Are Inty label variations collected yet?

[OldAtarian]

I was culling duplicates from my Inty carts today and noticed that I have two different Bomb Squad labels. One says USA and the other says Taiwan. I also noticed two of my Astrosmash carts are different. One has a larger label with larger letters than the other. There is also a slight variation on the cartridge itself where the copyright info is molded into the cart. I also have Chess with both purple and white labels. Does anyone document label variation rarity like they do for the Atari 2600?

[edintv]

You can try with this web:

 

http://intvfunhouse.com/games/bomb.php

 

You can find variations of Boxes, Manuals, Overlays and Cart Labels, there´s few versions of Bomb squad because the Intellivoice was a cancelled project, other games had several variations.

 

I´m nut with every single variation and I keep in my collection all those variations who get trough my hands.

[Rev]

You can try with this web:

 

http://intvfunhouse.com/games/bomb.php

 

You can find variations of Boxes, Manuals, Overlays and Cart Labels, there´s few versions of Bomb squad because the Intellivoice was a cancelled project, other games had several variations.

 

I´m nut with every single variation and I keep in my collection all those variations who get trough my hands.

 

i think intvfunhouse is the best intv site for stuff like this.

[BassGuitari]

I used to collect every minor label variation. Then I went to just either Mattel Electronics (Color) labels vs. INTV (white) labels.

 

Now, I don't really care. I'm just happy to have a game with any label, so long as it's in decent condition (although, given my 'druthers, I prefer the Mattel ones). The copyright info/dates/locations of manufacture don't concern me in the slightest anymore...I think that just comes with the "I have too much stuff!" territory, which for me was a problem first experienced with -and exacerbated by- my Atari 2600 collection (why do I have five or six Pac-Mans just because they have different copyright dates or logo size or whatever?). So that spilled over into other platforms.

 

(An exception might be something like Atarisoft Pac-Man vs. INTV Pac-Man.)

 

Anyway, for something more relevant to the conversation, I agree that INTV Funhouse is awesome. It might be the closest thing to an "IntellivisionAge" that there is.

[jaybird3rd]

Anyway, for something more relevant to the conversation, I agree that INTV Funhouse is awesome. It might be the closest thing to an "IntellivisionAge" that there is.

It's a great site. I don't necessarily agree with their policy of assigning "average" ratings to games they haven't reviewed yet, but I find myself looking at the site often. There's just something about the Intellivision library that makes it fun to browse through, even more so than the 2600 library, and INTV Funhouse is set up nicely for that. I wish Intellivision Productions would hurry up and fix their "Software" pages!

 

As for label variations ... I never understood the point of obsessing over such details, but then again, I'm not a "hardcore collector." To me, a good multi-cart is just as effective at giving you the most "authentic" experience possible: playing the original games on the original hardware. The cartridge is just the distribution medium; the game itself is what's really important. I do have a fairly extensive collection of original Intellivision cartridges (about 90 with no duplicates), but I don't think I'm going to bother trying to get original copies of the rarest titles; for those, and even for the more common ones that I already have on cartridge, I prefer to use the CC3.

[OldAtarian]

Anyway, for something more relevant to the conversation, I agree that INTV Funhouse is awesome. It might be the closest thing to an "IntellivisionAge" that there is.

It's a great site. I don't necessarily agree with their policy of assigning "average" ratings to games they haven't reviewed yet, but I find myself looking at the site often. There's just something about the Intellivision library that makes it fun to browse through, even more so than the 2600 library, and INTV Funhouse is set up nicely for that. I wish Intellivision Productions would hurry up and fix their "Software" pages!

 

As for label variations ... I never understood the point of obsessing over such details, but then again, I'm not a "hardcore collector." To me, a good multi-cart is just as effective at giving you the most "authentic" experience possible: playing the original games on the original hardware. The cartridge is just the distribution medium; the game itself is what's really important. I do have a fairly extensive collection of original Intellivision cartridges (about 90 with no duplicates), but I don't think I'm going to bother trying to get original copies of the rarest titles; for those, and even for the more common ones that I already have on cartridge, I prefer to use the CC3.

 

The point of label variations is to collect them all before someone figures out which ones are rare and which ones aren't. As soon as all the variations are documented and assigned a rarity it's too late because some variations will become ultra rare and the value will skyrocket. If you haven't been paying attention to labels, the value of your collection could plummet and you end up losing out if you later want to sell. Intellivision prices seem to be very low compared to the 2600, so there's not much excuse for not collecting the variations before someone figures them out.

[edintv]

Mostly the ones with more variations are the commons, so is a way to "love" all the duplicates you get when you buy lots.

 

And all those commons had almost no market value for re-sell, so is not so expensive to keep, only occupy space.

 

I won´t pay a lot of money for a burgertime cart made in Singapure instead of Hong Kong, but if a get it, or find it very cheap locally i will get it.

 

I also had several Intv carts with manuals in spanish, there´s very few games with manulas in other languajes (just the first releases) and you can´t find those on ebay because nobody will care.

 

I´m concentrating my collection on Intellivision, is the system i care the most, I had 2600, soon i will get a Coleco, and the aquarius, but my heart will be in the Coleco.

 

I will try to send contributions to intvfunhouse, when i find the time, like all the spanish amnuals i have, and some variations, i get the impression that the site is not updated very often

 

I will love to get the CC3, due the restrictions of my country, I can only use Paypal as payment, so i couldn´t buy one. In the marketplace i offer to trade for one a New Atari 800Xl, a new Compumate and a couple of sealed games, and no one was interested, Maybe i wil have to travel to the US to buy one

[Chris Leach]

This may be off topic and I apologize if it is, but my friends make fun of me for being obsessive over collecting variations. My atari collection is the worst followed by the ps2 library. All original, no copies...ps2 spans over 2000 variation games....seriously...