Alex Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 With the recent addition of the Spike's Peak single ender to our archive (thanks Mark!), we only have a few US cart scans left to go. One of them is Answer's Gauntlet, anybody have this? How about a scan? Many thanks if anyone can do this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Hi Alex, Remember the poll on the Nexus some time ago? I think about 20 people claimed to own Gauntlet, so there shouldn't be any problem to get a scan Anyway, I always thought the high number of Gauntlet owners was a bit suspicious. I've never seen a 2600 Gauntlet on any tradelist or auction in the 8 years I've been collecting videogames through the Internet. Personally, I only know less than a handful of people who own this elusive game. Anyhow, enough talk, here's a picture . Regards, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 It's a shame that more people can't own it, it's a really great game form what I've played on the emulator. It's one of the few UR games that's actually worth playing. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Alex: One of them is Answer's Gauntlet, anybody have this? Edward Tang of Answer Software showed it to me at the 1983 Summer CES along with Confrontation and the PGP-1. I remember that Gauntlet didn't thrill me but Confrontation did! Unfortunately the only thing I managered to get from Answer Software was Malagai. [ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: rolenta ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 How do you play Confrontation? I've never been able to figure that one out. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Tempest: How do you play Confrontation? I've never been able to figure that one out. From ABC To The VCS: "Confrontation (Answer Software) is a very unique game which can only be played by two opposing players. In this unusual chess-like game, each player controls four pawns and a captain. The blue player's pawns are lined up vertically along the left border of the playfield while the red player's pawns are along the right. Blue's Captain is at the top center of the playfield and red's is at the bottom. The object of the game is to move your four pawns to the opposite side of the board where they will be removed. Once all of your pawns are gone, you must get your captain over to your opponent's side of the board and remove it also. The first player to remove all of his pieces wins the game. Moving the pieces is also an unusual process. Each player controls a bar which runs horizontally across the width of the playfield. You must place the bar over the piece that you wish to move. You must then press the red firing button once if you wish to move a pawn and twice if you want to move your captain. Once your piece is 'locked in' you can move it either horizontally or vertically. However your piece cannot move over a spot which is already occupied by another piece. Your Captain has the ability to move into a space occupied by one of your opponent's pawns. If this occurs, you will send his pawn back to its starting position. While you move your pieces, you'll constantly use up your energy which is monitored at the top and bottom of the screen. When you are completely out of energy you'll be immobilized for three seconds, allowing your opponent to move pieces without any trouble. At the end of the three seconds, your energy will be completely recharged. Throughout the game a pod will move around the playfield with the letter 'E' flashing on and off. If you touch it while the letter appears you'll be receive a full supply of energy no matter how much you might have remaining." [ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: rolenta ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Odd... Kind of sounds like a mini chess game. I'll have to give it a try tonight (and dig out my copy of ABC to the VCS) Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted September 17, 2001 Author Share Posted September 17, 2001 Thanks Marco! Whenever we ask for something really rare, you seem to have it. So, um, how about a scan of Ultravision Karate? Did Gauntlet actually come with a box or manual? [ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: Alex ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Marco is the man . Alex what other US scans you looking for ( so i can look for online pics of them ) and have something to look forawd to look at later down the road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted September 17, 2001 Author Share Posted September 17, 2001 As far as released US games go, not counting any minor label variations, all we need are: Ultravision Karate Pong Sports (Sears picture label) Vidco Copy Cart That's it, for the items we know about. Also a few homebrew titles like Dark Mage, Thrust, and Video Simon. After we get those three, I'll start asking for boxes, and of course there are many more boxes that we need. Oh yeah, and an Atari Blackjack picture label. Reliable sources claim to have seen it, but I've been unable to verify it. The other three listed above I've actually seen, but I don't have scans, just digital photos that aren't very detailed. [ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: Alex ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Alex: Thanks Marco! Whenever we ask for something really rare, you seem to have it. So, um, how about a scan of Ultravision Karate? Hehehe, no problem, check out your mailbox and this picture. I'd make a scan of my Vidco Copy Cart if it weren't still shrinkwrapped quoteDid Gauntlet actually come with a box or manual? I think it did, I vaguely remember a