+davidcalgary29 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 I note that my 1987 copy of "Millipede" is packaged in an XEGS-sized (small) version of the 1984 large box. Can anyone advise if they have other, similar "small" boxes of silver-labelled games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy California Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I think Pole Position would... qualify BTW, does Pengo exist in the big box format? Also wondering if there's a color version of the small box. I have never seen anything else than black and white versions ++ RC ++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I have galaxian, big box, brown case. And then Moon Patrol is in a small silver box with a silver label, grey case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Lord-Chaos talks about this here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35867 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 Yes, Thimo sold me my small-box copy of "Millipede". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I have had two "small box" "Caverns of Mars"...one of them contained a grey XE-style cart with a silver label, as reported in another thread. The other remains shrinkwrapped. They were acquired from different sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Most of the Large Silverboxed XL games were later made into the smaller Silver (and in some cases Grey/Black) boxes... Also this is the case for some of the 400/800 boxed games, I have a small Galaxian 400/800 and even a Galaxian 400/800 in a grey/black box. Its rather odd how Atari returned back to the larger boxes when they started to do the XL releases and then went back to the smaller boxes again. Then add into this, the application boxes which were thicker, were also in the middle of the large and small game boxes... very wasteful... they should've standardized. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I always thought that the grey case/silver label versions of the older titles were just a way of mopping up their overproduction of XE stock. Atari management at this stage was just thrashing about aimlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Sounds like a another little survey coming up. Here is what I have. Note the weird monochrome PENGO box. Any others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I have Caverns of Mars Eastern Front 1941 RS Football Moon Patrol Pac-Man in this format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 "Joust" must surely come in this format as well, as the cart that I purchased from kheffington is in the now-familiar grey label / rounded XEGS cart style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Ms. Pac-Man Cheers, Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted December 11, 2003 Author Share Posted December 11, 2003 And with this auction, I suppose that we can add (somewhat surprisingly), "Super Breakout" and "Defender" to the mix. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...&category=39999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 Hmm Those are small black boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 I also have Millipede in this format (well, I have the box...I have a few Millipede carts, but I don't know what form of cart was originally in that box). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Okay, I thought we were only looking for SSB (small silver boxes). The small black ones were issued both early (1980) and late (XE 1987 ?). I'll try to start a thread and maybe we can cover all Atari game boxes. There are BBB (big black), SBB (small black), MSB(Medium silver), SSB(Small Silver) and XEB (XE blue). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Deleted - double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 OK, a bit of clarity would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted December 12, 2003 Author Share Posted December 12, 2003 And then, of course, there are the oddballs like "Track and Field" (and "Robotron" too?) that came in non-standard packages because of extra controllers, etc. How should we classify them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Looking back through the thread (and it may now be a little premature) but, I've never seen a color (picture) Pengo box... I don't actually have any Pengo boxes at present, but I have had at least four, and all have been monochrome. That is a little strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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