Does anyone else have a
licensed NES game where the cartridge was not manufactured by Nintendo themselves?
I just stumbled across a licensed cartridge manufactured by Virgin Games for the Overlord NES game. Not only does it make it clear in the engraved box on the lower back of the cartridge, but the "battery-packed" sticker on the back is grey instead of gold, and the wording differs from the common "battery-packed" message (although it is similar to the USA/CAN "battery-packed" stickers, yet missing the French part and, of course, it's grey and not gold). Also, the back of the cartridge is much more of a brown color, whereas the front half is the same as all other licensed NES cartridges. Unfortunately I don't have the tools to open up the cartridge to check out the inside. :/
I checked all of my other Virgin Games cartridges, and they were all manufactured by Nintendo.
Pic of cart manufactured by Nintendo themselves:
Pic of Virgin Games cart:
More carts of mine manufactured by licensed companies other than Nintendo:
Acclaim (Terminator 2, Incredible Crash Dummies, & George Foreman's KO Boxing):
Hi-Tech Expressions (Mickey's Safari in Letterland):
The different companies seem to use labels that slightly vary from one another, so that could explain why the battery-packed label from Overlord differed from the others. I'm surprised I never noticed any of this earlier
-Speedy