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  2. Posted

    I exchanged a few emails with Nir after this thread came up, it was all very friendly. He agreed that he should clarify his auctions and that he will do so in the future. I didn't want to post this necessarily because he had emailed me privately, but I wanted to let you all know that he didn't just disappear from the board without answering these questions. So I don't think it will be a problem in the future.

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    http://www.phillyclassic.comPhillyClassic is only one day away! If you don't already have tickets you can buy them at the door, and the show opens to the public at 5:00pm on Friday the 26th. AtariAge will be there with a table - we'll be selling Billy Eno's Warring Worms and a special PhillyClassic Edition of Joe Grand's SCSIcide. We'll also have some AtariAge badges for anyone who would like one for the show. Here's a sample of what it looks like - just stop by our table and ask for your free badge. See you there!

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    Interesting stuff Eckhard.

     

    I think we will leave the German Bit Corp games under Bit Corp then. They seem to belong there more than anywhere else.

     

    Hmmm, so should our current Puzzy games go under Bit Corp or Telegames? They are Bit Corp titles, but released by Telegames in different packaging. Maybe listing them under Telegames would be clearer for people.

     

    I haven't even gotten to all the generic pirate stuff yet. I don't know how we'll list that yet.

  7. Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by The Piper:

    Nope,

    I own 3 sears units myself.The" switch plate" on my friends Atari is orange, where the sears is silver.Not a stripe around the border,but solid orange.These are most certainly heard-of, and well known by some,because it was chosen to be pictured as the Atari in a pc video game.

     

    What PC game was it in?

  8. Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by Marco:

    So, my book got it the wrong way perhaps: Bit Corp is the mother company, that probably used multiple brands (Puzzy, Funvision and perhaps CCE and Zimag).

     

    Cheers,

     

    Marco

     

    Zimag? Are they related to Bit? They are still selling products in the US last time I looked (not games, but other media products). They are a subsidiary of Magnetic Tape International, AFAIK.

  9. Posted

    So...

     

    There is Bit Corp, which is the yellow/black games with English titles and the Bit Corp logo.

     

    There is Puzzy, which is possibly an arm of Bit Corp, and these games have the Puzzy name on the box and cart.

     

    So what are the Bit Corp style carts with the German labels? Unkown?

     

    Also, should the games we currently have under Puzzy belong in Telegames?

     

    As for Quelle - I know they are just a retailer. Basically, if they sold a game and we can't find any other company on the box/cart, we are listing it as Quelle. Would you agree?

  10. Posted

    The Kee Games unit is a prototype AFAIK. Maybe one-of-a-kind. They wouldn't have given it the same name as the VCS because Kee was set up to look like a competitive company. "Programmable Game System" is just an old term used to describe a cartridge system (i.e., the system could be programmed to play different games), as opposed to a dedicated system that only played a set number of hardcoded games (pong, etc).

     

    As for the Atari described by Piper, posting a picture will help. I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about from your description.

  11. Posted

    Jen,

     

    Here is our Bit Corp list:

     

    Bit Corp

     

    The two that we have scans of just show the picture and name. Are you saying these were sold by Quelle? Do they have the Bit Corp name on them at all (on the box or manual)? Do you think they should be listed as Bit Corp or Quelle? Or is it just that the English version has the Bit Corp name, and the German version doesn't, but they are both Bit Corp?

     

    So do you think the black label cartridges we have currently under Puzzy should be Telegames UK?

  12. Posted

    Thanks for the help guys.

     

    Another question (Jens, maybe you can help). Who made/sold these games:

     

    Our Puzzy List

     

    I've seen carts with the actual Puzzy name, and they are totally different (we need to add those to our Puzzy list). Doesn't Telegames sell these games we have listed? Do they really have anything to do with Puzzy? Did anyone else sell them?

     

    I definitely need to add the other Puzzy titles to our Puzzy list, but maybe these don't even belong. We had listed them as Puzzy because of the Puzzy title connection, but if that's all there is, I don't think they really belong.

     

    [ 04-24-2002: Message edited by: Alex ]

  13. Posted

    It saves a lot of grief for all parties if you are clear up front, although in this case it sounds like it just didn't occur to the seller to mention the origin. He might have an unhappy customer if the winner is purchasing for collectible value.

