GruBBworM Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I have 1 WaterWorld cart that is Orange in color and 1 WaterWorld cart that is red in color is this normal? doesnt look like fading of any kind one is definetly red and the other Orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 do you think it might be fading or sun exposure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 no Because the end labels are the same and really doesnt look fadded 1 end label is orange and the other red just as the faces of the carts are doesn't look fadded at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Fading, I am 99% certain of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 The pic on the Orange cart is lighter in color than the pic on the Red cart, so it is most certainly fading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 why did only the part behind the swordquest and the end labels fade then all the other colors on the cart are same on both carts just the part behind the swordquest and the end label is the dif between red and orange? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 why did only the part behind the swordquest and the end labels fade then all the other colors on the cart are same on both carts just the part behind the swordquest and the end label is the dif between red and orange? Based on your pictures, all of the colors faded, not just the orange background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 I Switched positions with the carts to maybe show better pic of the carts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitfall Harry Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Well, it's either sun-faded or got through Q.A. with a color-imbalance at birth. It doesn't much matter. Either way, label-finicky collectors will consider its condition as "less than perfect." If you're trying to sell it, everyone who notices the off-color will assume it is faded, and hold back on their bids accordingly. I seriously doubt two different planned color schemes were put into production. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 look at the green in the water see how it looks faded in the orange one, and not in the red one? (This is true of both pictures,) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 5, 2003 Author Share Posted June 5, 2003 Ok then thanks for the replys :-) I was just wondering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Looks like the red ink is simply more sensitve to fading than the other ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I have other 2600 games in that label style, and if I found them in fleas and thrfts, that red is usually faded like your waterworld, or usually worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 6, 2003 Author Share Posted June 6, 2003 Ok so who wants to buy it ROTFLMAO!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 It has to be fading because I have two Raiders of the Lost Ark carts that look just like your Waterworlds, one is red and the other has the Orange look. I also have two Waterworlds and both of mine are red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smile_walle Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I did saw the Waterworld cartridge is fading as well! look at German auction: Waterworld complete in box http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...8&category=8090 Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 6, 2003 Author Share Posted June 6, 2003 I dunno from that auctions looks they may have made a red and a orange one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 The pigments in different colors of ink have different sensitivity to light. Red ink is almost always more likely to fade... have you seen some people's American flag stickers that have been on their cars too long? Stand up and salute the good ol' Yellow-White-and-Blue! It's also possible that quality control was lax and a run of labels was made without enough red ink in the process from the beginning. And don't even talk about the silver... that's not ink at all but foil embedded in the paper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Looks like they printed two variations to me. That orange is much too vivid to be faded red. The faded red on all my Atari silver carts is a washed-out orange with a pinkish hue. The orange panel on that Waterworld cart isn't washed-out. In fact, that orange is so vivid it's approaching hunter orange. It looks deliberate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I think its just a crappy print run. The whole thing seems alot lighter than the other. Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 This looks like an orange label to me. http://www.atariage.com/cart_page.html?Sof...wareLabelID=543 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 6, 2003 Author Share Posted June 6, 2003 That is what I am saying as I hold them both in my hands all the colors on these carts other than the part behind the SwordQuest and the End labels are just as vivid on both of them. the only color difference I can find is the orange and the red and sly is right the orange is way to vivid to be fading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GruBBworM Posted June 6, 2003 Author Share Posted June 6, 2003 And besides why would the end label be the very same color as the front of the cart they faded evenly???seems as if it were fading only the top part would be faded orange and the end label would have remianed red or visa-versa? but it didnt they are both orange just as the red is red on both end and top on the other WaterWorld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 And besides why would the end label be the very same color as the front of the cart they faded evenly???seems as if it were fading only the top part would be faded orange and the end label would have remianed red or visa-versa? but it didnt they are both orange just as the red is red on both end and top on the other WaterWorld Because it's not only the (sun)light that causes fading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 At the top of the label is a rainbow. If the label were deliberately made orange, the red in the rainbow would still be red, but it looks orange to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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