2600 MULTICART

[ROCKINGROLL]

Where in blazes can I find out the games that are on this cart? I'd like to know before I plop down $100 or so for it...

[ElvisDJ]

I'm assuming you're talking about Sean Kelly's multicarts. If so, you can drop a line to Sean Kelly (skelly@xnet.com) and I'm sure he'll be able to list all the games on the multicart for you. I'd highly recommend getting one!

 

Check out Sean's page for more multicarts, too! http://www.xnet.com/~skelly

 

Bryan

[ROCKINGROLL]

Freakin' Ebay! I was bidding on a 2600 multicart, but they yanked the auction because "based on criteria supplied to eBay by the video game industry including Electronic Arts, Sony, Nintendo, and Sega concerning illegal or infringing items, the auction you recently bid on: 1266304842 - ** 256 GAME MULTICART ** FOR THE ATARI 2600 has been terminated." Oh well, it probably would've sold for over $100 anyway. So I went to 4JAYS and ordered one for $95, including shipping. Is that a decent price?

 

[ 08-25-2001: Message edited by: ROCKINGROLL ]

[Tempest]

What infringes on the 2600 multicart? Maybe the games by SEGA but that's all I can think of.

 

Tempest

[Nateo]

Rockingroll:

Yeah, I'd say that's a great price! That would mean that every cart on there is probably worth less than $.50 each!

[Nateo]

(Not that that's a bad thing)

[Rhindle The Red]

quote:

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Originally posted by Tempest:

What infringes on the 2600 multicart?

 

Tempest

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Unless the maker has a license, or the owner of the copyright has released it, technically everything on the multicart infringes.

[Tempest]

Well since 95% of the companies that made 2600 games have gone out of business your almost home free. The only companies I know of that are still in business are Activision, Sega, Konami, Nintendo (if you count the fact that they licensed many games), and Atari if you count Infogrames.

 

Tempest

[Rhindle The Red]

quote:

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Originally posted by Tempest:

Well since 95% of the companies that made 2600 games have gone out of business your almost home free. The only companies I know of that are still in business are Activision, Sega, Konami, Nintendo (if you count the fact that they licensed many games), and Atari if you count Infogrames.

 

Tempest

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Here's a list of 2600 companies whose works are probably still under copyright:

 

• 20th Century Fox

Activision

Atari (Infogrames)

Avalon Hill

CBS

First Star

Intellivision Productions

INTV (Intellivision Productions)

Konami

Mattel (Intellivision Productions)

Milton Bradley

Parker Bros. (Some to Atari/Infogrames some not)

Sega

Spectravision

Sunrise (Telegames)

Telegames

Tigervision (Tiger Electronics)

 

If any are wrong, sorry. Still, I think it's clear that most games are not in the public domain. Even those games whose companies are out of business probably had their assets legally transferred somewhere. Even if whoever owns them now doesn't even know it.

 

[ 08-25-2001: Message edited by: Rhindle The Red ]