Atari ROM chips in NEC box.. With PCB's what are they? BOOTLEGS?

[SAVETHEPAST]

I just bought these ROM Chips and PCB boards. Anybody know what they were originally used for? Out of the 43 chips all but 5 work on my Atari 2600. I figured that somebody just made the kit to use at home. One of the PCB's has a switch that says 16/32 some of the chips only play on the 16 and some only on the 32. The Intel chip dates range from 1977 - 1980 and the NEC chips have no dates that I was able to decipher. Anybody have any useful info about what exactly these are?

 

 

Edited September 3, 2007 by SAVETHEPAST

[+Mitch]

Usually these are pirate boards that Atari employees took home and used for their personal use.

Are any of the games ones you don't recognize?

 

Mitch

[SAVETHEPAST]

Usually these are pirate boards that Atari employees took home and used for their personal use.

Are any of the games ones you don't recognize?

 

Mitch

 

They seem to be all normal common games. I haven't had a chance to play them all, just put them in to see if they worked. I'm not sure if there are any difference in the original games and the ones I have. The ones I have compared seem to have the same opening screen. I listed what was written on each chip below.

 

 

1. Super Breakout

2. Back Gammon

3. Yars Revenge

4. War Lords

5. Spider Man

6. Defender

7. Checkers

8. Dragster

9. Pac Man

10. Fantastic Voyage

11. Mega Mania

12. Golf

13. Star Wars

14. Spider Fighter

15. Gun Sling

16. Donkey Kong

17. M. Network Baseball

18. Commando Raid

19. Pin Ball

20. Chess

21. Berserk

22. Night Driver

23. Video Olympic

24. Pitfall

25. G Prix

26. Space Caverns

27. Skiing

28. Frogger

29. Othello

30. Star Master

31. Street Racer

32. Missle Command

33. Demon Attack

34. Raquetball

35. Worm Wars 1

36. Boxing

37.Night Driver

38. Atlantis

39. Space Invaders

40. River Raid

41. Chopper Command

42. Carnival

[Bruce Tomlin]

Usually these are pirate boards that Atari employees took home and used for their personal use.

Are any of the games ones you don't recognize?

This looks more like an individual hack. I would expect someone who worked for Atari to have a nicer setup than that. The NEC EPROM storage box is a nice touch.

 

As for the 16/32 switch, that's the 2K/4K select, which is standard on these things. One is used for 2716 2K chips and the other is for 2732 4K chips.