captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Something I've wanted to work on. Since I completed the loose US set a few years ago, I've been slowly adding variants as I find them. I may also make random notes here. If you find something I don't have, please let me know. Also random questions and discussion welcome! List I have so far: Ace of Aces Alien Brigade Asteroids (might be an italics variant out there) Ballblazer Ballblazer (red end label) Basketbrawl Centipede (might be an italics variant/color pic variant out there) Choplifter Commando Crack'ed Crossbow Dark Chambers Desert Falcon Dig Dug (regular top text) Dig Dug (italics top text) Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Double Dragon F-18 Hornet Fatal Run Fight Night Food Fight Food Fight (bold end label; fixed the game crash issue) Galaga (might be an italics variant/color pic variant out there) Hat Trick Ikari Warriors Impossible Mission Jinks Joust (might be an italics variant/color pic variant out there) Karateka Kung-Fu Master Mario Bros Mat Mania Challenge Mean 18 Ultimate Golf Meltdown Midnight Mutants Motor Psycho Ms. Pac-Man (regular copyright text) Ms. Pac-Man (italics copyright text) Ninja Golf One-On-One Basketball (regular copyright text) One-On-One Basketball (italics copyright text) Pete Rose Baseball Planet Smashers Pole Position II (1984 copyright) Pole Position II (1986 copyright) Pole Position II (1987 copyright) Pole Position II (MFG Date sticker 090888) Pole Position II (MFG Date sticker 092088) Pole Position II (silver label) Rampage Realsports Baseball (white text) Realsports Baseball (black text) Robotron 2084 (1986 copyright) Robotron 2084 (1987 copyright/italics) Scrapyard Dog Summer Games Super Huey Super Skateboardin' Tank Command Title Match Pro Wrestling Tomcat F-14 (2600 label) Tomcat F-14 (7800 label) Touchdown Football Tower Toppler (black end label text) Tower Toppler (red end label text) Water Ski Winter Games Xenophobe Xevious (black/gray pic) Xevious (black/white pic) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,121 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Rad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeatherRebel5150 | 1,056 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 I'd love to see this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrels | 125 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Glad to see this happening. I don't have much in the way of variants but I'll give your list a close inspection and contribute if I can! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 23, 2019 Author Share Posted October 23, 2019 Preliminary list added! Since I discovered that italics Robotron variant yesterday, I added that clause to others from that release timeframe (i.e. all the shit that was in the O'Shea warehouse by the thousands) that may also have a variant like that. The "color pic" means it has a black and white pic instead of a black and gray one. I know there's one for Xevious, I think there's one for Galaga, and I'll search the others. I can get some pics up if anyone's interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KokiriChild | 1,644 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Very cool! Pics would be amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Thanks for this. I recently decided to go after a complete loose set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 23, 2019 Author Share Posted October 23, 2019 9 hours ago, The Strangest said: Thanks for this. I recently decided to go after a complete loose set. It's still a pretty easy set to knock out. There are a couple more games creeping towards $100 these days (Ninja Golf is getting up there and Tank Command has been there), but the majority of these you can get pretty easily in a few lots. Beware of fake Tank Command and Water Ski. Seen a few of those pop up and they look good enough if you don't realize what the cartridge itself is supposed to look like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I'll take look thru my box of 7800 games and see if I've got any variants not yet listed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 2 hours ago, captmorgandrinker said: It's still a pretty easy set to knock out. There are a couple more games creeping towards $100 these days (Ninja Golf is getting up there and