Silver Box Carts

Started by Japan-Games.com, January 20, 2011, 12:31:29 am

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Japan-Games.com

Ah, I actually meant to type in ナムッコ which is the correct way.  I typed "tsu" at the end instead of "to" by mistake.

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Do you have a pic of the pulse line Devil World?

L___E___T

February 02, 2011, 05:12:44 pm #16 Last Edit: February 02, 2011, 05:17:47 pm by L___E___T
This is a silver - I don't think there's a non-silver pulse version like the other carts, but I'm not an expert on these variations :(




Last time I asked him about Devil World pulse line, Nintendodork knew about the variations *I think*

To be honest, the above could be a mismatch of box and cart anyway...
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Japan-Games.com

I think you're right.  I started searching for them and I've seen both the pulse and regular versions but they both had the same box.  I haven't seen a smaller box without the plastic holder. 

Xious

I've seen the -to variant as well, but I didn't realize that B-N was using it now, as I was specifically told that it was wrong and should be -tsu; I see -tsu on FC-related stuff, but searching for it with -to definitely returns more results. Whether this is a newer shift or not I can't say, although I could have been given misinformation, or it could have been a regional (dialectal) difference.

I honestly wonder if anybody knows anymore how it originated, though I'm pretty sure it means something, and I think someone told me what, once, in the haze of my memory.  I certainly don't remember anymore and unless there's some old-timer at N-B to say, I don't know of any way to find out. As Namco is itself a contraction, I wouldn't think they'd just add a single random sound or letter for local branding; I am pretty sure that Namcot was specifically a different division, protected by a different incorporation than the parent Namco.

@ L_E_T: I'll check Famicomplete on the 'Devil World' cart's box for you. As I said, it's all a matter of personal choice. Since this was about Silver-Box' games, but not about 'Silver-Box' pulselines, I included the Robot games in what I'd consider to be part of that set for my own collection. Heck, there's a pile of games that I can include as 'silver box' for subsets. Anyhow, I tend to group my own collection weirdly with many crossover categories.  :bomb:

Japan-Games.com

Well shit!  This one might be a problem to get...heh

http://page10.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m85524967

Here are the correct spellings for each:

Namco:  ナムコ  (na-mu-ko)

Namcot:  ナムコット  (na-mu-ko-(small tsu)-to)

There won't be anything different unless it's a mistake by the person typing it.  The tsu before the to means to not pronounce the o in to.  Hence, the English spelling Namcot instead of Namucoto.

For the Japanese pages I just browsed they're saying that Namco is the company name and Namcot was the name they used just for home video games...

L___E___T

Is there a price check list for the Silver Series games?  Some like Golf are very cheap, while some like the shooting games are very, very uncommon.  This makes it hard to gauge prices, but I'm hoping there's some sort of price list floating around for them.
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L___E___T

Is there a price check list for these silver series games anywhere?  Which are the hardest to find?
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BB

March 28, 2016, 02:04:18 pm #22 Last Edit: March 28, 2016, 02:14:17 pm by BB
if anyone knows why some of the silver boxes has different backside, i have always wondered that? is it a later re-release of the re-release? the bar-code on the lower game (ice climber) is not there on other versions of ice climber silver box  (i have another one without the bar-code but couldn't find it) the upper game is devil world with out a bar-code just for an example how it looks without.  very curious about this, thanks. ???

L___E___T

March 29, 2016, 03:07:59 am #23 Last Edit: March 29, 2016, 03:33:42 am by L___E___T
 



FeroSwan and I were talking about this recently - there are definitely variant versions of some of the silver box games.

For example, You can find donkey Kong with and without a barcode.  Additionally, the barcode versions have different logos on.  Non-barcode has no FF (Famicom Family) logo on.

What make sthis intersting is that the Silver Series themselevs are re-releases - and this seems odd to have this secondary, sub re-release factor applied.

Then to further confuse - the same difference is seen on the original pulseline (non-silver) releases as well!
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BB

i always thought the silver boxes without the bar-code was "first" re-release with the pulse line cart in it and the one that bar-code had the box art label on the cart (which i think is the nicest looking) but never had it confirmed 

L___E___T

 

 

The Pulselines came first - then there are re-releases of these (with FF logo on front and side and barcode on back.

Then the Silver Series came - these have full colour carts inside not Pulselines APART from Devil World which was released during the switch.

Devil World always comes in a Silver Series box, but some are Pulseline carts and some are full colour carts.

The odd thing is that there must have been reprints of both the Pulseline series and the Silver Series - when the FF logo came into play.

Take Donkey Kong for example - I've seen Silver Series in both variations and also Pulselines in both variations.  It's very odd if the Silver Series was intended as a re-print.
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P

Isn't it just small revisions of the box and such done to adjust to new policies and the like?

L___E___T

 



Basically yes - but why did they need to make those revisions in the first place on the older versions?  Surely they were obsolete by then?  

They updated the pulselines even after they progressed to the silver Series versions - they kept reprinting old pulselines at the same time as old and new Silver Series.  

It's an unusual approach for a number of reasons.
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BaconBitsKing

I guess that explains why some silver box games are so hard to find. Maybe they made more pulse-lines in general, even after updating them to silver-labelled carts.