[Super Pro Football Box Repair]

Next I had to splice in the new section under the remaining original box sections:

 

 

All of this is accomplished with a combination of double sided tape and press laminate cut into strips. Glue would not seal the edges and would not flex at the side seams properly without splitting. Doesn't look as clean but this box was destroyed anyway so the whole procedure is a bit of a Hail Mary anyway (lame football joke):

 

[Super Pro Football Box Repair]

I next reinforced the crushed right side and bottom flap panels with fitted cardstock. This gives the original damaged areas new support:

 

 

Closeup of the flap repair:

 

 

I then printed out the new front and left side using complete images from online:

 

 

I had to leave some overlap on the left edge as there is a gap in the original on that side.

[Super Pro Football Box Repair]

So I picked up a cheap copy of Super Pro Football as I didn't have it (don't judge me, I'm poor) which was not in the greatest condition. I made the decision to try and repair it even before I hit buy it now. As you can see the front artwork and most of the left side of the box were damaged/missing and the cart retention section was completely gone:

 

 

I started by cutting away and saving (more on that later) the damaged edges of the front and side. I tried to leave as much of the original box as possible but all of the artwork had to go as lining up the new print would have been beyond my skill:

 

 

 

 

[New Intellivision Game for Portland Retro Gaming Expo]

The more I read about this the sadder I am that I lack the funds to go to Portland this year

 

Game still sounds amazing though

[Catalog madness]

Could be that the USA Lock'N'Chase came with the G3 catalog and the Hong Kong version came with the G2 catalog. As far as I know there was no Hong Kong catalog equivalent to G3, so maybe G2 was the latest version catalog printed in Hong Kong.

 

That's another possibility. My copy was a US release with the USA marked G2 catalog. Cracked the shrinkwrap myself and never changed out the contents as they were all still mint with the small exception of the overlays leaving a slight impression on the front of the manual. You have to hold it up to the light at just the right angle to even notice it though.

 

My guess is either there are US releases with both the G2 and G3 catalogs that changed from one to the next as time went on or a very limited run was produced with leftover G2 books at the very beginning of L'N'Cs release just to use them up. We will likely never know for sure. I really believe there is merit on keeping a checklist of newly opened games and their contents by serial number, when possible.

[New Intellivision Game for Portland Retro Gaming Expo]

I have a belt sander and would a love copy after the Expo... What? I really do have a sander. STOP JUDGING ME!!!

[New Intellivision Game for Portland Retro Gaming Expo]

 

Tomorrow I'll have fun with some Goo-Be-Gone cleaning old labels off carts!

Now you're talkin party time! Let me know if you need some more. I have some extra LV P&B shells laying around doing nothing :-)

[I really suck at these games....]

I have never really given Vectron a chance...along with Truckin. Eager to hear the INTV Podcast review upcoming on that one....maybe it will make me give it a try?

I am terrible at Truckin as well. Even after finally getting a copy of the map I still can't get the gist of that game down.

[New Intellivision Game for Portland Retro Gaming Expo]

In testing this game I realize how rusty I am at playing video games. I no longer have the hand eye coordination of a 21 year old father and thumb fatigue is an issue now. :-)

 

We are at 14 levels now.

It looks really cool though. Keep up the good work and most importantly, have fun with it!

[Catalog madness]

if you can, please provide part numbers/country for boxes and catalogs of the games that you've opened.

I haven't really kept records on such a thing, just used an example I knew from the top of my head. I can keep an account going forward though. We should probably keep up a database on such a thing for research if nothing else. Many of us like to have everything in our collections be as original as possible with all items available at the time of release so such information would be very valuable for the community as a whole.

[River Raid Overlays]

 

Great job. I won't open my Shrink wrapped River Raid to get out my best overlays. I won't use my River Raid Overlays, I may try to make some like you did.

If you are in the US just message me your address and I'll send you a set. They are nothing special but they'll do the job.

 

Call me a traditionalist, but I like to have the overlay in while playing a game. Now I only play about 15 of the games regularly, and not all of them are games that had overlays, so there aren't many overlays in my collection that are in danger. I prefer to make my own and use them to save my originals.

[Catalog madness]

You can be certain. If you buy the game new and open it, you know what catalog it came with. There are problems with assumptions. Tron Solar Sailor (box 5393-0910 US) came with brochure 0151-240 and no catalog. Lock'N'Chase (box 5637-0910-G1 HK) came with the G2 catalog. The 'G2' catalog is the Hong Kong equivalent of the US 0007-3350A catalog.

