Xonox Label

[roadrunner]

Has anyone ever seen a Xonox double ender that looks like this?
It has 2 labels on it.

[fiddlepaddle]

Oh, you mean a label pasted over another label? I have one like that; you can see the edge of another label underneath (can't remember which one right now, but I know it's not xonox). I always just assumed they accidentally applied the label to the same cart twice in the factory, but it could have been a different game underneath... I never wanted to tear it up to look; don't want to damage it.

[roadrunner]

Yeah, their is another label pasted under it.
The entire label just peeled right off with not much effort.
The original label is ghost manor/ spikes peak but someone replaced ghost manor with artillery duel.
And the original label has 4 screw holes though it.

Edited November 14, 2013 by roadrunner

[roadrunner]

Added some pictures, has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

[CPUWIZ]

I've stripped several dozens of these (in fact, I am looking at a stack of 9 more right now - LOL), probably came across about 10 of these, over the years. My guess is that these are factory re-furbished, every single one of them had the screws exposed on the original label.

[roadrunner]

Good info, thanks!

[donssword]

No, not factory refurbs.

 

About half-way through their lifecyle, they upgraded their branding to look "cooler"--I think this is about the time they started to do more print advertising. My belief is that they still had a lot of warehouse stock, and just went thru and relabled them to match the new branding. The old branding featured screenshots ala Activision, but their new branding featured the sexier artwork and the blue Xonox brand color and style to look more distinct from their competitors.

 

I have a Chuck Norris Super Kicks/Artillery Duel with the old Kung Fu Super Kicks label underneath--I bought it in a Chuck Norris box (sadly long gone). This is why I don't believe that Xonox changed the name after their Chuck Norris license expired--rather they upgraded Kung Fu superkicks to Chuck Norris.

 

This is further supported by the fact that King Fu labels are an old-school Activision style with a fake screenshot vs. the more slicky produced Chuck Norris labels.

[CPUWIZ]

I don't think so, most of them were completely different games, not a label design switch. I have even seen the same label applied twice.

[Dan Iacovelli]

I have a xonox double ender chuck norris/ghost manner that had a ghost manner/spikes peak label underneath