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Title: Did Nintendo make globtop boards?
Post by: JC on April 30, 2009, 10:14:52 pm

I just popped open a Chinese pulse line, which I'm sure is an official Nintendo release. The board, which is marked HVC-UC (Urban Champion) -- has two globs, but not your typical globs -- more like small, squishy black square pouches.

EDIT:

Here's what the Urban Champion board looks like. I'm sure it's official Nintendo. I have an Urban Champion and F1 Race with the same type of board released in 1984. I have a Baseball with a PROM board released in 1983.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g2/jerahcordova/Famicom%20Oddities/urbanchampionglobtopboardfront.jpg)

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g2/jerahcordova/Famicom%20Oddities/urbanchampionglobtopboardback.jpg)

Title: Re: Did Nintendo make globtop boards?
Post by: 133MHz on May 01, 2009, 04:44:09 pm

AFAIK Nintendo did release some gloptop boards (though I don't have sources to quote atm).
BTW those are some nicel epoxy blobs.

Title: Re: Did Nintendo make globtop boards?
Post by: Medisinyl on May 01, 2009, 05:11:49 pm

/\ Yeah, that definitely looks nicer than the general pirate globtop.

Title: Re: Did Nintendo make globtop boards?
Post by: manuel on May 01, 2009, 05:27:15 pm

Looks much more professional than those pirate globs.

Title: Re: Did Nintendo make globtop boards?
Post by: JC on May 01, 2009, 10:25:05 pm

If these carts weren't so hard to find, I'd love to rip off one of the globs just to see what's inside/underneath. They're so very different from pirate globs.

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Family Computer => Famicom / Disk System => Topic started by: JC on April 30, 2009, 10:14:52 pm