Someone went through a lot of trouble to make this fake!

[fishsandwich]

My cousin was traveling through Turkey and picked up a complete copy of Mortal Kombat 3 for the Game Gear.

My question... the box and label look fake. Fuzzy text, fuzzy pictures, & the Acclaim logo looks pasted on. I thought it was a pirate, but the instruction book looks professional and is in all the different languages expected of a PAL game. I know there are a lot of Game Gear pirate multicarts, but how about complete single-game pirates of obscure GG games? Who'd go through the trouble of putting together a pirate copy for a game that only cost about $10 complete?

Did Acclaim just do a shoddy packaging job of GG Mortal Kombat 3? Anyone know?


EDIT

It must be a fake! Mine looks just like this one on Ebay. See the posts below...


http://i15.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/b9/41/72_1_b.JPG

[GameSlaveGaz]

Maybe the cart and the manual are authentic but the original box is missing, so the seller printed one up to replace it so he/she is selling a "boxed" game

*shrug* one of the many possibilities

[CYRiX]

Pictures would indeffiently help us out.

[fishsandwich]

Pictures would indeffiently help us out.

I know, I know. I was too tired last night to take pics. I'll try to take some later today when I get home.

The thing is... the sticker on the cart was cut nice and clean and fits the indention well, but the print is fuzzy. The graphics on the box are fuzzy and off-center, too, yet the box itself looks like a factory piece.

How often were single (not multicart) Game Gear games pirated with a complete box and instructions? I know that GBA games are pirated all the time nowadays, but it's easier since the advent of cheap printers and copiers. This game is dated in 1995 or 1996 or something, and printers were much more expensive then. I wouldn't think an illegal outfit would take the time to copy the complete packaging of a medicore game for a system that was dying. The game is pretty hard to find even loose since it came out so late... it never even made it out in the states. The game itself plays fine (but it sucks.)

Anyone heard of a complete Game Gear pirate copy?

[anagrama]

DreamTR mentioned these Turkish "pirates" in this recent thread: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71749

I've seen Turkish sellers offering them on eBay for about the last year or so, and have been slightly suspicious of them, but it does seem an odd choice of system to pirate - if they can manage to get the games & manuals looking as professional as they do, then surely there are much larger potential markets than the GameGear?

Have you tried opening the cart and seeing what's on the chips?

[fishsandwich]

DreamTR mentioned these Turkish "pirates" in this recent thread: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71749

I've seen Turkish sellers offering them on eBay for about the last year or so, and have been slightly suspicious of them, but it does seem an odd choice of system to pirate - if they can manage to get the games & manuals looking as professional as they do, then surely there are much larger potential markets than the GameGear?

Have you tried opening the cart and seeing what's on the chips?

You know... my game looks just like this one on ebay. Same stripe off-center, same shrink-wrap that i'll bet is open at the top. I think they must have been from the same batch! Is there some sweatshop in Turkey craning out fake Game Gear carts? Bizarre, I say.

LINK...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8225756801


This Seller is listing it as BRAND NEW yet it's obviously open and the seller says that the manual is a photocopy. How on earth can it be brand-new?

Oh, well. My cousin paid the equalvalent of about $10 for it and gave it to me free as a gift from Turkey along with some seriously weird cigarettes. It's a nice collector's piece. I'd have hated if he paid $40 for it!



FAKE- LOOKS JUST LIKE MINE
http://i15.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/b9/41/72_1_b.JPG

[anagrama]

Yeah, that's the guy. He's got stacks of them, so the one in the pic is probably just for display purposes.

What puzzles me though is that, while I could just about believe there are GameGear pirates out there, but he also has loads of unopened PAL Pico games - now I'm positively sure the Pico market isn't big enough to justify pirates, he's only sold about 2 in the 3 months or so they've been listed. What gives there?

[Vroomfunkel]

Plus he has also sold loads of brand new official Saturn Multitaps and Infra Red Joypads ... which would also be pretty tricky to fake up.

I'm still going with that Sega knocked off a load of stuff on the cheap in Turkey to see if they could make a few bucks there. This guy has got hold of a warehouse full of leftovers ...

Vroomfunkel

[fishsandwich]

Plus he has also sold loads of brand new official Saturn Multitaps and Infra Red Joypads ... which would also be pretty tricky to fake up.

I'm still going with that Sega knocked off a load of stuff on the cheap in Turkey to see if they could make a few bucks there. This guy has got hold of a warehouse full of leftovers ...

Vroomfunkel

That is so bizarre! You're right... everything else is new or appears to be open but complete with correct color instructions, but the Mortal Kombat 3 has a photocopied instruction manual, as did the last one he sold. Mine must be a photocopy, too.

[jajaja]

I bought a gamegear game from this turkish guy on Ebay. It looks very real, but there print on the box looks alittle "weak". Hard to explain, I wish I had another complete copy bought somewhere else so I could compare.

[XYXZYZ]

A buddy of mine is Turkish. He says legitimate stuff is really hard to get in Turkey; everything there is bootleg, kinda like Hong Kong. (From what I hear of Hong Kong)