Hopefully someone can shed some light on this topic for me.
I recently auctioned off a shrinkwrapped copy of Athletic World for the NES on eBay. I got this from someone on eBay in the late 90's who told me it was factory sealed, so naturally I stated the same in my auction. The item in question is here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayISAPI.dll...tem=8102619846
Now I have a question. Are all licensed NES games that are factory sealed supposed to have the horizontal line across the back? I seem to remember a board member here a few months ago lamenting the fact that he thought this to be true and opened up one of his sealed NES games only to find out later from fellow board memebers that it actually was factory sealed and he just devalued his copy of whatever game it was tremendously by opening it.
This copy of Athletic World does not have the horizontal line across the back, so would this automatically make it a re-shrinked game?
Also notice the "Power Pad Game" sticker on the box. Does anyone know if these came from the factory? I would assume they would, but perhaps they were slapped on by the retail store they were sold at?
The game went for $9.99 in auction, but I don't want the buyer to think he got a game that was re-shrinkwrapped. I am prepared to refund his money if the popular opinion of this board is in agreement that it was reshrinked.
Unfortunately I paid more than $9.99 over 5 years ago for it, so hopefully I didn't get ripped off back then.
-AdamL