I noticed this when looking at GBC boxes long ago and noticed that they kept calling the ones without the metallic sheen "Launch Edition" when those were only follow-up shipments. Now you see it on everything. There are even "Launch Edition" Funtastic N64 consoles. Uhh, I don't recall seeing any Fire, Grape, Watermelon, Jungle, Ice, Smoke, etc consoles on September 29th, 1996.