picture of the box somewhere. Also, if you look at the label (same type as Malagai) I would be surprised if they hadn't made a box and manual for it. .. just in case: if anyone has the box and thinks boxes are a pain to collect, feel free to contact me Regards, Marco, who figured it was worth the shot - everybody here seems to be contacting Tempest for protos, it would be cool if everyone would be considering me as the box guru that people go to, to offer their cool boxes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 i got PONG SPORTS pic label by sears teh PONG is smuged for some reason but i can get the scan to you tonight if you want? MARCO let me send my POng SPorts in dont steal my dim light of glorious atari hehe. alex ill mail it to you tongiht Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Asmo Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Which boxes in particular are you looking for? Any of games with rarities less than 7? If I have any boxes you need, I'd be more than happy to trade them to you for a handful of common PAL carts... I can't seem to find anyone who has quite a few they'd like to trade or sell off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted September 17, 2001 Author Share Posted September 17, 2001 Thanks again! Interesting, that sure doesn't look like the usual Ultravision T-Case. Could it be there is a Karate variation? That's one more for you to collect, Marco! Karate T-Case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Hi Marco, those scans of Gauntlet and Karate look great, thanks! Would it be possible to get scans of the end labels if it's not too much trouble? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Yo ALBERT< ALEX, I just in the mail ESCAPE FROM THE MIND MASTER BOXED WITH CASETTE TAPE, CASETTE HOLDER WITH ORIGINAL PAPER CASE COVER ( LIKE THE LITTLE MUSIC NOTE THINGS) AN ENVELOPE FROM STAR PATH AND A CATALOG. interested in any of it ? Oh yes and the warrenty card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Hehe... DP was right, the Karate guy does look like he just got kicked in the nuts. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by King_Asmo: Which boxes in particular are you looking for? Any of games with rarities less than 7? After running a handy-dandy database query, these are the 2600 boxes we are presently missing: 32-in-1, Atari 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Sears Action Pak, Atari Adventure, Sears Adventures on GX-12, Telegames Air Raid, MenAvision Air-Sea Battle, Atari Alien, 20th Century Fox Artillery Duel, Xonox Artillery Duel/Ghost Manor, Xonox Artillery Duel/Spike's Peak, Xonox Assault, Bomb Asteroids, Atari Asteroids, Sears Astroblast, Telegames Atari Video Cube, Atari Backgammon, Sears Basic Math, Atari Basketball, Beagle Brothers Battlezone, Atari Blackjack, Atari Blackjack, Sears BMX Airmaster, Atari Bogey Blaster, Telegames Brain Games, Sears Bumper Bash, Spectravision Busy Police, Zellers Cakewalk, CommaVid Cannon Man, Sears Centipede, Atari Chase, Sears Chase the Chuckwagon, Spectravision Checkers, Sears Chuck Norris Superkicks, Xonox Chuck Norris Superkicks/Ghost Manor, Xonox Chuck Norris Superkicks/Spike's Peak, Xonox Circus, Sears Codebreaker, Sears Color Bar Generator, Videosoft Combat, Atari Condor Attack, Ultravision Cosmic Commuter, Activision Cosmic Corridor, Zimag Cosmic Swarm, CommaVid Crash Dive, 20th Century Fox Crazy Climber, Atari Crazy Valet, Hozer Video Games Crazy Valet, Self-Published Crazy Valet CGE, Self-Published Crystal Castles, Atari Dare Diver, Sears Dark Mage, Hozer Video Games Deadly Duck, 20th Century Fox Death Trap, Avalon Hill Decathlon, Activision Demon Attack, Imagic Demons to Diamonds, Sears Diagnostic Cartridge, Atari Dodger Cars, Sears Dragon Treasure, Zellers Earth Dies Screaming, 20th Century Fox ECPC Cartridge, Romox Edtris 2600, Hozer Video Games Eli's Ladder, Simage Fast Eddie, 20th Century Fox Fighter Pilot, Activision Freeway, Zellers Front Line, Coleco Frontline, Zellers Fun With Numbers, Atari Gas Hog, Spectravision Gauntlet, Answer Ghost Manor, Xonox Glib, Selchow & Richter/QDI Gravitar, Atari Great Escape, Bomb Gremlins, Atari H.E.R.O., Activision Halloween, Wizard Video Harbor Escape, Panda Haunted House, Sears Home Run, Atari I Want My Mommy, Zimag Inca Gold, Zellers Indy 500, Atari INV, Hozer Video Games James Bond 007, Parker Brothers Jawbreaker, Tigervision Joust, Atari Jungle Hunt, Atari Karate, Ultravision Keystone Kapers, Beagle Brothers Kung Fu Superkicks, Telegames Lochjaw, Apollo Lock 'N' Chase, Telegames M.A.D., US Games Magicard, CommaVid Malagai, Answer Mangia, Spectravision Marine Wars, Konami Mario Bros., Atari Master Builder, Spectravision Math, Sears Math Gran Prix, Sears Maze Mania, Sears Miner 2049er II, Tigervision Mines of Minos, CommaVid Mogul Maniac, Amiga Montezuma's Revenge, Parker Brothers Moon Patrol, Atari Moonsweeper, Imagic Motocross Racer, Xonox Mountain King, CBS Games Mouse Trap, Coleco Mr. Do!'s Castle, Parker Brothers Music Machine, Sparrow Night Stalker, Telegames Obelix, Atari Okie Dokie, Hozer Video Games Okie Dokie, Self-Published Othello, Sears Out of Control, Avalon Hill Outer Space, Sears Oystron, Hozer Video Games Party Mix, Starpath Pele's Soccer, Atari Pengo, Atari Picnic, US Games Piece o' Cake, US Games Polaris, Tigervision Pole Position, Atari Pong Sports, Sears Pooyan, Konami Pressure Gauge, Hozer Video Games Q*bert, Beagle Brothers Q*bert, Parker Brothers Race, Sears Racing Pak, Atari Realsports Soccer, Atari Realsports Tennis, Atari RealSports Volleyball, Atari Rescue Terra I, VentureVision River Patrol, Tigervision Robin Hood, Xonox Robin Hood / Super