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ColecoVision › Box Classifications › CBS1 CBS1 - One Language, Full-Bleed ArtworkEurope · 1982-1983 
How to identify it
One language only on the front. Large artwork filling the box, a JUST LIKE THE REAL ARCADE GAME ribbon under the title, the yellow television badge lower left reading HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO GAME CARTRIDGE FOR THE CBS COLECOVISION CONSOLE, and CBS ELECTRONICS lower right.
CBS printed a separate box per territory rather than one box for all of Europe, so a CBS1 box speaks English or French or German, never all three. That decision is what dates the line: as the catalogue grew, printing three boxes per title stopped being worth it, and CBS2 replaced them with one multilingual box. The artwork is the largest of any CBS layout - it runs the full height of the box with only the ribbon and the yellow badge laid over it. This is the most numerous CBS classification in the catalogue. 51Titles
41Confirmed CBS1
46Box scanned
51Playable here
Classified CBS1Recorded in the catalogue as CBS1 packaging.
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Attributed to CBS1The catalogue has not set a box variant on these, but each is filed under a CBS1 slug. Read them as very likely rather than confirmed. Modern releases printed in this styleHomebrew and reproduction releases that deliberately reuse this layout. They are not period packaging and are listed apart so they cannot be mistaken for it. 
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No title matches that filter.
CBS0
The earliest CBS Electronics layout, and the rarest: a banner ribbon reading BASED ON THE REAL ARCADE GAME with a line-drawn cabinet at its end.
CBS2
Multilingual boxes - English, French, German and Italian - with large artwork and black text bands top and bottom.
About this listThese records come from the museum’s ColecoVision catalogue, so this page grows as the catalogue does. Box scans, release years and rarity are the catalogue’s; the classification on each card is either the box variant recorded against that title or, where none is recorded, an attribution taken from how the release is filed. Box classification is a collectors’ convention rather than anything Coleco or CBS ever printed on a box, and reasonable references disagree at the edges. If you own something listed here that does not match what you see, or a box that is not listed at all, please get in touch — a photograph of the front is worth more than any description. |
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