Um, could someone tell me what kind of funky NES cart I have

[vespertillio]

Ok, I went to visit my dad and was a little early so I decided to check out the local thrift in his neighborhood. Ok, I picked up a Japanese NES cart that is basically two pieces. The bottom piece is gold with a piece of fabric on it like a bookmark and it says Honey Bee. The second cart rests on top of this one and has a picture of a spaceship wearing boxing gloves fighting a flight of incoming knives, toads and what appear to be strawberries. On the top of the cart is Japanese writing and the number 40k, which I assume to be the size of that cart. Umm, I don’t collect for Nintendo except for my Virtual Boy and Gamecube so I have no way of testing this yet. Is this one of those funky pirate carts or what? I took pics but photo bucket won't allow free accounts until later for some reason. I will post some as soon as I can. Thanks all. :/

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[DDCecil]

Sounds like a pirate cart of Twin Bee. I don't think companies put the size of their cartridge on top of the cart.

[vespertillio]

Ok, I did a little searching and it looks like this Honey Bee thing is a converter to play famicom games on a us console. Apparently it's pretty common, though this is the first time I have seen one.

[Chronodriftersx]

Honey bee is nice looking converter compared to others

[NESaholic]

Ja it is, it's looks much nicer,funny that you still picked it up,you just had to buy it :) !
If you'd like you can send the pics to me and i can host 'm for ya,n3stim3s@hotmail.com.

cheers,
Hakan

[Querjek]

Sounds like a pirate cart of Twin Bee. I don't think companies put the size of their cartridge on top of the cart.
Yeah, this sounds like a copy of Twin Bee to me too.

[rbudrick]

Yep, sure sounds like Twin Bee. Got a scan or pic?

As for the converter, that was a very common brand converter (most common?) in the 80s and90s.

-ROb

[nesgamer]

How much would you say one of these go for?

[vespertillio]

Well as luck or fortune or what have you may have it, I came across an NES at another thrift. It turns out all of you are correct it is indeed a Twin Bee cart. Well, I guess I have to start collecting for the NES now. :D I sent the pics off so another fine member of this community can host them. Thanks for all the input folks. I'm off now to stare at my glorious NES collection of 1 system and 1 cart. LOL

[Nesmaster]

you wont regret it! the nes is a great system to collect for. its my personal fave to collect for, anyways :P

[long_shawn_silver]

The Honey Bee Company is CANADIAN (From us Canucks) if I remeber corectly and yes it is one fine looking converter, I have about 20 of them, they where made in Montreal, QB and that is 2 hours from my house...lol

[NESaholic]

Here's some pics vespertillio asked me to host for him, ok this is what he picked up! 8-)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/Nes-a-holic/906e0bf2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/Nes-a-holic/c64d384d.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/Nes-a-holic/2d215af9.jpg

[Mattiekrome]

that cart art reminds me of NES Stinger, which may be the American twin bee? :/

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/nes/stinger.jpg

[pookninja]

yes,twinbee was released here in america for the nes as stinger.i believe that is the only twinbee game to actually be released here in the states.great game.