Over the last few gaming expos, I have picked up both the "Pole Positn" and "Raiders Lost Ark" misspelled end labels. Were there any other US release 2600 games that had spelling or similar errors? Or front labels for that matter....
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Missplelled End Lbles
Started by Chuck D. Head, May 31 2011 9:05 PM
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Posted Tue May 31, 2011 9:05 PM
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Posted Tue May 31, 2011 9:14 PM
1986 Atari corp reissues had some problems, I have Air-Sea Battle and Golf, both say "Use with Paddle Controllers" on the main label- too bad they are both joystick games.
Edit: I'm looking for "Raiders Lost Ark" for my collection
Edit: I'm looking for "Raiders Lost Ark" for my collection
Edited by toiletunes, Tue May 31, 2011 9:15 PM.
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Posted Fri Jun 3, 2011 11:17 AM
toiletunes, on Tue May 31, 2011 9:14 PM, said:
1986 Atari corp reissues had some problems, I have Air-Sea Battle and Golf, both say "Use with Paddle Controllers" on the main label- too bad they are both joystick games.
Edit: I'm looking for "Raiders Lost Ark" for my collection
Edit: I'm looking for "Raiders Lost Ark" for my collection
Thanks TT, I will add those to my want list and I will keep an eye out for the Raiders error for you also!
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Posted Sat Jun 4, 2011 7:49 AM
This is one of the reasons Atari collecting is so fun. There are so many niches you can choose to focus on that it would be nearly impossible to ever "finish" a collection. You can stop at just collecting one companies games, or you can keep hunting for more obscure variants and versions.
Pretty fun stuff IMO.
Pretty fun stuff IMO.
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Posted Sun Jun 5, 2011 4:02 AM
That's strange, since they were all probably done with the same printer that some have errors. Never seen one before
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Posted Sun Jun 5, 2011 4:39 AM
They made them at different times with different fonts and colors. It isn't typos on non typo end labels. They are different end labels all together.
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Posted Sun Jun 5, 2011 9:27 AM
Here's one I'm sure everyone has: POS Maze Game misspelled as Pac-Man
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Posted Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:38 AM
I was playing Midnight Magic tonight. Noticed that in the actual game it's spelled Midnite Magic, while the label bears Midnight Magic.
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Posted Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:10 AM
Epyx_Fail, on Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:38 AM, said:
I was playing Midnight Magic tonight. Noticed that in the actual game it's spelled Midnite Magic, while the label bears Midnight Magic.
nice catch...I wonder if they were trying to save just a tiny bit of memory (or just lazy)?
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Posted Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:11 AM
Epyx_Fail, on Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:38 AM, said:
I was playing Midnight Magic tonight. Noticed that in the actual game it's spelled Midnite Magic, while the label bears Midnight Magic.
Midnight probably couldn't fit on the left side of the pinball machine and making them match by putting Midnite Magic on the label makes too much sense for Atari Corp.
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