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Fake or real game
marioxb:
Just saw some pics of this on Google and it made me think.. I wonder if I started this whole thing.. If this thing can be traced back to Columbus Ohio, than I'm sure of it.
So I had a gold Zelda game a long time ago. The case cracked and I wanted to replace it. I took apart a gray SMB/Duck Hunt that a local game store had tons of for free. I bought some yellow model paint, for some reason thinking it would dry gold. I took off the labels of the broken Zelda and SMB. I painted the gray cart and superglued the Zelda label to it. I later sold the game back to the game store (at a normal Zelda value, mind you) and got another gold one. This was all before eBay was invented. I wonder if someone later bought my painted game and passed it off as a test cart? That would be hillarious if its the case!
Arseen:
--- Quote from: marioxb on August 04, 2011, 07:34:58 PM ---Just saw some pics of this on Google and it made me think.. I wonder if I started this whole thing.. If this thing can be traced back to Columbus Ohio, than I'm sure of it.
So I had a gold Zelda game a long time ago. The case cracked and I wanted to replace it. I took apart a gray SMB/Duck Hunt that a local game store had tons of for free. I bought some yellow model paint, for some reason thinking it would dry gold. I took off the labels of the broken Zelda and SMB. I painted the gray cart and superglued the Zelda label to it. I later sold the game back to the game store (at a normal Zelda value, mind you) and got another gold one. This was all before eBay was invented. I wonder if someone later bought my painted game and passed it off as a test cart? That would be hillarious if its the case!
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Judging from the wear on the finger grapping hole thinggie showing clear or white plastic, I doubt it has never been gray, as the gray cart's plastic is gray thru the whole thikness.
But the gold carts show similar wear, so my quess would be gold cart painted yellow, not real test cart as I think they were gray with white super simplistic label.
And oh how the other Admins like year old topics brought back to life.
marioxb:
What's better? New topic or this? Anyway, has anyone seen this inside of the cart?