Anyone seen a yellow Coleco Head to Head Baseball before?

phitter

This is in a current eBay listing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA.....%26otn%3D2

It looks too yellow to be an aging issue so I am curious if Coleco issued some of its games in yellow. Anyone know more about this?

Too bad it does not have its battery cover. Oh well.

-phitter

mobutu16 · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:28 pm Post subject:

Hi man!.

First I had it was yellowed too...it seems the plastic hadn´t a good quality.

It´s my opinion.

BYe!

Rik · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:34 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I've had some that were that yellow before... But they weren't made that way. Cool

Manufacturers used to put a chemical in the plastic to help reduce the flammability of the plastic, and over time this chemical can degrade and cause this yellowing. It seems some plastics are more susceptible to it than others (and leaving it exposed to sunlight, even indirect sunlight, can greatly increase the speed of the process...).

But, yeah, it's just the plastic becoming discolored over time.

Rik