Does anyone know the deal with these white label colecovision games? I remember having a few in my youth (don't have em anymore, sucks). Are they bootlegs or review copies or did Coleco run out of ink>?
White Label Colecovision games?
Does anyone know the deal with these white label colecovision games? I remember having a few in my youth (don't have em anymore, sucks). Are they bootlegs or review copies or did Coleco run out of ink>?
I'm pretty sure those are just late release "economy" versions like the grey box Atari 2600 games or the white label Intellivision games. I have a Bump 'n Jump like that and I once had a white label Time Pilot sealed in a blister pack with a B&W manual. I bought it from someone who used to work at a major retailer and bought all their leftover stock. So it is an official release but beyond that I'm only guessing.
I think they are Telegames re-releases. I got a Time Pilot one time (and still have it) and the seller told me it was a "Prototype", boy did I ever get screwed on that deal!
No, they aren't Telegames.
The "budget" rerelease theory sounds about right, since I got them in 1985 from a pawn shop, no less. Still wish I had them though. Also wish eBay sellers would stop throwing around the word "RARE" for every Colecovision game that has a discolored case or misprinted label. Thanks for the help, guys!
I think I saw those in Toys R Us as late as 1990 (possibly even later).
im pretty sure those were made by telegames when they first acquired the rights to the coleco games..
willie
Did they look like these?
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Originally Posted by Zaxxon
Did they look like these?
not that ive ever seen.. those look like they were made on a typewriter
never seen that style... looks homemade
willie
Those are the ones I asked you about that were supposedly "preview carts" from Coleco, before they went into production.
possible., still seems unlikely- but its definetely possible
willie
The mods love it when you dig up an old thread
Found a white labelled copy of DKjr like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/COLECOVISION-VEN...QQcmdZViewItem
Anybody have any definitive info on this?
We discussed them a little more in this thread, too.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9437
Yours looks sort of like the one I remember, but I bet the instruction manual is from the original release.
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