+intellivotion Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 let's do the math. How many B&W Intellivision Inc. manuals of games "complete in bag only" exist? I remember six: - Word Fun - Frog Bog - Checkers - Loco-Motion - Tron S.S. - Tennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 another B&W manual we don't see often: Tennis I.I..jpg again, manual printed in USA and cart made in Hong Kong Another on the long-forgotten list of things to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colormesticky Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 What do the bags look like, out of curiosity? Were they literal bags, or shrinkwrapped bundles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Not shrinkwrap. Loose, from what I recall. I'd need to dig out the one I have but I seem to recall it had some kind of perforations and was heat sealed at the ends. Hard to tell if it was pliable / supple originally - the one I have sounds kinds of crinkly -- but isn't disintegrating. Pretty sure others were just clear plastic, pretty thin, but sealed and not shrunk. That said, I think they do tend to be small enough to curl the manual a little around the cart. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humblejack Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 let's do the math. How many B&W Intellivision Inc. manuals of games "complete in bag only" exist? I remember six: - Word Fun - Frog Bog - Checkers - Loco-Motion - Tron S.S. - Tennis Don't forget Space Battle.. Cmart has one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humblejack Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 What do the bags look like, out of curiosity? Were they literal bags, or shrinkwrapped bundles? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colormesticky Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Hmm. Keith somehow ended up with a handful of shrinkwrapped Utopias with color manuals. They have price stickers though (mine says 5.99 on the left and 3.00 on the right), so I always wondered if it was something a reseller gave him or something he intended to sell or what. He gave me one because he thought it was ridiculous I didn't have a play copy (my boxed one is shrinkwrapped), but, y'know, this one's shrinkwrapped too so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humblejack Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I think that at the end, they just bagged up anything they had left over. A great way to move the last of the inventory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colormesticky Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 (edited) Probably relevant to the conversation: when we were going through inventory at the Inty office, there were lots of empty game boxes. We found some that were for one game, with a black & white photocopy of the manual cover for something else glued to the front. There was one - a Diner box with a Slap Shot label - that actually had a Slap Shot cart inside, so the prevailing theory is that these were supposed to be sold off. If any of you own something like this or see one in the wild, it's probably legit. Now don't go all crazy collector on me! We removed the labels. Those are the ones I took home to de-label. There was also a Triple Action with a Triple Challenge label, and others that Steve did himself that I didn't pay much attention to at the time. Edited May 30, 2018 by colormesticky 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Crazy stuff! Black & White Word Fun on a Thin Ice box? Was it yellow-sign or white sign Thin Ice underneath? (Sorry, a bit of the cray-cray-collector leaked out ... couldn't hold it in - it gets dangerous when the pressure builds up too much.) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Don't forget Space Battle.. Cmart has one.an I.I. Space Battle box exists, though. I would like to list the games with B&W manual wich never came with an I.I. box, a la Tron S.S.Only the six I listed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Crazy stuff! Black & White Word Fun on a Thin Ice box? Was it yellow-sign or white sign Thin Ice underneath? (Sorry, a bit of the cray-cray-collector leaked out ... couldn't hold it in - it gets dangerous when the pressure builds up too much.)it's clearly white sign. Anyway, lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 an I.I. Space Battle box exists, though. I would like to list the games with B&W manual wich never came with an I.I. box, a la Tron S.S. Only the six I listed? I think Humblejack was pointing out that there could be more of these 'baggy-only' releases once the I.I. boxes ran out. For something like Tron Solar Sailer, which never sold well, it's unlikely they ever ran out of original materials, so just kept selling the 'new old stock'. Space Battle was one of the stalwarts of the game lineup, so it "deserved" the full I.I. treatment. Maybe they ran out of the I.I. materials when it was clear that The End was near, so no more boxes were made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 it's clearly white sign. Anyway, lol It sure is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colormesticky Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Heheheh, white sign indeed. And the label came off almost clean! The Night Stalker/Motocrosses didn't fare so well. Somebody was glue happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Heheheh, white sign indeed. And the label came off almost clean! The Night Stalker/Motocrosses didn't fare so well. Somebody was glue happy. received_10216121158758454.jpeg please let the collector do his job.What does the Thin Ice box have on the bottom flap? Game name only or game name + UPC barcode? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 PM sent Argh. Too late to the party. You beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colormesticky Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 please let the collector do his job. What does the Thin Ice box have on the bottom flap? Game name only or game name + UPC barcode? Barcode! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I should have played the lottery today! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colormesticky Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 It's a variant so I'm sure Steve will want to hang onto it. If not though, I'll ask him to let me know if he decides not to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Sure, I'll hold onto it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 another B&W manual we don't see often: Tennis I.I..jpg again, manual printed in USA and cart made in Hong Kong I believe that Tennis cart is rare as well. My B&W Tennis manual came with the same cart. I challenge anyone to find a Tennis cart like that (Hong Kong label, no screw holes, rectangle slots in the back) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Heheheh, white sign indeed. And the label came off almost clean! The Night Stalker/Motocrosses didn't fare so well. Somebody was glue happy. received_10216121158758454.jpeg Is that a full manual or just the cover? Either way, it's pretty rare (depending on when it was photocopied). No Mattel branding on it. Neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justclaws Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 For later comparison, as prices are rising so fast...I am still waiting for delivery, but I paid GBP 35, +10 P&P ($60 total) for an Intellivision and 2 carts from UK. It hardly seems a "deal" compared to USA ones I read about here, but for the UK/Netherlands it was good...that was the absolutely cheapest working unit I could find from UK (because money is tight at the moment).It has had a hard life too, but is working, with both controllers in fair condition. Sadly metal bits are scratched.Obviously I did not buy it as a collector's piece, but as a first working Intellivision. (I got the handhelds before.) The unit has some problems with TV quality I'm told. If anybody has any ideas, please let me know. I do alsoplan to fit a composite video mod to it, and I hope that it will resolve the problem. I hope I did not buy a lemon!Cheers, Richard / JustClaws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 What kind of cable are you using, is it RF shielded? Still the colours aren't right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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