Is this a legit US release Blues Brothers Gameboy?
OK, so I really need some help here authenticating this. I just bought this on eBay a week ago, it came from Italy. Seller has 100 positive feedback and answered my questions promptly. However, upon receiving the game today I noticed first off, that the label does NOT seem right. The color is off, the letters and icons slightly blurred in places, and the thickness/size of the label seems off as well. Also, the reg card, supposed to go with THIS game, is in German and says Nintendo Entertainment System, like it was from an NES console itself. Can anyone verify what, if any, the REAL reg card is supposed to look like? I never buy international because I always, literally ALWAYS have issues. But I took another chance...so please please please someone help me figure this all out. It's not like it was a small chunk of change and I want to get this resolved as soon as humanly possible. Thank you guys!
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I love the forestmen theme! Definitely one of my favorite classic castle lines.
(Yeah, seriously I don't see the pictures. Just LEGOs)
Not everything in video games is a bootleg, believe it or not.
You said cib but only posted a cart pic, so goong on only that pic i believe its authentic.
Looks like a slightly misprinted but original label. Look at the seal of quality, notice how one of its layers is off-center.
Not everything in video games is a bootleg, believe it or not.
Here's why I think it's fake: I have a CIB copy of Goal! I bought from Italy as well. Looks just like that copy of Blues Brothers, too. The only difference? I have a real cart and manual to go with it, to show the differences. The fake one has the same problems as my fake one. Slightly off-centered printing, blurry label, and wrong, off-kilter seal. Also, there are no numbers imprinted into the fake label, so, OP, look for that as well.
Sorry again guys. Here's the cib. I was trying to do all this on the fly lol so bear with me! The color on the label was way off and the picture slightly blurry, also the reg card being in German and the only thing I can read is Nintendo Entertainment System on the bottom, which made me think it came from an nes console or something. But thanks for all the feedback!
Here's my Goal! CIB I got from Italy. Hopefully your CIB doesn't show all the same telltale signs that mine does, because I want it to be real, but the only real way to know is to open it up...
Also, if my copy is real (it's more than likely an old, pretty high-quality, period fake), then that's awesome news for me, as it's the only "fake" box I own.
So, to start off, the fake box, which is nice and uses the correct cardboard you'd see in the early Nintendo CIBs. Thick and glossy. Also included are my real manual and real cart.
Brown on the inside and even the correct codes on the tabs. Convincing. Still though, the picture is slightly too small, and the front doesn't wrap all the way around the box. You can see the white line on the right side of the box, and that shouldn't be there.
A sticker from Nintendo on the side. Also interesting.
The real and fake manual. The top one is the one I bought with my game back in the early '90s, and is real. The bottom one is fake.
The two carts. The left one is real, and has the numbers imprinted in the label, as well as all the discoloration from little me taking it out of my brick game boy as a kid after losing to Argentina again. Argentina!!!!!
The right one is the one that came with the CIB from Italy. Kinda blurry, same issues with the seal, and the label is kinda coming up a bit.
Whoopsie. Good effort, though.
I'd really love to hear that my Goal! CIB is real. It has a lot of interesting signs of it possibly being real, but it has just as many that point to it being fake. And if they're faking Goal!, they'd fake anything. I would have returned it if paying for return shipping wouldn't have cost half the price of the CIB.
To the OP: as for the insert, it looks like a legit insert that was included in other games in Europe. However, it puzzles me that it was included in an NTSC English game with an oval seal, since the Blues Brothers should have a circular seal if it's the European version. I think both of our CIBs are puzzling, but if I were to guess, I'd say that it's a period fake. I hope, for both of our sakes, though, that they're both legit.
As for the BB, the cart itself looks like either a fake label or low quality pirate, open it up to confirm.
The inserts have been pieced together, one is a DMG-USA one is DMG-FRG, so someone frankensteined it together for some reason?
The box and manual actually look pretty good to me from the front picture, those could be legit.
The problem here is you guys seem to be confusing modern American pirates for 90s pirates from foreign countries. That Goal! bootleg is very old, you can tell by the usage of a custom PCB. If that CIB Blues Brothers is also fake, it will also be very old, not a modern repro boot.
Yeah, my Goal! is certainly a peroid fake. The Nintendo sticker on the side is what really confuses me, though. I don't know if they were authorized by Nintendo, or someone just found a roll of stickers, or what, but it's interesting. Especially since it's covering up the NA information with a sticker that you'd see authorizing the sale of the CIB in Europe, despite it being a NTSC-style box. The fake manual is also about 10 pages shorter than the original manual, strangely enough. But it's still a 20 page manual or so.
I was the one who started pointing out the Goal! fakes from Europe, sorry you had to learn the hard way Philosoraptor. I believe we had already discussed this though?
As for the BB, the cart itself looks like either a fake label or low quality pirate, open it up to confirm.
The inserts have been pieced together, one is a DMG-USA one is DMG-FRG, so someone frankensteined it together for some reason?
The box and manual actually look pretty good to me from the front picture, those could be legit.
Yeah, we have had the discussion. It just looked so close to the OP's Blues Brothers that I figured I'd share. I've been looking for a replacement copy of Goal! since we had that discussion too, with no luck.
To the OP: I certainly hope that box and manual is legit. That'd still be a great pickup. But the quality of the period fakes were really high, and we'd need more pictures to know if it is real or fake.