Vindicators? Damn, you beat me to it.
Yeah, the early Tengen games had the longer cardboard sleeve with the styrofoam in it. Kinda strange but they did what they could to avoid being too similar to the official boxes.
Yeah, the geometry is kinda wonky on this series. It's mostly the horizontal linearity. It expands towards the edges and shrinks in the center. Pretty sure these don't have any comb filters in them either so composite looks like shit.
That looks like an anti smoking ad. This is your lungs and this is your lugs when you smoke. To be honest since most of the heavy stuff is on one side you can probably submerged that part without ruining the sticker.
I originally wanted one since I grew up on the NES and SNES but after I saw what the Playstation could do and the type of games it was getting, I was sold.
IMO the 6th gen is very close to being retro but not quite. Even though the DC is in fact 6th gen, it came and went so fast that it's almost like it's own generation.