A.J. Franzman Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Here's my revised and annotated version of the list. I deleted the "YR" column, since there was no info in it. I have added several titles, also renamed and moved several titles (Amiga Power Module, etc.) but I did not intentionally delete anything. I tried to match up titles here with those in Rom Hunter's collection to mark as "FOUND", did I miss any? Please let me know if I made any errors and what additional annotations should be made. For example, which of the Ultravision titles were not intended to be VCS games? Also, if possible please confirm or correct any entries with question marks. For titles which should be noted as "EXISTS" or "MAY EXIST", please cite a source if possible, unless you're Tempest. Any titles for unreleased hardware I simply marked as "(hardware) UNRELEASED", since even if those binaries exist, almost nobody will ever get to play them unless someone adds the functionality of the hardware to an emulator -- a highly unlikely event, IMO. I renamed the My First Computer entries as The Graduate, since that's the most familiar (to me) of that add-on's several names. Unreleased Atari 2600 Carts (OLD LIST -- Some of these have been found, some are aliases of released titles, and some are titles for other systems never intended for the VCS) Key: ALIAS game is better known by another name-- in most cases, released FOUND game exists and binary has become readily available to the public EXISTS game prototype, EPROM, or binary has been discovered or is believed to be in a private collection but the binary is not publicly released MAY EXIST at least one credible source confirms that at least some coding of the game was started ALIAS+EXISTS Space Mission was a working title shown in ads for what Atari released as Star Ship. The game was also released by Sears as Outer Space. However, one person has found an Atari-branded cartridge bearing the Space Mission name. EXISTS+ALIAS one copy of the Pink Panther game is known to exist. The game is known by several different titles. Titles without any entry in the NOTES column may never have been started. If the NOTES entry is a system name, that title was not a VCS game. If the NOTES entry is a different publisher, the game was released by that publisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title Publisher Mfg # NOTES ------------------------------------- -------------- ------- --------------- $25,000 Pyramid Great Game Co. 28 in 1 Atari BOGUS??? 3-D Asteroids Atari CX26105 3-D Genesis Amiga EXISTS 3-D Ghost Attack Amiga EXISTS 3-D Ghost Attack (for Amiga Power Module) 1100 APM UNRELEASED 3-D Havoc Amiga EXISTS 3-D Havoc (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 2110 APM UNRELEASED 3-D Rubik's Cube Atari FOUND 30 in 1 Atari BOGUS??? 48 Hours Sega 9 to 5 20th/Fox Actionauts (AKA Microbots) Atari EXISTS AD&D: Tower of Mystery Mattel MT7175 EXISTS AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin Mattel MT4325 EXISTS Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Mattel SEE 2 ABOVE Adventures of the Pink Panther Probe 2000 EXISTS+ALIAS Adventures of Max, The Atari MAY EXIST Aerial Ace Imagic IA3409 Air-Sea Attack Ultravision 1001 Airplane! Sega Alligator People 20th/Fox FOUND Androman on the Moon (for Androman) Atari FOUND Anteater Mattel EXISTS Aquaventure Atari FOUND Astro-Battle Ultravision Astrochase Parker Bros. MAY EXIST Astrowar Artic SM8002 DIMAX? Atom Smasher Cumma 20TH/FOX-ALIAS? B-52 Bomber Ultravision 1003 B.C.'s Quest For Tires Tigervision COLECOVISION B.C. II: Grog's Revenge Tigervision COLECOVISION Baby Boom Boom Telesys Bagman Atari MAY EXIST