I didnt know that. But I dont think Spy Hunter got that treatment. I browsed through google images for a bit and didnt see a white seal version.
Here's a couple pics I grabbed from Ebay.
Box with white seal.
Box with black seal
Cart with the white seal.
It's kinda funny that this just came up because I was going to share with you guys the way a friend of mine (with an INSANE! amount of games) collects NES. He doesn't want every title, and isn't interested in having the box, but he wants any and all variations of the game carts he collects.
Take a look at this picture I took while scanning NES games for the site at his kitchen counter.
(Hey
BadChad there's your Metal Storm, lol.
All 4 of these Ghostbuster carts are different. The top 2 have the black seal and the bottom 2 the white one. If you look hard at the 2 white seals, you can see that the lower one has a "circle R trademark" and the other one doesn't. I forget what he said the difference was between the 2 black seal ones, I think the stickers on the back were different. Yes, you are reading this right, 4 copies of the same game for as little as a "trademark". And you guys thought
you were OCD.
).
He has the Zelda carts with all 3 seals (original, oval and circle) and with "R", "TM" or nothing variations.
Personally I think that even if the cover is custom it shouldn't have a US seal of qual on the back and a PAL seal of quality on the front. That is like miying the regions on one cover.
I agree. My first post wasn't very clear. I wasn't commenting on the cover by
SonicAdvDX and whether or not it should be considered retail. I should have quoted
BadChad's post of wanting a black seal because it couldn't be retail with a white one. I wanted to point out that some games have more than one version of the seal.
Here's the retail Burgertime cover by
shenske.
And here's a pic of the original (first) release.
If
shenske changed the "circled nintendo" at the top from yellow to red and the seal to black, he could upload another retail cover.
If I had to choose, or was going to make the cover myself (yeah like that could happen), I would want the cover's seal to match whatever one is on my game cart.
Hope I haven't messed up too many of you OCD guys who now have to check to make sure your seals match.
