Valis III manual misprint

[Lochlan]

Has anybody seen this before?

I will update later with pics, but basically the manual is cut wrong--you can see the bottom of another Valis III cover at the top of this one.  The miscut isn't huge, less than a cm.

Just wondering if this was common, I have another copy that doesn't have it and I don't think I've seen another one miscut like this--but obviously the ones above and below it on the print sheet are miscut as well, lol.

[tggodfrey]

Are you sure its not a copy?

[DragonmasterDan]

mine has a misprint, there's a drawing of a man in drag on the cover rather than anything that looks like Yuko.

[FiftyQuid]

mine has a misprint, there's a drawing of a man in drag on the cover rather than anything that looks like Yuko.

LOL.  Made my day. 

[MotherGunner]

She looks like Chyna.  Ha ha!

[Xak]

She looks like Chyna.  Ha ha!

^No Chyna I would actually do

[Lochlan]

lol... this thread cracks me up.

You have a very peculiar sense of humor!

As for misprints such as Lochlan has, I would personally post it on e-bay for an exorbitant amount of money under the justification that, as with coins and baseball cards, errors are a rare and highly sought attribute for such collectables.

Ah, I see.  So you're assuming this is a prelude to me posting this on eBay because OMG RAREZ?

To answer your implicit charge, I have no immediate plans to eBay this thing as a rarity.  I was just curious about this since I've never seen it before.  As you correctly suggested, it is an extremely common practice with other collectibles to value these sorts of misprints higher.  I never used to be sensitive to that sort of thing, then I started playing Magic: the Gathering and was exposed to a marketplace that put a huge premium on misprints.  I understand that you and many other people on this forum are eager to demonize those whom you suspect would exploit ("gouge") the Turbo marketplace, but I really don't see any need to answer my simple inquiry with snark.   I also find it a strange reason to get upset--there really isn't much left to talk about when it comes to these games, a new topic doesn't seem like the worst thing in the world!  Furthermore I actually don't see anything wrong with valuing a collectible higher because of factory errors (after all, we are in a marketplace where games are valued significantly higher because of paper garbage, e.g. obis and outer cardboard boxes), but that's neither here nor there.

For whatever it's worth, you may joke, but I would not be surprised if somebody would in fact want your offset-error manual!

Anyway, I will post pictures of this later today for those who are curious!  I think misprints such as this are kind of cool, myself!

[Lochlan]

Argh, sorry.  I'm the one who should apologize, I jumped to conclusions.

Your manual is definitely cool BTW.

[esteban]

mine has a misprint, there's a drawing of a man in drag on the cover rather than anything that looks like Yuko.

LOL.  Made my day. 

She looks like Chyna.  Ha ha!

^No Chyna I would actually do

Hilarious!

I mentioned in the other thread (about good/bad cover art) that Valis III (North America) looks like a TRANNY SANDRA BULLOCK IMPERSONATOR who is cosplaying at San Diego Comic-Con.

[Lochlan]

OK well having thoroughly made an ass of myself already, I will not fail to deliver on the photos.

GAZE upon the wonders of the rarest Valis III ever!

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I'm assuming if this was a common misprint I would have heard as much.  I guess I'll hang onto this for now, and perhaps register the domain misprintgameheaven.com in the hopes of convincing some rubes that this is worth a fortune!

[TR0N]

mine has a misprint, there's a drawing of a man in drag on the cover rather than anything that looks like Yuko.

Yuko is no xena warrior princess that's for sure 

[NecroPhile]

I checked mine last night and found that while it is cut properly it has multiple misprints on the back.  Damn those errant apostrophes!

[DragonmasterDan]

Wild... looks like not only is the cut not properly v-aligned, but that manual appears to be taller than the other one.  Is that an illusion of the photo, or did someone in the game manual page cutting department get the wrong dimensions?  if the latter is the case, then this issue would be progressively worse as the end of the print was reached.  I wonder how bad it got before QA noticed!

All it takes is the master sheets to be misaligned a little bit when cut and you have these problems. I suspect "close enough" was acceptable. Also, you're talking about QA from a company that approved that cover :-D

[SuperPlay]

mine has a misprint, there's a drawing of a man in drag on the cover rather than anything that looks like Yuko.

Can not stop laughing at this post :-)

[pixeljunkie]

errors in printing and cutting are not uncommon. especially if they used cheaper vendors.

[Psycho Punch]

Yeah my Yo, Bro copy has a misprint too, it has the comma vertically misaligned, looking like an apostrophe...