There's a discussion going on over at one of the Facebook groups I'm in - take a look at any HuCARD or Turbo game released before 1991 and many of them have a code stamped on the back. It has been suggested that these are the actual manufacturing dates of that particular batch of cards.
For example:
Power Drift has A00329 = 90 / 03 / 29 = 29th March 1990 (15 days before release)
Gunhed has A00120 = 20th January 1990 (Later than release, assume a reprint)
Doraemon has A91003 = 3rd October 1989 (it was released on 21st)
These differ from card to card so yours may vary. However, none go beyond 1990.
There's a discussion going on over at one of the Facebook groups I'm in - take a look at any HuCARD or Turbo game released before 1991 and many of them have a code stamped on the back. It has been suggested that these are the actual manufacturing dates of that particular batch of cards.
For example:
Power Drift has A00329 = 90 / 03 / 29 = 29th March 1990 (15 days before release)
Gunhed has A00120 = 20th January 1990 (Later than release, assume a reprint)
Doraemon has A91003 = 3rd October 1989 (it was released on 21st)
These differ from card to card so yours may vary. However, none go beyond 1990.
There's a discussion going on over at one of the Facebook groups I'm in - take a look at any HuCARD or Turbo game released before 1991 and many of them have a code stamped on the back. It has been suggested that these are the actual manufacturing dates of that particular batch of cards.
For example:
Power Drift has A00329 = 90 / 03 / 29 = 29th March 1990 (15 days before release)
Gunhed has A00120 = 20th January 1990 (Later than release, assume a reprint)
Doraemon has A91003 = 3rd October 1989 (it was released on 21st)
These differ from card to card so yours may vary. However, none go beyond 1990.
Has anyone created a big old table documenting the findings?
I don't do Facebook, so I won't be looking, myself...
A couple of thoughts on this:
1) Esty and perhaps others Can you use the dates on the back of the hu cards to help with the list of release dates on Tg-16.com and the list you made in one of the threads. I can't recall when this was. It's be neat to see how close we could get to actual release dates.
2) How well does the time that the numbers stop being printed match up to the US releases that lost thier Jewel cases?
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QUESTION: Have multiple manufacturing dates been discovered for any titles yet? If so, I'd like to put an extra column or two in my table to document all codes associated with a title.
QUESTION: Have multiple manufacturing dates been discovered for any titles yet? If so, I'd like to put an extra column or two in my table to document all codes associated with a title.
Theres definately different dates, as seen in my post above. Sorry for the double post, was trying to keep the list seperate.