YOK-dfa Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Hi, Just got my second X-Man for the Atari 2600 today and it looks totally different from the other cart i have. 1) It's in an official Spectravision casing (including logo). The other one i have is in a casing that looks like it, but doesn't have the name and logo 2) The label is different. It's only 2 colors (white and red) and the text below the logo is different. It only says 'Adult Video Game Cartridge' and 'Game cartridge manufactured in Hong Kong, © 1983 Universal Gamex Corporation'. The label itself is also square. Anyone have any idea where this might have come from? Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariYoungin Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 looks just like a SpectraVision cart except it doesn't say "Spectravision" on the front or back. Label has white letters and a light blue background. "X-MAN" is in yellow with red shadowing. that it? thats taken from the Big List Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted October 23, 2003 Author Share Posted October 23, 2003 yep, that's how my 'normal' X-Man looks like. Like i said in the 1st post, the second X-Man i got is totally different (It does say Spectravision on the casing, and the label is white with red text). Unfortunately i don't have access to a scanner at the moment, but i hope to get some pictures of it later. Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted November 10, 2003 Author Share Posted November 10, 2003 Took some time, but finally found a working scanner. Here are the pictures i promised: Anyone have any idea what kind of cart this is? Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 Looks like a crappy, worthless pirate - just send it to me Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 Never seen before, maybe a Prototype Lable? Or a pirate like Marco says, but with Spectravision Case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattG/Snyper2099 Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 Since the screw holes are exposed, open it up and see if there are eproms inside the cart! It really wouldn't tell if it's a bootleg for sure but, it may tell if it isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted November 10, 2003 Author Share Posted November 10, 2003 Just opened the casing Found a Spectravideo PCB inside, and one of the chips had a little window with a sticker over it, so it wasn't probably a production cart. I already checked if i could see any differences with a normal X-Man but haven't found anything yet. (maybe i should look better, but the game is not that much fun to play ) I guess that rules out the pirate option. Maybe this is a Spectravideo labloaner or something... Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 Just opened the casing Found a Spectravideo PCB inside, and one of the chips had a little window with a sticker over it, so it wasn't probably a production cart. I already checked if i could see any differences with a normal X-Man but haven't found anything yet. (maybe i should look better, but the game is not that much fun to play ) I guess that rules out the pirate option. Maybe this is a Spectravideo labloaner or something... Cheers, Raymond Definitely an EPROM. I doubt a lab loaner -- unless Spectravideo was in the habit of printing nice labels for loaners. Not a re-labelling job either or the screw holes wouldn't be exposed (they'd just have printed a new label). I'm thinking pirate of some sort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 It was already known that X-Man carts contain Spectravision pcbs, so Universal Gamex probably was just an 'empty' company that Spectravision came up with, to distribute X-Man. Perhaps this was a sort of in-house try-out version? Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted November 10, 2003 Share Posted November 10, 2003 It was already known that X-Man carts contain Spectravision pcbs, so Universal Gamex probably was just an 'empty' company that Spectravision came up with, to distribute X-Man. Perhaps this was a sort of in-house try-out version? Cheers, Marco Yep, looks like an engineering sample. Very . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted November 11, 2003 Share Posted November 11, 2003 very cool, no matter what it is. if the label was black/white, i would suspect some sort of pre-release or evaluation copy. but it has a color label, which would be more costly to produce. maybe they did a trial run of labels also, and eventually decided on the full color version we typically see today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted November 11, 2003 Author Share Posted November 11, 2003 This does kinda suck in a strange way. I bought this game through ebay (i got it pretty cheap) hoping to use it as trade-bait, but now i'm seriously thinking about keeping it for myself since it does seem to be something really special Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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