Atari 2600 text adventures - do carts exist?

[Atari 2600 text adventures - do carts exist?]

Next question. According to my favourite retro (i.e. text adventure) database http://solutionarchive.com , the Atari 2600 boasts a stunning number of two homebrew text adventure type games: "Dark Mage" and "Fellowship of the Ring". Does anyone know...

 

... if these exist as actual carts? And if yes...

 

... how I can get my hands on them? And if yes...

 

... do they come as PAL or NTSC versions? PAL would be very much preferred.

 

Thanks!

[AVGN The Movie]

...and view them as they should be viewed - parody.

Very true. I find it funny when he tries to look like he's helpless when he has to operate a Commodore 64. Or maybe he actually is...? Could be. Damn console kids :-)

 

Like your videos, by the way.

[Frogger II before and after]

At least the cart seems to have been treated with some dignity. I recently got a 21 game collection (Atari 2600), and half of the carts looked (and smelled) like they've been lying in a puddle for a few years... that's the sort of stuff you can get here in Germany. Well-preserved carts are rare.

[What are your Collecting pet peeves?]

Atari consoles can generally be expected to work, so I don't mind paying a bit for them.

And if not, they can often easily be fixed, even by technical dummies like myself. The beauty of a simple system.

[What are your Collecting pet peeves?]

Very common games tending to get pretty expensive on eBay or elsewhere, just because they are actually good. I'm not much of a collector, so I'm not looking for rare games specifically. But games like Pitfall II for Atari VCS go für at least 10 Euro these days, and they usually look like they have been stored in a puddle for 10 years as well. I'd like to have that, but I'm not yet ready to pay that much for a common cart.

[Obscure Time Race cart]

I wasn't aware of the "Holy Grail" checkbox in the advanced search. Found it eventually after reading your tips. Thanks!

[Obscure Time Race cart]

Well, and from what I can see, there are no rarity informations whatsoever on any of the game entries in Atarimania. The forum there scores about a post per month.

 

Am I missing something here?

[Obscure Time Race cart]

Yeah, that's where I found out it's from Goliath in the first place. It's just not in the rarity guide here. There is hardly any information about this version on either site, so I thought I'd ask in here if anyone knows more.

[AVGN The Movie]

Being the occasional AVGN viewer myself, I learned pretty quickly that it's a bad idea to read comments on the YT videos. Danger of permanent loss of IQ points...

[Obscure Time Race cart]

Hey there,

 

I recently grabbed a little game collection on eBay, and among the games was a weird clone of Time Race (which itself is a clone of Space Jockey). It appears to be a german release, by Hotshot/Goliath. The "original" Time Race was already less than mediocre, but this version is even worse. I suspect those carts aren't particularly rare, but you never know... anyone have information on this for me? I have attached two photos of the cart. Sorry for the bad quality - had to use a stone old camcorder, because I didn't have any decent equipment at hand. Feel free to use it for the Rarity Guide database. The photos, shitty as they are, are still way better than the game :-).

 

 

[Rarity Guide Info]

I already posted this in the site feedback forum, which was maybe not so smart... so I'll try here now.

 

I was trying to add a little bit of trivia to an Atari 2600 game or two when it gave me a 404 error. Is the sytem broken right now, or are normal users simply not allowed to add info? Thanks!

[Updating game information broken?]

Hi, I'm the new guy.

 

Was trying to add some trivia information to a game (Wachroboter jagt Jupy on the 2600), but it sent me to a 404 page. Is it not allowed/possible to add info to the games for normal users?