Hey all, I've asked a few of you about this, but I've finally decided to open the cartridge and take some PCB shots. I have two of these, picked up both in a grab bin at a used video game store in Arizona. HQ images at: http://imgur.com/a/60yq2
It does look like one but I'm not sure it could also be a kiosk cart or someone put a new label on it and I'm assuming you bought this at Bookmans or Gamezone cause if you bought it at one of those places its the final game not a prototype.
Easiest way to find out of it's a prototype is to dump it, you could also try and match the dump online with the checksums on the labels. If it matches the retail cartridge then it could be a home made bootleg by someone who loved the game and could get eproms cheap, I'd say it was more likely to be a review or QA cartridge.
I can't find a reason why the PCB would say Acclaim, nothing I can find about the game ever mentions them
Zoop was released in 1995 so it stands to reason that this is likely a review cart. I can't find anything specific beyond one site claiming January 1, 1995 which doesn't seem quite right here. Only 256kb worth of EPROM there. Wonder why they were soldered directly in rather than socketed.
Im guessing at bare minimum it had to be pretty far along for such a nice PCB and solder job? Still doesn't explain the Acclaim though haha
Wikipedia says it was released November 5, not the greatest source but it makes sense. As for the Acclaim stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if the Genesis and/or SNES carts were manufactured by another company, because I don't remember Viacom publishing any Genesis games, so they might have bought a bunch of carts from a larger manufacturer.