Tank Command has been there), but the majority of these you can get pretty easily in a few lots. Beware of fake Tank Command and Water Ski. Seen a few of those pop up and they look good enough if you don't realize what the cartridge itself is supposed to look like. I got lucky and found a cheap copy of Midnight Mutants (priced before the price of it started going up and sat for awhile) and a copy of Planet Smashers. Those two are probably my two rarest 7800 games, although I haven’t seen too many other Scrapyard Dogs, Fight Nights, or F-18 Hornets. It could just be my area though. People are counterfeiting 7800 games now? Geez, I’ll have to study those cartridges a bit more before making a purchase on either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrels | 125 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 2 hours ago, captmorgandrinker said: It's still a pretty easy set to knock out. There are a couple more games creeping towards $100 these days (Ninja Golf is getting up there and Tank Command has been there), but the majority of these you can get pretty easily in a few lots. Beware of fake Tank Command and Water Ski. Seen a few of those pop up and they look good enough if you don't realize what the cartridge itself is supposed to look like. quoted for truth. Only 5 or so games will give you a hard time. The hardest hurdles for me were (a) seeing some games pop up at all, and (b) finding titles loose (e.g. there are 5 sealed copies of Midnight Mutants for every loose copy). Mean 18 was super-elusive, at least when I was searching. Also, yeah, I had a hell of a time finding a legitimate Tank Command to complete my set. Fortunately someone on NA had one and the long search was finally over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 23, 2019 Author Share Posted October 23, 2019 6 minutes ago, The Strangest said: I got lucky and found a cheap copy of Midnight Mutants (priced before the price of it started going up and sat for awhile) and a copy of Planet Smashers. Those two are probably my two rarest 7800 games, although I haven’t seen too many other Scrapyard Dogs, Fight Nights, or F-18 Hornets. It could just be my area though. People are counterfeiting 7800 games now? Geez, I’ll have to study those cartridges a bit more before making a purchase on either. I think I actually have a Fight Night and F-18 Hornet for sale. It's funny you found Midnight Mutants cheap; that was the last game I needed to wrap up my 7800 collection (before I started in on the variants anyway). I definitely paid full retail since I hadn't seen it at any shows I went to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodysGameRoom | 2,008 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I didn't realize it was so low. I have a lot of these, maybe I should knock the set out haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrels | 125 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 1 minute ago, CodysGameRoom said: I didn't realize it was so low. I have a lot of these, maybe I should knock the set out haha It took me way longer than it should, but yeah it's a small set. I finished mine within the last 6 months, here's the money shot (didn't bother with PAL exclusives or the diag/monitor carts, for now): 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeatherRebel5150 | 1,056 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Awesome collection. This is one I've always had on my back burner that I wanted to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 (edited) OK, I spent an enjoyable hour going thru 3 boxes of 7800 carts. I've coded these as country of origin [HK=Hong Kong], end label style [standard=black text on gray/silver, red text = red text on silver, or white text on red], copyright date [the later date for games with two dates], and S or I for Straight or Italicized copyright text. Some observations: The Taiwan games have a more silvery end label than those from other areas, but since it seemed consistent I didn't differentiate. All the 3rd party titles seemed to have no variants, except Tomcat F-14 with the erroneous 2600 labels. Tower Toppler was the only game I found with both red text and black text end labels BallBlazer has both red-on-gray and white-on-red end labels Not all games are listed. Ace of Aces (China/Standard/88S) Alien Brigade (China/standard/90S) Asteroids (Taiwan/standard/86S & HK/standard/87S) Ballblazer (HK/red text/87S, HK/red text/88S, & HK/white text on red/87S) Basketbrawl (China/standard/90S) Centipede (Taiwan/standard/86S, Taiwan/standard/87S, HK/standard/87S, & HK/standard/87I) Choplifter (HK/red text/87I, HK/red text/87S, & HK/red text/88S) Commando (China/standard/89S) Crack'ed (china/standard/88S) Crossbow (china/standard/87S) Dark Chambers (china/standard/88S) Desert Falcon (HK/red text/87I) Dig Dug (HK/standard/87S & HK/standard/87I) Donkey Kong (HK/standard/88S & china/standard/88S) Donkey Kong Jr. (HK/standard/88S) Double Dragon F-18 Hornet Fatal Run (China/standard/90S) Fight Night (china/standard/88S) Food Fight (Taiwan/standard/86S, HK/standard/87I, & HK/standard/88S) Galaga (Taiwan/standard/86S, Taiwan/standard/87S, HK/standard/87I, HK/standard/87S, & HK/standard/88S) Hat Trick (HK/red text/87S) Ikari Warriors (china/standard/89S) Impossible Mission (China/red text/87S) Jinks (China/standard/89S) Joust (Taiwan/standard/87S & HK/standard/87S) Karateka (HK/red text/87S & HK/red text/88S) Kung-Fu Master Mario Bros (HK/standard/88S & USA/standard/88S) Mat Mania Challenge Mean 18 Ultimate Golf (china/standard/89S) Meltdown (china/standard/90S) Midnight Mutants (china/standard/90S) Motor Psycho (china/standard/90S) Ms. Pac-Man (HK/standard/87I & HK/standard/87S) Ninja Golf (china/standard/89S) One-On-One Basketball (HK/red text/87I & HK/red text/87S) Pete Rose Baseball Planet Smashers (china/standard/89S) Pole Position II (HK/standard/83S with picture label & B&W label with 87S copyright) Rampage Realsports Baseball (HK/standard/88S) Robotron 2084 (HK/standard/87I & Taiwan/standard/86S) Scrapyard Dog (china/standard/90S) Summer Games (taiwan/red text/87S) Super Huey (china/standard/88S) Super Skateboardin' Tank Command Title Match Pro Wrestling Tomcat F-14 (2600 label & 7800 label) Touchdown Football (china/standard/88S) Tower Toppler (Taiwan/red text/88S & China/standard/88S) Water Ski Winter Games (Taiwan/red text/87S) Xenophobe (China/standard/89S) Xevious (Taiwan/standard/86S, HK/standard/86S, & HK/standard/87S) ----------------------- Sentinel (PAL) (china/standard/91S) 32-in-1 (PAL) yellow label w/ black text, no end label Edited October 24, 2019 by nrslam Updated info 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 18 hours ago, nrslam said: OK, I spent an enjoyable hour going thru 3 boxes of 7800 carts. I've coded these as country of origin [HK=Hong Kong], end label style [standard=black text on gray/silver, red text = red text on silver, or white text on red], copyright date [the later date for games with two dates], and S or I for Straight or Italicized copyright text. Some observations: The Taiwan games have a more silvery end label than those from other areas, but since it seemed consistent I didn't differentiate. All the 3rd party titles seemed to have no variants, except Tomcat F-14 with the erroneous 2600 labels. Tower Toppler was the only game I found with both red text and black text end labels BallBlazer has both red-on-gray and white-on-red end labels Not all games are listed. Ace of Aces (China/Standard/88S) Alien Brigade Asteroids (Taiwan/standard/86S & HK/standard/87S) Ballblazer (HK/red text/87S, HK/red text/88S, & HK/white text on red/87S) Basketbrawl Centipede (Taiwan/standard/86S, Taiwan/standard/87S, HK/standard/87S, & HK/standard/87I) Choplifter (HK/red text/87I, HK/red text/87S, & HK/red text/88S) Commando (China/standard/89S) Crack'ed (china/standard/88S) Crossbow (china/standard/87S) Dark Chambers (china/standard/88S) Desert Falcon (HK/red text/87I) Dig Dug (HK/standard/87S & HK/standard/87I) Donkey Kong (HK/standard/88S & china/standard/88S) Donkey Kong Jr. (HK/standard/88S) Double Dragon F-18 Hornet Fatal Run Fight Night (china/standard/88S) Food Fight (Taiwan/standard/86S, HK/standard/87I, & HK/standard/88S) Galaga (Taiwan/standard/86S, Taiwan/standard/87S, HK/standard/87I, HK/standard/87S, & HK/standard/88S) Hat Trick (HK/red text/87S) Ikari Warriors Impossible Mission (China/red text/87S) Jinks (China/standard/89S) Joust (Taiwan/standard/87S & HK/standard/87S) Karateka (HK/red text/87S & HK/red text/88S) Kung-Fu Master Mario Bros (HK/standard/88S & USA/standard/88S) Mat Mania Challenge Mean 18 Ultimate Golf Meltdown (china/standard/90S) Midnight Mutants (china/standard/90S) Motor Psycho Ms. Pac-Man (HK/standard/87I & HK/standard/87S) Ninja Golf (china/standard/89S) One-On-One Basketball (HK/red text/87I & HK/red text/87S) Pete Rose Baseball Planet Smashers Pole Position II (HK/standard/83S with picture label & B&W label with 87S copyright) Rampage Realsports Baseball (HK/standard/88S) Robotron 2084 (HK/standard/87I & Taiwan/standard/86S) Scrapyard Dog (china/standard/90S) Summer Games (taiwan/red text/87S) Super Huey (china/standard/88S) Super Skateboardin' Tank Command Title Match Pro Wrestling Tomcat F-14 (2600 label & 7800 label) Touchdown Football (china/standard/88S) Tower Toppler (Taiwan/red text/88S & China/standard/88S) Water Ski Winter Games (Taiwan/red text/87S) Xenophobe (China/standard/89S) Xevious (Taiwan/standard/86S, HK/standard/86S, & HK/standard/87S) Woohoo! I'll have to do some comparing. I know I've never seen nor heard of a Tower Toppler with red end-label text. Let me know if you happen to want to sell or trade any of the ones I don't have yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 I updated the above post to fill in missing info. This should be all the 1st party titles except Mat Mania, which I only have sealed. Also included the two PAL exclusives. Not sure if the 32 in 1 counts since its really a 2600 cart despite the label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Our posts crossed in the ether so you missed my updated list. For reasons too complex to get into, I can't do any selling at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 9 minutes ago, nrslam said: Our posts crossed in the ether so you missed my updated list. For reasons too complex to get into, I can't do any selling at the moment. That's quite fine; I'm very grateful to have the info on more stuff to be on the lookout for! I also have a couple autographed 7800 carts- Xenophobe by Brian Colin (great guy, he's been at MGC the last few years) and F-18 Hornet by Garry Kitchen after hearing his government story about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcing1030 | 10 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Thanks for putting this list together in this thread was looking for something like this a long time ago, such a neat set to put together that goes under the radar for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 In celebration of finding another variant (thanks nrslam!), I've included a pic of my 7800 collection. I also included a pic of the "MFG Date" Pole Position II variants. It's a sticker on the bottom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrslam | 474 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 On 10/22/2019 at 12:09 PM, captmorgandrinker said: Food Fight Food Fight (bold end label; fixed the game crash issue) Hey captmorgandrinker, A couple questions about this game. I was unaware the game was buggy, or that it had been fixed, but a quick Wikipedia search mentions that the game will reset itself under some circumstances. Is that the crash issue you're referring to or is there another bug? Also, the bold end label copies I have are the '87 copyright while the thinner text versions have an '88 copyright. Seems the fixed version would have a later date, doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 6 minutes ago, nrslam said: Hey captmorgandrinker, A couple questions about this game. I was unaware the game was buggy, or that it had been fixed, but a quick Wikipedia search mentions that the game will reset itself under some circumstances. Is that the crash issue you're referring to or is there another bug? Also, the bold end label copies I have are the '87 copyright while the thinner text versions have an '88 copyright. Seems the fixed version would have a later date, doesn't it? I don't think it got fixed until the late 80s; they may have just used a different copyright on the label. Bold end labels are definitely fixed, so that makes me wonder if the '88 copyright ones are too. I believe it crashes on Level 107. Would take about a half hour or so on Easy if you just run to the ice cream cone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 26, 2019 Author Share Posted October 26, 2019 Added in a few "italics copyright text" variants that came in today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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