LABEL VARIATION KING

[jahfish]

could be a funny topic .... how's the variation king?

 

i have 7 different variations of Pak Kong, 6 of donkey kong ....

 

what is the cart you have most variations of?

[Ian Primus]

I have 3 variations of Combat...

 

Ian Primus

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[videotwit]

At one point I had 8 variations of Combat.

 

[ 05-28-2001: Message edited by: twit ]

[Heavy Sixer]

I presently have nine variations of Astroblast. However, given the mix-and-match nature of the Mattel carts, this is really not such a tremendous feat. In fact, finding two identical carts of a Mattel title is sometimes more difficult than finding two different ones.

On the other hand, I have about 10 (?)variations of Combat. I have 55 copies of Combat (mostly the ubiquitous Taiwan text labels), and I've noticed numerous discrepancies among the text label carts, particularly in regard to the TMs and Rs. I don't know how many of these are simply accidents of printing and how many are actual variations, but I'm planning to get all my Combats out at some point and do a detailed analysis. These are also differences between the picture carts. For example, some of them have a "doubled" appearance; look at the tread marks in the lower left-hand corner - sometimes they'll have the doubling effect. Also, some pictures have an uneven bottom edge, and others don't. Again, I need to sit down and do some research. I'd like to come up with some kind of system or code for identifying Combats, something more detailed that would satisfy excruciatingly anal, er, I mean precise, collectors such as myself

 

HEAVY***6***er

[jahfish]

damn, i have traded my other regular pacmans (red label & silver label) otherwise i could come up to even more pac-mans ...

 

 

hehe, so after doing a little research on all my braz carts, i found 13 pacmans ... still i title marco as "variation-don", having only single games, while 4 of mine are multigame-carts from brasil ...

 

greetings

 

fish

[jahfish]

(thanx specially to marco, ian, roques and jens for helping me getting all this together)

[Marco(2)]

Speaking about variations, I have a variation on the topic:

 

I have 12 different Froggers. Not really label variations, but actually manufacturer variations.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

[Heavy Sixer]

Hail Marco - King Of Frogger!!!

 

HEAVY***6***er

[MattyXB]

I have not so many. But some total different names I have are:

 

4: Dragonfire PAL, Dragonfire NTSC, Dragon Treasure and King Arthur.

 

3+1: Bobby geht nach Hause, Felix Return and Jumping Jack + 4in1 Bobby is going home and 3 other games.

 

3: Video Pinball, Flippern and Arcade Pinball.

 

3: Donkey Kong: red/blue, white/blue and black/white.

 

2: And someone know Der moderne Ritter and Mr. T. These both are nothing else then Fast Eddie. But Fast Eddie I don't have. Only these both PAL games.

 

I have Missile Command with 3 different dates. But all label look near the same. 1981, 1987 and 1991.

 

Wow, now we have a Frogger King and a Pac-Man King.

 

 

 

Matthias

 

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[Tempest]

Hey Marco, I like those Frogger variations. Who made the third one from the end (with frogger on the end label)? It looks very authentic, not your everyday pirate crap.

 

Tempest

[MattyXB]

I think its the HES version. I have seen it one time on Ebay germany.

 

If I wrong sorry. But HES have the make it I think.

 

Matthias

[jahfish]

got the frogger (hes) boxed here, if you#re interested in a trade ...

[Marco(2)]

Hey Eckard,

 

Send me that Frogger!!

 

And yes, that third Frogger is the one by HES. My personal favourit is the one with the red label, by Star Game (from Brazil). Interesting case it has...

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

[videotwit]

Tempest-

 

Regarding the largest # of US variations: That is true, unless you include the minute M-Network cart casing variations. In theory there could be 64 variations of any of those games. The most I ever had was 18 variations of Astroblast.

 

[ 05-30-2001: Message edited by: twit ]

[Tempest]

I suppose, but then your getting into very tiny differences. Then you could say every different copyright is a variation and such. Then your up to at least 20 different VO. I was just going on major varitions (color, style, etc.)

 

Tempest

[jahfish]

as i started this topic, i want to define more or less the rules of our little contest ....

 

distinct variations are needed: different typos, colors or designs, or other casing ... and it needs to be the same game ... otherwise i could say lock'n'chase is also a variation of pacman

 

anyway, i don't count the pacmans from dactar, at least not the ones in multicarts, stuff like that isn't counting ... you could just find too many variations, as the combinations seem endless (at least with dactar and digivision carts)

 

you should not need to explain the difference when seeing a picture. the difference should be obvious.

 

i don't really know about these small mattel difference, only that there is the white labels, and the black ones, either from

so for now, marco is the "label-don" until now.

 

me and tempest are second place, i just got my goliath version of pac kong in a trade, so i am at 8 too. (i don't count the homevision game)

 

BTW, only the ones you really have count, not the ones you had, or that you possibly could have.

 

small scans must be posted as proof.

 

 

i will prepare a little reward for the winner

[Eckhard Stolberg]

Speaking of Frogger, I have another strange variation, that isn't on Marco's picture. The game comes in a black Homevision style case, and the label looks like what the offical Parker label would have looked like on a case like this. It even has the 'Weltbekannt duch Monopoly' logo printed on the label, that some German Parker games have as an extra sticker on the normal label. Has anyone else seen this variation, and are there other Parker games in this case?

 

BTW, the gatefold Parker boxes with the cut off top left corner also have the 'Weltbekannt durch Monopoly' logo on them. Were these made specifically for Parker Germany, or were they available elsewhere in the world too?

 

 

Thanks, Eckhard Stolberg

[Tempest]

I have 8 different Video Olympics label variations (13 if you count Pong Sports as a variation). I think VO holds the record for the most label variaitons on a US game (not including all those pirate and odd foreign carts).

 

Tempest

[Marco(2)]

Gimme my reward!

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

[MattyXB]

The winner get a new Frogger cart from Parker. .

 

How do you find it?

 

Something other, somebody now, that on Parker PAL carts stand from which countrys they made?

It stand then on the case at the backsite where the lable ends. Its in the case, no sticker.

 

I have for example some Parker carts where stand this:

 

Made in Malaysia

Made in France

Made in Hong Kong

 

On most stand nothing. And maybe this is only on PAL carts. So there can be more Frogger variants, not lable, but case.

 

On my Frogger stand nothing, but it can be that this is from germany and on this stand nothing.

 

Matthias

[MattyXB]

Megabump

 

I got today my 8. Enduro. With name variation (Super-Ferrari) I got now 12, and with Paks 14 or more.

[Joystick Jolter]

I know this is an impossible question, but there are

some incredible things owned by the people on this

board. Has anyone seen the TV commercial for

Enduro and does any have or know of anyone who

has it taped?

Reason I ask is that I was quoted on the commercial.

Activision used a quote from my newsletter in it. I'd

really love to get that. Somehow I never got to tape

it.

 

Thanks,

Anthony

[fmctm1sw]

Speaking about variations, I have a variation on the topic:

 

I have 12 different Froggers. Not really label variations, but actually manufacturer variations.

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

 

you've got to be kidding me. Where do you folks find all this stuff?!

[jahfish]

on YABE of course ;P

[MattyXB]

on  YABE of course  ;P

 

Pssst. Don't tell them.