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According to this website, there is a marriage proposal screen accessible on all retail copies of this cartridge by holding a specific combination of buttons on startup. I have attempted this with both original hardware and also the Retron HD77 as well as original joysticks and modern. Nothing I did would result in seeing this screen, all I kept getting was the 4 game selection screen you're supposed to get on boot. Has anyone successfully been able to see this screen?

Ah, thanks! I remember now, you run Atarimania, I use that site a lot. I think I have some obscure boxes you're missing from your site as well, you're welcome to scans of them. As well as some cartridges and manuals I noticed you were missing.

I found one more today. What is this? Pack-in for the Gemini console?

I just went through all of my Spectravision and Spectravideo cartridges, I have a lot of them. The only one I can see with a C after the model is a Bumper Bash I found in a $5 bin at a local game store about 2 years ago. I have a complete copy as well but that one doesn't have the C. I also found Planet Patrol from both companies, what's the difference with these?

Thanks, that's very helpful! That explains why almost every game in the lot os a variant to the one I already have. They're all different in some way.

That makes sense, thanks a lot. Are they actually PAL or could they just be Canadian NTSC? I got the entire lot from someone here in Canada and they all seem to be from the same meticulous owner since they're all from a similar time period and opened in the same careful manner without damaging the box. Funny thing about the French, the Skiing box is actually labelled Le Ski for some reason. I don't know if it's from a French country or if that's just how Canada did it.

I bought a larger lot of games off someone and many of them appear to be either very early releases or some sort of pre-production copies. I'm hoping someone here can help me identify what I have here, if anything at all. This Beamrider is strange, the cartridge inside is in a tray instead of just being inside the box and the tray is designed to hold it on an angle. There's also no writing on the back at all compared to my other copy. And why doesn't this copy of Fireworld have a barcode? And contest promotion? It's also REV 2 while every other copy I've seen is REV 1.

I found this at a local game store yesterday and I've never seen a Frogger like this before. Is this from the factory or is it a bootleg? It seems to be about 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch wider than other cartridges and doesn't have the slanted end label.

Thanks, I appreciate it very much. I was already pretty sure about the NES, I got them all from a well known prototype collector and they did come with multiple SLROM and AOROM boards, as well as multiple other NES and Game Boy prototype chips / boards. I do have more picture of the NES but what you see in the photo is PM = Pac Man, AS = Alien Sydrome, AB = After Burder, KC = Kitty's Catch, SX = Skull And Crossbones, RR = Road Runner, TB = Toobin' and it goes on from there. The ones in the photo may be the same as final ROM but I know for sure Gauntlet (not pictured) and some others have differences from the final releases just from a quick play through I did. I was really curious about the Atari chips, I'm a pretty aggressive prototype collector and decided to take a chance on them, I appreciate the feedback that these are likely worthless.

More like this? I have about a 100 of these NES chips. This is almost a complete library of Tengen games.

Thanks. Last question, how do you know they're not prototypes?

Thanks, I took a chance on them already for about $230 CAD, sounds like a bad buy. What do you think they're worth?

I found all of these from a single seller that had a lot of old vintage gaming hardware. They appear to be prototypes but do you think they are? Do you think someone could have made them recently as a joke? My main concern is there's such a wide range here frm licnsed Atari games all the way to scarce games like Jawbreaker, there doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern with the titles. What do you think these are?

Very cool thread, I enjoyed reading it. Keep going. I have multiple copies of Bumper Bash and Master Builder if you still need those, I'm willing to trade.

Search is over, I purchased a huge lot of over 100 prototypes and development chips, including many unreleased games. Thanks, everyone.