Pole Position End Label Misspelled

[opeygon]

I have 2 copies of Pole Position in my collection. One of them has this misspelled end label:

 

 

Has anyone else ever noticed this before? I think it's pretty funny. I wonder how many thousands of these got run off before they noticed? Somebody definitely was asleep on the line that day!

Edited May 9, 2011 by opeygon

[dwane413]

I have 2 copies of Pole Position in my collection. One of them has this misspelled end label:

 

 

Has anyone else ever noticed this before? I think it's pretty funny. I wonder how many thousands of these got run off before they noticed? Somebody definitely was asleep on the line that day!

 

If it's the same as this one, it's an R4.

 

You can find threads where it has been talked about with this Google search.

[Chris Leach]

thats one of the couple errors on that label..since they printed so many of course....

[Rom Hunter]

I have 2 copies of Pole Position in my collection. One of them has this misspelled end label:

 

 

Has anyone else ever noticed this before? I think it's pretty funny. I wonder how many thousands of these got run off before they noticed? Somebody definitely was asleep on the line that day!

Famous end label misprint.

 

Lots of them made.

 

[Christophero Sly]

Not an R4. It's no more difficult to acquire than the standard label.

[zylon]

I know of 3 variants. Hardest one to find (though still not rare) is the correctly spelled one with the same picture as the misspelled one.

[nofrills100]

I always thought of it as an abbreviation rather than a typo.

Edited May 9, 2011 by nofrills100

[Christophero Sly]

I always thought of it as an abbreviation rather than a typo.

Ditto.

[0078265317]

I just spotted 5 of the same thing misspelled label on ebay.

[zylon]

It definitely shouldn't be R4 since more of them show up than the regular ones. Maybe it should get down graded to at least R3. Another possibility is more of them got saved because of the misprint instead of being given/thrown away/used for donors, etc.

[gsampson35]

I have a copy of Pole Position 2 for the Atari 7800 with both labels upside down. Dated 1984.

 

 

 

Another pic with date.

 

Edited October 21, 2013 by gsampson35