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« on: December 11, 2008, 07:28:15 PM »
I have Planet Patrol and my copy was done by SPECTRAVIDEO(c)1983 the one in the DB was done by SPECTRAVISION(c) 1982

I haven't found anything concrete on the web but so i don't know if it was just a company name change or mine comes from a different region.

Anyone know?
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2008, 07:43:42 PM »
The company just changed names.  Other then the name change the games and carts are the exact same I believe.
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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2008, 07:58:08 PM »
Awesome thanks for the info Mistro Smiley (you joined at just the right time apparently)

So my question now is do i bother adding it as a variation or just add a scan of the variation onto the game page as seems to be most popular with Atari games?
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« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2008, 08:37:39 PM »
A variation because not only did the company change it's name but so did the year released making it technically a new title instead of a re-labeled one. Treat it the same way we treat M Network / INTV games. Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2008, 09:57:55 PM »
I thought I remembered a discussion on this before...and I was right!!

http://www.rfgeneration.c...um/index.php?topic=2211.0

Didn't they change their name because of a conflict with another company's name?  I think they made system for showing movies in hotel rooms.
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« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2008, 10:27:18 PM »
Quote from: Izret101 on December 11, 2008, 07:58:08 PM
Awesome thanks for the info Mistro Smiley (you joined at just the right time apparently)

So my question now is do i bother adding it as a variation or just add a scan of the variation onto the game page as seems to be most popular with Atari games?

I've been around about a month, just don't post Smiley

Quote from: bum-man on December 11, 2008, 09:57:55 PM
I thought I remembered a discussion on this before...and I was right!!

http://www.rfgeneration.c...um/index.php?topic=2211.0

Didn't they change their name because of a conflict with another company's name?  I think they made system for showing movies in hotel rooms.

Yea, that's right.  A hotel chain had some TV system named Spectravision so they changed names to Spectravideo in 1982.
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2008, 02:05:16 PM »
I thought i had asked it before but wasn't certain.
Anyways i'll go ahead and add it as a variant then.
Thanks again guys :-)
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2008, 06:54:09 PM »
When i try to submit the variation is say that it already appears in the database.
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