

My life began anew the moment Scott said “Hey All” after all this time.

[@anabsoluteunit5882]

Yes

[@ProdbyFerguson]

🕙🕞🕣🕞🕜🕡🕡🕡🕡🕢🕡🕥🕔🕠🕕🕠🕜🕕🕝🕕🕔🕞🕟🕓🕑🕑🕢🕒🕥🕡🕔🕐🕞 its been too long 🕡🕗🕜🕓🕓🕘🕘🕗🕗🕗🕗🕘🕘🕙🕕🕔🕖🕙🕛🕔🕔🕛🕔🕛🕔🕛🕔🕛🕔🕛🕙🕛🕙🕛🕙🕛🕙🕛🕛🕔🕛🕔🕛🕔🕛🕙🕛

[@anabsoluteunit5882]

TDCplayz *its been so long

[@richardgibson8403]

An absolute unit since I last seen my son

[@anabsoluteunit5882]

Richard Gibson lost to this monster, to the man behind the slaughter

[@Encyclopedia_Brown97]

Scott's back in his comfort zone baby: talking about ancillary aspects of games instead of actually playing the damn things

[@abba1322]

And that's the new word of the day. Thank you, educated youtuber.

[@goalhornfanatic9449]

I find myself almost daily going downstairs and just staring at my small collection, admiring it. Maybe it's weird, maybe not. I just find enjoyment in observing what I have and how it looks.

[@jadthecat387]

I do the same with my collection

[@solanowalter92]

I didn’t realize this video was 45 minutes long lol. Thanks for the content Scott!

[@deci2302]

For Scott being "not an RPG guy" he sure does own a lot of Atlus games lol

[@ltb1345]

I think he’s aiming to collect every game ever.

[@onespicysauce6599]

LegoTurtle Brickfilms he does own every wii u game released in North America

[@yaldabaoth4807]

@@onespicysauce6599 It's the easiest Nintendo console to have every games of, so yeah

[@dopey473]

Well granted they released a lot of games on the 3DS

[@JoNarDLoLz]

Scott probably just bought it so that his other Atlus games dont get too lonely

[@quasarm825]

13:36 “Discs. You ever have older people say to you ‘Nobody uses these things anymore. Why, somebody your age probably doesn’t even remember this.’” “Um, I’m 12, not 8” Most underrated line ever

[@sooper7815]

I just realized how great it is holy shit

[@Bikonito]

i dont get it

[@quasarm825]

Bikonito He’s imitating a kid saying to an old person that they know what discs are and aren’t a child

[@meat7490]

43:43 perhaps they figured out that the original font with the text “SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated” couldn’t even fit?

[@BlueSodaPop_]

"It had a BUTTON!" Me thinking back to my idk what edition DS with a switch: "B-button?" Also, I love how he hates on the European designs for the cases. I didn't even know there was a difference, but as someone from europe I really love them, especially the Wii U ones. Completely blue looks really nice on the shelf...

[@longtou6781]

Let’s be real, we will never have another Scott the woz someone who can make 1 really great video a week for almost 4 years, I’m glad he took a break he deserves it

[@user-uo8wf3sm9m]

Yes he definitely does deserve it

[@npclucario7005]

He deserves it, and his absence reminded me how much I love him and his content.

[@i_havethe_highground3955]

He has to be the funniest guy on KZbin

[@jamesbarton3724]

Once a week huh?

[@chebic5095]

Scott the woz is probably going to be the first and only time when I’ll mourn and reminisce the end of a KZbin show.

[@aedenskelton9789]

Scott: Swears without bleeping it Me: I have to think about this

[@7Be]

Timestamp?

[@aedenskelton9789]

Everywhere

[@bellboy7809]

It’s cuz Scott said he was bitching a lot

[@ThaBotmon]

@Super_Challenger What about 0:19 and 1:09 For exemple?!?

[@moose-mancer]

@@aedenskelton9789 Not proving anything.

[@pantpocket1741]

I LOVE when he was talking about game cube boxes at around 25 minutes in and it cuts to melee footage where he's fighting master hand as roy and he just drops below ledge, up airs, and fucking dies

[@Wendy_O.]

26:03 I was waiting for him to make a comment about that one yellow Player's Choice logo sticking out like a sore thumb. XD I have my games tucked away in DVD drawers or organized in clear stackable totes purchased from Costco, so spine art inconsistencies aren't so obvious to me. And after watching this and his Player's Choice video, I want to tell him: "Scott hon, if these graphical quirks bother you, do what I do; take off your glasses!" XD

[@squidfungus4001]

When the world needed him most... HE CAME BACK!

[@mranxiety9995]

I don't think he left

[@spdeyfreak]

Scott: “Everyone keeps asking if I’m back....yeah I’m thinking IM BACK.”

[@Mojavekight17]

Keano lol

[@aidanredding8058]

I literally just finished watching that

[@samuelthehobo4441]

Interesting

[@chrisaaronfallon7779]

Welcome back shady 😂

[@janicechilds4775]

Yes he is finally back

[@ZombieDragQueen]

17:01 Not exactly "no reason". I suspect the PAL's non-jewelcase design (Playstation and Dreamcast) was to accommodate the thick multilanguage booklets. Here in Scandinavia the game manual would be in four languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish) though the game would still be in English only. If the manual wasn't localised it would still be in several major European languages. Some only had the manual in English, which made sense. If you can't read the English manual to an RPG game entirely in English then a localised manual won't do much. But a lot of games had thick perfect bound manuals and they don't slide well in jewel-cases. I have music CDs with booklets so thick I can barely pull them out, let alone doing it without ripping them.

[@FluffyPegasus505]

Who wouldn’t love going inside Scott’s house and see all of the games he owns. Keep it up Scott 👍🏻

[@ag23415]

"Imagine being surrounded by 10 inches of silver and saying 'I matter.'" Kanye West: Allow me to introduce myself

[@stixxal]

i looked at the video length and thought: "oh it's 45 minutes long, this must be one of Scott's specials with a plot or something" no. it's literally just him talking about game packaging EDIT: i never said it was a bad thing

[@brainbesplit]

Shtix and there isn’t a thing wrong with that, cuz he’s scott!

[@bigbeefscorcho]

Every video is a “Scott special” lmao

[@runningoncylinders3829]

This is what I like though. Who'd want to see therapy sessions or confusion about whether Gex is bad? What is Gex?

[@bugsnax_fan_26]

Shtix well, who cares? Answer: no one.

[@CompanioncubeSergeant]

are you trying to tell me you couldn't talk for 3/4th's of an hour about video game packaging?