PapaStu

And I somehow glazed over your link completely. It's been not a good week. >_<

Rudy had some incredible issues and he was constantly harassing and cyber bullying folks on websites he made and on YouTube in years past when he was still active in his high score world record days. I think I banned him on DP years ago for his constant attacks on folks. A little bit of quick sleuthing pulled up this. I think it's pretty safe to conclude it's the same Rudy. https://whdh.com/news/authorities-investigating-apparent-murder-suicide-in-dover-nh/ I feel incredible sadness for the families of both Amy and Rudy.

Janus only has one IP on DP (and only 4 posts, that I think were all made pretty close to each other). I can compare IPs w/ Al but I don't think it matters. Just looking at the registration email was a dead giveaway. IPs can be hard anyways because most people don't have static IPs and if they're going through some kind of IP masking, then it wouldn't matter doubly so. After 'her' first few posts, it was radio silence. It won't matter now. I banned him because of image theft and pretending to be someone they're not. DP is Janus free for the time being.

I did a quick check, it returned back to 5 g+ accounts, at this point I'm sure the image is just being lifted for fake accounts. There were two accounts that referenced North Carolina, not South Carolina, like the profile on DP states. Still shady and desperately sad.

As a DP admin, I can confirm that the Janus from DP is the same Janus from here. Janus didn't try to hide 'her' email when registering on the site. Mark@...... I was so caught up in checking out Flamdini, I didn't think to check the other elephant in the thread.

I can saw with a fairly high certainty that it's not SoCalMike. Doesn't mean it's not an associate or something, but if you'd like to compare some IPs Albert, I'd be glad to share notes!

I've got the roms from CPUWIZ back already, i'll need to get them compared, it'll probably be a few days, but I'll update once I know more. I forgot how small 2600 games are. 4k Made that 8GB thumb drive I sent along for them just a *tad* bit overkill.

CPUWIZ has kindly agreed to dump these for me. He'll have them tomorrow and I'll go forward from there. I've got an unsealed Psychic Detective AtariBuff, I'm totally ok not having a sealed one. Thanks for the help all. Tempest, let me know if you want better pics of these for your site.

I reached out to CPUWIZ to see what kind of availability he's got. I'll let you know if I he's busy/otherwise occupied and we'll get these puppies dumped one way or another.

While I'm not Tempest and not remotely close to being any kind 2600 expert I felt pretty confident with the labels after a bit of net sleuthing that it was worth a gamble if the prices were reasonable. I thought this at first too that the labels may have been replacements seeing them in the case the first time, but once I handled them, I could tell that there had never been any other 'factory' label attached to Earth Dies Screaming or Beefsteak Tomatoes. Seeing the end label for Tomatoes sealed that one and from what I've seen of other 2600 (and NES/SNES/Genny etc) protos over the years I was pretty confident in that not being a generic replacement label on Earth Dies Screaming. It didn't hurt that they were both together and with a bunch of other Fox games. It all just 'felt' right even though I was buying them not near 100% certain.

Figured as much. Who'd you recommend for dumping services? Slowly trundling along. Just about at the 1k point for released games, before Greatest Hits, variants, Lightspan, demos etc. Those would add another few hundred to the total. I'll get there eventually! How's that PAL set?

A few weeks back I swung by the mall of my youth while visiting my parents and hit up one of the two indy 'toy' shops that are down on one end of the mall. One of these two shops has games across most of the major systems and they overcharge for most of them. While looking at the stuff locked up in a display case I saw two games that stuck out like a sore thumb in the lone row of Atari games they displayed. and three games down from that, Now almost everything in that row was Fox interactive, save a Star Wars game and a blue label Activision game (not sure if that means they all came in together, but thats what was there). Being afraid of the potential prices I walked out after I snuck snapped those pics. My judgement got the better of me and I went back the next day as I was again in town for an eye doctor appointment and brought a fist full of cash just in case. Prepared to have to spend quite a bit, I got out with them for a pretty damn good price for the pair. Better shot of their front labels And the top Now I do not have my 2600 hooked up to our tv (packed up for our move at the end of the month) and I don't have either of these games in a released format for comparison. I've done a bit of internet digging and based on some of the similar Fox protos seen here http://atariage.com/forums/topic/72075-10-just-found-prototype-games-need-help/ and Fox releases at www.Atariprotos.com I am pretty sure thats what these are. The AA linked thread does include both an Attack of the Beefsteak Tomatoes and an Earth Dies Screaming in it. Does anyone have any clue as to how many of either of these have popped up? While I'm a new poster her, I'm not new to collecting and have been active on DP (and other collecting sites) for many many moons. Both of these were found in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area.