Crazy Climber Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Hey, Omegamatrix did Zellers or any other company release any games with French lables? Coleco and Activision both made French labels. I thought M-Network and Parker Bros did also, or was that just the boxes only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabuko78 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 In fact, there were more Mexican versions with labels which include boxes and manuals completely in Spanish. Examples of this are "Héroe" (Hero) and others like "Policías y Ladrones" and "Los 3 Cochinitos" (I don´t know the names of their american counterparts). And look at this beauty I found in my mess: This one too has "normal" Atari case, but what amazes me is that this is not based on an Activision game: you can tell that is Galaxian of course. BTW, some Atari 7800 games included manuals in Spanish too when were distributed here. Hope these pics and information help a little I tell you what games are these: "Los 3 Cochinitos" = "Oink!" and "Policias y Ladrones" = "Keystone Kapers". I had these as original activision carts but back in 1985 me and everyone I know used to call Keystone Kapers "Policias y Ladrones" ("Cops and Robbers" in a textual way). As far as I remember, my atari 7800 which I still have but broken came with the original box reprinted in spanish and the user manual, and a catalog in spanish too. 7800 Pole Position II came with a elegant black and white label in english, and the bottom of the console with a FCC compliant label in english. Right, 2600 and 7800 carts in Mexico came with original box in english, some, not all and manual printed in spanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabuko78 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) Hehe forgot to mention: damn cheap paper-like labels, they get torned and dirty after some months of playing them but still get glued to the cart for many, many years even if you forgot 'em in the most darkest basement. How cute! Edited December 18, 2006 by Nabuko78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Hey, Omegamatrix did Zellers or any other company release any games with French lables? In French by itself I know of no company off hand that did that. Most had English/French labels, or labels with five or six languages on them (like Imagic). These Colecovision labels pictured here are all in French, but were included as a pack-in with the game so if you wanted French labels you could stick them on yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I'm very curious to see the games that come out of Mexico. I'm certain most will be pirates, but there's some gold to be found in there for sure. Sku_u found a 2600 system from Mexico with games built in. One of them was a previously unknown game, and is still the only copy of it to date. Air Raid also is probably from Mexico. So what else is there? Those carts you have shown Segamastermonster look alot like polyvox carts. In fact too much so just to be a coincidence. BTW welcome to AA Yes, there are 2600 systems with built in games here in Mexico but they are called "clones" as they (or at least the ones I´ve seen) are not legal or distributed by Atari, and I believe all of them are "Atari Jr.-like". I have seen clones with 32, 64 and 100+ games built in! and you can still get them, they are not very rare, but sometimes some of the games included don´t work. Oh, and thanks for the welcome! That's what I'm looking for. It'd be interesting to test all the games on these units. You neve know if one of the games in there is a hack never seen before, or even better an original game! Thanks for the pictures too. It's good to see stuff from Mexico start to get documented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PressureCooker2600 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 how much would it cost me to buy some activision games in french or those mexican versions..... OmegaMatrix.....are those french copies easy to procure in canada....are they pretty common Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowantschips Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 so freaking cool. this stuff never stops amazing me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowdoggie Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 (edited) Not to get too far off topic, but where were these used then? By the way ROM HUNTER, I think that you need this scan for your database. Also, the N would mean NTSC would it not? Because all of your INTL Edition labels are PAL versions. Edited December 18, 2006 by shadowdoggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PressureCooker2600 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Not to get too far off topic, but where were these used then? By the way ROM HUNTER, I think that you need this scan for your database. Also, the N would mean NTSC would it not? Because all of your INTL Edition labels are PAL versions. i believe most of those international versions of Activision games were from Canada......but i may be wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 how much would it cost me to buy some activision games in french or those mexican versions..... OmegaMatrix.....are those french copies easy to procure in canada....are they pretty common The four Activision sports labels come up ever now and then and never in any decent condition. They are more rarer then the Activision international or Activision multilanguage labels with the "N"sticker. Not to get too far off topic, but where were these used then? By the way ROM HUNTER, I think that you need this scan for your database. Also, the N would mean NTSC would it not? Because all of your INTL Edition labels are PAL versions. Correct. All the Activision labels with the "N" sticker come from Canada. Rom's got some scans under the Activision titles themselves as label variations. Not to get too far off topic, but where were these used then? By the way ROM HUNTER, I think that you need this scan for your database. Also, the N would mean NTSC would it not? Because all of your