Psionic

You could just write 'mars242' I suppose, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.

As much as I'd love to pry some of those items from you, you should definitely keep most if not all of them. You've got some nice stuff there, nothing crazy rare, but still very nice.

Yup, that's it. I remember years back a guy on eBay who I think had Galoob's old stock of adapters. He literally had dozens of those things.

Great score...welcome back, looks like you've got an instant collection.

Sure, why not. Actually, next time I think I'll just soak the box in diesel fuel...that should melt the glue.

Just to follow up on this, I read an interesting interview with Steve Kranish (formerly of Parker Brothers). According to Steve, PB had a Sky Skipper cocktail unit to use while the 2600 port was in development. He said this about the game: "That was a truly insipid arcade game; in fact it was so bad that I was the only one in the office who was willing to play it (I am not a gamer, remember?) so I became the local expert and could answer questions for whoever got stuck writing the port. The Marketing Bozos had agreed to sell it in hopes that doing so would provide access to future games, which I don’t think ever happened. The Sky Skipper that we had in the office was a table model, rather than an upright arcade game. The monitor was under a glass top. I think the idea was that one had to be drinking to be willing to pay money to play such a stupid game, and the table top provided someplace to put your drink while you played. This does not explain my willingness to play it; I do not drink." I don't know if that's the same unit that Nintendo supposedly has. If not, I wonder what happened to it?

Yes, but that ADAM version was not technically a computer version and that's what led to the fateful incident with Nintendo at 1983 CES.

That wouldn't work for lots of them...many of them were printed patches with a stitched border only. Plus, that would pretty much take the fun out of collecting them if there were all kinds of fakes and repros floating around.

Don't toss broken games...homebrewers can use the cartridge shells.

Yeah, I just tried it on my 7800 and the imaging isn't quite as bad. Oddly enough, the shapes seem to be in slightly different patterns as well.

AtariPit, Do your copies of Halloween have this problem: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=110698

Brazil uses the ***ULTRA RARE*** PAL-M standard which is actually a variant of NTSC (uses the same broadcast bandwidth, frame rate, and number of lines as NTSC, but uses PAL encoding). Their DVD's and games are NTSC.

By the way, there's a page over at AtariHQ that discusses some rare 2600 games: http://www.atarihq.com/museum/2678/holygr.html

I guess you're right. I just looked at my Zenji "manual" (instruction card) and it makes no mention of a patch. I guess Activision was phasing out the patch contest by that point.

Thanks guys. Actually, I used a very sharp knife to open Food Fight and still managed to damage the box a bit. Unlike most glued Atari/Atarisoft boxes I've opened in the past, these 7800 boxes all had lots of glue as opposed to just 2 or 3 blobs of it. I was hoping there was a way to soften the glue or some other kind of trick but I guess not. Yeah, it's pretty good...not as good as Pressure Cooker though.

My thoughts exactly... Actually, I'm sure he is reasonably busy, but not so much that he can't answer some simple questions. I just hate when I contact former Atari/Atari-related people about something and they can't be bothered to message/call me back. Like they're so busy! Interestingly enough, in my experience, some of the "busiest" people have responded to my inquiries.

I'm aware of that. I have no idea what the story is, but that's what one of the developers of Taito Legends said in an interview when specifically asked about Arkanoid. He said there were legal issues and that Taito outright refused to license Arkanoid for inclusion. What reason whould he have to make this up?

Gotta love the questions that people ask. Question from the original auction: Where did you find this system? Is the rf switch included? Is there anything that I would need to purchase outside of the system itself in order for it to work on my television? It kills me how random boneheads who obviously know nothing about Atari are willing to drop hundreds/thousands on an item like this.

Unfortunately, they probably would have had an even harder time selling it. The 5200 was expensive as it was...I don't know how many people would have been willing to spend so much all at once for a console with all that stuff. Plus, that would have been one VERY big box.

Well then, then should have gotten Tod Frye to do it and told him they needed it done for the launch.

Your point?

So they never made a Zenji patch?

Instructions for Air Battle: http://www.videopac.org/games/58/instr.jpg Can't help you with Pharoahs, sorry.

Not surprising...unfortunately, I'm sure that records of that stuff are probably long gone after 20+ years.

I finally just got a 7800 and some boxed games. I noticed that the top flaps of game boxes were sealed with a lot of glue, thus the person who opened them originally tore them up quite a bit. I just hacked up a Food Fight a bit myself trying to open the box. Is there any trick to opening these boxes without tearing up the top flaps or do you just have to be careful and hope for the best?