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The box says Bowling Videocart 21 . It's a simple elegantly designed black box dominated by  Bowling pins and a red Bowlingball rolling at them. The box itself is in good shape but still a bit worn, after all it's 37 years old. The sticker on the front says $19.95, it looks to be from a Toys R' Us, or perhaps a Child's World but it's hard to tell and could be from one of a few thousand other places these games where sold. The center of the sticker has a pen written "A" with a circle around it, which if my memory's of old toy stores serves me correct meant the item was on clearance at some point. As for the $19.95, that would have been a substantial sum in 1978 roughly equivalent to the $59 I just paid for Halo 5 , of course whoever bought this game back then didn't pay $19.95 for it (if it was on clearance that is) and I didn't even pay that much for it either in 2015 CIB and all. Of course as interesting or as uninteresting as you may ...