River Raid / Worm Whomper, Italian manual

[Andre81]

I don't follow the Intellivision forum, so not sure if these have already been posted, but they are missing on the INTV Funhouse site.

 

[Andre81]

Btw., the shrinkwrap on the games have a cut near the top and the manuals have been put into the slit.

[Andre81]

Btw., the shrinkwrap on the games have a cut near the top and the manuals have been put into the slit.

[+intvsteve]

Interesting. I wonder who did this? Since this wasn't a Mattel product... did Activision have their own regional offices, too?

[Intymike]

Activision had at this time local distributors. In Germany Ariolasoft.

[Andre81]

Interesting. I wonder who did this? Since this wasn't a Mattel product... did Activision have their own regional offices, too?

 

MIWA TRADING s.r.l.

Centro Direzionale Milanofiori

Strada 7 - Pal. T 1 20089 Rozzano (MI)

[Ignorama]

I own the italian Version myself, but very nice River Raid

 

By the way: The italian Versions of Melody Blaster and Mind Strike are missing too on INTV Funhouse. They are in the same style like the italian Scooby Doo.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Ignorama

[+intvsteve]

I own the italian Version myself, but very nice River Raid

 

By the way: The italian Versions of Melody Blaster and Mind Strike are missing too on INTV Funhouse. They are in the same style like the italian Scooby Doo.

Scans, please. Apologies if you've already sent them. I'm a few years behind on some things. :/

[+BBWW]

Do the overlays on RiverRaid hold up better than the US version. What was wrong with those overlays!

[JasonlikesINTV]

Very cool. I'm very jealous of that Worm Whomper manual.

[Ignorama]

Do the overlays on RiverRaid hold up better than the US version. What was wrong with those overlays!

 

As far as I know from my Worm Whomper the game is the US version. The italian manuals were just added for the italian market. Imagic did the same with some games. So war we have italian Fathom (me) and italian Truckin (spadafermo) found. But in fact there is no other difference to us versions than the manual.

 

@ Steve

 

I'll provide scans

[Ignorama]

Here we go, I'll post them here, so everyone can see them. Of course you are allowed to use them for your homepage Steve

 

And the Dutch manual is with french too for Belgium. The back of all ECS games is exactly the same, no part numbers or anything else to different them, so I attached just the back of one manual, it fits for all of them.

[+intvsteve]

Awesome! Again, apologies about the slow site updates. There are many factors above general laziness contributing to the delays. I've tried to at least create entries for these, but haven't uploaded images yet.

[JasonlikesINTV]

Awesome! Again, apologies about the slow site updates. There are many factors above general laziness contributing to the delays. I've tried to at least create entries for these, but haven't uploaded images yet.

Hopefully your largest contributor is LTO Flash :-)

[+intvsteve]

Hopefully your largest contributor is LTO Flash :-)

[Ignorama]

Awesome! Again, apologies about the slow site updates. There are many factors above general laziness contributing to the delays. I've tried to at least create entries for these, but haven't uploaded images yet.

 

Oh man, you really dont need to apologize for anything. INTV Funhouse is probably the best site on the internet for variants. For me its great that you keep on updating for such a long time

[Intymike]

The italian instructions for Mind Strike, Melody Blaster ans Scooby Doo are looking by far better than the german ones.

[Ignorama]

The italian instructions for Mind Strike, Melody Blaster ans Scooby Doo are looking by far better than the german ones.

 

There are german ones too? How do they look like? Just cheap copied? I saw stuff like that on an french Ice Trek: http://ogdb.eu/imageview.php?image_id=125255&limit=0

 

And it seems that this was at least from a store, because I found that one, traded it with cmart and found exact the same manual again later.

[Intymike]

At the end of 1983 Mattel Germany sold the US boxes and put typewriter written and photocopied german instructions on the back. There are serval games with this feature. Some are veeeery rare but a Treasures Of Tarmin with german instructions shows up on Ebay quite frequently.

[Ignorama]

I saw stuff like that in italian games too. I have to check if I still own them, or if I shipped them to cmart some time ago, but it were also typewriter written manuals.

[Spadafermo51]

The booklets Italian black and white are like these:

 

[Ignorama]

@ Spadafermo

 

I know them too, there are also colored and glossy ones from some games, but I got a typewrite manual in an italian Lock N Chase. I attached the pic and as you can see there are typos and something was "erased" with XXXXXXXX I dont know if that was made from a store or from a private person, but I would wonder why a private person would make something like that. It also refers to the original manual in some parts (e.g. you should look at page 5 of the manual to see a screenshot)

 

The question is: Is it a variant or not?

[Spadafermo51]

Hello,
NO ... not 'a variant, I think it's just a note made by a gamer with the car to make it in writing.

other booklets in black and white Italian

 

 

 

 

 

[Ignorama]

As I said before, I really doubt that this was made by a gamer. And it seems that you are not sure about it as well Maybe no variant, but i think its at least a note from a store owner.

[+intvsteve]

Y'all are killing me! I've put in the database entries, but haven't done the images. Lots of great stuff!