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NES Games with MAJOR box art variations? Not counting REV-A, Hangtabs & Seal of Qualities.

Feb 20, 2013 at 3:58:09 AM

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Would PAL variations count? As in PAL box art different to it's NTSC counter part.

If so here's some:

Edited: 02/20/2013 at 04:02 AM by Deathgaze

Feb 20, 2013 at 6:46:19 AM

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Originally posted by: K.Thrower

You forgot the unlicensed ones:

Also Gun.Smoke cartoon art is the original and the profile art is the variant.

A few others I would consider:
SMB 3 ("Bros." at left and right on box/cart/manual) pretty obvious, but overall art remains the same
Bill Elliott's Nascar Challenge (w/ and w/o large Daytona 500 trip offer)
there are a few others with offers on the box:
TMNT II
Mega Man 2 & 3
Castlevania 3

but these are all debatable as to how "major" the art difference is to the overall design.

Yeah I've actually seen 3 different varients for King of Kings The early years.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 7:50:13 AM

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I think most of the big ones have been mentioned. Another one I can think of is the Mario is Missing with and without the "Mario Discovery Series" logo on the front. Coincidentally someone sold one of each earlier this month, market didn't seem to value them any differently. IMO, Discovery Series is significantly rarer.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 8:07:25 AM

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Bases Loaded had a box variation as well. One has the oval seal in the bottom right, and the other has a banner touting a free poster.

Oval Seal: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BASES-LOA...

Poster Language: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bases-Loa...

Feb 20, 2013 at 11:41:04 AM

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Bases Loaded has 4 variants, I posted my pics long ago of all 4 in the Variant thread in the Help Wanted section of NA.
Found my old pics in that old thread. 4 different variants all with different boxes. LOL to think I actually had boxes that were once this beat up, thankfully they've all been upgraded since this pic.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 11:48:46 AM

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Oh and you can't throw in PAL to this list otherwise it's just crazyness. This is an old pic from about 4 years ago of just my non USA SMB. Since this pic, I've got at least double this many CIB's of SMB non USA. Collecting NON USA makes it fun because the quest can continue, kinda like beating Zelda for the first time back in the day. But for sake of this list I think you have to contain it to USA. But it's not my list so.... Not to mention Brazil stuff and others.

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Edited: 02/20/2013 at 11:51 AM by Braveheart69

Feb 20, 2013 at 2:21:57 PM

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Braveheart's right, not including international stuff. There are too many regions, too many variants, too many things to account for and simply too many unknowns.

I've updated the list to include unlicensed / licensed, and unlicensed titles as well.

MAN this list is really piling up! I love it

C'mon guys, anything more? I'm including things like "Warning Labels added to side" of box now too.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 3:02:11 PM

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Heh if you are including unlicensed then Trolls has all the different hair color dolls attached and the non hole punched box that never came with a troll attached at all.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 3:09:37 PM

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Following the troll theme, Monster in my Pocket has different colored monsters with different rarities too. That's not a box variation, but still a "complete in box" variation if you catch my drift.

Feb 20, 2013 at 3:20:32 PM

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If it's a list of box variants, the different trolls and the monster from MimP should not be tracked. The Trolls variant with no troll should definitely be tracked though.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 3:31:25 PM

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Originally posted by: jonebone

Following the troll theme, Monster in my Pocket has different colored monsters with different rarities too. That's not a box variation, but still a "complete in box" variation if you catch my drift.

I thought there was a specific exlcusive monster that came with it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons...

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Feb 20, 2013 at 3:38:45 PM

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Originally posted by: goldendark007

I thought there was a specific exlcusive monster that came with it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_in_My_Pocket#Video_games

There are four colors of the same monster, some rarer than others.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 4:07:46 PM

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Phleo,

Not sure what original on your list means but if its to mean first issue, then you have the three tengens backwards, the licensed versions came first (rbi, pacman, gauntlet).

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Feb 20, 2013 at 4:59:48 PM

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Thanks for the correction Bronty.

The list is for first issue *and* major variants tracking.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 5:17:55 PM

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cool. So if we are trying to track original versions here then I think we need to be careful about some of these.

I think flying dragon is backwards too?

How do we know the non-promo mega man 2 came first, etc etc.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 5:20:51 PM

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The red box Flying Dragon was first. The white came second. Too lazy to check which one he's got listed

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Feb 20, 2013 at 5:22:54 PM

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Very true, I was hoping some of the experts can help me clear that up.

But for most things I just checked if there was a Circle Seal / Oval Seal or Rev-A non Rev-A version to determine which came first. For the ones where that's not possible, I have no clue so I chose the one I thought proper.

Perhaps for the capcom stripes games we can cross reference the release dates of all the NES Capcom games.

Edit: Fixed flying dragon.

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Edited: 02/20/2013 at 05:24 PM by PowerPlayers

Feb 20, 2013 at 5:56:36 PM

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^ Sure, I just think that if you are going to label one as original you should limit it to ones we are sure about. Ones where you aren't sure maybe a separate section or a different column name?

Maybe erik can help on some of these too.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 5:57:00 PM

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Originally posted by: the_wizard_666

The red box Flying Dragon was first. The white came second. Too lazy to check which one he's got listed

yeah that's what I understood it to be as well.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 6:03:52 PM

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The promo capcoms are first as evidenced by the box still being there but the promo language removed. They would not have made a blank box blocking the artwork to go in later to add a promo. Not to mention that I know off tje top of my head that the Mickey Mousecapade with the promo removed is a -1 coded box. Also true on Rescue Rangers the -1 code box has the promo stripe removed.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 6:14:47 PM

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Thanks, fixed!

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Feb 20, 2013 at 6:16:42 PM

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There are 3 different label variants for Impossible Mission II:
AVE version
EPYX/SEI color label
SEI black & white label

Feb 20, 2013 at 6:20:37 PM

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Label or Box? This is a list ONLY for boxes.

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Feb 20, 2013 at 6:25:39 PM

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thx Erik

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Feb 20, 2013 at 6:39:45 PM

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Originally posted by: pegboy

There are 3 different label variants for Impossible Mission II:
AVE version
EPYX/SEI color label
SEI black & white label

Uh... we're talking about boxes. Don't start intermingeling label variants, etc... otherwise I have 8 different on this one.

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