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    I don't think it could have been the voltage regulator, because it would only happen with that one Donkey Kong cart. All other carts worked fine, including another Donkey Kong cart I tried.

     

    I was thinking that it was a possible dirty contact too, but I was playing the Donkey Kong for a good 15 to 20 minutes before this happened. Plus, when a reinserted the cartridge it would reproduce the same problem, at the exact same time.

     

    I should have tried that Donkey Kong cartridge on another system of mine, but I didn't think of it at the time. That would have confirmed if the cart really was toast??

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    Here is something interesting, i'm fixing some old joysticks I had lying around and i've got the bare joystick assembly in my hand and its plugged into the 2600 while playing Donkey Kong. OK maybe not a good idea to begin with.

     

    So, I'm playing Donkey Kong with the bare joystick (pressing directly on the silver pop-up springs to move Mario) so I can test the joystick is working OK. As i'm doing this, the screen flickers and I see some crazy graphics and then the screen goes black. So, I turn everything off hoping I didn't just fry the 2600. I turn it back on. Donkey Kong appears OK and I play for 10 seconds and then it goes crazy again and black screen. (This time the joystick is back in its case)

     

    So, I'm thinking I fried the 2600. I turn everything off again, I unplug the cartridge, unplug the power and insert another cartridge. Plug everything back in, and everything is back to normal. Game works fine.

     

    Now, I turn it off. Plug back the Donkey Kong cart, play for 10 seconds..crazy screen and then black screen. So I try again with another cartridge, no problem.

     

    So, could I have fried a cartridge by playing with the bare joystick?

     

    Whats even more interesting, ..the next day I try the same Donkey Kong cartridge....NO PROBLEM! it works !

     

    So what happened? Did I temporarily zap a Donkey Kong cartridge ?

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    I just tried out an Atlantis cart today and also tried out Ocean City Defender. They "appear" to be the same game, but upon closer inspection you can see that Ocean City Defender has a different font for the scoring (like Atlantis II) and that the game is slower. In addition, the opening credits show "FunVision" and not "Imagic"

     

    I'm asking if anyone else has noticed this as the info in AtariAge seems to show screenshots of the Imagic version, not Zeller's Ocean City Defender.

     

    Perhaps my copy of Ocean City Defender is actually Ocean City Defender II ? LOL

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    but they sell millions of copies! Yeah, at $18 bucks they are still making a killing. But you're comparing a company that sells millions of DVDs to a company that probably won't sell 1000 copies! Think about all the time & expenses involved in creating the content of this DVD alone and not just the production cost of a single DVD!

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    Just to make it clear, the Pong-Sports has no manual. I did say "CIB" that's true except for the Pong-Sports. Also the Tank-Plus cartridge looks OK in the picture, but the actual cartridge has its label peeled and looks creased. They all work as I tested them on the Sears unit I also have for auction.

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