Tempest Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 I've recently accquired two 2600 games that came in plain white boxes, Othello and Dodge 'em. I noticed that AtariAge has them both listed here under the box variations, but I was wondering why they're like that? Was it a goof or were they suppose to be all white with black text? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 I've got a couple of those too.. I believe it is because they were package in a 3 game pack or something and they would have had an outer box like Star Raiders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 22, 2001 Author Share Posted May 22, 2001 Oh! Were they part of those special 3 pak's that Atari put out? I think Othello went with some other stategy games and I'm fairly sure Dodge 'em went with Indy 500 as some sort of racing pak. I had forgotten all about those! Now I need the other box I guess (anyone ever see them?) Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 Yes, they were a part of the "pak" specials Atari sold. Unfortunately, I'm unsure if they had any other external packaging that held the boring white boxes. I've at least never seen any, that is. Has anyone ever seen any of the "pak's" sealed as they came from the stores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 hey scott, if you get some sealed ones, let me have the used ones in germany there has been none of these PAKs, only the 2600/7800 power unit and the cx-40 joystick used to be in white boxes for a while ... i got those but it's nothing real interesting in my collection ... tempest is right about othello, i've seen this scanned once within a pak ... i think with concentration and brain games, not sure though ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 I have scans of the Geneirc boxes for Dodge 'Em and Breakout on my web page. http://www.atari2600.net/aspDBPictures.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 somebody has erlier made a fake site about netscape2600, has anybody bookmarked the link? i hoped that one of you remembers ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 oops sorry, posting in the wrong topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 As someone mentioned, those white boxes were the inner "Pak" boxes (at least for the Action Pak). Hmmm, I thought we had those listed but I guess not. Something we need to do. I have a small picture of the larger "Action Pak" box, but I'm looking for a better version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 Hi guys, I have all three PAKs: Back to School, Action and Racing. All pack-in games come in those white boxes, so that makes, respectively (and color of the big outer box): Brain Games and Basic Programming (yellow) Break Out, Othello and Dodge'Em (blue) Indy 500 and Slot Racers (green) Hope this helps Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 marco, you're great. it will be an honour to meet you at the eurocon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nostalgic Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 Atari used the "generic" white boxes for paddles as well. I ordered some paddles a few years back and they came in a big white box marked "PADDLE" in black block letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted May 23, 2001 Share Posted May 23, 2001 Yeah! You just reminded me of a boxed VCS Power Supply that I had at one point - simply marked "Power Supply" in black letters on a white box. Probably like all that generic packaging from back in that era. It was MUCH less expensive to produce than some fancy 4-color packaging. Plus, being it's packaged inside of something else, it wouldn't need to have the visual appeal that a standalone product would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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