so ive been looking through my collection of games and ive noticed not all are the same. for some games came in diffrent colors or the cases have diffrent designs. for example, zelda for the NES has the gold cartridge and donkey kong 64 has a bright yellow one. what are some of your guys favorites and do you wish they did more of them?
If I remember correctly, the backs of some PS2 games were blue. I have no clue why.
They were some special version of CD. I think they were only early ps2 games though.
@DoctorDanger99 said:
so ive been looking through my collection of games and ive noticed not all are the same. for some games came in diffrent colors or the cases have diffrent designs. for example, zelda for the NES has the gold cartridge and donkey kong 64 has a bright yellow one. what are some of your guys favorites and do you wish they did more of them?
I think my favorite cases are the early Playstation ones. There's no real reason to why I like them so much, I just do. I always liked them back in the day too, so it's not just nostalgia. I also like the large jewel case versions, but those would almost instantly crack.
I remember one of the Micro Machines games on the Mega Drive where the cart had two controller ports build in so you could play with 4 players without the need of a multitap.
@believer258: I believe the blue discs were CD-Roms, and the silver ones were DVD-ROM. Although that could be bad speculation but I believe I looked into it at some point.
This thread made me want to check out Pokemon Crystal on Ebay. Some assholes are selling some homebrew counterfeit game called "Crystal Shards Version", which I guess is a pokemon Emerald hack dumped onto a GBA cart.
I'm guessing that it had some sort of security lockout similar to the 10NES chip on the original Nintendo, and the only way they could figure out a workaround was to get a real game to bypass it.
I don't know if this really counts or not, but one of the things that makes Famicom collecting fun is that there was no real universally used cartridge type; game publishers also manufactured their own carts, so there's a lot of variation in both color and shape between companies.
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On that note, the early Konami carts with the large wraparound label and often painted artwork are my favorite designs from any gaming era. I grabbed a mostly random selection of carts based on visual differences, but it's no coincidence Konami gets some heavy lovin' in these pictures.
ps2 disc were blue. i remember buying one of those but for some reason it broke on me. it was an arcade game with guns, i can't think of the game. it was pretty fun game.
This thread made me want to check out Pokemon Crystal on Ebay. Some assholes are selling some homebrew counterfeit game called "Crystal Shards Version", which I guess is a pokemon Emerald hack dumped onto a GBA cart.
Turok Rage Wars and RBI Baseball both had black versions of the cartridge. I own both, and they're pretty awesome. I used to have a red DOOM but it has since left my possession.
Got a couple color cartridges in my collection: Red Maximum Carnage (Genesis) , Yellow Donkey Kong 64 and Black Killer Instinct to name a few. I don't have anything that's totally boot leg looking or weird. I've got Pokemon Pinball with it's battery slot and Sonic and Knuckles with it's lock on slot though.
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