Vic-20 label variations

[ste]

Hey there..

I have a few duplicate Vic-20 (Commodore released) carts I was looking through and noticed a variation in the labels - some labels seem to be brushed aluminum, and the rest look pretty much generic. On the generic looking ones, there are also variations - Gorf and Avenger have different fonts, for example.

After exhaustive searchies the only place that seems to mention label variations for a system is Atari Age. Did the label variations mean anything? ie. released at a certain time?

I don't have any pics now, but I might be able to post some tonight if it would help.

[Mayhem]

The metal looking ones, to my knowledge, are much later production runs towards the end of the Vic's life. They are also harder to find. I think what happened is that Commodore started running out of conventional supplies and had to make do with a different design for the final production. Or something like that. Certainly I've only found common carts looking like this (Gorf, Avenger and a couple of others) and none of the rarer Commodore own games (such as Star Battle and Jelly Monsters).