Is it really THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING ?

[rarecube]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=8106&item=8146995320&rd=1

[soniko_karuto]

wow!

it looks kewl, all packed and all. But the original box was different, maybe thats a refurbed unit.

also the link of the 28 games, uhm, i have more than half of those and i didn't had any trouble finding them.

[davidleeroth]

I would love to see Nintendo workers writing that text to thousands of boxes using a stencil ruler (and do a crappy work with it).

[Griking]

I would love to see Nintendo workers writing that text to thousands of boxes using a stencil ruler (and do a crappy work with it).

Perhaps in the early 80s when they were just trying to stay in business in the US they might have. But I'd never pay big bucks for an item like this because while it may be legit packaging there's really no way to tell for sure.

[Duncan]

The foam looks real enough and is pretty hard to fake, so that's good. However:

1) The box looks exactly like the kind you can buy for sports cards; something like a dime apiece. :hmm:

2) The story doesn't add up -- what intelligent manufacturer would waste money on a "pre-box"? Also, that stencil looks like crap -- even a struggling company in the 1980s would have had computer-printed labels or at least a rubber stamp, rather than hand-lettered stencils. :roll:

I say "pass" based on the evidence so far.

[tholly]

no....no company would do that....id bet money thats fake

[max 330 mega]

your all wrong, i have one its total legit.
thats what happens when nintendo prints too many units and not enough boxes and manuals.
its not worth $250 tho, or if it is ill be very happy. :D

[tholly]

your all wrong, i have one its total legit.
thats what happens when nintendo prints too many units and not enough boxes and manuals.
its not worth $250 tho, or if it is ill be very happy. :D



you have a box with a hand written crappy stensil job
looks like you got faked too

no company that wants to make money would pay people to hand stensil on white boxes

[max 330 mega]

like i said, its what they did when they printed too many games, too little boxes. its not hand stenciled some machine did it. surely they didnt sell them in stores this way, but most likely to a few dealers or something.

[SoulBlazer]

Pictures of yours would help. :D

[tholly]

like i said, its what they did when they printed too many games, too little boxes. its not hand stenciled some machine did it. surely they didnt sell them in stores this way, but most likely to a few dealers or something.


if some machine stensiled that....then its a piece of junk machine...
the letters are not evenly spaced, evenly sized, and they are all crocked (sp)

if they could make a machine to do stensils, then they could have just printed more boxes

1 machine like that could cost upwards of $50,000 just for the machine....it would just make more sense to print more boxes up

[dogbowl2]

There were some game and watch boxes that were white with generic lettering on the outside, however the text on the particular box does look suspicious.

I tried google'iong for an example of a legit one, but couldn't find it....

[cratermaze]

I've seen boxes lettered similarly, just not for video games. When I worked at an auto dealership in the parts department, lots of part boxes were lettered in similar ways, so I imagine its a pretty standard machine that prints up that kind of box, most likely it was stamped on, and the lettering is crooked because they probably just slapped them in the press to print up a few.