Strange Turbo label help?

[else]

Hi. I picked this up recently because the label looked odd.  It LOOKS legitimate to me and not home made, but what do I know. It has wear in all the right places, and seems like it’s old. The seller had a few other cartridges that all looked normal. Any ideas?  Is this a known variation?  

Edited September 18 by else

[youki]

Seems to be a version for Atari vcs, not colecovision. 

 

But i thought Atari vcs version was only prototype.   Interresting...

Edited September 18 by youki

[else]

8 minutes ago, youki said:

Seems to be a version for Atari vcs, not colecovision. 

 

But i thought Atari vcs version was only prototype.   Interresting...

Yea, exactly.  The Atari version never came out.

[youki]

My feeling , is that it is a home made Atari VCS PCB with the turbo Prototype on it.   The label has been probably printed quiet recently , i mean not in 1982  ,  but in the 2000-2010 i would say.

 

 

[else]

It's possible, but if so I don't understand why an Atari 2600 shell wasn't used.  I haven't tried it yet.

[ColecoFan1981]

11 hours ago, else said:

Hi. I picked this up recently because the label looked odd.  It LOOKS legitimate to me and not home made, but what do I know. It has wear in all the right places, and seems like it’s old. The seller had a few other cartridges that all looked normal. Any ideas?  Is this a known variation?  

Yes, this label is rare because Coleco originally intended to release Turbo for the Atari 2600 (cat. no. 2455) during 1983, and Coleco's cart shells for their 2600 games were white, not black. It also appears it was scheduled for release during the spring of 1983 because it also mentions the Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade. In the summer of 1983, the Sears references were removed.

 

The missing legal info on the label you discovered would read:

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TURBO™ and Sega® are trademarks of Sega Enterprises, Inc. © 1981 Sega Enterprises, Inc. Atari® and Video Computer System™ are trademarks of Atari, Inc. Sears Video Arcade™ is a trademark of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Printed in U.S.A.

 

~Ben

Edited September 19 by ColecoFan1981

[youki]

6 hours ago, ColecoFan1981 said:

and Coleco's cart shells for their 2600 games were white, not black.

Not always ,i guess it depends on the location .  At least in France, there were black.

[ColecoFan1981]

13 hours ago, youki said:

Not always ,i guess it depends on the location .  At least in France, there were black.

Specifically I meant here (the U.S. and Canada), but I do understand what you mean for outside North America.

 

~Ben

[Tempest]

I'm going to assume this is the CV version in a mock up 2600 label that used accidentally for some reason.  Tarzan was found in a similar state: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-tarzan_s15226.html

[else]

Thanks all.  I'm thinking it's a fan made mock-up too.  I can see that the corners look more squared off that a normal Coleco made label.  Why they stuck it on a Colecovision cart instead of an Atari cart who knows.  Well, I didn't pay much for it (<$10) figuring it probably wasn't legit, so no real loss...

Edited September 19 by else