[Do you play more video games in the Summer or the Winter?]

Winter

[FS: TI-99/4A Speech Synthesizer * Gone *]

Gone.

[FS: TI-99/4A Speech Synthesizer * Gone *]

$50 + Shipping. Paypal. USA only. Ships 1st Class. Weighs 14 oz.

 

Includes booklet.

 

PM if interested.

 

*EDIT: Forgot to add that it's tested working.

 

[Denham Destroyers vs Brooks Bombers Super Challenge Football]

Good stuff!

[What version of the atari 2600 is the rarest?]

how to distinguish heavy from light (aside from weight I presume)?

[What made you choose to collect for certain systems over others?]

Nostalgia for an entire era is what initially drove me to collect. Over the past ~15 years, I've had just about every console/home computer in my collection at some point, but, of late, I've managed to trim it down to just the few systems I actually owned back in the day. Nostalgia, I suppose, is still what drives me, it's just of a more direct and personal nature these days.

[Rise Of Tomb Raid Manual?]

YouTube unboxing videos are a good way to find out whether a game originally included a manual.

 

A quick check of a RotTR video reveals that a manual was not originally included with the game. Pretty much the norm these days.

[What version of the atari 2600 is the rarest?]

Sunnyvale Vader?

[Best Home Version of Defender?]

5200.

[5200 Pole Position label date code - NR?]

I'm seeking more data on the later-style 5200 cartridges, i.e. those not using the white-title-on-blue-bar design (Berzerk, Dig Dug, Jungle Hunt, Mario Bros., Moon Patrol, Ms. Pac-Man, Pengo, Robotron: 2084, Space Dungeon). The placement of the stamp with the different design often makes the date codes more difficult to read, at least when you don't have the cartridge in your hands to examine in person.

Keep us posted.

[5200 Pole Position label date code - NR?]

I doubt "R" refers to revisions in the actual game code, though several 2600 game ROMs are known to have been revised. Revisions to the label, instructions, packaging, etc. is, I think, more likely. Almost all the instruction manuals for Atari-published games on the 2600 were revised. There's a revision number on the back cover of almost every one of them. Maybe the date-stamp codes on the labels and the manual revision numbers refer to the same thing.

 

I can't even begin to speculate what "PR" might indicate, but it's existence would suggest that "NR" isn't any kind of mistake. Nice find.

[5200 Pole Position label date code - NR?]

I just went back and revisited those old date stamp threads. I appears that 'revision' had been mentioned at that time. I don't know why it never sunk in with me.

 

Anyway, if you look at the way the date codes themselves (at least on 2600 carts) are formatted, the non-R codes are composed of three evenly-spaced digits--"3 2 1". In codes that include the R, the formatting is "33 1 R"--there isn't a space between the first two digits (the week code). Thus, it may be the case that 'revision' is simply referring to the revised formatting of the date code stamp itself.

 

I've only ever seen or heard of "D" on one cartridge--my own copy of Sears picture label Demons to Diamonds. Other that it being a simple mistake, I can't even begin to speculate on what it might indicate.

 

No idea on "NR" either. I've never seen it on a 2600 cartridge. I seem to recall seeing it on one of my 5200 cartridges, but I can no longer be sure as I have since parted with my 5200 collection.

[Flag Capture (c) 1978 picture label GREEN text FOUND 4/29]

Wish I was, but, unfortunately, I'm not.

 

Here is the thread that details the first found copy of this one.

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/91197-flag-capture-picture-label-copyright-1978

[Flag Capture (c) 1978 picture label GREEN text FOUND 4/29]

It would be very cool if the white-background instruction manual that should have accompanied this cartridge would also turn up someday.

[Flag Capture (c) 1978 picture label GREEN text FOUND 4/29]

Yeah, that first digit is just about illegible. I'm pretty confident the remainder is "1 2 R" though.

 

Thanks for the photos.

[5200 Pole Position label date code - NR?]

The "R" probably stands for "revision" -- it appears frequently on 2600 game labels.

*slaps forehead*

 

I've always wondered what 'R' might stand for in these date codes. Why did I never land on 'Revision'?

[Flag Capture (c) 1978 picture label GREEN text FOUND 4/29]

As I said in my reply to Supergun's post, awesome! I've been waiting a long time for another one of these to turn up. Congratulations.

 

Is there a date code stamped into the end label? The only other copy of this variant has one, which looks to be "21 2 R".

 

Actually, would you mind posting a photo of the end label?

[Which of these three pic labels are the hardest to find?]

Bumping this thread because today a good friend of mine found this today at a local used game store! Absolutely amazing if you ask me. As far as I know, it's only the second one that has ever surfaced?image.jpeg

(I already expressed to him my extreme interest in the item, so I got dibs on this one guys, don't even try to interfere!

Awesome! I've been waiting sooooooo long for another of one these to surface.

[Where Did You Get Your First Atari 2600 and What Type Was it?]

4-Switch Woody. Christmas 1980.

[FS: Power Supply Adapter--400,800,822,850,1010,1200XL]

This is the 15VA version, my 1980 400 came with one. Discontinued as it was too low in power output for many devices, the internal fuse blew in mine after a Mosaic 64K upgrade was installed in the 400.

 

Works fine with an 850, probably with a 1010/1200XL, probably not with a 48K 800, and definitely not with an 810/1050/XF551.

Thank you so much for this information.

 

I wondered about the output. The voltage measured within specs on a multimeter, but it was on the low side. I wondered how it might perform under load.

 

Do A8'ers generally avoid this adapter? Should I just pitch it?

[FS: Power Supply Adapter--400,800,822,850,1010,1200XL]

Atari Power Supply Adapter. Part # C014319

 

400,800,822,850,1010,1200XL

 

Adapter tested with a multimeter; output is nominal. I don't have anyway to test the adapter under an actual load, however.

 

$8 + 2 lb. shipping costs ($6 - $11). Shipping to Canada ~$16.

 

Or make me an offer, if you wish.

 

PM if interested.

 

[Atari will tear down your "Haunted House"]

How do you lose value in a 30+ year old "dead" product by trademarking a general widespread term like "Haunted House" or the word "candy"?

 

 

It's not "dead". Atari released a Haunted House game in 2010.

[Atari will tear down your "Haunted House"]

It's the nature of trademark law. You really can't blame "Atari". They either defend their trademarks or they lose them.

[Browsing through catalogs and daydreaming]

 

Here's a picture of the Night Driver box I mentioned earlier. I've never actually seen this box. Does it exist?

 

 

That Golf box is different than the retail box too. I think there's also a Warlords box in one of the catalogs that is different as well.

[YouTube Channels]

I don't have ads on any of my videos.

 

About 2 years ago, though, I remember Youtube pushing very hard for people to use their real names as their channel name. It was very annoying. Seems like every time I visited the site I was pestered with a popup where I had to constantly explain why I wasn't amenable to that change. They were so insistent that I expected them to eventually force the change. Had that occurred, I would have simply deleted my channel.