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    Ninja Gaiden NES Canadian release??? Anyone from Quebec have any insight here?

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    I have never seen a full box sticker like that on any game.

    However! Years ago I saw a listing for a Final Fantasy game that was a US box, but with a Mattel/Canadian sticker on the front bottom right.

    I didn't save a picture, but I do have the broken auction link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-NES-Lot-Of-14-Games-CIB-Final-Fantasy-Punchout/192419020255

    Wayback machine doesn't have it, not sure if there is any way to look at years-old Ebay listings anymore.

    Anyways - at least there is more than one US game with a Canadian sticker on it out there.

    Theory: Companies wanted to sell NES games in Canada at the same time they were available to the US, but the boxes/manuals for the Canadian market weren't ready. They used US versions and slapped stickers on the boxes to satisfy the French/English Canadian requirements. Once the real boxes were ready they stopped doing this. 

    So, in my opinion very legit and very uncommon. Probably a nice piece for the Canadian NES historians out there.

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    Mario with black sticker seal?

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    10 minutes ago, Capguncowboy said:

    So the US version of games were sold in Canada with the gloss sticker seal? Mario 2 came out at the end of 1988. It's odd they were still using those more than 2 years later

    Thanks for the info

    I know that I have seen several countries sell the US version of a game for a few months before their own region one was released - usually with some sort of sticker on it.

    Just a guess - Mario 2 was going to be a big seller, the Canadian versions weren't ready yet, so they took the wrap off a bunch of US copies, imported them as used to save $$$, then stuck a sticker seal on it so it could be sold as new in the Canadian market?

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    WhatNot Auction App

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    I gave it another try while watching a basketball game.

    I figured out how to see what a seller has upcoming, which made it better.

    Several sellers had giveaways, which is like a computerized lottery run by the app. Decent things given away too, so that was neat.

    My biggest issue is that every single thing that was sold went for high prices. Who are these people who are paying over Ebay prices for relatively common games? 

    WhatNot Auction App

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    Gave it a try, it was interesting but...

    Reminds me of the Facebook live auctions people do.

    Most people seem to be selling Xbox/PlayStation stuff.

    I didn't see a way to see a list of what the seller is going to be listing, so you just have to sit there and hope something you like comes up.

    Meh. It could work, but I don't see any way to get a great deal without just sitting on it all day - which would suck because some of the auction hosts are annoying.

     

    If one had evidence that Wata had swapped their game out with someone else's, what could they do about it?

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    4 minutes ago, RH said:

    They wouldn't admit to it being malicious.  Instead, you might want to look at if one of their investors "happened" to have your game you submitted, vs. the one you received and, oh, they "happened" to also post it to Heritage before your's was even returned.  Hypothetically.

    If you have solid proof of them swapping out a game and then them selling it on Heritage before yours was even returned then that is a worse story than the one Jobst made that video about.

    If one had evidence that Wata had swapped their game out with someone else's, what could they do about it?

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    Just now, DefaultGen said:

    You guys are lawyering up did you like... contact Wata?

    That's the first step I would take too.

    Provide them with the evidence (presumably a photo of what was sent vs. what was received). If it was a mistake they will make some sort of attempt to rectify it. If your evidence is good then they have no reason not to do something, they don't need any more bad press. 

    Since I’ve only seen one ever, I’m curious if anyone thinks Real OR Fake!?!?

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    12 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said:

    rather than writing them off, were told NO by Nintendo (too small of a run to waste rigging the assembly line for, game variety not compatible or worth throwing on the line, or whatever), but, as a concession, Nintendo says, "here, we'll send you some 5 screw cart casings since they are useless to us as we can no longer use them on our new 3 screw assembly line, and you can make your own damn carts out of those pcbs."  But, in doing so, Nintendo doesn't think to send the back labels along to be stuck on the carts, so we get what we have today: a random mishmash of games from one specific company that has 5 screw carts out of time and place, all of which are missing their back labels.

    That's my theory anyway.... 😛

    They might have done something similar with Playtronic in Brazil.

    Superspike/World Cup used leftover gold zelda carts for the shells. They even used leftover US labels until they ran out and started making their own. 

    The result: a weird USA shell/label/board...not released in USA.

    Gold Superspikes.jpg

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    Nintendo In the Middle East! Info????

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    4 hours ago, RH said:

    What does "GPS" likely stand for?

    I have no clue where these might have been sold, but as a potential tip, I have seen a few, vintage collectors that loved Nintendo games as a kid (NES/Gsme Boy era) from Egypt.

    So, maybe this is from Egypt?

    Some people think it means Greece, Portugal, Spain. However I think the most popular consensus is that it stands for Game Pak System - and was released in various regions that didn't get an official (cart coded) release.

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