INTL Edition labels are PAL versions. i believe most of those international versions of Activision games were from Canada......but i may be wrong Nope. Only the the international labels with the "N" stickers come from Canada. The rest are PAL or had the "N" sticker peeled off. These carts are very common in Canada. Log onto Ebay.ca and you'll find bunches of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 (edited) Not to get too far off topic, but where were these used then? By the way ROM HUNTER, I think that you need this scan for your database. Also, the N would mean NTSC would it not? Because all of your INTL Edition labels are PAL versions. I want to thank you. That's indeed one of the very few Activision cart scans I was still missing. It's added now. Here are the other missing ones: http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft.php?MEN...n_sauver=Search BTW: the Title Match Pro Wrestling is most probably a Black Label cart. Edited December 19, 2006 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianoid Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that the silver label games found in Mexico are more l likely to be from South America than exported from America. When I acquired some, I immediately recognized them as very similar to Polyvox releases sold in South America. I will bet that you will not find a Mexican (Spanish) cart of this style that was not sold as a Polyvox cart in Brazil. I have several of these, and I just listed them under Polyvox in my list. I actually have a few spares to trade, but my situation with trading is a bit rough- my stuff is a mess. Still, if someone is interested, I'll consider cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that the silver label games found in Mexico are more l likely to be from South America than exported from America.Good point, Ianoid. This could very well be the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowdoggie Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 ROM, I see that you added my cart to your list, but you have it marked as PAL, not NTSC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 (edited) ROM, I see that you added my cart to your list, but you have it marked as PAL, not NTSC.I will give these N stickered carts their own NTSC category in the near future, but for now I consider them as a label variation of a PAL Activision label. I know the game inside is NTSC, but the label is originally a PAL label. Unfortunately I don't have the Kaboom! label without the N sticker yet... Edited December 19, 2006 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SegaMasterMonster Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) It has been ages (AtariAges?) since I posted here. Sorry, been through some problems but now I´m ready for action ... and perhaps make some watermark-less cart front scans of the Atari Cartoucho Original carts you own? Thanks in advance! Hello there! I was wondering if those scans would still be useful to you and the site, my friend. I now have all Mexican versions I own out of the mess (I believe) and can scan them all if needed Edited March 1, 2007 by SegaMasterMonster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) That would be great. Thanks! Edited March 1, 2007 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SegaMasterMonster Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 Here are the first ones. Sorry for the poor quality, but my scanner is as old as my first Atari . Please let me know if the size is ok, otherwise I can scan them again. Tanque Robot = Robot Tank SuperCocinero = Pressure Cooker Policias y Ladrones = Keystone Kapers Heroe = Hero Galaxia = Galaxian Enduro = guess El Esquimal = Frost Bite Decatlon = guess again Amo del Espacio = Starmaster Is common to see all of them either in Atari or Activision case (as in the photo in the first post of this topic) 3 more left; I´ll have the scans ready by tomorrow night Hope this helps. See you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 (edited) Excellent. Thanks, SegaMasterMonster. I really appreciate this. They are added: http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft-MENU-2-...UR_ID-2531.html and will be mentioned in the homepage news of Atarimania tomorrow. I'm looking forward to the other scans. Thanks again. Edited March 2, 2007 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris-in-NJ Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 He he he, Starmaster is translated as Spacemaster Heroe looks like the colors were printed wrong, rather like you sometimes get in newspapers. Hmm, way back in 1995 or so when I visited Puebla, Mexico, my soon-to-be brother-in-law had a 2600, but none of these cool non-US games. He had a regular Activision Enduro, and one game at the time that I'd never heard of: Strategy X, which I've since found is not all that rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Heroe looks like the colors were printed wrong, rather like you sometimes get in newspapers.Yep, it looks like one of the colors (cyan?) is way out of registration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SegaMasterMonster Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 Last 3 I found: Los 3 Cochinitos = Oink! Invasores = Space Invaders Hopefully I will find some of their boxes and/or manuals and scan them See you! Jorge A. (SegaMasterMonster) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 They're added: http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft-MENU-2-...UR_ID-2531.html Thanks again, Jorge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenoch Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 (edited) On 12/17/2006 at 6:52 PM, Nabuko78 said: I know this is an old post, but found these 4 in Mexico and noticed you did not have Decatlon image! It is beat to crap, but.. -T Edited January 6, 2020 by tenoch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 It's here: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-decatlon_19669.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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