+cvga Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 I was going through some carts and boxes and noticed that I have two different Superman boxes (I'm not crazy into variations). The Special Edition is the older version. Is there anything that makes it special? Why did they put the Special Edition ribbon on some of the boxes? (my Video Chess has it too) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Special Edition came with a Superman wallet, IIRC. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 33 minutes ago, cvga said: I was going through some carts and boxes and noticed that I have two different Superman boxes (I'm not crazy into variations). The Special Edition is the older version. Is there anything that makes it special? Why did they put the Special Edition ribbon on some of the boxes? (my Video Chess has it too) CVGA, I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that the Special Edition games were the first ones with 4K of ROM. I think, up to that point, they had all been 2K. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 11 minutes ago, Shawn said: Special Edition came with a Superman wallet, IIRC. Maybe for Superman but there are other Special Edition games. I haven't seen a Video Chess wallet yet but I'd be interested 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 41 minutes ago, cvga said: Maybe for Superman but there are other Special Edition games. I haven't seen a Video Chess wallet yet but I'd be interested Ya, that would be hilarious and I would love to buy one too!! There goes my hypothesis right out the window! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 I bought the "Special Edition" BITD and I didn't get a wallet haha...So, I'd be more apt to believe it's what JayAre said. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 15 hours ago, JayAre said: CVGA, I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that the Special Edition games were the first ones with 4K of ROM. I think, up to that point, they had all been 2K. I wanted to see if it was true that the Special Edition games were the first ones with 4K of ROM. I looked up the info. online, and here's the list of the very first 4K games with their respective months of release (Special Edition games are in bold): Hangman / May, 78 Casino / April, 79 Superman / Aug, 79 Backgammon / Nov, 79 Video Chess / Nov, 79 Space Invaders / Mar, 80 BASIC Programming / June, 80 Circus Atari / June, 80 Adventure / July, 80 Championship Soccer / Sep, 80 Based on this info., it doesn't appear that the Special Edition designation had anything to do with the amount of ROM in the game, since there were other 4K games released during that time that weren't SEs. And these SE games were later released without the SE banner, and as far as I can tell, there was nothing different about them. I have no idea why they were considered Special Editions. Maybe this was just a marketing gimmick on Atari's part. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayAre Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 One additional bit of information. In the subsequent U.S. versions of these Special Edition games, even though the SE banner was removed from the front of the boxes, the back of the boxes still said Special Edition, as can be seen in CVGA's original post. This even occurred on the Pele's Soccer box (when it changed name from Championship Soccer), and on the white BASIC Programming box included in the Back To School Pak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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