Weird promo Olympic NES cart found? What the heck? Big pics

[maxlords]

OK, was in a pawn shop this evening just for the hell of it and found this weird cart. It has no top label, what you see is what you get and the back is a normal NES cart back.

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Now, I couldn't figure out what the heck this is as I'd never seen anything like it. So I got home with it just now and popped it in the NES. Boots up and it's Super Spike V-Ball. Same as the real game in every respect except for the weird labeling.

Now what I REALLY want to know is...was this authorized by Nintendo? And was this done officially by Kellogs? Has anyone seen ANYTHING like this before?

Here's the info off the label of the cart:

M C.O.A./A.O.C TM Kellogg Canada Inc./ TM Marque Commerce De Kellogg Inc. 1996

Beach Volleyball/Volleyball de plage

As you can see, not only does it have a bunch of Kelloggs copyright stuff, but it also has Tony the Tiger and the symbol for the Olympics and the Canadian maple leaf with an Olympic torch in front of it.

Anyone have any idea what's going on? And what the heck might this be worth???

[maxlords]

Checked inside too....the board is an official NIntendo board with ROMs, not EPROMs. It's a normal Super Spike V-Ball inside...so did Kellogg's do this as some sort of contest giveaway for a Canadian Summer Games? Or.....?

Anyone with any info, it would be appreciated. Please do NOT PM me about it as my box is almost full! Thanks :)

[hydr0x]

wow, what an interesting find, i don't have any info on it though, sorry :(

[geelw]

Checked inside too....the board is an official NIntendo board with ROMs, not EPROMs. It's a normal Super Spike V-Ball inside...so did Kellogg's do this as some sort of contest giveaway for a Canadian Summer Games? Or.....?

Anyone with any info, it would be appreciated. Please do NOT PM me about it as my box is almost full! Thanks :)

dude.....that's a rare one, i'd say. what you want to do is contact kellog's up there (or down here) directly and ask them for any info they might have on the promotion (and if there's any stuff lying around in a warehouse somewhere you could score, lol)

[Brian_Provinciano]

That's especially strange since it says 1996. One would think they'd at least be doing SNES games. Seems kind of odd.

One could have removed the normal label, used a typewriter or printer to write "Beach Volleyball/Volleyball de plage" on a sticker, then stuck it on. It could be real, but a commercial NES release in 1996 in North America? We must find more info on it!

[sniperCCJVQ]

Or it could that someone have this cart with no label and he find the sticker in the cereal and decided to stick on the labeless cart ?

This seem more realistic to me.

[maxlords]

Or it could that someone have this cart with no label and he find the sticker in the cereal and decided to stick on the labeless cart ?

This seem more realistic to me.

See, but if someone did that, it would be a much less professional label. Why would anyone bother to make a Kellogg's Olympic label for the game? I can't see someone privately bothering.....

[Goodwill Hunter]

Or it could that someone have this cart with no label and he find the sticker in the cereal and decided to stick on the labeless cart ?

This seem more realistic to me.

See, but if someone did that, it would be a much less professional label. Why would anyone bother to make a Kellogg's Olympic label for the game? I can't see someone privately bothering.....

I think what he's saying is that Kellogg probably had an olympic promotion back in '96 (ie: free set of 6 Olympic stickers inside!), and someone took the volleyball one, typed a name on the bottom and put the sticker on the cart. I think the fact that the sticker is less than a perfect fit, and the game info looks typed on makes this a likely scenario. I denfinitely would have picked it up had I seen it though.

Rich

[robotriot]

But why would someone type-write on a blank label instead of write by hand? And also, why in two languages if it was just for him privately?

[brykasch]

Well I thought iwas something neat till I saw the date, and then really looked at the sticker. it looks just like a sticker from a pack of cards that was put on there since the label had come off and they wanted to be able to sell the cart. Most nes labels fit that entire surface its on. So I would have to say its nothing unusually unless you can contact kellogs and find out.

[maxlords]

Well, I know it wasn't typed on by someone. The whole label is a laminated pre-printed label. It's not handmade in any way. It's not done that way, unless Kellogg's preprinted one that had "Beach Volleyball" typed on the label already. It seems like a stretch but I suppose it's possible. I just don't know.

[sisko]

Interesting find!

I agree with geelw though. Call up the Canadian division of Kelloggs' customer service, and ask them what the deal was. They should be able to look up the necessary information on it.

[sniperCCJVQ]

I think what he's saying is that Kellogg probably had an olympic promotion back in '96 (ie: free set of 6 Olympic stickers inside!)

Exactly, remember that beach volleyball made is debut in 1996 at Atlanta. I'm 99.9% sure this sticker came from a promotion of Kellogg Canada. Someone got a crappy Super Spike V-Ball, find it in the cereal, put the sticker on it and that's it.

[portnoyd]

That's pretty weird.

[Cmosfm]

I've been scouring Google for you for about....30 mins....trying to find info on the game and mostly the origin of what I believe is just a sticker from a Kellogg's promo stuck on a SSVB cart.

I have found nothing, but it seems as if it was just simply a kids way of labeling his label-less game.

