Wntermute Posted May 21, 2001 Share Posted May 21, 2001 I went to a local game store that carries "retro" stuff, and found a blue-labelled copy of Ghostbusters. Also, a recent shrinkwrapped 2600 acquisition turned up a 1987 copyright Realsports Football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Wntermute: I went to a local game store that carries "retro" stuff, and found a blue-labelled copy of Ghostbusters. Also, a recent shrinkwrapped 2600 acquisition turned up a 1987 copyright Realsports Football. You can see our Activision Blue Label guide here. It includes Ghostbusters. Was the 1987 label any different from the two we already have? (1982/1988) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wntermute Posted May 22, 2001 Author Share Posted May 22, 2001 If you look at the blue Ghostbusters detail entry, it's very much broken. (No title, picture, ID numbers, etc.) And the 1987 Realsports Football label more closely resembles the 1988 version (no "Use with Joystick Controller" text).. the 88 version looks like they just used the 87 label and replaced the year (the 88 label introduces a typeset error.. the baseline of the date doesn't match the rest of the line) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 23, 2001 Share Posted May 23, 2001 Okay, this is now fixed. Thanks again for pointing out the problem! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted May 23, 2001 Share Posted May 23, 2001 quoteIf you look at the blue Ghostbusters detail entry, it's very much broken. (No title, picture, ID numbers, etc.) Thanks for pointing this out, I'll correct this when I get home from work later today.. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wntermute Posted May 24, 2001 Author Share Posted May 24, 2001 No problem.. I have a couple 7800 label variants I'll note in here in the morning. One is just odd, the other is a date change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wntermute Posted June 3, 2001 Author Share Posted June 3, 2001 WOW... went through all my games and found EIGHTEEN new labels. Backgammon (Atari Picture) Mine: Copyright 1986, squared-off picture Guide: Copyright 1978, rounded corners on picture Bowling (Atari Picture) Mine: Copyright 1986, squared-off picture Guide: Copyright 1978, rounded corners on picture Breakaway IV (Sears Text) Mine: Atari copyright text; item number in corner is 49/75107 Guide: No Atari copyright; item number in corner is 6/99813 Carnival (Coleco Standard) Mine: Yellow text only states Atari 2600 VCS in large letters Guide: Yellow text types out VCS acronym and adds Sears Video Arcade Centipede (Atari Silver) Mine: Copyright 1988; lacks Joystick text Guide: Copyright 1982; has Joystick text Dark Cavern (MNetwork Black) Mine: "M.I. 1982 Korea" Guide: "M.I. 1982 U.S.A." Defender (Atari Picture) Mine: Ship's wing cut off at top; no outline around model number Guide: Ship completely in picture; outline around model number Dig Dug (Atari Silver) Mine: "© 1983 Atari, Inc." Guide: "© 1987 Atari Corp." ET The Extra-Terrestrial (Atari Silver) Mine: Ship has big windows (looks like a shark's teeth) Guide: Ship has little windows (looks like small diamonds spaced out on a white band) Football (Atari Text) Mine: Yellow text; Atari Copyright text Guide: Green text; no copyright data Home Run (Atari Picture) Mine: Black Atari logo and model number Guide: White Atari logo and model number Jungle Hunt (Atari Silver) Mine: Copyright date 1987 Guide: Copyright date 1988 Pong Sports (Sears Text) Mine: no text between Tele-Games and "- Pong", variation names smaller and each is a single word; Atari copyright data; "Use with Standard Paddle Controllers"; model number 49/75104 Guide: "including" between Tele-Games and "-Pong"; "Volley Ball" and "Basket Ball" as two words each; no copyright or controller text Slot Racers (Atari Text) Mine: Yellow text; no other differences Guide: Red text Space Invaders (Atari Silver) Mine: "Use with Joystick Controllers"; Copyright 1986 "Atari, Corp."; no printed in text; no CA number; Picture-style end label Guide: No controller text; Copyright 1988 "Atari, Corporation"; Printed in Hong Kong; CA number; Silver-style end label Speedway II (Sears Text) Mine: Variation names centered in different font; no "including" text; Atari copyright; controller text; model number 49/75103 Guide: "including" text; no copyright text; no controller text; model number 99804 Video Chess (Atari Text) Mine: Purple text; no copyright text Guide: Red text; Atari copyright text Video Pinball (Atari Picture) Mine: Uppercase main label; lowercase end label Guide: Both labels uppercase Also, my MouseTrap (Coleco Standard) cartridge has a sticker on the back indicating it was a pack-in with a Gemini. And I found a couple more messed up pages: Kaboom (Activision Blue) and Video Checkers (Atari Text).. these also don't appear in the main Rarity Guide list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wntermute Posted June 4, 2001 Author Share Posted June 4, 2001 Three more today... Football - Realsports Soccer (Atari silver) Mine: Copyright date 1987 Guide: Copyright date 1988 Jungle Hunt (Atari silver) Mine: Copyright date 1983 Guide: Copyright date 1988 Night Driver (Atari picture) Mine: Copyright date 1986; squared-off picture; title in brown text Guide: Copyright date 1978; rounded corner pic; title in yellow text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted June 5, 2001 Share Posted June 5, 2001 Are all of those on my Label Variations list? http://www.msu.edu/user/reicher6/labelvar7.txt Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 6, 2001 Share Posted June 6, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Wntermute: And I found a couple more messed up pages: Kaboom (Activision Blue) and Video Checkers (Atari Text).. these also don't appear in the main Rarity Guide list Okay, many of those we won't be adding right now. We need to implement a filtering method so that people don't have to wade through every variation if they don't want to. As for Kaboom and Video Checkers, we do have scans of them here and here. Apparently we screwed up the database code so they aren't showing, so we'll get that fixed. Thanks for pointing that out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 6, 2001 Share Posted June 6, 2001 Kaboom! and Video Checkers are both fixed. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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