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I wonder if that's something eColeco threw together to sell. The only time I have seen an original ADAM Grog's Revenge boxed it was in a small box just big enough for the DDP. I don't think it included instructions. Yeah that's the version I have. I think the only difference is a high score table. The title screen animation might be new as well, I don't remember. Unfortunately I dont have either the tape nor the box but the manual looks legit, especially since it is printed by Coleco Canada and is in both French and English, dont see our Texas buddy doin' that. Bonjour you'all....! Its the cart version instructions except for 3 places. ON the cover its Grogs Revenge for ADAM The instructions have a small paragraph talking about inserting a tape into ADAM and pulling reset, but the accompanying picture is a cartridge in the Colecovision. The last place where there is a cut and paste is at the end where it refers to the high score table. Otherwise identical to the bilingual cartridge manual..It came with a Kijiji deal for an ADAM and a whack of rare carts. Also came with a driving controller that was in a garage and has had batteries inside for 25 years. Whats that Ebay/Craigslist/Kijiji phrase? Oh yeah. "As is but worked great when it was stored"

Resurrecting this thread because I just got a copy of the manual for the ADAM tape version of this. The manual is a bit of a joke in that they took the cartridge version of the manual and did some half-assed job of cut and paste to change it to the ADAM tape version. The pictures are all of a Colecovision, not the ADAM and part of the instructions tell you to insert the cartridge.

I've got dupes of about 15 of those, will PM my list. But over and above those 15 or so, note that some of those games are Telegames which normally came with photocopied instructions, thats how they came. I have some of those photocopies as well. A few others would be impossible to find I'm thinkin'

I only own 12 of these, I guess I better get busy...

I'm in the GTA and ran into a similar problem finding someone so even though I am challenged with a soldering iron I still managed to recap my own. Wouldnt want to offer it as a service in case I trashed someone elses's system but it wasnt that bad actually to do.

One game that has eluded me CIB is Galaxian. I was watching both these auctions but I slept in having gone to a wedding the nite before. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 170821338842 Then the same day this one closes, look at the ratty condition. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 120892752313 Go figure!

Holy crap that looks horrible!!! I hope you didn't haft to pay for those! Yeah I did have to pay. Compensation was offered but he never followed thru now its a year later.

Yes this is exactly why I have refused all request for more. I wouldnt want to A. go back on my word and B. undermine the potential present and future value of the original small run. Having said that, I did hear a rumour that a warehouse in Venezuela unearthed another skid of them. I hope they are in as good a shape as some of the other games I was shafted with bought previously http://img857.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=ed011.jpg :mad:

Dont mean to hijack the thread, but on the topic of re-releases of carts that had a small initial run I have to ask what the consensus is on this. Since Fireman sold out a couple years ago I have had lots of requests from those who missed out on it and are asking me if I would ever do another small run to which I have always replied NO, since I said initially I wouldnt. I mean I wouldnt want to tick those good folks who got in early when it was available. I dunno, I'm caught in the middle a bit on this....

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Having owned both the C64 version NIB and the CV version NIB, I can confirm that there is no difference between the manuals. I was concerned about the manual because the scan of the manual on Colecovisionzone seems to be very Coleco-specific not like some of those multi-platform manuals you see for other games,

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310391843251 Well I will let you know first hand about the C64 sticker, normally I wouldnt open a sealed game but I'm making an exception with this one. Either I have a box for my cart or a really expensive Commodore disk game. BTW I asked the seller if he had more than one and the answer was NO.

When I got my ADAM for Xmas 1984 it was faulty and I was directed to go to Dale Integrated in Toronto and got an immediate replacement console. Business was brisk as it appeared EVERYONE was there to swap out their faulty ADAMs.

The only time I ever saw one in the 80's was at a souvenir shop (?!) at an airport in the States (I'm thinking it was probably Tampa or maybe LAX) for $50 and I said forget it, too much. Too much because I had just bought a lot of sealed games for $5 each at some record store - titles like Wiz Math and Sammy Lightfoot. Then I went home and sold them for $10 each at the next MTAG (Metro Toronto ADAM Group) meeting. ACK! pains me to remember that....