 

Looks like up to 1983, the Hong Kong catalogs went with the Hong Kong boxes and the US catalogs went with the US boxes. It also looks like the original games with blue catalogs when reproduced with updated trayless boxes also got an updated catalog. I wonder if the earliest games made in 1979/80 came with catalogs.

I have to disagree. I have opened the same game and seen multiple versions of the catalog. It all depends on the date of the particular run for that game. For instance my mint Lock'N'Chase came with the G3 version. Now is it possible some A versions were still in stock early in the run for some games? Sure, but it can never be certain as to what was originally packed with each original release. For my collection I will default to the catalog list and go with the version where each game is listed for the first time (with the known exception of Pinball).

[Catalog madness]

I also try to match original catalogs and warranty cards to all of my complete games as well. Since there are multiple versions of each game released at different times you can end up with versions of the same game that came with different catalogs depending on that particular copy's release date. To simplify, and because this is one of things that we will likely never know for certain, I just use the list on the back of the catalogs as a reference. So the blue covers are the oldest (0073350) followed by the black 0007-3350A then the 0007-3350G. Since the game list grows with each release I just go with the oldest listing on the blue as the games that need that version and so on. In effect...

 

Blue 00073350 (-G1) Games

NFL Football

US Ski Team Skiing

Major League Baseball

Auto Racing

Boxing

Tennis

PBA Bowling

NBA Basketball

PGA Golf

NASL Soccer

NHL Hockey

Armor Battle

Sea Battle

Snafu

Triple Action

Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack

Las Vegas Roulette

Horse Racing

ABPA Backgammon

Checkers

Dungeons & Dragons

Math Fun

Word Fun

Space Battle

Astrosmash

Space Armada

 

Black 0007-3350A

Night Stalker

Sub Hunt

Frog Bog

Tron I (Deadly Discs)

Tron II (Maze A Tron)

Space Spartans

Bomb Squad

B-17 Bomber

Royal Dealer

Utopia

Reversi

Space Hawk

Star Strike

**Pinball is listed on this catalog but was delayed until 1983 yet does not appear on the more recent G3 version of the catalog.

 

Black 0007-3350G3

Lock 'N' Chase

(Tron) Solar Sailor

USCF Chess

All of the 1983 releases came with the G3 catalog as well even though they do not appear on the back cover. This includes Pinball from the Black A catalog.

Vectron

Sharp Shot

Shark! Shark!

Burgertime

Mission-X

Buzz Bombers

Pinball

Loco Motion

AD&D Treasure of Tarmin

Bump 'n' Jump

Motocross

Kool-AId Man

The Power of He-Man

Scooby Doo's Maze Craze

Mind Strike

Melody Blaster

The Jetsons Ways With Words

Mr. Basic Meets Bits 'N Bytes

World Series Major League Baseball

 

Again, we will never know for sure how accurate this is and I'm certain there were games on this list that were released with more than one version of the catalog at different times. But I think it makes sense if you are going for earliest, first run release of each game to pair them with the catalog in which they first appear on the back listing.

[River Raid Overlays]

Here are the River Raid and Dig Dug overlays I made to use with my carts. I don't have a very good scan of the RR ones to work with and I never seem to get the color right but they are good for use in the controller. These are printed on high gloss copy stock with a half laminate backing for durability. I haven't managed to wear out a set yet but I don't imagine they will last forever. I'm working on creating ones like this for all the games I still actually play to save my originals for good.

 

[Intellivision Ebay Roundup]

Interesting new Repro materials seller:

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 281808414780

 

Orig cart with repro manual, overlays, and box. The manual retention system in the box is kinda nice.

Thank you!

 

The Manual Pocket was an idea I was considering for years since older INTV boxes had a bad habit of letting the printed materials move around and get beat up too much or fall out of the bottom altogether. I'd love to put them in my original boxes but there is no way to secure one without taking the box apart or damaging the inside of it. No way I risk that with original materials. I figured since I can't recreate the original center-bottom INTV cart retention setup in the repros anyway, I might as well try out the manual holder in them. It works great except for the Atari releases. Their manuals are so wide there is no room to strap the sides of the pocket down. Might try a smaller overlay pocket on those though.