Homebrews and stuff

[Homebrews and stuff]

Almost forgot -- I'm pretty sure there was also a self-release of Pressure Gauge; at least I got mine from John directly instead of through Hozer.

[Homebrews and stuff]

As to "Ebivision Games", I assume ebi05 is

Escape From Supercade... Even though it hasn't officialy been released, it was shown over a year ago and so might be listed.

[Homebrews and stuff]

As to "Self-Published", you should probably add:

 

Crazy Valet: Philly Classic

Vault Assault: Sep 11 (for label hunters :-)

Stell-A-Sketch [CD]

[Earthworld Solution]

I like in Waterworld that they gave clues -- that made solving it more reasonable than Earthworld and Fireworld. The problem is, it was a little too easy. They went from not being to solve the game, to being able to solve it in an afternoon. I wish they'd found middle ground.

[Earthworld Solution]

Bergbros:

 

I actually did try to find the winners, but had no success. The solutions for EW and FW were donated anonymously, so I couldn't ask how they were solved. That left me in a bind that way. WW I solved myself, so that was trivial, but sadly I didn't make the tiebreaker -- and I was never offered $2000 by Atari, so I assume the contest got at least that far if Michael Rideout's comments about WW in the AtariHQ interview are correct.

[Mental Kombat Update]

[fanboy]

I wanna be IN Sonya

[/fanboy]

 

One bad joke deserves another.

[The Gunfight Label Contest winner is...]

San-D, you beat me to it! -- I was going to say the same thing... Let's have a poll. There were a lot of great labels. I dig the "pop-culture" aspect of it...

[Gunfight Label Contest!]

Hey guys, thanks for the permission from those who've okayed it. One thing though, I don't know who "Jeffooze", "Lost Monkey" or "ATARIPITBULL" are, so I can't match nicks to labels.

 

Oh, and Lost Monkey, don't worry -- the images won't end up on anything other than 2600 Connection. Charmin stiffed me on the last image I tried to sell them.

[Unreleased Star Wars Games]

These were way too early... I'm almost positive no coding was done at the point the boxes were made. I'm not aware of any other SW games that might be found as a prototype.

[Really oblique Atari reference]

Stan: was thinking the same thing when I saw the bowling ball bag ad...

[What are my chances...(Proto Game Question)]

Where'd you hear the boxes were shipped? Has anyone even found a labelled Frog Pond? If the box is one that showed up at Best, none of them had games in them as far as I know.

 

I think you're far more likely to be hit by a meteor...

[What are these?]

Ah, whoops, I got Zellers & "Cooper Black"s mixed up...

 

Guess the next question is, does anybody have "Cooper Black" style carts in a different type of box?

[Gunfight Label Contest!]

Hey, I think this would be a fun mini feature for 2600 Connection (if I have room!). If any of you artists wouldn't mind me printing your labels (black & white), please let me know at [email protected]

[Atari 2600 Modem]

Marco: Not exactly, no. It's bulkier.

 

Briguy: That's what Mindfield meant -- Gameline became QuantumLink which became AOL.

[Sears questions]

I THINK Atari meant to all along, as the Sears catalog/ads noted when it would stop being exclusive.

[Atari 2600 Modem]

Is it no coincidence that the cart looks like a Supercharger?

[What are these?]

I think these are the carts known variously as "Cooper Black" (for the cart label font), "Zellers" (for the store they're sold at; maybe? -- are there other styles? am I wrong?) and "Taiwan B" (IIRC) in the Digital Press Collectors Guide. I'm not positive about all this though...

[Sears questions]

2. Super Breakout was a Sears Exclusive for a few months. Atari later released it themselves.

[Wizard of Wor and Solar Fox]

How about a scan of that pic?

[What is this "Street Fight" I've heard about?]

I think it's mentioned in one of the big ads in one or more of the issues of Atarian, along with White Water Madness.

[Demon Attack....infinite?]

I think there ARE two distinct label types for the Imagic release, and I did hear a rumor that the difference in the ROM matches the labels, but I've never seen that verified.

[2600 Emulation on GBA!]

Yeah, that's right Jess. I can forward him the link and see what he says.

[Hack-Protection]

How much of the codespace is wasted to do the anti-hack protection?

[Caverns Of Mars]

Take a look at Thrust -- possibly that kernel could be used for a version of Caverns of Mars for the 2600.

[Coleco to Atari Red]

Actually, I think Atari licensed the rights, but didn't buy them. Just to be clear.

 

Given the Rabbit Transit carts that are around, it seems Atari was considering re-releasing some of the Starpath games on cartridge. But there's been no real proof of that.