CV Super Action Soccer... rarer than we thought?

[wberdan]

I just made the discovery (which some of you may already know) that Telegames is actually Re-issuing the original CBS Super Action Football (Soccer) for the ColecoVision. They sell theirs in a plastic case with a photocopy of the original box, and their circuit boards look like the newer style homebrew boards. The original Super Action Football (soccer) made by CBS has an identical label, but the circuit board is the original gold contact Coleco board.. also, it came in a cardboard CBS box!
Has anyone ever seen the CBS cardboard box?
I think maybe the DP guide will have to break up the listing into a 'telegames' and 'cbs' version.. unfortunetely, it seems the only way to know for sure what copy you have is to either have gotten the cart w/ the original cardboard box or check the circuit board.
when i get a hold of the SA Soccer CBS version I'll post it in this thread along side the Telegames release, so DP'ers can compare.
friggin' coleco games.

willie

[mikeetler]

A lot of the Telegames stock is re-issues. One that comes to mind is Dukes of Hazzard, which almost looks prefect except the colors are off a little and if you look close you can see that white border is not as sharp as an original.

[wberdan]

A lot of the Telegames stock is re-issues. One that comes to mind is Dukes of Hazzard, which almost looks prefect except the colors are off a little and if you look close you can see that white border is not as sharp as an original.

right- the thing that struck me as odd is, i had never seen the CBS box until the other day... i just assumed that telegames had bought out CBS before they released the game.

willie

[ManekiNeko]

That was a horrifying game. Coleco included close-ups of important events like goal kicks and confrontations with other players, but they were so primitive they looked like caveman drawings. The gameplay also belongs in the stone-age... it's very stiff and unenjoyable.

JR

[ianoid]

I have a cardboard boxed SAS, as well as a few of the Telegames versions.

Telegames has been selling reissues for ages. I remember around 6 years ago I looked through the Radio Shack catalog and ordered a number of games- Intellivision Spiker Pro Volleyball and CV MR. Do's Castle, listed as new. Fortunately the Spiker was original and complete, but the Mr. Do's was Telegames copy material. I returned Mr. Do's and tried to order more Spikers, but they were 'out.' Why Radio Shack was still selling classic games (for not so classic prices) in 1998, I'll never know.

ian