+JasonlikesINTV Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 So I'm going through my Sears game collection, feeling pretty satisfied with the completeness of my collection 29 CIB games....check CIB console....check Sears Overlay Set....check CIB Replacement Controller.....eh, I'll find one some day. Then I come across what I suspect to be a dirty dirty variant. I thought the Sears games were immune to variants! I mean, they are themselves variants, but there are only one of each.....right? Off to intvfunhouse.......according to Steve's site there are 29 Sears games that are split into two types based on origin. USA titles are in gatefold boxes with a trayless cardboard cartridge pocket. Hong Kong titles are in gatefold boxes with white plastic cartridge trays. Manuals and cart labels also indicate respective origin. Here's a breakdown: 17 Hong Kong titles (white cart tray) Armor Battle Auto Racing Backgammon Baseball Basketball Checkers Football Golf Hockey Horse Racing Poker & Blackjack Roulette Sea Battle Skiing Soccer Space Battle Tennis 12 USA titles (trayless cart pocket) Astrosmash Bowling Boxing Frog Bog Night Stalker Snafu Space Armada Space Hawk Star Strike Sub Hunt Triple Action Utopia Then I discover this: WTF? Are there others? Off to the spares......................no variants. Off to eBay current listings.......no variants eBay completed auctions?.........no variants Maybe this is the only Sears game released both ways. Night Stalker, you sassy swinger But why? If anyone has a variant that doesn't match it's origin on the list above, I'd love to see pics. The Hong Kong Night Stalker seems to be the rarer version. My small stack of them are all USA except for the one. Does anyone else have the Hong Kong Night Stalker variant? Is it common or rare? Discuss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Crap. I guess I'd better go look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojotv67 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 This is interesting, I bought a large lot that included some Sears variants and as I looking them over I noticed the trayless pocket / white cartridge tray differences and hadn't wandered until today whether this meant that there might be variants within the Sears set. So Jason, you beat me to posting this quandary and now I have to go look at the set all of of my Sears game to see if if there are any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 Share in my pain. This is our job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Share in my pain. This is our job. Lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I'll try to have a look through all of mine tonight. I don't collect down to that level of detail but I'll see if I have any info for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Aww crap! I've been divesting a few Sears games. Hope none of them were variants. Sigh. It truly never ends! Oh, and nice catch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I will look at mine tonight too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 I often wondered if there were sears variants. nice job, Inspector Jason! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Bill Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Searched my entire Sears run as well as any extras. No variants. Hong Kong = tray, USA = open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Mine are all the normal ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojotv67 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Checked all including spares and... no variants of variants in my collection . Looks like you have a rather unique item, Jason! The only thing I noticed on a couple of Hong Kong titles is that the origin (which identifies location for each component) has been taped over and corrected to say "Made in Hong Kong." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Checked all including spares and... no variants of variants in my collection . Looks like you have a rather unique item, Jason! The only thing I noticed on a couple of Hong Kong titles is that the origin (which identifies location for each component) has been taped over and corrected to say "Made in Hong Kong." Interesting. Was that a USA box (no white plastic cart insert)? Are the cart and manual Hong Kong too? I haven't seen one of those yet. I have a bunch that have marker on the back crossing out certain location/origin text, but no stickers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojotv67 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Interesting. Was that a USA box (no white plastic cart insert)? Are the cart and manual Hong Kong too? I haven't seen one of those yet. I have a bunch that have marker on the back crossing out certain location/origin text, but no stickers. No, not USA, it's the box for SOCCER so it's Hong Kong. This is the only one with the sticker, a couple of others also have the location/origin crossed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximebeauvais Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) I took a look at my sears box. right side = white plastic tray left side = no plastic tray = 13 games !!!!! so I guess that you have discovered a new type of sears variant LOL Edited February 22, 2014 by maximebeauvais Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 I took a look at my sears box. right side = white plastic tray left side = no plastic tray = 13 games !!!!! so I guess that you have discovered a new type of sears variant LOL Wait, is your Baseball USA or Hong Kong? If you have it on the correct side, you may have discovered another variant. Pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximebeauvais Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 all of my no white tray were made in USA except baseball: cartridge made in hong kong, controller overlays printed in USA balance made and printed in hong kong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 all of my no white tray were made in USA except baseball: cartridge made in hong kong, controller overlays printed in USA balance made and printed in hong kong That's a white tray box, but the tray is lost. The semi-circular cutouts are there for the tray. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximebeauvais Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Oh yeah....you are right. I guess that i was too much excited about a new find LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yup, move it on over to the Hong Kong pile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Alright I'm going to go look at mine now, my interest is piqued. As an aside, in my new set up, my Sears games are above my Digiplay/Digimed variations. Yep, variations of Brazilian variations. Pretty sure that's a sign of the apocalypse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Oh yeah....you are right. I guess that i was too much excited about a new find LOL Lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Just checked and mine are all as you listed them Jason. Interesting that the titles on the top of the game box face different directions for the USA versus Hong Kong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someone3760 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 My sears checkers cib is the trayless kind, I can post pics tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted February 23, 2014 Author Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) My sears checkers cib is the trayless kind, I can post pics tomorrow. Is it the USA trayless kind or a Hong Kong trayless kind? Edited February 23, 2014 by JasonlikesINTV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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