Glob top nintendo famicom carts?

[famiac]

So my clu clu land is a glob top, but it looks completely legitimate, and after looking on nescartdb, a lot of famicom games are glob tops...

Anyone know about this?

[Xious]

This isn't uncommon: It is usually on games that had very high production numbers, and there is no easy way to know if a FC game has DIP or adhered ROMs. (You'll need to open and inspect them.) 

[JC]

I hadn't seen too many globs, but I noticed when buying games from Taiwan that licensed Chinese Nintendo games were globtops. They're the pulselines and they don't say audiowhatever Japan on them. The names are also Chinese instead of Japanese. Looked like Nintendo tried to release some licensed games in Taiwan, maybe elsewhere, but was quickly overcome by pirated versions.

[jpx72]

I have a couple globtop official Famicom cartridges, and I have seen countless of them on nesdatabase too. It's pretty common as xious said. I think the newest production runs are globtops.
Japanese Contra or Splatterhouse (and Namco cartridges generally) are very often globtops.

PS: Will buy non-globtop Contra (J) if somebody notices this!

[Xious]

Agreed... I thought I even mentioned this, but I guess I forgot to post my reply to JC:

The 'glob' games are generally late-production runs of vey popular titles, such as the aforementioned 'Clu Clu Land', and probably 'Golf' as well. I expect that all post-1988/89/90 games of these early titles are of the 'glob' variety. 

[elgobbes]

What about the early NES titles that have Famicom boards in them? My copy of Gyromite has a glob Famicom board in it, and it's from 1985.

[michaelthegreat]

I think a lot more Famicom games had glop tops because Nintendo didn't keep a tight grip on the cartridge circuit boards like they did in the US. There were more 3rd party mappers in Japan. Since they were't using Nintendo official circuit boards made for chips, they could make them for the cheaper glop tops.

I don't think any of us have large enough collections to really know this for sure, but it also seems like there are a lot of famicom games that have non-pirate releases of the the same exact game where there are glop top versions and chip versions...