AKL12375

I prefer the white carts myself, they are great for keeping records of your high scores on. Ive got copies of Rampage and Pitfall on Activision white label PAL so if you have H.E.R.O. and Frostbite there must be more than three.

I would just like to add that Sumguy is an international problem and he frequently buys everything from flea markets in the UK. About two years ago I heard that he had bought an entire shop - I went to my favourite outlet (in a place called Accrington, Lancashire, Northwest England) only to find that it had vanished and been replaced with a dry cleaners, when I asked the new proprietor where it had gone she replied "Sumguy bought it, closed it down and moved abroad"

Does the list you have kindly sent me the link for refer to PAL carts as well as American? I have been looking for a document like this for ages - thanks for providing the link! The reason I ask about PAL/US thing is that I'm sure (definately this time - I'm looking at it now) I have a copy of Parker Bros Empire Strikes Back with red writing and no border which I always thought was unusual. Let me know if you want scans of the cart.

Just popped home at lunchtime (in UK) to get the carts so I could scan for you and discovered you are correct. Sorry for getting everybody's hopes up! Please accept my apologies. For what its worth here is the (embarrassing) explanation - Sometime ago when archiving my collection I was inputting as much info as possible onto an Excel sheet, as I have many copies of Centipede when I had grown tired of typing CX2677 over and over again I used the mouse to drag the value down to fill the relevant cells with CX2677. MS Excel being too clever for its own good decided to step the values increasing each cell by 1(as it does when you dont expect it). So blame Microsoft - if their apps were less intelligent I would never have suffered this embarrassment! Once again sorry to all that read my last post and suddenly got all exited.

Regarding this label variation thing what about when you have the same game but a completely differant serial code? I dont mean when the cart says CX2601 instead of just 2601 but where the 26?? number is actually differant for the same game. For example, I have three differant serial number versions of centipede(PAL) - CX2677(1982,black label), CX2678(1987, silver label) and CX2679(1988, red label) .This is the only PAL example I have found where a differant serial number is used for the re-release of the same game. Does anybody know of any others? Does this make any differance to the rarity of an otherwise very common game?