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Bum bah dee dah, bum bah dee dah, bum bah dee dah... Was the Stampede $5 Rebate Offer for a warning sign of the crash - an attempt to unload overstock?

Graphics: 3 Sound: 3 Replay Value: 3 Notes: 1- or 2-player game; Loco-Motion clone Screen Shots

Happy Trails is an entertaining game. Although Activision won accolades for "originality" with this game, it was a rip-off of Loco-Motion - which had already existed in the arcade, and was released by Mattel shortly after Happy Trails. I had Loco-Motion long before I got Happy Trails, and think that Loco-Motion is the better game.

A total of three Happy Trails box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Activision	M-003-02	1983		Virtually every copy has the $5 rebate offer for Stampede stuck on the front
	Activision	EM-003-02	1983		International Edition—back has text in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; various international sticker variations exist as well: German–EIN FALL FÜR DEN SHERIFF (image courtesy of Intellivotion)–and it seems there are two stickers there - one hides under the top-level sticker
	Digiplay	N/A	None		Digiplay logo on box; no part number or copyright apparent; TM Activision on back; trayless pocket; manual and overlays in separate slots; 'Av. Açaí' address printed on box

A total of three Happy Trails manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Activision	M-003-03	1983	U.S.A.
	Activision	EM-003-03	1983	U.S.A.	International Edition has text in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; back shows part number and other info
	Digiplay	N/A	None	Brazil	Digiplay edition; no part number or copyright apparent; 'Av. Açaí' address printed on back

A total of two Happy Trails overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Activision	M-003-04	1983	U.S.A.
	Digiplay	N/A	None		Activision logo remains, but copyright removed

A total of two Happy Trails label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Activision	M-003-04	1983
	Digiplay	N/A	None		Digiplay version uses standard Mattel cartridge shell; ™ upper right; large red label, slightly rounded corners

	Not much in the way of fancy title screens.
	Wish the background was more interesting. A nice feature of this game is the selectable board size.

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