Kung Fu, Xonox Roc N Rope, Coleco Rubik's Cube, Atari SCSIcide, Hozer Video Games Shootin' Gallery, Imagic Sir Lancelot, Xonox Smurfs Save the Day, Coleco Snoopy and the Red Baron, Atari Soccer, Sears Solaris, Atari Sorcerer, Mythicon Space Adventure, Zellers Space Attack, Telegames Space Invaders, Atari Space Shuttle, Activision Spacemaster X-7, 20th Century Fox Speedway II, Sears Spelling, Sears Spike's Peak, Xonox Spitfire Attack, Milton Bradley Springer, Tigervision Spy Hunter, Sega Star Ship, Atari Star Wars: Death Star Battle, Parker Brothers Stargunner, Telesys Strategy X, Konami Street Racer, Atari Stronghold, CommaVid Submarine Commander, Sears Subterranea, Imagic Super Challenge Baseball, Telegames Super Challenge Football, Telegames Superman, Sears Surround, Atari Survival Island, Starpath Survival Run, Milton Bradley Sword of Saros, Starpath Tank Plus, Sears Tanks But No Tanks, Zimag Tapper, Sega Target Fun, Sears Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wizard Video This Planet Sucks, Hozer Video Games Threshold, Tigervision Thrust, Hozer Video Games Tomarc the Barbarian, Xonox Tomarc the Barbarian/Motocross Racer, Xonox Tooth Protectors, DSD/Camelot Tunnel Runner, CBS Games Turmoil, Zellers Up n' Down, Sega Vault Assault, Self-Published Video Chess, Sears Video Life, CommaVid Video Olympics, Atari Video Simon, Hozer Video Games Wall Ball, Avalon Hill Wall Defender, Bomb Warlords, Sears Yahtzee, Russell Babylon Yars' Revenge, Sears Z-Tack, Bomb Some of these games may not have boxes, our database doesn't yet differentiate those games, although that's something I'll be adding soon. Some of the Atari boxes that are listed above (such as Asteroids) are the red PAL versions, I didn't put that into the query. I might have to create some pages on AtariAge that show the items we're missing to make it easier for people to contribute. For anyone who does send us boxes, please scan them in at 200dpi or better and then send us those original scans. You can compress them (lightly) with JPEG to cut down on the filesize. Thanks ! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 AL, i ordered Crazy Valet from Brian Prescott i think January or early Febuary 2001. from him , i remember cause i missed some emails from him to finish the deal . i positive the limited to 99 carts that were made Dont have boxes. it was one of my concerns when i recieved it. so for the original 99 limited there was no box just a manual and the hand numbered cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Albert: After running a handy-dandy database query, these are the 2600 boxes we are presently missing: {snip} Combat, Atari Ummm... So... You couldn't round up that elusive Combat box? Sorry. Couldn't resist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by atari70s: AL, i ordered Crazy Valet from Brian Prescott i think January or early Febuary 2001. from him , i remember cause i missed some emails from him to finish the deal . i positive the limited to 99 carts that were made Dont have boxes. it was one of my concerns when i recieved it. so for the original 99 limited there was no box just a manual and the hand numbered cart As I mentioned in my previous post, there are some titles in the above list that I know don't have boxes. Unfortunately I'm at work and can't spend too much time filtering the above list by hand, and our database doesn't have information (yet) on whether or not games actually *came* with boxes. So don't take the above list as gospel, since many of the homebrew games don't have boxes. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 quote: Originally posted by twit: Ummm... So... You couldn't round up that elusive Combat box? Sorry. Couldn't resist. The reason Combat showed up is that we're missing the Gatefold (flap) box that shipped with the original Combat. Perhaps I should have taken the time to make a more complex query before posting it above. The best advice I can offer is to check the site before scanning any boxes, to make sure we don't already have it.. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 i know albert , nothing set in stone im just passing on a little info i have. i was surprised the manual wasnt numbered as well by it. i would have loved to see the manual match the cart but either way its a great game kudos to Brian for a great game i hope he does another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Asmo Posted September 17, 2001 Share Posted September 17, 2001 Pitfall Harry: I went to your website and noticed that I have some extra boxes that you need.. I've been planning on making you a trade offer for awhile.. so I'll throw those in as well.. I'll e-mail you in a few minutes with the offer. Cheers, KA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted September 18, 2001 Share Posted September 18, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Tempest: It's a shame that more people can't own it, it's a really great game form what I've played on the emulator. It's one of the few UR games that's actually worth playing. Tempest Not being able to own *every*thing is the beauty of collecting. If you could, it would take away the motivation to go on. At least for me. When I completed my Atari produced collection, I created a new challenge: finding all first releases (and let me assure you, some 1978, 83 and 86 releases are impossible to find boxed) This is why I'm so glad there's an endless number of Atari 2600 games out there and hard- and software that's so rare, you will be dreaming of it for the rest of your life Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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