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[retroillucid]

Here's ColecoVision FUN QUIZ Part.1 .... (yeah, that's for fun )



How many Donkey Kong Cartridge Variants exist?

Edited by retroillucid, Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:41 PM.

[NIAD]

Are you talking solely label variations or also rom variations (you know... 16K and 24K versions) as well? I'll go with ALL types of variations on this.

[retroillucid]

Oh, .... I'm talking about Label Variants here
Including French Canadian ...... EXCLUDING CBS

Edited by retroillucid, Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:47 PM.

[NIAD]

retroillucid, on Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:45 PM, said:

Oh, .... I'm talking about Label Variants here
Including French Canadian ...... EXCLUDING CBS

Dang-It... I already voted! Oh well. How come CBS' release doesn't count?

You'll have to minus 2 from my answer.

[retroillucid]

NIAD, on Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:51 PM, said:

retroillucid, on Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:45 PM, said:

Oh, .... I'm talking about Label Variants here
Including French Canadian ...... EXCLUDING CBS

Dang-It... I already voted! Oh well. How come CBS' release doesn't count?

I'm just not sure how many CBS DK variants exist ......
Maybe friends of Europe could confirm how many CBS DK variants exist?

NIAD, on Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:51 PM, said:

You'll have to minus 2 from my answer.

So I guess, you mean 3 differents variants ... right?

[retroillucid]

Geting a DK cart could be more expansive than $1 or $2 ....... or even $5 to $10 for a CV & ADAM variant

[5-11under]

I had at least 20 DK cartridges that I sold to classics a year ago or so. I located the variations, but I should have taken pictures... .

[retroillucid]

5-11under, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:57 AM, said:

I had at least 20 DK cartridges that I sold to classics a year ago or so. I located the variations, but I should have taken pictures... .

So how many variants have you spoted?

[5-11under]

Spoiler alert, possibly...

retroillucid, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:12 AM, said:

5-11under, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:57 AM, said:

I had at least 20 DK cartridges that I sold to classics a year ago or so. I located the variations, but I should have taken pictures... .

So how many variants have you spoted?

I can't remember, although I think there were about five. Some of the variations were probably fairly subtle, with minor changes in font size, etc.
Maybe you could post pictures of your variations, and the rest of us can see if we have any others.

Edited by 5-11under, Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:49 AM.

[ozma wars]

aaaarrgh
I voted and then read the topic.....I voted 2 as per the rom variants...

[Murph74]

Great idea for ColecoVision trivia! Love seeing the conversation and talk about and MANY variations, no matter how subtle.

Although, I'd suggest for future trivia style questions, I'd rather see things that have definitive answers. Like:

"What was the toll-free number on the white sticker on the top of most US Colecovisions?"
"What part number was the Colecovision in Coleco's cataloging system?"
"What New York town was used in the printed address on instruction sheets and promotional material for Coleco Industries in the 80's?"
"What was that town's zip code?"
"If you bought an Adam in 1984, you may have been eligible for a scholarship worth how much from Coleco Industries?"
"What company produced a passthru keypad to enable most Atari compatible joysticks to work better with the ColecoVision?"
"How many retail programming language packages were produced by Coleco for the Adam?"

Other questions that might have debatable answers upon further investigation might be:

"What was the first released Colecovision game to be licensed from outside the world of video gaming? (IE not an arcade conversion license)"
"How many Colecovision games contain digitized or scanned graphics?" (Only one jumps out, but there may be more)
"How many Colecovision games were based on existing movies or movie characters?"

I'm sure there's lots more to come. These were just off the top of my head as I was writing my weekly trivia today anyway. (I've hosted trivia nights here in St. Louis for the past 6 years in case you were curious!)

Edited by Murph74, Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:06 PM.

[retroillucid]

So,

The correct awnser is: 5 different variants

[NIAD]

retroillucid, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:22 PM, said:

So,

The correct awnser is: 5 different variants

That's what I originally answered until you confused the s**t out of me!

Just kidding, I was counting the actual rom variants... didn't know they had so many different label variation albeit more to do with font styles. I need pics!!!

Edited by NIAD, Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:45 PM.

[retroillucid]

NIAD, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:44 PM, said:

That's what I originally answered until you confused the s**t out of me!

eh eh. I intend to do this

NIAD, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:44 PM, said:

Just kidding, I was counting the actual rom variants... didn't know they had so many different label variation albeit more to do with font styles. I need pics!!!

That's why I decided to make a CV FUN QUIZ, the goal is let people learn more about the Colecovision collecting universe.... ok, I admit, I became alot crazy with all those variants but all in all they are fun to collect
The plan is include ALL the variants at colecoindustries.com


Here's a picture of my own DK variants
From upper left:

- Made in Taiwan (The very first DK cart) THE RAREST!
- Made in USA (The $1 cart everyone have)
- For CV & ADAM (The Re-Print cart)

From bottom Left: (French Canadian variants)

- Canadian Release (the 2nd print)
- Canadian Release (the 1st print) (Rounded Label Corner) PINK COLOR LOGO

Attached Thumbnails

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[retroillucid]

This is the kind of infos I've been digging over the web since 1996
As a collector, I always wanted to know more about.... there's was never enough for me
So, that's why I decided to make my own website with NIAD ....... bet you'll find that kind of infos on our website

Also, If you think this was usefull, do not hesitate to give a +1


And now..... if I'm telling you there's 4 different Venture cart label variants (US/Canada)

Edited by retroillucid, Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:04 PM.

[RelliK111]

retroillucid, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:46 PM, said:

NIAD, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:44 PM, said:

That's what I originally answered until you confused the s**t out of me!

eh eh. I intend to do this

NIAD, on Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:44 PM, said:

Just kidding, I was counting the actual rom variants... didn't know they had so many different label variation albeit more to do with font styles. I need pics!!!

That's why I decided to make a CV FUN QUIZ, the goal is let people learn more about the Colecovision collecting universe.... ok, I admit, I became alot crazy with all those variants but all in all they are fun to collect
The plan is include ALL the variants at colecoindustries.com


Here's a picture of my own DK variants
From upper left:

- Made in Taiwan (The very first DK cart) THE RAREST!
- Made in USA (The $1 cart everyone have)
- For CV & ADAM (The Re-Print cart)

From bottom Left: (French Canadian variants)

- Canadian Release (the 2nd print)
- Canadian Release (the 1st print) (Rounded Label Corner) PINK COLOR LOGO

Does the Taiwan cart have a Taiwan Cooper Black box or is a normal type of box?

[NIAD]

RelliK111, on Fri Sep 30, 2011 6:10 PM, said:

Does the Taiwan cart have a Taiwan Cooper Black box or is a normal type of box?

No... it came packaged with the ColecoVision system or possibly ended up in the Coleco style or CBS style boxes.

The cart has "Made in Taiwan" stamped into the plastic under the Coleco logo on the back as well as in the text of the label.

Edited by NIAD, Sat Oct 1, 2011 2:18 AM.

[youki]

there is more than 5 apparently ,i think i have some that are not on your picture. i 'll check when i will have time to dig in my collection.

but i think french ones and australian ones have different label. and the case is also different.

[youki]

While searching in my collection , i found a set of donkey kong cartriges with various label variation. (only the first row on the picture is for colecovision, 2nd is for Atari VCS , last is Intellivision)