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You can have it for only $60 now!! L @ @ K here! Cheers, Marco

Matty, The StarSoft list contains lots of the Quelle games, the other one does not contain the Quelle games I am talking about. From the first list, I doubt Baumeister, Piratenschiff, Ufo Patrol, Tennis, Galactic, and Normandy Landing are regular Quelle games (the ones that actually have "Quelle" on the box and manual). The first two are German releases of Spectravision games. Ufo Patrol is part of a Double-Game Package and the others are most likely generic Taiwanese pirates. Obviously, these don't have German names either. Finally, Star Soft really doesn't mean anything and it does hardly help to distinguish games as lots and lots of pirates all over the world used the cases with S.S. molded into the back. We really should stop using it alltogether. So, I'd still like to see a definitive list of 'real' Quelle games (as described above). Cheers, Marco

Thanks for the input. It made me realise I should have been more precise. I was talking about the Quelle brand games (with German titles), not the no-name games. As for the lists you mention, I don't think we should still use the Star Soft name, as this is a non-existing firm. Cheers, Marco

Sounds like a good plan - do you know how/where to contact them? Cheers, Marco

Hey German collectors, Does anyone of you have a complete list of Quelle games? There are some lists floating around, but I'm not sure if all the titles on those indeed exist. A Quelle catalog or something would be really cool. Anyone? Cheers, Marco

Al, Thanks for fixing it. I tried some of the avatars from the gallery, but didn't pick one. I guess I was infected by your virus in the time I was browsing the avatar gallery anyway :wink: Cheers, Marco

Hi all, The dates on the messageboard show up like this: e712Wednesday455812 I bet that's not how they are supposed to be... Cheers, Marco

What a burden, knowing so much, yet not being able to share... :wink: Cheers, Marco

Ben, I feel pretty comfortable declaring your contest a winner Very well done!! Cheers, Marco

Are you sure about that Ben? I thought they went for $250-$350 each. Also, was there an actual Ewok box, or was it the "Revenge of the Jedi - Game I" box? Cheers, Marco

Tell him: [*]The 2600 will always be the first big videogame system [*]There's way more Atari 2600 console and cart variations [*]Programming games for the 2600 is a far greater feat [*]Atari 2600 history is far more interesting, after 25 years we're still learning [*]Atari is American [*]The Atari 2600 has the most intriguing prototype section [*]Any peripheral you can think of was either made or planned for the 2600 [*]The 2600 section in the DPG is about three times bigger than the NES section [*]NES only revived what the 2600 had started [*]Even Mario fell for the VCS before he turned to the dark side of NES [*]The 2600 has more porn games than the NES (listed per special request by NE146) Cheers, Marco

They are part of one of the Atari Paks, big boxes that contain two or three games and a controller. The Paks are: Racing Pak, Action Pak and Back to School Pak. I guess the Paks didn't sell all that well, and Atari just started to sell their extra stock of white boxed carts. Another possibility is that these white boxed carts only recently hit the market when Atari's stocks were bought up. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marco

Guilty as charged! Mind sharing your ID with us? Cheers, Marco

... and let's shoot the president while we're at it :wink: Cheers, Marco

None of the above was aimed at you personally, or anyone in particular. I was just sharing a general observation. Please don't feel attacked by my statement. I think Snider-Man too was not wishing for Paradise, but only conveying that things have changed a bit here at AtariAge since it started out in this form a year ago. Reminiscing about more relaxed times cannot be all bad, I think. Cheers, Marco

The moderators try to keep an eye on this, and I must say that most topics have been posted in the right forum lately. Sometimes it's not really clear where a post should go as it contains elements of several aspects of the hobby. Just as long as it isn't obvious that someone is only (ab)using the 2600 Forum just to get the most attention, it's mostly fine. Cheers, Marco

Hi all, I've noticed something on AtariAge lately that I don't like. The discussions have become more unfriendly and with less room for appreciation of other viewpoints. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about: protecting high score strategies, selling limited releases, money & collecting, sharing hacks, organising big events etc. What strikes me as particularly odd in this is that people who are attacking or questioning others claim they are just expressing their opinions. Of course, in a free world, there cannot be enough of that. But it should never be at the expense of the other, I think. This hobby is made up of players, programmers, researchers, sellers, hackers, collectors, highscorers, buyers, writers, and other categories I'm forgetting. I'm not going to say the obvious, that we should all just always get along. We need discussion and disagreement too. But in that there should be respect, and at least a little fun. I hope we can agree on that. Now, this post has probably been too serious too, so let's now... Game On! Cheers, Marco

So, anyone who praised Thomas into heaven, now want to send him to hell? Cheers, Marco

Many of us can be checked out by our feedback records on Ebay. If you feel uncomfortable about a possible trading partner, you can always ask for his Ebay ID or just ask for references of people this person has traded with before, preferably people you know yourself. Hope this helps. Just as something to think about: don't let one bad trade spoil the fun of trading for you... Cheers, Marco

Yet another cool feature of collecting Brazilian 2600 games: it never ends! Cheers, Marco

Must be 1000-1500 or so. That's another great thing about the Brazilian 2600 market: the labels, names and boxes are just too cool! Cheers, Marco

Thanks for sharing the truth with us, we knew it was out there... :wink: So I guess it worked for the Brazilian people: they got any 2600 game out there (even some titles other nations never got to see, like Donald Duck) and probably at prices which were pretty good. The problem was mainly one for the Brazilian government that didn't get its creative and innovative gaming industry. Then again, learning from what others did before has never been a bad way to start up new things. All of the 'Asian Tiger' countries started out that way. And, on a smaller scale, that's how hackers of 2600 games may learn how to program. And I do think it did something for Brazil as well. If you look at the 2600 hardware, there are certainly some ultra-cool hacks if not innovations there: the Comp-K7 supercharger that uses a different technique and has a library of some 60 games, the Dactar-Comp that features real keys, unlike its example the Compumate, and the integrated Dynacom keyboard that is actually much better to handle than Atari's own keyboard controllers. So, I think it's not fair to say that your government's tactic only brought cheap and meaningless piracy to Brazil. It most certainly spawned some amazing new stuff. Did that licensed name give them any advantages over the other companies? I.e. were people more interested in Polyvox games because it has some 'official' look to it? Or did it make no difference? I currently have 73 different Brazilian companies in my collection and there's still plenty I don't have, so I think my estimate of one hundred companies is not bad at all. Amazing huh? Cheers, Marco

Well, Matty, there is rare and there is rare, but the Vidco version really is much rarer than the Homevision version. Both the Homevision copier and copy carts have been uncovered in batches of new-old-stock in Germany. Cheers, Marco

We may regard the, say, one hundred other Brazil companies as pirateers, for the Brazilians they were the real thing. The Brazilian government issued big import taxes, thus stimulating national production of goods (thus providing people with work and income). Cheers, Marco

Your guess is as good as mine, but I think it may have been about looks. Atari possibly just wanted a more slick and modern type of joystick to go with the 2600 Jr. At first, they sold Juniors with the old style joysticks and it's just an odd combination. Cheers, Marco