I really like game-boxes. It displays nice artwork on all sides, and you can put informative text / images on the back. However, I’m not very keen to pay over $20 for just a box, which is often the case when it comes to loose games vs boxed games for sale.
The solution: Print and make your own boxes!
NES-boxes were the first boxes I made and it was all because of this great site: https://www.nintandbox.net/index.php/en/
NintAndBox have gathered print friendly versions of a lot of original Nintendo boxes that you can download for free personal use, and then just print, cut them out and fold them to a complete box.
Some notes about making these boxes:
A full NES box can’t be printed to just one A4 page, so If you have a regular A4-printer, download the A4-versions of the NES boxes, that are split into two pages. If you have access to a larger printer or simply want the whole box on one page, you can download the A3-versions.
When you are going to fold the boxes, it help very much to emboss them first. This can be done by hand by using a ruler and a blunt other object, that you run across all the places that should be folded. You could, for example, use a second plastic ruler to make the emboss. Or a ball-pen without ink, or get a special embossing-pen or just whatever you have in hand. Try it out on some print that is going to be cut off first, to make sure that your embossing-tool doesn’t scratch off any of the print or cut through the paper.