Kaboom! Handicap?

[Kaboom! Handicap?]

........I keep forgetting about that switch....

 

I can sort out a problem on my PS3, but I over-think everything with the Atari. This is the second time I've posted about something stupid like this

I'll get the hang of it one of these days

[Kaboom! Handicap?]

So I've had this Kaboom cart for a scant few weeks now. It worked perfectly, but when I came back home from a weekend away, it started pulling this little stunt. Now, whenever I play solo or as the 1st player in 2-player mode, the buckets are really skinny. Then the second player's buckets look like they ate what the 1st's buckets lost. The cart hasn't gotten dirty, and I'm not sure what to try aside from buying a new cart

Please help a rookie Atari collector.

 

 

 

For some reason I couldn't upload these into AA's gallery, so I hope I put the right link from photobucket, also don't know how to resize...

[Mislabeled or Misprogrammed?]

Yea... two nice screw holes in the label. Completely missed those...

Why would someone do that, just to mess with people? Or is there a cart floating out there somewhere with a River Raid label and Starmaster on the chip?

[Mislabeled or Misprogrammed?]

I'm only a few weeks into my Atari craze, and I'm loving it! I've wanted an Atari for a long time (i'm 20 btw), and found one for cheap just before school started.

A few days ago I found a cart of Starmaster for $1.00; good buy right? Wrong. I had to spend about five minutes just trying to get it to think about displaying a picture, and when it flashed some green across the screen I thought "isn't this a space game? Why is there green?"

So when it finally did work, it was River Raid! Don't get me wrong, I love River Raid, but I just got a good laugh out of buying one game disguised as another.

I was wondering, how often does this happen?