sku_u Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 I don't usually post pictures of my collection, but this set took me a long time to complete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARIPITBULL Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Very nice, it feels good when you have a complete set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xot Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Wow! Apparently there's two end label variations, then, 'cause all my Zellers carts have the same style end label and yours do not. I see at least three different styles. For the record, all mine look like the Dragon Treasure/Earth Attack ones. I have Pinball and Freeway that look like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Boxes? That's cool Sku, however I think the front labels are the best, you should have taken a shot of all laying down so they could be seen. End labels are plain jane boring. I've only ever found 1 in Georgia, Dragon Treasure. I wonder how it got down here, it was a long way from home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 Boxes? I have a few but don't actively collect 2600 boxes for games. No space. Besides, Zeller's boxes are ugly. That's cool Sku, however I think the front labels are the best, you should have taken a shot of all laying down so they could be seen. End labels are plain jane boring. I've only ever found 1 in Georgia, Dragon Treasure. I wonder how it got down here, it was a long way from home! I absolutely agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 "Farmer Dan" has a really strange label. It doesn't fit the game at all. It looks like it should have used for a "Plaque Attack" knock-off instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 And why does "Challenge" have Ghostbusters on the label? And why bother pirating "Combat" at all? Zellers did some weird stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Sure you have all? etc.... http://atari2600.nl/html/home.php3?cat=6&id=23&nxtL=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
povlok1 Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 only way to totally confirm a zellers (title release that is) is to have seen on in the box.. jury is out on the 'carnival2' and 'cowboy' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Adn what about my "Canival II" [sic] and "Emdurl" [also sic]? They are identical to Zellers releases.. should they therefore be counted too? I imagine they've been as near to a Zellers store as some of the carts you have down as "Zellers". (Thinking of starting a "People's Front for Freeing Pirate Carts from Mislabelling" movement... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whisper Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 And how about my "Sparker Gardon" (Flash Gordon) cart? A pirate, I know, but a lot like a Zellers cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 They are all Taiwan pirates from the same factory, and most came in red boxes, so ones again Zellers is not a brand. - Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
video game addict Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 They are all Taiwan pirates from the same factory, and most came in red boxes, so ones again Zellers is not a brand. - Sandy Maybe Sears shouldn't be a brand either, just more Atari variations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voch Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Congrats. I, personally, just finished off my M-Network collection (which pales in comparison to your achievement, but I feel good about it). Voch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 Adn what about my "Canival II" [sic] and "Emdurl" [also sic]? They are identical to Zellers releases.. should they therefore be counted too? I imagine they've been as near to a Zellers store as some of the carts you have down as "Zellers". (Thinking of starting a "People's Front for Freeing Pirate Carts from Mislabelling" movement... ) One of the differences between these and Zellers carts is that the carts you mentioned have generic artwork regardless of the title whereas each Zellers cart has artwork specific to that game. Zellers also didn't misspell names like many Brazilian companies did. I also have a Reever Raad cart that looks like a Zellers cart (not pictured). I have most of those Zellers lookalikes, btw, including Dig Dug (PAL, definitely not Zellers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 They are all Taiwan pirates from the same factory, and most came in red boxes, so ones again Zellers is not a brand. - Sandy Maybe Sears shouldn't be a brand either, just more Atari variations. Or Quelle or Marpes or Polyvox for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 What's the cart in the bottom right of your front label pic Sku_u? I only ask cos that's the artwork to "Sentinel" by Synapse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 is it possible to have a 'complete' set of pir8 carts that almost seem to have arbitrary labels? :-) I'm just jealous! Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Adn what about my "Canival II" [sic] and "Emdurl" [also sic]? They are identical to Zellers releases.. should they therefore be counted too? I imagine they've been as near to a Zellers store as some of the carts you have down as "Zellers". (Thinking of starting a "People's Front for Freeing Pirate Carts from Mislabelling" movement... ) One of the differences between these and Zellers carts is that the carts you mentioned have generic artwork regardless of the title whereas each Zellers cart has artwork specific to that game. Zellers also didn't misspell names like many Brazilian companies did. I also have a Reever Raad cart that looks like a Zellers cart (not pictured). I have most of those Zellers lookalikes, btw, including Dig Dug (PAL, definitely not Zellers). Well they all are from the same factory, and come in the same cases and red boxes. Zellers just happened to only sell 8 titles of the whole assortment. So once again Zellers is not a manufactuer/brand but a dealer of these games. -Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 Well they all are from the same factory, and come in the same cases and red boxes. Zellers just happened to only sell 8 titles of the whole assortment. So once again Zellers is not a manufactuer/brand but a dealer of these games. -Sandy I never said differently. Sears, Quelle, and Marpes are also not manufacturers, but dealers of games, yet people collect those. I'm not sure I'm seeing your point? There are Atari games that were manufactured in the US, Taiwan, and a multitude of other places. I've never head of anyone collecting by where something is manufactured before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san-d-2000 Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 Sears, and Quelle are specially branded, Zellers carts are not they where sold in the same box and cartridge worldwide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted May 26, 2004 Share Posted May 26, 2004 i think you guys are agreeing more than disagreeing. calling something a pirate or whatever is really more semantics than a classification since we don't really have a "standard" in this hobby for what to call something. sometimes it is easy to distinguish a cartridge by distributer (sears or zellers is what i'm thinking in this case) because the name is printed either on the cartridge or box or both. for example, atari: combat sears: tank plus zellers: frontline panda: exocet froggo: cruise missile zellers: radar unfortunately with zellers, the only place the zellers name appears is on the box. so you can't definitively identify a game that was a zellers "release" unless you have the zellers box. zellers is not the only situation where there is no identifier on the cartridge. hot shot (goliath), rainbow vision, suntek, action hi-tech, marpes, funvision, are examples of generic game labels that had a company name on the box. i don't know if "quelle" appeared in print on any boxes, but there is often a clear plastic sticker with Quelle on the box plus some docs also have Quelle printed on them. then there are the real mysteries that have generic labels, and generic boxes and often have no docs at all. the "taiwan cooper" games are a good example of these: http://www.atariage.com/software_list.html...ordsPerPage=100 http://www.atariage.com/box_page.html?Soft...8&BoxStyleID=76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 Sears, and Quelle are specially branded, Zellers carts are not they where sold in the same box and cartridge worldwide. Zellers boxes are specially branded and clearly distiguishable as Zellers boxes. Their boxes are also specific to each game: http://atariage.com/box_page.html?Software...9&BoxStyleID=29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted May 26, 2004 Author Share Posted May 26, 2004 EDIT: I forgot to mention that every game distributed by Sears was programmed and manufactured by Atari, not Sears. That includes both Sears exclusives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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