dr_orangejuicer | 20 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Hey all. I don't think this is much, but I recently came across a Maniac Mansion cart with a white QA stamped on the back (see attached photos). I had found a Nintendo Age thread on this with no clear answer (can't find it now though). Is there a consensus on where this originated? Is this a thing anyone cares about? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdStrongestMole | 430 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 On 3/14/2022 at 5:29 PM, dr_orangejuicer said: Hey all. I don't think this is much, but I recently came across a Maniac Mansion cart with a white QA stamped on the back (see attached photos). I had found a Nintendo Age thread on this with no clear answer (can't find it now though). Is there a consensus on where this originated? Is this a thing anyone cares about? Is it a quality assurance stamp? If so, I feel like that's pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_orangejuicer | 20 Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 2 hours ago, 3rdStrongestMole said: Is it a quality assurance stamp? If so, I feel like that's pretty cool I assume so, but who did the assuring? Is this a Nintendo refurb, or someone else? I wish I could find that NA thread, the stamps there were on other titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdStrongestMole | 430 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 27 minutes ago, dr_orangejuicer said: I assume so, but who did the assuring? Is this a Nintendo refurb, or someone else? I wish I could find that NA thread, the stamps there were on other titles. Do you remember if the other was Jaleco or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_orangejuicer | 20 Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 15 hours ago, 3rdStrongestMole said: Do you remember if the other was Jaleco or not? Found it! https://archive.nes.science/nintendoage-forums/nintendoage.com/forum/messageview496d.html?catid=8&threadid=51172 So it was on some SNES carts too, seems likely a Nintendo refurb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdStrongestMole | 430 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Oh great find. So it is Nintendo doing it then. I guess this could be on any SNES, NES (possibly 64?) cart? Very cool and now I want to find more lol. Probably carts pulled from the line and tested, or could even just be the empty shells they were marking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,098 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Wait where is the proof that Nintendo was doing this? It could still just be some rental store chain or any number of other possibilities 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdStrongestMole | 430 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, a3quit4s said: Wait where is the proof that Nintendo was doing this? It could still just be some rental store chain or any number of other possibilities Yeah true! I shouldn't have said that definitively definitely could be something like that. Edit: Nintendo could be eliminated if any other gaming companies popped up with carts or discs like this (Sega, primarily I guess, considering the era, if it's rental) Edited March 17, 2022 by 3rdStrongestMole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I can't add much to this discussion but that QA stamp seems familiar to me. I feel like I've seen a yellow, almost like a grease paint like stamp on a cart, but SNES feels right. I wouldn't take my word for it, but let me go through my SNES carts... I might have one like this. My fear is that I had a friend who let me borrow his SNES in the late N64 era since I never had a SNES of my own. There's a chance it was on one of his games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_orangejuicer | 20 Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 On 3/17/2022 at 2:46 PM, a3quit4s said: Wait where is the proof that Nintendo was doing this? It could still just be some rental store chain or any number of other possibilities Rental chain seems unlikely to me - this MM cart does not appear to be ex-rental and the NA thread does not mention rental stickers. Anything's possible though. I still suspect these were refurb carts though line pulls make some sense...but I'm just speculating. The saga continues ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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