[Crush Crawfish]

That's one strange find....but I wonder, If some kid put it on the cart, where'd the label for the game go? The cart doesn't appear to have any sort of sticker residue on it...maybe he bought a brand new game that just happened to be label-less? I dunno...I'm confused. :o

[geelw]

geez. what a buncha skeptics LOL max, just contact kellogg's and let us know whatcha find out. i think you may be on to something interesting...

g.

[rbudrick]

I have found nothing, but it seems as if it was just simply a kids way of labeling his label-less game.


If some kid put it on the cart, where'd the label for the game go? The cart doesn't appear to have any sort of sticker residue on it...maybe he bought a brand new game that just happened to be label-less? I dunno...I'm confused.

Yeah, Seriously...That theory really doesn't make a whole lot of sense...who the hell would rip the label off a game with do sticker residue or sticker remnants just to put a stupid Kellog's label on it. Why the hell would Kellog's put a label for a NES volleyball game in a cereal box?

"Hey Kids!! Rip the fucking label off you game and put our mis-sized label on!" You Mom will love that you ruin your game and you will love the new ghetto label!"

Seriously...the theory doesn't hold very well.

-Rob

[geelw]

heh... i can see jury duty in some of their futures, LOL

[sniperCCJVQ]

If the game was totally different with a Kellogg opening screen i gotta say "OK, here a unknow game", but it's the extra commun SSVBall.

[Bratwurst]

My money's on it being a cereal sticker that got slapped on a cart some kid took the label off of.

[spoon]

I have found nothing, but it seems as if it was just simply a kids way of labeling his label-less game.


If some kid put it on the cart, where'd the label for the game go? The cart doesn't appear to have any sort of sticker residue on it...maybe he bought a brand new game that just happened to be label-less? I dunno...I'm confused.

Yeah, Seriously...That theory really doesn't make a whole lot of sense...who the hell would rip the label off a game with do sticker residue or sticker remnants just to put a stupid Kellog's label on it. Why the hell would Kellog's put a label for a NES volleyball game in a cereal box?

"Hey Kids!! Rip the fucking label off you game and put our mis-sized label on!" You Mom will love that you ruin your game and you will love the new ghetto label!"

Seriously...the theory doesn't hold very well.

-Rob

Why would someone do it?

OMG!L@@k UBER RARE UNRELEASED NES PROTO! BIN!

[BIGMIKE]

just ebay it and make a ton of money................. 8-)

[Avenger]

im almost positive that its just a sticker from a box of cereal, slapped on the cart...no one typed the words, they were already on it...i guess you could contact Kellogs to find out for sure, but thats up to you

no where on the label does it sayt anything about being a NES game..doesnt say anythin about video games period! it wouldnt have been their intention to have ppl stick it on a game, but i guess what happened was sumone had a cart with no sticker...realized it was a volley ball game and said "hey i have a vollyball sticker ill put that one on"

[Ed Oscuro]

The Kellogg's bit has me excited.

Maybe, just maybe I can get some information out of Kellogg Archives on this matter.

I will say that Team Tiger is real, though I wasn't aware of it back in 1996 (my world was quite a bit smaller then, though ;)

[Ed Oscuro]

but i guess what happened was sumone had a cart with no sticker...realized it was a volley ball game and said "hey i have a vollyball sticker ill put that one on"
They did a good job on it, then, making sure to remove all the residue from the old sticker! I may have my doubts about Nintendo's SOQ, but I have yet to see a cart yet that shipped without a sticker.

I think that the space on the front of an NES cart is a bit too small to stick a baseball card sized sticker on (like the Kellogg's/Nintendo cards from around '94 or '95), but I've never seen this sticker anyways. It is a possible answer, of course.

[Ed Oscuro]

and ask them for any info they might have on the promotion (and if there's any stuff lying around in a warehouse somewhere you could score, lol)
Kellogg's has been giving away old promos clogging up their warehouse via Kellogg's Cereal City USA (seperate from Kellogg's, but licensed, owned by the Heritage Foundation)...we're currently innundated with Pokemon stuff :P

So...no, I wouldn't bet on Kellogg's giving away stuff. In any case, I'm doubtful these resided long if at all in the USA, since Kellogg's has a plant or two up in Canada and their own host of supporting facilities.

[SkiDragon]

I was going to say that there were winter olympics in Calgary, Canada in 1988. However, I think the theory that this was a sticker for the 1996 olympics that was just stuck on this game is better. The sticker says beach volleyball in english and french, and was probably just a promotional sticker. Maybe the kid just thought this sticker was cooler.

[geelw]

*sigh* bets NEED to be placed on this. max, kellogg's , kellogg's, max... :D

as your agent, i get 10% of whatever you get max (even if it's a year's worth of canadian corn flakes)... LOL

[v1rich]

I found this page which lists that there was a kellogg's beach volleyball cereal box in 1997

http://pages.prodigy.net/funnybusiness3/canadian.htm

[geelw]

I found this page which lists that there was a kellogg's beach volleyball cereal box in 1997

http://pages.prodigy.net/funnybusiness3/canadian.htm

:hmm: hmmmmm... the plot thickens (like charles dickens)... :D