Quite a while ago I heard about the NES game 5 screw variant thing and since I had a couple already I thought it would be cool to start collecting them.  I bought a few cheap ones and kind of let it go until I found a Tyson Punch Out with 5 screws and bought it from a guy for $75.  I thought that was a fair price since it was like 4-5 times what I thought was normal and I knew it was rarer.  The label wasn’t perfect but I thought it was decent enough.  I didn’t even know about checking inside to see if it was authentic until I watched a video about it a few weeks ago.
So now I’m not sure if it’s really legitimate or not.  I’m not looking to sell it, in fact I’m going to start collecting more 5 screw games.  I just want an expert opinion on this and what it might be worth with the label issues if it’s legit.  And would it be worth getting a replacement label or does that make the value worse?
Also, is there really a Mega Man 5 screw game?  I keep seeing that there is one but price lists I’ve seen don’t even have a price next to it.  I thought that was weird.

The game is legit, for sure, and honestly the label isn't perfect but it's good enough.

Whatever you do, DO NOT replace the label with a reproduction label. This is far worse, in terms of destroying value, than even the shittiest real label would be. Basically, as far as collectors go, a reproduction label is equivalent to no label at all.

Interesting cuz mine doesn't have the stamp on the back label either.

If you're looking to collect 5 screw, are you sure you want to get rid of this after only paying $75?

Yes there is a Mega Man 5 screw, extremely rare however.

I bid on an ebay auction for one where the seller didn't list it as anything but a mega man 1 cart. I had just started collecting and knew the 5 screw was more rare, but didn't understand the extent. It was a 40 dollar cart or so at the time and the 5 screw didnt go for much more than that. I missed getting a bid in and it still irks me.
 

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Now that you mention that I guess I should have had an extreme close-up of the back label because there is a stamp in the upper left but it's extremely light.  I believe it is 00.  I don't know what that really means, however.
 

No, I'm keeping it.  In my original post I sad, "I’m not looking to sell it, in fact I’m going to start collecting more 5 screw games."
 

That's good to know about the label.  Thanks.

 

Ah yes, I misread that in my fatigue  
 

Sells for a few hundred if I'm not mistaken.

Do you not realize that 100% of the value of a rare 5 screw is in the label? Without the real label, it's just a random case swap worth nothing that anyone can make.

I've been wanting to find one of these for a while now. I have a lot of 5 screw carts just missing a few but never really was sure there was a 5 screw MTP-O because I never had seen one.

If I saw a 5 screw MTPO with a replacement label, first thing I would think is that the person took a 3 screw MTPO board and put it in a common 5 screw game's shell. 

 

Doesn't the 5 screw have the white bullet points on the label as opposed to the orange ? I thought the orange bullet points were on the later silver seal release?

Your post made me Google images of 5 screw Tyson Punch Out games.  I had not even known there were different labels.  It looks to me like the 5 screws are about 50/50 orange and white.  I wonder if that makes a difference to people or if one is rarer than the other.

 

I don't know if anyone has researched it to make a judgment. 5 screw Tysons are so rare that I think people are just happy to get ahold of either one.

If someone could find evidence one is rarer than the other, that would change things.

 

OK, now I want to find the white bullet point one to have both, lol.

 

Well crap, I just checked my 5 screw MTPO and it has the orange text. And here I was thinking that as soon as I found a 5 screw Star Force, my variant collection would be complete.....

is this post considered the best list of 3/5-screw variants?

http://nintendoage.com/forum/mess...

Oh I didn't doubt it was legit. The one I got didn't have the right screws in, and the back label doesn't have that print on it.  Also when looking at the Program Chip date when it was stamped, it was REALLY early, like late Nov of 87.

Yeah, but heres an idea of rarity:

Mega Man
MTPO
Star Force

Those three are over $300 if you buy them individually

Gotcha 
Jaws
These are worth about $100 I think

Alpha Mission
Goonies II
Super Pitfall
These are about $20.

After that, none of the 5 screw variants add any extra value.  So keep a keen eye but as you get towards the end, you'll probably have to drop some big coin.  Also Stadium Events also comes in a 5 screw version, only 2 known so good luck on that haha. 

 

Yeah, I thought it would be cool to collect all the 5-screw games since I have about 7 of them already.  Then I found out there are 80-some of them but I thought, "OK, it will be fun spending several years piecing it together."  But then I saw Mega Man was really hard to find.  I literally have not seen one for sale or seen a price on a price list to get a sense of how much it would cost to buy.  I was willing to maybe pay a couple hundred for a good one but can't even locate one.  Then someone pointed out the bullet points on the MTPO labels and I realized there might be variants of variants!  Then I found out some of those super rare, tens-of-thousands of dollars, games are 5-screw as well and I know there's no way I'll ever own those.

So now the shine is definitely off that idea.  I want a collection that I can actually complete.  I don't like the idea of a collection that perpetually has holes in it.  I'm too OC for that.  Now I'm starting to think how much stuff for Switch I could get for dumping them.