View Full Version : Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Variations
tpugmire
11-01-2009, 07:41 PM
I was browsing at my local Play N Trade a few days ago and noticed something that I had never seen before. Among the 20+ SMB/DH carts I saw one that had a different label on it. Instead of the usual red line between the pictures, it had a Nintendo logo between the two pictures, and the pictures seemed to be a bit smaller. Did I stumble across something rare or does anyone care about such things?
Baloo
11-01-2009, 07:44 PM
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portnoyd
11-01-2009, 07:45 PM
There are a fair amount of variants for both this and SMB/DH/World Class Track Meet. Variant crazy people will be interested but they are not in any way rare or valuable.
tpugmire
11-01-2009, 08:00 PM
Yep, that the one Baloo. I didn't figure it was particularly valuable, I just had never seen one before. While we're on the subject of variations, is there any market for NES manual variations? I recently won a lot of manuals on eBay and I already had a couple of the ones that I won. When I got them and was comparing them, I noticed a few differences. Nothing too major, but I was just curious.
portnoyd
11-01-2009, 08:15 PM
Even less of a market than for that versus the SMB/DH variant.
The only variants that people fuss over are licensed/unlicensed variants (ex. Tengen Pacmans), blatant art redesigns (ex. Gun.smoke), 3 screw backs versus 5 screw backs (ex. a lot of early titles) and cart color variants (Color Dreams titles). I'm probably forgetting a category or two, but that's most of what you'll find people have at least some interest in.
The only variants that people fuss over are ... 3 screw backs versus 5 screw backs (ex. a lot of early titles) ...
Ugh, could never figure out the desire.
But yeah, as some of the others have stated already, SMB/DH has several different varieties, I guess you could say. Kinda cool, but some of the varieties just get really nit picky.
BetaWolf47
11-01-2009, 10:07 PM
That's confusing. I can't figure out how a different screw amount is more desired than a difference like that. My guess is that people do actually care about the SMB/Duck Hunt variation, but it's so common that there's no value to it.
There's a more subtle difference that tpugmire didn't catch: the variant doesn't have the Seal of Quality on it, which means it's probably an early print.
Shadow Kisuragi
11-01-2009, 11:59 PM
Ugh, could never figure out the desire.
But yeah, as some of the others have stated already, SMB/DH has several different varieties, I guess you could say. Kinda cool, but some of the varieties just get really nit picky.
I'm nit picky about variations, but I don't go out of my way to collect them. It's amazing how many different variations there are for NES games that I've come across:
Seal of Quality (Oval, Round, White, None...)
Screw variants (3 vs 5)
Artwork variants (4-player logo comes to mind for Super Off Road)
Copyright variants
Back label variants
Cart color variants (blue/gray/black/etc.)
Just to name a few...the only one really worth any money that I've seen is the screw variant games. There's a thread on NA detailing some of the more rare screw variants, such as 5-screw Mega Man.
^ Yeah, the folks at NA are gung ho on those NES variants. I never knew much about it either until going through some threads about them.
I recently came across one of those SMB/Duck Hunt variants like you did. I've probably gone through 50 or more of those carts and that was first one I've seen.