austin532 | 467 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 28 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: NP inserts only come with games manufactured by Nintendo. Why did I never notice this until now? If I did, I forgot about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted May 1, 2023 Author Share Posted May 1, 2023 3 hours ago, Trifecta said: There's no doubt in my mind that it is a factory sealed game, otherwise I wouldn't have presented to the community. The contents still had that unique NES new smell. VGA wouldn't grade a re-sealed game. They only grade factory sealed games and 100% complete games. There was nothing to indicate it was a re-seal. Everything looked legit to me. I, of course, have trusted your judgement all along. It may seem strange that a "Nintendo" dust sleeve came with ROTJ, but if that's what was in the box, then that's what we need to be writing on our lists... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Thanks that's all I needed. So let's step back now. What do we have and what are we missing? Have High confidence the game is factory original Game uses a non-standard seal for the era (caveat: it is the standard seal for the game itself) Contents are in fact new and unused It has a foil Nintendo® dust sleeve which is circa 1993 and beyond. (Possibly related) Around February 1995, Acclaim bought out and shut down Sunsoft and kept a "skeleton crew of 4 or 5 people to facilitate the transfer of IP to Acclaim" (Possibly related) Batman: Forever movie launched nationwide June 16, 1995, and its movie tie-in game was released by Acclaim in August 1995 for SNES & Game Boy, and September 1995 for Genesis & Game Gear. So if it's all new, with a high confidence of it all being original, and the fact that it has a foil dust sleeve implies it was packaged at the very earliest some time in 1993. Missing Chip codes (if relevant, I don't think this game comes with date codes except for the NES-48-USA box variant) Retail Photos (has this game been seen on sheleves in 1993+) Retail Receipts (has this game ever been sold 1993+) Marketing (has this game ever been marketed 1993+) Factory sealed copy of NES-48-USA box variant to be opened... Case pack info. Does the case pack look like a normal one? These third party seal copies seem relatively common...whereas I've only seen mint CIB cellophane copies with H-Seam's once or twice, and I've never seen a sealed copy yet. More info needs to be dug up. I'm absolutely going to try to buy a sealed copy and pray for a -48- box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qixmaster | 19 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Hi gang. Long time listener, first or second time caller. i think it’s important to note the source of a lot these three sided seam ROTJ games. They were originally being sold on ChaseTheChuckWagon / GameGavel by an individual in Texas (circa 2010-ish?) who, if I recall the story correctly, got them from a distributor in Mexico (along with case packs of other sealed nes games that included the likes of firehouse rescue, RBI baseball, power punch II, monster truck rally and some others) I wanna say they were selling on eBay at first, got kicked off eBay and then started selling on the other platform. Since we are all going on straight assumptions, let me add mine. It was a unique pack job, factory sealed, late release by acclaim and they used twilight nes sleeves). Purdy sure that’s it. These games with this seal type came straight outta case packs, which is 100% the only fact we have. Hi. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 1 hour ago, qixmaster said: Hi gang. Long time listener, first or second time caller. i think it’s important to note the source of a lot these three sided seam ROTJ games. They were originally being sold on ChaseTheChuckWagon / GameGavel by an individual in Texas (circa 2010-ish?) who, if I recall the story correctly, got them from a distributor in Mexico (along with case packs of other sealed nes games that included the likes of firehouse rescue, RBI baseball, power punch II, monster truck rally and some others) I wanna say they were selling on eBay at first, got kicked off eBay and then started selling on the other platform. Since we are all going on straight assumptions, let me add mine. It was a unique pack job, factory sealed, late release by acclaim and they used twilight nes sleeves). Purdy sure that’s it. These games with this seal type came straight outta case packs, which is 100% the only fact we have. Hi. Woo. Real OG info there. All of that stuff was just a little before my time. I was only witness to the last of the "Dov" sale sometime in 2011/2012. This is the stuff NA would have been still useful for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted September 24, 2023 Author Share Posted September 24, 2023 Posting these here so they'll be in queue for the next update down the road. Credit and thanks to @Trifecta Dig Dug II - Cartridge (NES-I2-USA) - Box (NES-I2-USA) - Manual (NES-I2-USA) - Nintendo Power Subscription Card (PMG-MW-USA) - Flat Black Dust Sleeve Rad Racer (Oval Seal) - Cartridge (NES-RC-USA) - Box (NES-RC-USA) - Manual (NES-RC-USA) - 3-D Glasses - Nintendo Power Subscription Card (PMG-MW-USA) - Non-Foil Nintendo Dust Sleeve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted October 23, 2023 Author Share Posted October 23, 2023 Another one, with credit and thanks as always to Trifecta. Totally Rad - Cartridge (NES-6T-USA) - Box (NES-6T-USA) - Manual (NES-6T-USA) - Jaleco Poster/Advert (JAL-NES-US-2) - Jaleco Registration Card (JAL-NES-US-3) - Nintendo Power Subscription Card (PMG-USA-1) - Flat Black Dust Sleeve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 (edited) The Master List on gamefaqs (link in first post) has been updated with the three titles in the above posts from Trifecta plus two new variants: a round seal Spy vs Spy thanks to @Divingninja and NES Play Action Football with a star manual thanks to @Futureman. Goonies never say die.... Edited January 11 by Dr. Morbis 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodvibes | 158 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Coming soon….. 4 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodvibes | 158 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 (edited) Will need a donor box if anyone has a nice spare at a fair price. Edited January 16 by Goodvibes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_wizard_666 | 1,325 Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 While I'm happy to see it get documented, that box makes me so fucking sad! Hope you can find a replacement for it. On the plus side, at least it's not on the display side, so it'll still look alright on the shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code Monkey | 2,010 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 14 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said: While I'm happy to see it get documented, that box makes me so fucking sad! Hope you can find a replacement for it. On the plus side, at least it's not on the display side, so it'll still look alright on the shelf. Do you face your games to the right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK | 260 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 49 minutes ago, Code Monkey said: Do you face your games to the right? I thought everyone did - I treat boxes like library books. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_wizard_666 | 1,325 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 3 minutes ago, DK said: I thought everyone did - I treat boxes like library books. Yeah, that seems like standard procedure. Unless you're Japanese, they do it backwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qixmaster | 19 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Your mom does it backwards 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodvibes | 158 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 3 hours ago, Code Monkey said: Do you face your games to the right? I’ve always faced mine to the left. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austin532 | 467 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 I face mine to the right because it's usually the cleaner side without the warranty information. Unfortunately, Capcom put the warranty info on both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 48 minutes ago, austin532 said: I face mine to the right because it's usually the cleaner side without the warranty information. Unfortunately, Capcom put the warranty info on both sides. Never mind the warranty info - how about those sumbitches that put the barcode on the spines *and* had the gall to print the text from bottom to top instead of top to bottom... (I'm looking at you, Jaleco... and Activision to a lesser extent). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodvibes | 158 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 (edited) Here it is: -Box - nes-3u-usa -Manual - nes-3u-usa -Cart - nes-3u-usa -Cap-nes-us-4 poster -Cap-nes-us-2 reg -Pmg-usa-1 -Nes-doc-usa -Sleeve - unbranded smooth Edited January 21 by Goodvibes 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,088 Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 6 hours ago, Goodvibes said: Here it is: -Box - nes-3u-usa -Manual - nes-3u-usa -Cart - nes-3u-usa -Cap-nes-us-4 poster -Cap-nes-us-2 reg -Pmg-usa-1 -Nes-doc-usa -Sleeve - unbranded smooth Awesome! Looks like you got the cool poster with the California Raisins box art to boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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