I heard some time ago, that collectors should not worry too much if a hang tab was missing on for example a NES game, because those could be purchased for next to nothing. Also, these hang tabs should not have any kind of Nintendo mark, so there are no “fake” hang tabs.

So, does anyone know where to get hang tabs like the ones that came with the Virtual Boy games originally?

Would be a great help!

Philip

I’ve never seen tabs on VB games (but I only collect JP), did they definitely come with them?

Come to think of it, I’ve not seen sealed US VB games either..

L___E___T wrote:
I’ve never seen tabs on VB games (but I only collect JP), did they definitely come with them?

Come to think of it, I’ve not seen sealed US VB games either..

You are right L_E_T they never came sealed, let alone with tabs.

TheForce81 wrote:

L___E___T wrote:
I’ve never seen tabs on VB games (but I only collect JP), did they definitely come with them?

Come to think of it, I’ve not seen sealed US VB games either..

You are right L_E_T they never came sealed, let alone with tabs.

North American Virtual Boy games definitely came sealed originally (with the horizontal seam on the back), while the Japanese Virtual Boy games were not sealed by the manufacturers.

Nevertheless, hang tabs were later added to the sealed games by the stores that sold them, so the hang tabs were not put there by the original manufacturers of the games.

Therefore, if a person wants to add a hang tab to his or her sealed games, any old hang tab will do, since the stores simply purchased any old hang tabs to put on their games.

I stand corrected then, I was pretty sure about it, but wrongfully so it seems. My bad.

US games were definitely sealed, both mine have the same tabs.

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speedyink wrote:
US games were definitely sealed, both mine have the same tabs.

Yeah, I have to take back my previous statement about the hang tabs not being put there by the original manufacturers of the games. I have a freshly opened, 6-piece box of Virtual League Baseball in my collection, and sure enough, when I checked the games again, each of the sealed games had a hang tab, which obviously must have been put there by the manufacturer of the game. The games rest on their sides in the box, so I hadn’t noticed the tags before when I would simply look inside the 6-piece shipping box.

Well, these tabs must either fall off easily over time or else people like to remove them, because my entire North American VB game collection is of sealed games, and none of them have their original hang tabs, save for the extra copies of Virtual League Baseball in the 6-piece box.

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
Well, these tabs must either fall off easily over time or else people like to remove them, because my entire North American VB game collection is of sealed games, and none of them have their original hang tabs, save for the extra copies of Virtual League Baseball in the 6-piece box.

That is odd.. What are the chances. I guess it does kind of block the view of the box slightly, so I guess I could see people wanting to remove them.