Questions on mislabelled games.

[Pantechnicon]

The nigh-advent of Father's day reminds me of an odd videogame-related occurrence I had a couple of years ago:

For a Father's Day present my wife got me a used copy of Namco Museum Vol. I for PS1...or so she thought. I put the disc in my PS1 and instead the game that loaded was Rugrats Search For Reptar O_O . Being new to Playstation at the time, I though maybe I was playing some sort of demo and restarted the machine a couple times to load Namco but Rugrats kept loading. I double-checked the label on the disc and unequivocally "Namco Museum Vol. I" was what was etched into the disc. :hmm:

The fella at Gamestop thought I was some sort of pinhead until he put the disc in a PS1 and confirmed what I was telling him. Gamestop traded me for a real Namco Vol. I and that was that.

So I guess what I'd like to know is: 1) Has anything like this ever happened to any of you? 2) What in the game manufacturing process could possibly cause this sort of misprinting? 3) Would a game like that have any sort of substantial collector value?

[Nez]

I ve never had anything that that happen to me. But as far as value is concerned it might end up being like that upside down stamps that are worth hudereds of dollars! Or it might be garbage LOL .

[Flack]

When I was a kid and Atari ruled the earth, my dad actually let me SKIP SCHOOL (which was a BIG deal in my house) the day Space Invaders came out for the 2600. I remember we went to Wal-Mart and got it the day it came out, got home, popped the game in and ... there was bowling. Space Invaders box, label, everything, but a Bowling cart. We ended up exchanging it and I got to play Space Invaders later that day.

[GunPanther]

Man, that's really strange to see that you had a disc that was supposed to be a "Namco GH" game, but instead it was Rugrats?

The print on the disc must have been really good, especially if it looked official.


As for me, I remember a long time ago (back in 1990- *sigh* I'm getting old) I traded this (long defunct) video rental shop an NES game for a complete (or so I thought) SMS game.

I don't remember what I traded them for it, but I got a copy of "Phantasy Star".

Lo and behold, I walk 1 mile back to my house, open up the case, pop it into my SMS and..... there's the "Snail Game". I turn the power off, re-insert the cartridge and again, the "Snail Game".

At this point, I thought I'd have to 'blow' into the cartridge (hey, it worked almost all the time with the NES games, so why not this time for the SMS? Besides, I didn't know any better back then. lol), and when I looked for the pin connectors/EEPROM chip, there was NOTHING there!

I had an EMPTY cartridge! :angry:

I immediately called the store back and told them about it. Luckily, my dad was a very good customer there so they let me return the 'defective' game for something else.




I never thought I'd ever have that happen.








:2gunfire: GunPanther :snipersmile:

[zektor]

Thats funny you just said that because I knew an evil kid back in the day that used to buy carts, open them and remove the chip, then return the empty casing for his money back.

[kai123]

The nigh-advent of Father's day reminds me of an odd videogame-related occurrence I had a couple of years ago:

For a Father's Day present my wife got me a used copy of Namco Museum Vol. I for PS1...or so she thought. I put the disc in my PS1 and instead the game that loaded was Rugrats Search For Reptar O_O . Being new to Playstation at the time, I though maybe I was playing some sort of demo and restarted the machine a couple times to load Namco but Rugrats kept loading. I double-checked the label on the disc and unequivocally "Namco Museum Vol. I" was what was etched into the disc. :hmm:

The fella at Gamestop thought I was some sort of pinhead until he put the disc in a PS1 and confirmed what I was telling him. Gamestop traded me for a real Namco Vol. I and that was that.

So I guess what I'd like to know is: 1) Has anything like this ever happened to any of you? 2) What in the game manufacturing process could possibly cause this sort of misprinting? 3) Would a game like that have any sort of substantial collector value?

I used to work at a GXC and the exact same thing happend. This guy bought it for his girlfriend because she loved pac-man and Rugrats loaded. One of my coworkers bought the disc after the guy returned it. I don't know what he wanted it for. :hmm:

[dojosky]

hi since most of my video game stuff comes from bay area areas ... one store had several pandeoniums for psx but they all actually had snowboarding games on it !!!! wtf ?? lol the cd was labelled panedoinum but it had snowboarding game on it instead of pane. and that store had about 5 on hand it was back in 1998 or pre 1998 i wish i had bought it (at least one of those) lol oh well !!

[sisko]

Nothing like that....I think the strangest thing is when we got a shipment of botched Dreamcast games.

Brand new, factory sealed NFL2K. When you opened it up, it was Sonic Adventure. We had at least a dozen of those.