View Full Version : Contra III prototype???
Habeeb Hamusta
10-12-2004, 10:29 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8138664606&rd=1
What the hell is that? I'm thinkin it's fake. Anybody ever seen something like this before?
max 330 mega
10-12-2004, 10:36 PM
looks fake to me..
anybody know for sure?
Promophile
10-12-2004, 10:37 PM
This is why I don't buy prototypes for released games. The only time I would even consider is if the seller posted detailed information about differences between the prototypes and the released game.
FlufflePuff
10-12-2004, 10:38 PM
This is why I wouldn't buy a prototype period. You never know what you're getting, and if you do the prices are too prohibitive to make it worth the while.
jonjandran
10-12-2004, 10:41 PM
I don't think it's a prototype.
There actually was a company that was selling Snes games New with that exact label on them.
I think that's what it is.
jerkov
10-12-2004, 10:42 PM
There's no way that's a prototype. About a year or two ago on eBay, some guy was selling a shitload of essentially new Contra III cartridges that were produced but never given labels or boxed. Basically, the games were produced but never packaged and sold to the public. I think they were going for about $5-10 apiece back then. I'm going to guess that this is one of them, and someone threw on a shitty label that says "CONTRA III".
max 330 mega
10-12-2004, 10:43 PM
why the hell would a company even put such a horribly ugly label on a game, it looks like some mom made it and slapped it on the cartridge her stupid kid messed up.
Not a prototype. As many mentioned, a dude had sold many of these games on ebay awhile back without labels, brand new but missing the labels. Several other games had been there too, not just contra...
Chronodriftersx
10-12-2004, 11:20 PM
It doesn't sound like he's saying it's a proto only by mentioning that. It appears that they're saying it that it might only look this way actually, however the seller never says that it is or they think that it is.
davidleeroth
10-13-2004, 08:13 AM
I bought one of those from some guy. Must have been in 2003. There's also a version without the "Alien Wars" text.
He had a lot of different games with those labels, most of which were re-released at some point. I got Castlevania IV too and it's actually written as "Castelvania".
My very uneducated guess is that they halted the production of boxes/manuals/cart labels before the re-release, waiting for new art to arrive and the games were labeled to prevent mixing them up.
That or they miscalcuted sales and were stuck with a pile of carts that didn't sell no matter what and the production of labels and such was seized.
v1rich
10-13-2004, 08:16 AM
There are a couple of Scooby Doo's listed for sale like that too. It is what someone else said, someone got a bunch of old stock that had never even been labeled and slapped these labels on there and were selling them as "brand new".
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8138158957
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62053&item=8138453137
Ed Oscuro
10-13-2004, 11:43 AM
I remember hearing this was Majesco.
Damn...sorta wanted to see a Nintendo Super System cart. I've no idea what those look like, actually.
rpepper9
10-13-2004, 12:10 PM
There was a thread about this type of game before. They had decided that they were not prototypes, just a company that was making the cases and publishing the games with very generic lables. I think they were games at the end of the production run before the greatest hits version came out.
You are bidding on a SNES game Contra III Aliem Wars
So unless it is alieM wars as listed in the auction description it is a pretty standard game with an very generic label on it.
DreamTR
10-13-2004, 07:28 PM
They sell those at used video game stores. It is not a prototype.
About the people in here who don't collect protos for released systems because they think it's easy to fake? Protos 99% of the time come on boards with EPROMS. SNES protos 99.9% of the time fall into the "special EPROM board" category. It's not like the guy is claiming it in the title, he is just unsure of what it could be because of the label. And to be frank, it would take a few hours to make a proto, yes? That is surely not worth the cost of a released proto, which is why there are hardly any fakes for NES or SNES as opposed to the 2600.
Chronodriftersx
10-13-2004, 10:52 PM
Agreed. By special SNES board, is that usually one of the 2 kinds of SHVC boards for US titles?
Nespit
10-14-2004, 10:21 AM
They all come from a big wholesaler, who bought approx 1500 of these cartridges right out of the Konami warehouse. Konami slapped these labels on them. there are about 5 different games. they have been on ebay for a few years now.
Its just funny to have somethin that was never finished and never reached a store..
Predatorxs
10-17-2004, 03:26 PM
They all come from a big wholesaler, who bought approx 1500 of these cartridges right out of the Konami warehouse. Konami slapped these labels on them. there are about 5 different games. they have been on ebay for a few years now.
Its just funny to have somethin that was never finished and never reached a store..
Ditto... those carts were fairly common place, on ebay a year back, but from what i saw, nobody was buyin them.. :roll:
And they don't really hold any value?!? although Contra was and still is a very cool game..
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Nespit
10-19-2004, 03:10 AM
i've bought them..:-)
bought allmost all different games at once from the original seller. for like 3 dollars if my memory serves me right..