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Post by barney on Aug 22, 2010 21:19:38 GMT
 I picked up these cards this week, and thought I'd share a few photos to help explain a few of the differences between these and the "standard" releases. There's a bit of background info here and here. I bought these from a seller in Germany, and although they are US releases, I think it's reasonable to assume that they were sold in Germany too - the seller had a lot of early German games, and these are the only two cards that were not released by Ariolasoft. The boxes have a small tab at the top, under which you can clip the hang tab. They also lack the two small pieces of plastic near the spine which stop the manual from moving about. See photo below for a comparison of an early box (left) with a "standard" box (right):  The manuals are very different. The Teddy Boy manual looks like that of the infamous "red" Hang On card (also bought from Germany). The Ghost House manual looks to be the template upon which the Italian and multi-Euro manuals were based, but varies considerably from the standard US manual. Photo shows the early manual (top), standard US manual (middle) and Italian manual (bottom):  The only noticeable difference with the cards themselves is that they don't have serial numbers printed on them:  I'd be interested if anyone has any further information on these cards, I'm a bit of a sucker for variants and would love to know if there are more out there to collect.  |
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Post by ddevilfingers on Aug 23, 2010 11:03:51 GMT
Congrats!
And many thanks for the clear comparisons and photos etc. It's how guys like me learn!!
Okay, most likely a very dumb question... but with these "ariolasoft" cards is it just the sticker that makes them distinguishable from just the usual Euro card game? or are the inserts and or manuals all in deutch too? (like my AKIMW "der mega cartridge" variation).
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Post by Retrobob on Aug 23, 2010 13:31:22 GMT
Ariolasoft - really???!!
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Post by Benne on Aug 23, 2010 14:35:49 GMT
Okay, most likely a very dumb question... but with these "ariolasoft" cards is it just the sticker that makes them distinguishable from just the usual Euro card game? or are the inserts and or manuals all in deutch too? (like my AKIMW "der mega cartridge" variation). All Ariolasoft games has inserts and manuals only in German like your AKIMW. On Ruperts collection pics you can see all known Ariolasoft games. |
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Post by Estimated Prophet on Aug 23, 2010 20:57:58 GMT
Nice find Barney!
As far as cards go I can confirm that there is a Transbot variant like this.
Do your cards have anything on the back or are they blank?
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Post by barney on Aug 23, 2010 21:47:47 GMT
Nice find Barney! As far as cards go I can confirm that there is a Transbot variant like this. Do your cards have anything on the back or are they blank? Cool, I don't suppose you have a photo of the TransBot variant? The cards just have normal English stickers on the back. |
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Post by Estimated Prophet on Aug 23, 2010 22:15:55 GMT
I'll take a picture as soon as I get the chance. The one I have was part of a sales kit so the back of the card is blank (technically a proto I guess as it was a pre-release copy.)
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Post by schlingel on Sept 7, 2010 19:51:30 GMT
just a question. is the cover itself different to the normal released version? Also, do the stickers on the back of the cards say "For use with Sega Master System only" or "For use with Sega System only"?
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Post by barney on Sept 20, 2010 14:18:56 GMT
just a question. is the cover itself different to the normal released version? Also, do the stickers on the back of the cards say "For use with Sega Master System only" or "For use with Sega System only"? The covers are normal US (Now, there are no limits SM), and the back of the cards say "For use with Sega Master System only". |
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Post by grolt on Oct 5, 2010 5:13:29 GMT
Thanks for sharing this, barney. I've always wanted to get one of those early release variants. There was a lot last year with a couple of them - not sure if they were these, but it ended up going much higher than I would have wanted.
I have some versions of Hang-on/Safari Hunt that have that little piece of plastic on the top to fold in the hang tab. Not sure if I have any Sega Card cases like that, though. It's a good idea, at any rate.
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Post by bakery2k on Dec 13, 2011 0:33:15 GMT
I'd be interested if anyone has any further information on these cards. As shown in this thread, cartridge versions of "Hang On / Safari Hunt", "Fantasy Zone" and "World Grand Prix" exist with similar manuals to your "Ghost House". Also, Bock recently acquired several games of this form:  When dumped, all of the games were found to contain pre-release ("prototype") code - different to the final versions. I wonder if this is also the case for your "Teddy Boy", and for the red "Hang On"? |
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Post by Tears of Opa-Opa on Dec 14, 2011 14:57:58 GMT
I've never owned an early release game but I'm pretty sure my first base unit set came with one of those cases with the small tab for Hang-On/Astro Warrior.
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Post by barney on Dec 17, 2011 9:45:58 GMT
I'd be interested if anyone has any further information on these cards. As shown in this thread, cartridge versions of "Hang On / Safari Hunt", "Fantasy Zone" and "World Grand Prix" exist with similar manuals to your "Ghost House". Also, Bock recently acquired several games of this form: When dumped, all of the games were found to contain pre-release ("prototype") code - different to the final versions. I wonder if this is also the case for your "Teddy Boy", and for the red "Hang On"? I agree that these are almost certainly pre-release cards. My current thinking is that following the release of the system, these were surplus and were shipped over to Germany with standard US inserts to be sold alongside some of the early Ariolasoft games. It's probably fair to assume that Ghost House would likely match the two similar cards dumped by Bock, and Teddy Boy would probably be a new dump - although I don't have the necessary hardware to check this unfortunately. :( |
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