+Atari2600PAL Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Hi. I've picked up a light sixer (for spares) because it came with a chess piece box/nice original looking inserts and a couple of CX10's (minus the hex discs sadly, but otherwise looking very good though not tested as yet) But the box is printed/overlayed a bit off true, is this likely to be a badly made original please? or a repro? Both box ends have been sealed at some point (seems unlikely for a repro?) and colours/print seem to match my existing early non-chess piece box Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Looks original to me. It's hard to imagine someone going through the trouble of reproducing an entire box for a console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+craigmaloney Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Funny you should say that. This person makes reproduction "chess piece" boxes on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1181922861/atari-2600-vcs-empty-console-box-chess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 I guess people will reproduce anything nowadays, but the OP's box has some age to it. More pics would certainly help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari2600PAL Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 A couple more pictures @Psionic (sorry, I'm not great at taking photos) My last heavy sixer arrived in one of those repro boxes, to be fair they are nice enough but I want all originals for my "to keep" machines (2 heavy, 1 light & a Vader) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Are the lines all sharp or does the printing look like it came from art that was scanned? How about the quality of the paper as compared to your other original? If you own both original and repro boxes for reference, you would be a better judge than me or anyone else here as to whether it's real or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari2600PAL Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 3 minutes ago, Psionic said: Are the lines all sharp or does the printing look like it came from art that was scanned? How about the quality of the paper as compared to your other original? If you own both original and repro boxes for reference, you would be a better judge than me or anyone else here as to whether it's real or not. For all intents and purposes it looks original (sharp print, box material etc) when compared to my other original box I just wasn't 100% sure because of the way the print is off true, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't of thought twice about it being original tbh Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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