NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner "Sample http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=76656 2012-06-17T20:32:58 -05.00 mobiusclimber 7 Originally posted by: BouncekDeLemos

Originally posted by: Alder

Here's my noobie assumption:

Random Game Store has a Kiosk, makeshift SNES testing station, etc. They need a game to use so they grab one off the shelf and slap a "SAMPLE" sticker on it.

Or it could be more official, who knows?

I'm not too sure either, I think it could be something simple as a kiosk version of the game too. The more official to the retail it looks, it could be a retail version that's for display, the more proto-ish with eeprom-ish guts the innards look, then maybe it's a proto.

I can also go with what 3Gen said, usually a game could go out to magazine companies or strategy guide writers.

  Yep, that's plausible as well.  I remember reading the Counselor's Corner in Nintendo Power as a kid and thinking, man, those guys have the best job in the world.  

]]> "Sample http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=76656 2012-06-17T17:10:51 -05.00 mobiusclimber 7 Originally posted by: Alder

Here's my noobie assumption:

Random Game Store has a Kiosk, makeshift SNES testing station, etc. They need a game to use so they grab one off the shelf and slap a "SAMPLE" sticker on it.

Or it could be more official, who knows?
I'm not too sure either, I think it could be something simple as a kiosk version of the game too. The more official to the retail it looks, it could be a retail version that's for display, the more proto-ish with eeprom-ish guts the innards look, then maybe it's a proto.

I can also go with what 3Gen said, usually a game could go out to magazine companies or strategy guide writers.


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Random Game Store has a Kiosk, makeshift SNES testing station, etc. They need a game to use so they grab one off the shelf and slap a "SAMPLE" sticker on it.

Or it could be more official, who knows? ]]> "Sample" Sticker on Back of NES Cart http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=76656 2012-06-17T13:00:24 -05.00 mobiusclimber 7 "Sample http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=76656 2012-06-17T12:51:11 -05.00 mobiusclimber 7
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