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Labelling error...an Atari cart with a wrong label???

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Tonight I discovered that my Snoopy and the Red Baron cart is in fact...Haunted House... The problem is that the label have no hole where the screw is...and the cart is impossible to put apart..I tried to pull it apart without forcing it..but nothing to do..the screw is holding the to halve tighly.!!! It' is possible that I have an error in packaging? It's not another label glued by some child..it's the real label. It's in good condition less the fact that it have some actiplaque. I wonder whether the rom serial code correspond to Snoopy or Haunted House...but I don't want to put it apart...Is it worth something? Do I have to ship to someone who is know of it's integrity to authentified my find?

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Yan

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I'm sure that is is real. In its later years, Atari started getting sloppy. While it is uncommon to find an entirely mislabeled cart, it is not unheard of altogether. It is more common, however, to find late release Atari games with labels that are upside down or even pasted over other labels (the most I've ever seen is 4 labels stacked on top of each other). These are all the way they came from the factory - a product of poor quality control.

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That could also explain my Atari Video Cube cart in a Dodge 'Em box I got at KB for 99 cents, the ironic thing is that I was furious about this because I wanted Dodge 'Em!

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Yep, this is an old post, but The US games post got me thinking.

 

How many of the rest of you have run into this before?

 

I have a Lock N' Chase game that actually contains Air Raiders.

 

Anyone else?

 

Buck

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Atari games with labels that are upside down or even pasted over other labels (the most I've ever seen is 4 labels stacked on top of each other).  These are all the way they came from the factory - a product of poor quality control.

 

YIKES! :sad: :ponder:

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A good friend of mine discovered a copy of dodge'em in a warlords casing this past year. It seems to be commonplace to find such atari errors. Sadly enough, a lot of them were probably sent back to atari, relabeled and sold as new. :roll:

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I own a Atari 2600 Centipede with ColecoVision Lable. But this seems common here in germany. I have see it often on eBay.de. :D

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This seems a common problem but I have a copy of Solaris I got oh about '94 or '95 (in a Dollar store) that rolls on my TV> I'm guessing Atari put PAL Solaris in NTSC boxes.

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I have seen carts with labels applied upside down and I think I have at least one that has two labels, but I've never come across a completely mislabeled cart. Seems odd that this would happen if you assume cart manufacturing (including label application) was completely automated, but stranger things have happened. :)

 

..Al

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It happend to me too in the past. I was testing some cart i found at the flea market and i came across River Raid by Activision but it was Sky Jinks inside.

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Like Scooterb23, I was a little bit frustrated since I was hoping to play at Snoopy and the Red Baron...but alas, that was Haunted House....anyway I'm ok today, since I've got into psychotherapy to help me pass thrue this frustration :D

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