guerrilla88

I think you were right the first time. Check out the manual for Solar Storm. It has the 981 University address near the end of the manual. I'm wondering if they renumbered the offices and made them into suites or something, since it does not show up on google maps. I have a buddy who lives on University Ave., so I'll see if I can find the building next time I'm over there and take a picture.

I don't remember the actual address, but I can confirm it was in the commercial park at the end of University Ave. near Lark Ave. in Los Gatos. Funny story - When I was a kid, I heard a rumor at school that imagic would throw away cartridges in their dumpsters in back, so I talked my dad into driving me over there at night (I grew up on the other side of Los Gatos, about 5 minutes away). I looked around in the top trash and found only papers and cardboard. I was too chicken to get into the dumpster.

Sorry. I double posted.

I tried cleaning the contacts on Asterix, but it still only produced sound and no picture. So, I decided to try and open the cartridge. I thought there would be a screw, so I used a hair dryer on low and slowly started peeling the label back. Instead, I found 2 other prototype labels below the top one and a Pac Man label on the bottom. Oh, and there was no screw. I guess this cartridge got a lot of use in the lab.

I got the adapter and to my surprise, my Atari still works! Here is a summary of what is on those cartridges: Pool - Trick Shot by Imagic Checkers - Activision Bridge - Activision Champ Soccer - Championship Soccer (Atari) Pigs in Space - Appears to be fully working even though the date is 7-29-83. I was able to play all three games after I figured out I had the joystick plugged in the wrong side. Asterix - No picture. It does a tune at the beginning if I toggle game reset, and makes some noise like I am playing. Date on cartridge is 7-18-83, which appears to be earlier than anything listed on atariprotos.com, and I do remember playing this a long time ago. Is it possible it is PAL and I somehow got around this with my old CRT tv? Screenshots of everything but Asterix below. Also a shot of my dusty Atari and the rest of the cartridges I found in the box, in case anyone was curious.

When I found these, I looked up the Pigs in Space and Asterix in the rarity guide. I didn't think much about the others and had no idea there was no pool game made by Atari. Now I am really curious what these actually are. I have an old Atari but am missing the tv switch box, so I ordered one of those adapters from amazon. It should be here tomorrow. If the Atari still works, I'll post some screenshots of the games (provided they still work too). As far as rom dumps, I have no idea how to do that but any help/suggestions are appreciated. Thanks for the feedback!

Hi, I've lurked a bit on this site and decided to finally create a profile and post something. I was recently cleaning out stuff that was left at my parents' house and found a box of 2600 cartridges. There were 21 total, most being retail releases, but these 6 were in there. I collected cartridges when I was younger but lost interest. When I was around 19, a friend of mine was dumped by his girlfriend and lost his job, so I gave him my atari and game collection to play. I never thought to ask for it back, but I remember now taking some cartridges out since they were not fully playable or were boring. That's the box I recently found.