Reprints



Reprints are re-releases of well-selling games, but sold for a lower price. A reprint can contain bugfixes, patches, extras and many other things. Most reprints change the big box to a DVD case, change the color of the case (like from black to silver), add a badget on the cover to indicate that it is a Reprint, remove the colors from the manual, and also the artwork from the media to further reduce costs.

Sega was the first company to start making reprints of successful games.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) People with a lower budget can also buy great games.
 * 2) A lot of companies are still reprinting well-selling games.
 * 3) As mentioned above, most reprints include fixes for bugs and glitches.
 * 4) *For example: Gran Turismo 2's Original American release had a bug that didn't allowed to complete the game 100%, this was fixed in the Greatest Hits reprint.
 * 5) While its cheaper, the media inside is still good quality.
 * 6) Due to the different cover design, you can easily tell which game is a reprint, and some of them look cool.
 * 7) While not popular anymore, a lot of PC games had Reprints from a lot of companies.
 * 8) Most of the time reprints nowadays tend to have the DLC of the games, and they can be cheap too.
 * 9) Some digital games get reprints on physical release, which is great for those that love collecting.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some game collectors don't collect reprints, due to the different and not frequent cover design.
 * 2) *However, some collectors do collect both original and reprinted releases, and most casual game collectors doesn't really care about different cover designs.
 * 3) Sometimes they reprinted very bad games too, like Sonic '06, due to the game having a high selling rate.
 * 4) Some reprints have limited quantities, Street FIghter II on the SNES and Limited Run Games (hence their name).
 * 5) Sometimes the reprints have bad covers, like Batman Arkham City's GOTY edition.

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