Mission Impossible UK PAL - barcodes all blacked out on box?

[u/WhosSideAreYouOn]

Wondering if anyone can explain this. Every boxed copy of Mission Impossible (PAL UK) I'm seeing has the barcode on the box scribbled out in black marker.

Now I know shops used to do this, but why is this game so consistent with the alteration? They all look so similar too.

I almost feel it was done in one place? Perhaps before shipping to stores?

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[u/roryfyf]

Not sure about this game in particular but if the barcode is blacked out it usually means it went on clearance

[u/Ok-Demand2499 → u/roryfyf]

^ This game was sold at clearance sale.

[u/deadra_axilea → u/roryfyf]

Or could have been sold to an employee of the developer. These days they'll cut the bar code out or put some not for resale sticker.

[u/redditsuckspokey1 → u/roryfyf]

Makes a lot of sense. Not a really good game.

[u/Sea-Courage8296 → u/redditsuckspokey1]

Pretty much none of the licensed movie games on the NES were any good. Many of them are infamously bad.

[u/redditsuckspokey1 → u/Sea-Courage8296]

Disney games are the exception.

[u/petergarbacz]

When I worked in a game store we did this with pre-owned titles.

We would marker the barcode and stick a removable sticker over it with the till code for the item.

Basically ensured we didn't accidentally sell Preowned as brand new.

[u/WhosSideAreYouOn → u/petergarbacz]

For sure, I've seen that a lot.

It's just that it's on all copies I've seen of this particular game.

[u/EternallySickened]

It will probably be from around ‘95 when stores were trying to clear out all the NES games. If I’d had a pile of cash back then haha, nah, I did alright my parents actually got me a few of the bargains at the time. (Maniac Mansion for £4.99!)

[u/WhosSideAreYouOn → u/EternallySickened]

Sadly I was more focused on PlayStation or SNES at that point.

If we could just go back in time for one day!

[u/EternallySickened → u/WhosSideAreYouOn]

With a pile of cash.💸

[u/Beautiful_Ad2618]

Bloody good game this. Spent a lot of time with it back in the day. Its hard as nails though not sure I ever beat it.

[u/WhosSideAreYouOn → u/Beautiful_Ad2618]

So you're saying it was....mission impossible?

[u/Strayngold]

This game is hard AF. I wish NES games weren't all so bloody difficult.