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Title: NES Hang Tab games Post by: Bear78 on September 12, 2019, 04:21:03 PM So I was watching a recent John Hancock video and he brought up NES hang tab games (check around the 8 minute mark).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGI81mWlQ7c I guess I never realized there were variations here (hang tab vs non hang tab). I don't know if we have any of these tracked in the DB as we mostly tracked seal / screw variations. Is this something that should be added? looks like there are some lists out there of all the games that had a hang tab variation. Here's a thread on it on NA: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=163178 Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: tactical_nuke on September 12, 2019, 05:39:33 PM Yep, go for it.
Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: Bear78 on September 13, 2019, 08:52:22 AM Well I think I researched my way out of it lol. There's just way too many small variations to even try and track this. It looks like the hangtab boxes are mostly the 5-screw 1987 games but some hangtab boxes also had 3-screw carts. Then there's different revisions, etc. So yeah, I'm good lol.
https://www.watagames.com/learn/blog/post/nes-black-box-variant-guide/ http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=187376&StartRow=1 http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=186589 Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: Schlibby on September 13, 2019, 09:03:17 AM Don't forget the boxes and carts werent sold as separate things. If a hangtab was generally with a 5 screw then its already in the database as a 5 screw game.
It would only generate a separate entry in the database if eg there were 5 screw copies of a game with hangtabs and a 2nd release with 5 screw but no tab. Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: Bear78 on September 13, 2019, 09:11:52 AM It would only generate a separate entry in the database if eg there were 5 screw copies of a game with hangtabs and a 2nd release with 5 screw but no tab. And there are examples of that from what I can tell but it's literally all over the place. From one of those links: Quote 5 screw carts came with hangtab boxes. 5 screw carts came with boxes without hangtabs and no rev-a 3 screw black box carts have been confirmed in hangtab boxes (dk jr math) 3 screw carts came with boxes without hangtab and no rev-a 5 screw carts came with boxes without hangtab and with rev-a (MTPO) 5 and 3 screw carts came with daytime rad racer 5 and 3 screw carts came with no banner ring king 5 and 3 screw carts came with white outline lunar pool 5 and 3 screw carts came with early acclaim games 5 and 3 screw carts came with LJN Jaws and Gotcha no rev a 5 and 3 screw carts came with Konami double dribble, top gun and track and field. 5 screw castlevania, both label variations came in hangtab box - hangtab box has slight art shift on back between variations. 3 screw castlevania w/o security screws came with no rev a box the 1987 cross over is all over the map. I could keep going... Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: tactical_nuke on September 13, 2019, 12:39:08 PM I’m for adding back of box scans under extra media for hangtabs then. We had a similar situation with Atari era games that had too many variations. We gotta draw the line somewhere.
Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: blcklblskt on September 16, 2019, 04:38:38 PM AFAIK, there were something like 15 ish variants of Super Mario Bros alone. I'd lean more towards Extra Media in that case.
Title: Re: NES Hang Tab games Post by: Schlibby on September 16, 2019, 05:09:58 PM A variant is a variant. I say we track them if anyone wants to correctly define the variants.
I guess it comes down to whether we want a simplified listing of games that makes it easier for people to track their games, or a more detailed database that will form a complete record of gaming history. I always lean to the latter. |