What's The ONE PIECE Of NOS Artwork You Wish You Could Find?

Honestly had no idea all the variations out there. Just so hard to keep up.

Other than the side art, what pieces do you think should be remade and why?

The CPO would probably be the next one because it is almost always burnt up by cigs, or cracked or gouged! The current repros are actually very very good but all have "1981 Nintendo of America". The art appears to be exactly the same on the early ones, just no copyright text.

The other art would be proper instruction cards. These have been done, but the color matching is not right. There a NOS instruction cards out there but they all have the late style "1981 Nintendo of America, Inc." on them.

The bezels would be great too but the very early bezels were totally different. The very first DKs (the true "Radar Scope Conversions" had 2-piece bezels. The outer piece is clear plexi with screen printing on the back. The inner piece is plain tinted plexi with no screen printing. Then, the next batch of DKs (still red but not Radar Scope conversions) tended to have the regular style, 1-piece bezel (screen printing on the front), tinted plexi, but with no copyright info. The first type would take a big effort but the second type would just be doing a batch without the extra text on it.

Marquees tend to be around (although less so than they used to be.)

There is also an under-bezel sticker but for some reason even very early DKs seem to have "1981 Nintendo of America, Inc." on them.

I think the reason all of this art stuff gets brought up so much is because when somebody finds and early DK, they are often converted and then they go to the big DK thread to see about the cab. They start seeing that the early cabs didn't have copyright and want the "correct" art for their deconversion. The side art is the big one because many early DKs did not have it (but people still want it) and the early ones that did have no copyright info. For a long time nobody could even find an example of an early DK with side art.

The story behind the lack of copyright info is also kind of cool. Basically, Nintendo was so new to the U.S. market that they didn't know how to protect their intellectual property rights in the US. DK took off out of nowhere and Nintendo was figuring it out as they went along.
 
My hope with the red DK sideart is that removing the copyright info is such an easy and trivial task that it's just a matter of printing 50 or so off with that alteration. Based on the number of people who've commented on it and how anal the Nintendo folks are I imagine they'd move pretty good.

But I definitely don't feel any entitlement to having it done. I just wouldn't want to have a whole batch printed off and then have Phoenix say "wow, I wish I would have known people wanted that no copyright variation because I could have done them no problem, but now it's too late".

Can you please email me a photo of your side art without the copyright? Thank you.
 
Wizard of Wor cocktail cpo overlay...impossible to find.
 
KLAX and Tetris cabaret CPOs and sideart, as well the Blue Print mini marquee.

Scott C.
 
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