View Full Version : Intellivision Shrinkwrap: Original or New?
Tempest
08-14-2009, 07:03 PM
I just picked up some rather rare boxed Intellivision games (River Raid, Super Pro Decathlon, and Pole Position) that appear to be sealed. How can I tell if the shrinkwrap is new or original? If it's original I'll just leave them sealed and sell them, but if it's newly put on I'll open them and keep them for my collection.
Tempest
Steve W
08-14-2009, 08:11 PM
I don't recall if INTV era games were shrinkwrapped. I used to order directly from them, and I don't remember any plastic wrap on Pole Position.
Tempest
08-14-2009, 08:45 PM
Ok, that's what I thought. I still got them for $5 each, so that's a deal. I just wanted to make sure before I went and ripped it off. You know how crazy people get for sealed stuff.
Tempest
Steve W
08-15-2009, 01:23 AM
Actually, now that I come to think of it, my copies of Hover Force and Diner weren't shrinkwrapped when I bought them at Toys 'R Us back in the day. I remember because of the box damage I did while peeling those damn price tags off. I think INTV was probably too cheap to bother. They were trying to cut as many corners as possible, after all (white labels, low quality instructions, no overlays).
Bojay1997
08-15-2009, 02:40 AM
Actually, now that I come to think of it, my copies of Hover Force and Diner weren't shrinkwrapped when I bought them at Toys 'R Us back in the day. I remember because of the box damage I did while peeling those damn price tags off. I think INTV was probably too cheap to bother. They were trying to cut as many corners as possible, after all (white labels, low quality instructions, no overlays).
Well, in their defense, a lot of games did not ship from the factory shrinkwrapped in the late 70s, early 80s. It wasn't until the NES/SMS generation when shrink became really standard. The early Colecovision carts never came wrapped and neither did many of the early Atari 2600 titles. Odyssey 2 games usually just had some cello tape on the flap to signify they were new. In fact, Mattel was probably the only manufacturer in that time frame to wrap their games with the exception of a few 2600 third party publishers.