Athletic World "Error" Box? My box has two tops!

jonebone · August 2009

So I'm preparing for my next sell-off wave and I'm looking at my MINTY AW (Non-FFF box) and realized it has two tops!!! Wtf?! Has this been covered before? I've never heard of any games having two top flaps, this is quite bizarre. Here's some pictures:

Compared to a traditional AW (pic taken from eBay):

How many people have these or is this version even tracked? Very strange to say the least...

UncleTusk · August 2009

Very strange. this means they had to do a whole run of them. Idiots.

pats1717 · August 2009

Mine has only one flap

Penguin · August 2009

Wow that's pretty cool. Another varient to look out for

VGS_MrMark0673 · August 2009

This one has been known for a long time now, I think I remember reading a thread from Erik (maybe?) right around the time this site was started with a similar find. I'll see if I can dig it up.

VGS_MrMark0673 · August 2009

A batty thread from 07: http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=928&highlight_key=y&keyword1=athletic world flap

I know this isn't where I heard it, but I can't find the original thread I was thinking of.

superNESman · August 2009

Never heard of this, but I guess that confirms its an actual variant, not a one time factor mess up thing. Very cool nonetheless!

Speedy_NES · August 2009

Yeah, I also discovered this a few years back, I think it's the same for all of the round seal version boxes. Anybody have a round seal version without two tops?

NationalGameDepot · August 2009

This one is common as dirt, this is the most common variant in my years of searching.

~~NGD

srh201 · August 2009

i just got 2 or 3 of these in that big lot i bought. but my sealed copy is not like this. does anyone have a sealed copy of this?

jonebone · August 2009

Yeah if anyone cares, this box is made of a different cardboard too. This is the REALLY durable kind, the strongest I've seen so far. There's a few other NES boxes out there made of a slightly different material too, W&W 3 comes to mind.

mb7241 · August 2009

My CIB Athletic World is of this double-ender variety...it's not rare by any stretch.

udisi · August 2009

I have this too, it's the black seal variation between the FFAW version and the white seal variation

Jumpman Jr. · August 2009

I was going to say - I think mine is like this too.

dougman999 · August 2009

Just checked mine, and it's like that as well. Does anyone know if Athletic World came with the thinner, blue stryofoam? The manual is too tall to fit in with a normal white one.

Athletic World "Error" Box? My box has two tops!

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