Rom Hunter Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Indeed. I still have some of these plastic VHS boxes. They often crack in the middle, though. Well, that's the fourth known to exist Topy, right? Marco (x2), Staberinde, Rick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball22 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Are the little screenshot stickers on the HES Imagic packs on the carts or on the package? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Bah, H.E.S. shite! I've always wondered why so few Homevision boxes survived. I mean, throwing out a cardboard box that got ripped when you first opened it, makes sense. But these lovely plastic boxes should have survived in larger quantities. People didn't throw out VHS boxes either... Cheers, Marco I agree with you Marco. What i find interesting is that Sky Alien DOES have a box, so why was it sold in a blister pack? My take on this is that Homevision started off with those nice VHS boxes and towards the end cut costs and started selling the games in blister packs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangasinan Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Are the little screenshot stickers on the HES Imagic packs on the carts or on the package? There actually part of the label and not stickers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangasinan Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 (edited) Bah, H.E.S. shite! Cheers, Marco Well if thats the case you better send your HES collection to me in Australia with those 2 other blister packs Edited January 31, 2009 by pangasinan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Stick to the topic, please. What i find interesting is that Sky Alien DOES have a box, so why was it sold in a blister pack? My take on this is that Homevision started off with those nice VHS boxes and towards the end cut costs and started selling the games in blister packs.Then why is there no Home Vision brand on the blisterpacks? Why does it carry the name Connection? Why is there no game title or game model number on the blisterpacks? Why does the plastic leave too much room for the cart? (was that only for the manual? - doesn't make sense to me) There's no Connection to Home Vision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Stick to the topic, please. What i find interesting is that Sky Alien DOES have a box, so why was it sold in a blister pack? My take on this is that Homevision started off with those nice VHS boxes and towards the end cut costs and started selling the games in blister packs.Then why is there no Home Vision brand on the blisterpacks? Why does it carry the name Connection? Why is there no game title or game model number on the blisterpacks? Why does the plastic leave too much room for the cart? (was that only for the manual? - doesn't make sense to me) There's no Connection to Home Vision. I would guess that it was towards the end of the line for homevision, they were cutting costs and may have used a generic blister pack for their games as they were cheap. Rom, i'm only putting this forward for the same reason marco mentioned - too few of the VHS style homevision cases exist and i dont think many of them would have been thrown away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Rom, i'm only putting this forward for the same reason marco mentioned - too few of the VHS style homevision cases exist and i dont think many of them would have been thrown away Well, these blisterpacks could certainly explain the many loose Home Vision carts nowadays. They don't look like something you like to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Marco, how 'bout some close-ups of those blister packs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Rom, here's an auction for a black case Homevision cart with an actual Homevision box. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...bayphotohosting I've included a picture for later reference. i think this adds to the case that the black case homevision carts are actual homevision carts. Homevision must've moved from the white moulded cases to the standard black cases to cut costs. thay may explain the blister packs too..... pictures Marco??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 My scanner is down, Vista will have nothing to do with my HP Scanjet drivers (and HP doesn't bother releasing new drivers, they just want me to buy a new scanner) The blister packs have absolutely nothing on them that could connect them to Homevision. They're really generic, the cart and manual are regular Homevision copies. Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Marco, Can the plastic be slided off the cardboard or is it glued on? Also, can you make some camera pictures of these blisterpacks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Did Home Vision (or Gem International Corp) ever go bankrupt? It would explain the blister packs if a lot of their stock was picked up by a wholesaler who cheaply repackaged them. I guess there are a lot of possibilities depending if the carts were actually produced by Home Vision or the production was in fact outsourced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Did Home Vision (or Gem International Corp) ever go bankrupt? It would explain the blister packs if a lot of their stock was picked up by a wholesaler who cheaply repackaged them.My thoughts exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 (edited) Unknown Home Vision game - A screenshot of this game is shown on Home Vision's Repro Cart box:[/b] Sorry to reply to an older post, but isn't that screen shot from parachute? That is probably what the game looks like in color (since there is an odd number of scan lines, and it is PAL, the colors turn to black and white). Edit: here is a comparison. Original screen shot: B/W screen shot (tv type auto detected with stella) PAL 60 platelet pushed with stella: NTSC platelet pushed with stella: Edited July 1, 2009 by Wickeycolumbus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxsolo2000 Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Unknown Home Vision game - A screenshot of this game is shown on Home Vision's Repro Cart box:[/b] Sorry to reply to an older post, but isn't that screen shot from parachute? That is probably what the game looks like in color (since there is an odd number of scan lines, and it is PAL, the colors turn to black and white). Edit: here is a comparison. Original screen shot: B/W screen shot (tv type auto detected with stella) PAL 60 platelet pushed with stella: NTSC platelet pushed with stella: Bloody Hell thats it. Well done and thanks for posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegamatrix Posted July 1, 2009 Share Posted July 1, 2009 Great eye, Wickey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxsolo2000 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Unknown Home Vision game - A screenshot of this game is shown on Home Vision's Repro Cart box:[/b] Sorry to reply to an older post, but isn't that screen shot from parachute? That is probably what the game looks like in color (since there is an odd number of scan lines, and it is PAL, the colors turn to black and white). Edit: here is a comparison. Original screen shot: B/W screen shot (tv type auto detected with stella) PAL 60 platelet pushed with stella: NTSC platelet pushed with stella: Any chance you could clean up the other two as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Sorry to reply to an older post, but isn't that screen shot from parachute? That is probably what the game looks like in color (since there is an odd number of scan lines, and it is PAL, the colors turn to black and white).Wicky, you're the man. Another Home Vision riddle solved. Many thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 List on post #1 updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Unbelievable that none of us 'experts' spotted it before! Well done that man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 No problem guys, glad to help Any chance you could clean up the other two as well? Do you have a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxsolo2000 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 No problem guys, glad to help Any chance you could clean up the other two as well? Do you have a link? The pics are in this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 No problem guys, glad to help Any chance you could clean up the other two as well? Do you have a link? The pics are in this thread These ones? None of them look familiar to me, but I will try to figure them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxsolo2000 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 No problem guys, glad to help Any chance you could clean up the other two as well? Do you have a link? The pics are in this thread These ones? None of them look familiar to me, but I will try to figure them out. Yes they are the ones. Perhaps if cleaned up they could offer fresh insight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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