Yep! A VERY rare ADAM only cartridge indeed. As I mentioned in the MarketPlace/Auction thread, I would venture a guess that upwards of 1,000 were produced for Coleco's In-House needs, supplied to repair centers throughout North America and Europe and given to ADAM Users Groups/Mail-Order companies after Coleco's annuncement that they were abandoning the ADAM. Actually, 1,000 copies may be a bit much, but there are no definitive numbers on this one. Anyhow, the $500 RESERVE was a bit much in my mind, but when you gotta have it... YOU GOTTA HAVE IT and I had to have it. This cartridge is coming home!!!! Congrats. I did not bid as I was a little concerned that this might just have been an eColeco or worse yet a bootleg version of this cart. I sincerely hope it isnt!

Do what? Overcharge or go on and on with a friggin history lesson? I concur with others. No deal but not the worst I've seen. Dunno about you but my experience with Craigslist/kijiji is that people want to pay garage sale prices. No one's gonna buy this.

Yeah I am a little wary sometimes of the plastic boxes. I know some of the Australian CBS releases came in boxes like that. But I have also been a little tricked by plastic boxes where someone along the line has apparently printed the box art or cut a cardboard box up and put it in the sleeve of a plastic box.

Looks like that was a plastic box. Was this not available in a cardboard box?

Sounds like the price I paid. I could be wrong, and it was so long ago, but I do remember finding that discrepency in the manuals. I did a search and this entry on Wikipedia seems like it might confirm my memory: The Adam generates a surge of electromagnetic energy on startup, which can erase the contents of any removable media left in or near the drive.[2] Making this problem worse, some of the Coleco manuals instructed the user to put the tape in the drive before turning the computer on; presumably these were printed before the issue was known.[2] I got my adam in late '84 but since it had been out for almost a year by that point, I do seem to recall that early versions of the instructions did indeed tell you to insert a tape before powering up. Even still my ADAM was faulty and I recall going to an outfit called Dale Integrated who exchanged the console with no questions asked. Business was brisk on the day I was there I think I was not the only one who reported the same issue with a faulty unit.

Since this kinda an open chat, does anyone else notice or feel that the interest shown in vintage video games is on an upswing again? I mean I thought it was humming along pretty good then I noticed a bit of a drop off lets say a few years ago but in the last year or so I'd say it is accelerating again. A possible barometer is Craigslist/Kijiji. I used to see only a few ads for older stuff and now there are pages upon pages for every console type and the prices people are asking are increasing. I mean on average, never mind those stupid ones. And seeing single games for Colecovision go for hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on Ebay. Every time an R6 and up shows up on Ebay there is a frenzy. Then there is Youtube. I think you can find a review on just about any given game. I dont know if the stores are doing well, I have a heckuva time finding any retro store that has any reasonable prices its always triple what I'd expect to pay but they seem to sell stuff. I mean it makes me happy, sometimes I am forced to sell a couple items to fund the hobby and I always seem to make out well on that. I want new blood in the colletors ranks, it sustains interest. I dunno, anyone else agree?

Ask him to bid on this one for me, the seller wont ship... eBay Auction -- Item Number: 260973073928

A sealed generic Soccer went for 61 Euros a couple weeks ago but today one open one closed at (equivalent of) $200 - assuming Schtroumfs isnt worth much. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 160752317516 Yow! Glad I got mine when I could for about $39 shipped about a year ago...

I know you arent a big fan of Telegames, but Telegames UK sold Illusions in the CBS bag, not sure if they also did in the clamshell case. Wonder what the back of those carts read...

$100 is pretty reasonable. Whether you find one or not at a reasonable price is a different story. The last one I saw on Ebay was untested and he got more than $100

Nice. Ive see the Frenzy before but not that Burgertime. Now maybe I will meet my old friend who I sold a sealed Wiz Math to for $10 in 1987