Hot Dogs and Buns...

[Starhopper]

This may have been hit on before and I just missed it. Did Atari ever come out with a cart holder bigger than eight slots in the early days? I've come across several over the years and they've all been either eight slot or interlocking eights. TEN would have been a logical choice. It seems odd that all of the cart organizers were always eight slots when their initial offering of game carts was nine. . .

 

Just a thought...

[Prodos8]

Well there's eight bits in a byte so a decle would've been impractical.

[opeygon]

It seems odd that all of the cart organizers were always eight slots when their initial offering of game carts was nine. . .

 

perhaps there intention was eight in the slots and one in the console? maybe they just couldn't fathom someone ever wanting to put all of their games and console away for awhile

[Starhopper]

It seems odd that all of the cart organizers were always eight slots when their initial offering of game carts was nine. . .

 

perhaps there intention was eight in the slots and one in the console? maybe they just couldn't fathom someone ever wanting to put all of their games and console away for awhile

Smeg. . . I never thought of that

[Gateway]

Or it was a marketing strategy: i.e. if you own all nine games you will have to purchase another binder or interlocking unit to store them all, which leads to more future games coming out, which means more money spent to "fill" up the slots...ad infinitum.

 

For us collectors who like to fill in all the gaps in our collection, it reminds me of Pokemon.

 

"Gotta catch'em all!"

 

I had to stop collecting Star Wars action figures because of this, plus they started recycling the same figures put in updated packages, so I will never "catch up". At least with the pre-homebrew days of Atari games it seems like there is a finite number of games to collect( though it is a large number! )