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[toymailman]

Mangia!

[Rick Weis]

NICE! Congrats!!

Rick

[nofrills100]

Congrats!
Lets see some pics of the lot

[DJ Badger]

Holy cow! Congratulations... that's beautiful!

[toymailman]

Thanks everyone. This was one I never thought I'd get. Now my CIB "need" list is one smaller. This is my first CIB R10 too (by the AA guide). I think I have all the R8's and below and about half the R9's.

I am on the lookout for NTSC BOMB carts and a River Patrol box.

[high voltage]

incl SongMate and PictureMate?

[Rom Hunter]

Congratulations!

Does it say Spectravision in the front plastics of the cart?

[high voltage]

How come you find a boxed Mangia and I've been looking for 100 years and I only ever see carts only. Not fair....

[nofrills100]

Gotta keep your ear close to the ground!

[Zwackery]

So, seeing as how you bought the loose cart on eBay - eBay Auction -- Item Number: 280787451880 - did you then match it up to an empty box you've had for awhile?

[high voltage]

Ah ok...
Wow expensive NTSC cart indeed

Edited by high voltage, Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:40 AM.

[toymailman]

high voltage, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:18 AM, said:

incl SongMate and PictureMate?

SongMate=yes, but PictureMate=no (still waiting on the stash in Venezuela to be tapped)

Rom Hunter, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:38 AM, said:

Congratulations!

Does it say Spectravision in the front plastics of the cart?

All the pieces of this set are Spectravideo.

nofrills100, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:30 AM, said:

Gotta keep your ear close to the ground!

Indeed!

Zwackery, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:33 AM, said:

So, seeing as how you bought the loose cart on eBay - eBay Auction -- Item Number: 280787451880 - did you then match it up to an empty box you've had for awhile?

For the rare stuff, I've found it really hard to get CIB in one swoop.

[toymailman]

Rom Hunter, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:38 AM, said:

Congratulations!

Does it say Spectravision in the front plastics of the cart?

Upon further inspection it does have Spectravision on the cart shell, but the label has Spectravideo. What does this mean?

[nofrills100]

high voltage, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:39 AM, said:

Ah ok...
Wow expensive NTSC cart indeed

For an R10 - pretty low in my opinion. It just doesn't have the hype that Air Raid does... in fact I reckon there'd be more Air Raids than NTSC Mangia

toymailman, on Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:38 PM, said:

Rom Hunter, on Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:38 AM, said:

Congratulations!

Does it say Spectravision in the front plastics of the cart?

Upon further inspection it does have Spectravision on the cart shell, but the label has Spectravideo. What does this mean?

I think this is the norm. Probably still using an overstock of Spectravision cartridges, despite the change in company name.

[Rom Hunter]

The interesting thing is that all NTSC carts I've seen pictures of say Spectravision on the front plastics, while the PAL versions say Spectravideo in the front plastics.

[bfstats]

I've been collecting since 1981 and have never even SEEN an NTSC Mangia let alone had the opportunity to acquire one. Even wrote to SpectraVision back in the day in an effort to buy direct - that didn't work. I have Mangia CIB but it's PAL. Had to way overspend on CIB Master Builder and Gas Hog and STILL haven't found a Bumper Bash manual. The reason I say all this is to give props to toymailman - SpectraVision/Video has been the bane of my collecting existence - so this is, in my opinion, a serious accomplishment for any collector.

Nicely done, Sir!

[high voltage]

I never found a boxed Gas Hog, lose copies float around all the time, where are those boxes?

But I found a boxed Piraten Schiff, which is Gas Hog anyway, that's good enough for me.

Edited by high voltage, Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:37 AM.

[video game addict]

I've always thought the NTSC Mangia box would say Canadian Tire on it. Piecemealing a set is okay in my opinion but it deserves an asterisk if you list it as complete NTSC unless it's proven otherwise. I was happy with complete PAL Mangia in my collection, it's those types of games you wait years on and may never attain so a nice PAL copy works as filler until a stash arrives.. But it is SO nice to complete lists!

[Dino]

video game addict, on Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:24 PM, said:

I've always thought the NTSC Mangia box would say Canadian Tire on it. Piecemealing a set is okay in my opinion but it deserves an asterisk if you list it as complete NTSC unless it's proven otherwise. I was happy with complete PAL Mangia in my collection, it's those types of games you wait years on and may never attain so a nice PAL copy works as filler until a stash arrives.. But it is SO nice to complete lists!

Nope. The PAL and NTSC boxes are the same, apart from an NTSC sticker that appears on the box of the NTSC version (which incidentally this box does not have), so this is not technically a complete NTSC box set

[Dino]

nofrills100, on Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:17 AM, said:

For an R10 - pretty low in my opinion. It just doesn't have the hype that Air Raid does... in fact I reckon there'd be more Air Raids than NTSC Mangia

Nope, there would certainly be more NTSC Mangias out there than Air Raids. These appear on occasion in Sth America too.

What keeps the price high on Air Raids is that the same buyers keep buying them

[nofrills100]

so... who wants to buy ntsc stickers








just kidding!

[high voltage]

Wow, lucky I don't care about Pal /ntsc variants. A video game from any country is welcome in my house.