Anybody know if the boxes were the same for the Gold and Gray cartridges?
dos-man 64
box as the gold cart, or if there was some kind of difference between
the two.
Thanks,
Dos-Man
lugnut
From what I remember, the grey reissue doesn't have the "cut-out" spot
in the box that displayed the gold cartridge.
Another thing to keep an eye out for would probably be the Nintendo
Seal of Quality - the original Zelda release has the first "round"
style logo, while the grey carts were issued when they had switched to
the oval-style one.
-lugnut
dos-man 64
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:30:05 -0800 (PST), dos-man 64
>
Thank you lugnut!
I think you're correct about the cut out in the box. It's pretty cool
really.
A lady I work with says she has gold with box since she bought it
back when the system was current. I'm guessing she has some other
games.
Unfortunately, I'm not a bigtime NES collector; I'm a bigtime N64
collector.
I need to try to determine exactly what she has and how rare it is.
Then I
can give her what I consider to be reasonable sums for it.
dos-man
lugnut
<Chai...@mail.com> wrote:
>
>I think you're correct about the cut out in the box. It's pretty cool
>really.
>A lady I work with says she has gold with box since she bought it
>back when the system was current. I'm guessing she has some other
>games.
>
>Unfortunately, I'm not a bigtime NES collector; I'm a bigtime N64
>collector.
>I need to try to determine exactly what she has and how rare it is.
>Then I
>can give her what I consider to be reasonable sums for it.
>
>dos-man
Well, if she's trying to pass off a gold Z1 or Z2 as something "rare,"
don't believe it. In this case, the grey carts are actually the more
uncommon (though really not 'worth' any more than the standard gold
carts). Unlike the N64 Zeldas, the NES games' gold versions weren't
considered "limited editions" - they were just the standard cases
these games always came with. Then around 1992 they were reissued as
part of a "Classics" series, and those are the only grey versions.
(Metroid was also re-released as part of this series, and the '92
version has a yellow label with artwork of Samus as opposed to the
original silver-label issue with a game screenshot.)
-lugnut
dos-man 64
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:29:00 -0800 (PST), dos-man 64
>
No, she doesn't know any of the stuff is worth; or even what she has.
I'll just take it because I'm a Nintendo maniac. It seems to me that
the gold and gray are about the same number produced. I see one or
two of one color and then I see 1 or two of the other. I was hoping
that
the box would add extra value. I really don't know much about NES
stuff from the collector's standpoint. I'm not even sure how many
games
were made. I think I remember reading in a book 7 or 800....