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In the early days of
the Family Computer, Nintendo Co., Ltd. released games with the same
label design. Up to that point, Nintendo seemed to
think that the best marketing strategy for their
games was to keep the labels consistent in design;
later on they'd begin producing more creative label
designs that varied for each game and often featured
characters or scenes from the game.
The "pulse line"
cartridges have a label showing the
title of the game in Japanese (or Chinese, for Hong
Kong releases) and English. A set of
lines, varying in thickness and following
the common shape of a pulse line, stretches across
the label from left to right. The color of the lines
match the color of the plastic cartridge, with the
exception of Pinball and Devil World.
There was more than
one version of the pulse line label released for
each game, one in Japan and one in Hong Kong. For instance,
most of the games you'll come across have
"Family Computer" written on the upper portion of the
label in Japanese, but on Hong Kong cartridges, it's
written in
English, like in the Baseball image above.
Below is a list of
the 14 Japanese Famicom cartridges released with a pulse
line, beginning in July 1983 with Donkey Kong
and ending in October 1984 with Devil World. |
