Mislabeled or Misprogrammed?

[KnightOfZero]

I'm only a few weeks into my Atari craze, and I'm loving it! I've wanted an Atari for a long time (i'm 20 btw), and found one for cheap just before school started.

A few days ago I found a cart of Starmaster for $1.00; good buy right? Wrong. I had to spend about five minutes just trying to get it to think about displaying a picture, and when it flashed some green across the screen I thought "isn't this a space game? Why is there green?"

So when it finally did work, it was River Raid! Don't get me wrong, I love River Raid, but I just got a good laugh out of buying one game disguised as another.

I was wondering, how often does this happen?

[GideonsDad]

Welcome to AA! I haven't purchased games in a while but I never ran across this problem. I am sure the more avid collector's will let you know. I am guessing it was mislabeled.

 

GideonsDad

[BigO]

That's strange. Maybe the contacts are dirty.

 

Are there any signs of the cartridge having been opened? For example, a hole in the label where the screw holds the cart case together?

(Asking just for the record. I assume you'd have been suspicious immediately if you had seen that condition.)

Edited September 3, 2009 by BigO

[KnightOfZero]

Yea... two nice screw holes in the label. Completely missed those...

Why would someone do that, just to mess with people? Or is there a cart floating out there somewhere with a River Raid label and Starmaster on the chip?

[Rom Hunter]

Yea... two nice screw holes in the label. Completely missed those...

Why would someone do that, just to mess with people? Or is there a cart floating out there somewhere with a River Raid label and Starmaster on the chip?

Perhaps the owner didn't like StarMaster and stepped on his River Raid cart?

 

[keilbaca]

I have an excitebike in a Super Mario Bros case, because of that reason.

 

Sounds like that's what happened. ^_^

[Kenny_McCormic]

Throw it on ebay as a !ULTRA RARE! mislabeled game, be sure to use the word rare as often as possible, some idiot will probably pay $50 for it.

Edited September 3, 2009 by Kenny_McCormic

[BDW]

I've heard of instances where it has been misslabeled. For example, the video game critic talks about how when he bought an imagic game from the store he got a misslabeled one.

 

But, someone is probably messing with ya. I had this happen with a gameboy game that I bought at gamestop.

[Tr3vor]

that is the ONLY good thing about cd's... you dont get ripped off

[Buck]

I have an old M-Netowrk Lock N' Chase cart that contains Air Raiders.

[shadow460]

I used to have an NES Duck Hunt cart that contained Baseball. When I wnet back to the store I got it from the next time, they were wondering where their baseball game went, and I told them.