Friday 6 June 2008

The Incredibly Cute Saturn Soft Case

On my countless forays into the depths of the ebay Sega Saturn auctions, I spotted this sweet little... thing. At first I thought it's a boxed white Saturn, but the auction description lured me with the words "Soft Case". I dug further and found out, that this little fella is indeed a "Soft Case", whereas Sega probably meant "Software" and not the physical condition of the item. So, you can literally put software in it, which should be preferably Sega Saturn CDs, of course, and the case will protect it. You can choose to either put 4 CDs with jewel cases in it, or use the book like thing to put in even more CDs. 10 to be exact. What's a bit weird about that thing is, that you can also put the manuals in it. The back of the box also suggests, that you may carry your Sega Saturn joypad in it, which I haven't tested though.

The appearance of this thing is really cute for some odd reason. It nearly looks like an original white Sega Saturn, but it's different enough to be overly cute. I immediately fell in love with it and thus didn't care, that I had to pay approximately 60 USD for this thing. It's either rare or very sought after. The original price tag, when this thing was released, was around 14 USD (Yen 1,480). Talk about valorisation!





5 comments:

fatherkrishna said...

Oh my God!!! That is perhaps the coolest item ever showcased here on the Junkyard!

I reckon you got yourself a real bargain there Elend, and it's value can only increase over time...

Yet again, I am jealous of your acquisition! Top marks on the post! Stunning, simply stunning!

gnome said...

Cute indeed... :)

James Sutton said...

Hell yeah.

A Sega Saturn is not to be taken lightly.

There's power in BULK!

NebachadnezzaR said...

Nice find elend! :) Indeed this is perhaps the coolest item ever showcased here on the Junkyard.

BrianDeuelDotCom said...

Now THAT is cool :)