Cartridge "Acclaim" stamp

I recently bought a lot of about 30 used Sega Genesis games on ebay.

2 of the games in the lot though seem odd to me - you know on the back of the cart where there is a stamping in the plastic right in between the 2 screws - 2 of these games have that stamp covered by a perfectly sized black piece of tape of some kind (and its not like electrical tape - both are really dull but stuck well without leaving residue). I peeled them both off and underneath is "Acclaim Entertainment inc" stamped into both carts. But these aren't Acclaim games. One is World of Illusion, the other is William's Arcade's Greatest hits.

Upon taking the carts apart, both appear to have genuine guts, and the labels sure look genuine to me (I'm pretty good at spotting fakes). And all the other games in the lot seem legit.

So my question is, is it possible that Acclaim sold extra, unused stamped carts to other companies and they used them for their games? Or is this something that somebody did later and the shells aren't genuine to their originals? Like I said, EVERYTHING else about these games seems legitimate.

I think these games were part of the re-releases by Majesco after Sega stopped manufacturing the Genesis. This would have been around the time the Genesis model 3 was released.

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Originally Posted by bmwsvsu

is it possible that Acclaim sold extra, unused stamped carts to other companies and they used them for their games?

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Yes, this is what happened. Some companies covered up the Acclaim stamp as you described with the black sticker (like the Konami Classics releases), but other games did not, like Pocahontas, which has both an Acclaim stamped cart and the Acclaim branded box.

World of Illusion had two separate cardboard releases (slide box and flip top box), and I would have to assume that the cart came from one of those releases. For Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits, I haven't paid close enough attention to know if it has more than one release. It may have gotten a reprint, for which the cart might appear like that. Also possible that all carts for the game are like that (like all Pocahontas carts have the Acclaim stamp that isn't covered up).

Thanks for the info - I checked google first but couldn't find anything about this. Then I went looking through the rest of my collection and came across another one - Pinocchio.

That just seems like a bad business decision to me - to buy another company's cartridge and then simply cover up their logo with some black tape and sell it as your own. I wonder just how many titles in the Genesis library have these types of releases?

btw - they're also annoying because they all have a different security bit to get them apart than most other games do - these are all a T-10 Torx security bit.

It's mostly to do with Acclaims' exit from "cartridge video games" in '96. Virgin had a manufacturing/distribution deal with Acclaim prior to that, though.

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Originally Posted by chessage

Virgin had a manufacturing/distribution deal with Acclaim prior to that, though.

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Ah cool, I didn't know that. Perhaps that's why Spot Goes to Hollywood was an Acclaim release even though it was from Virgin.

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Originally Posted by molotovwars

Ah cool, I didn't know that. Perhaps that's why Spot Goes to Hollywood was an Acclaim release even though it was from Virgin.

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Acclaim bought the publishing rights in that particular case.

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I know that (some) Pacman 2 Genesis carts had both the acclaim stamp and annoyingly different security bit screws