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Post by ash888 on Jul 1, 2012 9:41:05 GMT 2
I had an interesting conversation with a guy a few months ago who had an OEM DKII listed on ebay. I think he sold it for $100 via best offer. Here is the gist of our exchange:
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Me: Hi there. Do you know why these OEM boxes were issued?
Mike E: At one time I had hundreds of the Super Mario Bros G&W that I got from a west coast distributor about 15 years ago, all in the white OEM boxes. Best we were able to come up with was they were either shipped in those to the US for final packaging or overstock. Either one is plausible but we were never able to find a definitive answer.
Me: Thanks for answering. That's interesting. I've seen many Super Mario OEMs over the years but only a few DK2 ones. Do you have any other games in OEM box?
Mike E: Those were the only two I had large quantities of. Funny thing is most of the ones you've seen probably passed through my hands at one point. I bought every piece a distributor I was close with had and began wholesaling them. I had around 600 Super Mario Bros and about 100 DK II total. I think there was one other title in the mix, but it was only a handful and I don't recall what it was.
Me: I think I've seen a Black Jack also, but only one or two of those. Thanks for the background info.
Mike E: Yep, that was the other one. I had less than 2 dozen of that. I should still have one in my collection but I haven't come across it yet.
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Too bad it doesn't shed much light on the mystery, but I think it's interesting that one guy may have had ALL or most of the OEM boxes at one point!
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Post by mpanayiotakis on Jul 1, 2012 20:17:29 GMT 2
I used to own all known 3 oem games at some point: blackjack, dk2 and super mario. I still got the pics I think. Torsten should still have them if I'm not mistaken..
Michael
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Post by ash888 on Jul 1, 2012 20:41:02 GMT 2
I used to own all known 3 oem games at some point: blackjack, dk2 and super mario. I still got the pics I think. Torsten should still have them if I'm not mistaken.. Michael Nice to hear from you Mike. What I meant here was that one guy may have owned every single OEM box ever produced, meaning 600 SMB, 100 DK2, and about 20 BJ all in his possession at one time.
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Post by phil on Jul 4, 2012 7:56:21 GMT 2
hi,i don't think the guy owned every oem box there is,600 SMB looks a little few to me,i think there are more then 600 SMB going around,looking at the difficulty to find a oem SMB would make me think there are a lot more going around,600 would make it a very special item and if you look at ebay sometimes you see the oem boxes are rather cheap.about the donkey kong II and the blackjack it could be because i consider them to be rare,they don't turn up all that much
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Post by ash888 on Jul 5, 2012 1:17:14 GMT 2
hi,i don't think the guy owned every oem box there is,600 SMB looks a little few to me,i think there are more then 600 SMB going around,looking at the difficulty to find a oem SMB would make me think there are a lot more going around,600 would make it a very special item and if you look at ebay sometimes you see the oem boxes are rather cheap.about the donkey kong II and the blackjack it could be because i consider them to be rare,they don't turn up all that much You could be right. We do see a lot of Pokka Marios floating around though, and supposedly only 500 of those exist. Also, a lot of people could be buying the OEMs and then just trying to flip them for a profit.
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Post by andycole on Jul 6, 2012 14:45:03 GMT 2
Don't forget, that some research by a forum member a while back showed that the numbers on the OEM boxes are just the code for the box design which you can still buy today from the box manufacturer. It's very possible to buy a YM-105 in a tatty box for $50, buy the white box for a few pence/cents, then make a huge profit. This, and the fact that nobody has ever produced any hard evidence that these boxes were in any way official makes me continuously wonder what all the fuss is about with these 'editions'.
Andy.
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Post by linuxgeek on Jul 13, 2012 21:48:32 GMT 2
Don't forget, that some research by a forum member a while back showed that the numbers on the OEM boxes are just the code for the box design which you can still buy today from the box manufacturer. It's very possible to buy a YM-105 in a tatty box for $50, buy the white box for a few pence/cents, then make a huge profit. This, and the fact that nobody has ever produced any hard evidence that these boxes were in any way official makes me continuously wonder what all the fuss is about with these 'editions'. Andy. Who is the box manufacturer then & where is this post?
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Post by Aris on Jul 23, 2012 19:51:05 GMT 2
Don't forget, that some research by a forum member a while back showed that the numbers on the OEM boxes are just the code for the box design which you can still buy today from the box manufacturer. It's very possible to buy a YM-105 in a tatty box for $50, buy the white box for a few pence/cents, then make a huge profit. This, and the fact that nobody has ever produced any hard evidence that these boxes were in any way official makes me continuously wonder what all the fuss is about with these 'editions'. Andy. Who is the box manufacturer then & where is this post? Hey George, The thread starts here: mpanayiotakis.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=2308&page=1I say the demo theory is stil the best proposed theory to-date. I still laugh at that one from Tuesdayschild where he said he was working some booth during the Vancouver Olympics (or whatever it was) and he made up that story of Japanese Nintendo employees coming to his booth, and how he asked them about OEM boxes, and he said they "huddled" in a group discussed his question in Japanese and came back saying they were not at liberty to answer all his questions, but, that there was a large fire (or was it a flood?) at some warehouse, and they needed to re-package a bunch of these games as a result, and that's where these OEM games came from. Personally, I think the games and packaging is all legit. I've had a few of these, and they've always been mint with all the bits. The strange thing was that they came in Multi Screen polystyrene foam trays as opposed to a NWS/WS foam tray. As much as these boxes can be purchased even today, it seems to be a lot of trouble to find all the mint games, different bits, including MS foam trays, to put together something that normally sells for anywhere from $80 to $150. The other thing we're not sure of is why just SMB, DKII & BJ??? Anyway, happy reading George! AC
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Post by ash888 on Sept 25, 2012 5:03:55 GMT 2
Just got this as a response from a guy selling an OEM SMB:
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Hi, I bought this at a game convention in Philly, PA. about 10 years ago. This version was given to shopkeepers to use as a shop sample piece and it very uncommon and tough to find.
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