Namcot Famicom Cartridge

So, as the first part of what is a (potential) series about famicom cartridge variation. Now, videos and pictures have been made before, but uh... Hmm. Well, now with more minute details?

The first (and only) cartridge we look at in this article is Valkyrie No Bouken by Namcot.

Now, in case you didn't know, A lot of third party developers on the famicom made unique cartridge casing for their games. Why? No idea, but most of them do look cool, or at least are more interesting than the generic NES cart. Namcot, the name namco went by for some famicom games (multiple theories exist as to why this was done), created a uniform (to my knowledge) cart design for most of their games.

These cartridges are easily recognizable from their top label, which nintendo carts lacked. Almost all the carts this style are black as well.

Something of particular note for early games released by namcot is that they are numbered. They kept count to game #18, and then stopped. The numbers are kind of cool for collecting, but they also fill me with the urge to get every single one... Also seen in the picture is Namcot logo carved into the cart itself. I guess they wanted to make sure you knew who made the game.

The number is also carried onto the back as well.

Annoyingly the cart itself has two halves that meet at the top, which can create the crease seen here.

Anyway, that ends my look into the typical namcot cartridge variant. Tune in next time for.... something.

- P.S.

Yeah... this is my lighting setup.  That poor Legend of Zelda cart....