     

    On the other hand, certain people might bid more for it if they want it for technical reasons, given that it is nicely bound and freshly printed. Each has its value, but to different groups of people which is why it's good to be clear.

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    quote:
    Originally posted by san-d-2000:

    Its certainly a Polyvox cartridge,

    I think Polyvox had the licence for Atari and Activision games, but did not produce the carts themself.

    I once opened a Polyvox/Atari title and it had a normal Atari PCB inside.

     

    - Sandy

     

    I agree that Polyvox had a license, and the River Raid cartridge looks like a Polyvox. But I was wondering if Activision also released carts themselves, since there is no Polyvox name on that particular cart (and we currently have one other like that).

  17. Posted

    Interesting, your Pac-Man cartridge does not have the Activision name, but it does have the "Zona Franca" text at the bottom. The other Polyvox only carts I've seen don't have that. I had thought before that maybe that was an indication of an import, but maybe not according to that Pac-Man cart.

  18. Posted

    Okay, we know about the Polyvox games from Brazil. What about this cartridge:

     

    Activision or Polyvox

     

    Looks like a Polyvox, but it only says Activision. One of our Brazilian friends says he believes this is an actual Activision release, and that the copyright at the bottom indicates an official location where imported electronics were processed in Brazil for a time. There are other cartridges like this.

     

    So, anyone know for sure if Activision was actually selling in Brazil under their own name or distribution channel?

  19. Posted

    http://www.gameonweb.co.uk/Game On, a new videogame exhibit soon appearing at the Barbican Gallery in London, "will trace the 40 year history of computer games from Space War, which was made way back in 1962, right up to the latest, as yet unreleased games from the likes of Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Microsoft". You can read more in this article%20at%20Wired.%20Game%20On%20is%20scheduled%20to%20be%20at%20the%20Barbican%20from%20May%2016th%20through%20September%2015th,%20and%20is%20scheduled%20to%20travel%20to%20the%20US%20in%202003.%20Finally,%20there%20will%20be%20an%20accompanying%20book%20entitled%20Game%20On%20from%20Laurence King Publishing, but it does not appear to be available yet.

  20. Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by Philflound:

    I'm still trying to figure out what happens when he attempts to cash my check that I stopped payment on. I wonder if I get it back. Then maybe I will have his bank account info.

     

    Phil

     

    Depends on what he does with it. If he deposits it into his own account, you should get it back with his info on it. If he just tries to cash it at a branch of the bank the check is drawn on, he should get denied, unless that bank has a very old system. If he goes to a check cashing company, he will probably be able to cash it, albeit at a steep fee. Then the check cashing company is out the money, but they will have his ID on file.

     

    I used to work at a bank in college, and about once a year we would meet with the police department where they would educate us on the latest scams - they would show us fake bills, bogus checks, fake ID's, etc. Some forgeries were very very good, and some were so laughable that it was amazing someone actually tried to use them.

  21. Posted

    We do plan to add an 8-bit section to AtariAge in the same vein as our other sections. It's certainly the next most requested section. The only reason it hasn't already gone online is because it will be a huge task, with a library of carts second only to the 2600 I think (among Atari). Fortunately we know some local collectors who have massive 8-bit collections, so we hope to be doing some borrowing in the future for extended scanning sections.

     

    If anyone wants to start contributing 8-bit cart/box/manual scans, you are more than welcome to. 200dpi or better please.

     

    [ 04-22-2002: Message edited by: Alex ]

  23. Posted

    I think Burgertime, another MNetwork game, also does this. I remember finding one and thinking it was hosed - although as I recall it just powers up to a frozen screen, and resetting, etc, didn't do anything. Changed the difficulty setting, and it was fine.

  24. Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by Thomas Jentzsch:

    Nice logo!

     

    I hope, I'll see many more of them in the future.

     

    BTW: What about an AtariAge logo secton?

     

    Hahah I like that. The logo is courtesy of Dave "liveinabin" Exton again. As long as Dave wants to continue doing them, you will see them. Hopefully we won't have to resort to doing them ourselves or you may not be as pleased about it.

     

    Thanks everyone!

  25. Posted

    quote:
    Originally posted by liveinabin:

    If you guys can tell me for sure that it isn't nearly as annoying as Marble Madness (which I'd rather eat paint than play again - even if I didn't like paint) then I'll buy it right away

     

    That is blasphemy. I will pretend you didn't say that.

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