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Anyone know if Sierra games were indeed shrink-wrapped in one typical manner, like it is asserted at Vintage Sierra? See for picture here:
http://www.vintage-sierra.com/slash.html
I have various games shrink wrapped in a normal way (not with folded corners as shown on the Vintage Sierra shot), and they have the long system requirements sticker and the beige inner box, and it is hard to believe these were all re-shrink-wrapped by the various sellers of these games.
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I have a theory about this and maybe Ken can confirm or deny it:
The shrinkwrap style shown on vintage-sierra is most likely the way they were wrapped at the factory. (First Editions) Usually, there would be cards and/or offers inside the box that were dated materials. Possibly, Sierra sent out a memo to software retailers saying, ‘Hey, there’s an AdLib coupon in your SQ3 boxes that’s going to expire. Please remove it.’ and hence, the re-wrapping.
Anything that has the ‘Value Priced Merchandise’ sticker is also a re-wrap.
-Tom.
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Nice theory! But it may be the case too that the manufacturer changed styles or used different machines.
In the meantime my impression was confirmed by a former seller of Sierra games that in fact the first Sierra games with sleeve packaging didn’t have the folded shrink-wrap as is shown at Vintage Sierra. Only later-on Sierra changed its manufacturer or the manufacturer changed style.
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