Some of the rarer HES games have B&W labels, but I just recently found one that I didn't know about: Arctic Adventure. There was a BIN auction on ebay a few weeks ago that had a trashed box but something told me to buy it anyway.

Check it out (look under the Additional Images section:

http://www.nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NES.Game&Game_ID=86

-Dain

Pretty cool. I'm so happy I don't collect variants (unless they are Color Dreams). Those harder to find HES games would be a pain in the butt to find in both versions especially if Pipemania had a colored label o.O

Any clue as to why they were released in b&w as well as color?

I personally think it's because of cost of production -- as the NES market started to die down, I think they likely switched to cardboard boxes and black & white labels (and even plain paper manuals, i.e., Pipemania). It would have saved a lot of money I'd imagine. The later releases (or versions) also didn't have the passthru or dongle, so there's another money saver for hardware. Those are just my guesses though.

-Dain

That would make sense. I didn't even realize the cardboard box other wise that would have hinted me off :P

I have that version too :)

Btw, i love your website. I sent you a PM with some releasedates.

Awesome, I'll check those out -- I appreciate it!

-Dain

Cool stuff bro.  Just gives me another damn HES varaint to try and track down now.  
~~NGD

Great another variant, man alot got covered this year. Nice job you guys. ;)

NESaholic wrote on 25. Sep 2006 at 14:20:

Great another variant, man alot got covered this year. Nice job you guys. ;)

I couldn't agree more :)