Ballblazer Atari MAY EXIST Baseball Panda Inc. Baseball Best Ultravision 1004 BASIC Unitronics Battle of the Sexes Multivision MAY EXIST Bear Jam Chalkboard Inc. Beginning Algebra Entex Beginning Math Entex Bird Activision MAY EXIST Blockade Runner Interphase Blow Out M Network MAY EXIST Blue Angels Apollo Bobby's Cosmic Adventure Telegames Boing! Atari CX26128 XONOX,1ST STAR? Bouncing Baby Monkeys Telesys Brain Ball Telesys Buck Rogers: Caverns of Zagreb Sega Buck Rogers: Marathon of Zenda Sega Buck Rogers: Secret of Sabar Sega Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th/Fox Candyland Surfing 20th/Fox MAY EXIST Catch the Fly U.S. Games VC 2004 Cat Nap Zimag Cave-In Spectravision Caverns of Mars (for The Graduate) Atari GRAD UNRELEASED Challenger Atari Changes Tigervision 7-013 Childrens Intro to Programming Atari CHIPs Ultravision Choplifter! Atari CX26124 Circus Charlie Parker Bros. PB5750 MAY EXIST Clone Attack Starpath Collision Course Zimag Combat II Atari CX26156 FOUND Computer Corridor (=Computer Revenge) Mattel MT4318 MAY EXIST Confrontation Answer EXISTS Contenders Activision AK-041 Conservation: The Watt Way Panda Inc. Cosmic Avenger Coleco 2464 Countermeasure Atari Count's Castle Atari MAY EXIST Cumulus Mattel MAY EXIST Darts U.S. Games Day the Earth Stood Still, The 20th/Fox Dazzler Unitronics Deep Throat Games People Play Depth Charge Amiga EXISTS Depth Charge (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 1100 APM UNRELEASED Domino Man CBS Electronics Donkey Kong (for The Graduate) Atari GRAD UNRELEASED Dragon's Lair Coleco Dragonslayer Sega Dreadnaught Factor Activision Drive 'Em Krazy Spectravision SA-216 Dual Scrolling (untitled) Mattel MAY EXIST Dukes of Hazzard, The Atari FOUND Dumbo's Flying Circus Atari FOUND Dungeon Master Telegames Eagle Mountain Spectravision SA-221 Electronic Football (port of handheld) Mattel Emergency! Ultravision Entity, The 20th/Fox Escape From Alcatraz Sega Escape from Argos Imagic ALIAS Exus Health Cycle Program Exus Fail Safe Atari Fall Guy, The 20th/Fox 11018 Family Feud Great Game Co. Family Finances Atari Fire! Palmex Flap! Imagic EIZ-002-041 Flapper (AKA Beanie Bopper, Jumper) Mattel MAY EXIST Flashlight (untitled) Mattel MAY EXIST Flesh Gordon Wizard Video MAY EXIST Flintstones, The M Network Flipper Technovision Food Fight Atari CX2693 Football Fanatic Sports Comp-U-Stat Forest Panda Inc. Formula I Technovision TVS 1008 Foxbat Atari Frantic Starpath Frenzy Coleco Friday the 13th Sega Frogger Atari CX26147 PARKER Frog Pond Atari EXISTS Galactic Invaders Panda Inc. Galaga Atari CX26116 Galaxy Invader Action Hi-Tech Gamma Attack Gammation FOUND Getcha Multivision Ghostbusters II Activision RELEASED-PAL Glactic Tactic Spectravision SA-211 Going-Up?? Starpath EXISTS Harem Multivision FOUND Harem 1 Multivision ??? Harem 2 Multivision ??? Heartbreak Multivision Hercules Xonox High Seas M Network Home Finance Entex Honker Bonker Atari CX26130 ALIAS Hop to It Imagic ALIAS Hot Rox Atari CX2615 ALIAS Hydroplane Mattel MAY EXIST Ice Trek Imagic Impossible Game, The Telesys MAY EXIST Incredible Hulk, The Parker Bros. In Search of the Golden Skull M Network MT4627 EXISTS Inner Space Venture Vision Intuition Tigervision 7-009 Jaws Parker Bros. Jeopardy Great Game Co. Jinks Atari James Bond 007 as Seen in Octopussy Parker Bros. MAY EXIST James Bond in Moonraker Parker Bros. MAY EXIST Joker's Wild Great Game Co. Jumbo Jet Pilot Thorn EMI Jungle Jim Technovision TVS 1005 Jungle Raid Starpath ALIAS Jungler Gakken Kamikaze Saucers Syncro Kerplop Zimag Kickman CBS Electronics MAY EXIST Knight Rider Studio Games Kyphus Apollo AP 2007 Labyrinth Starpath ALIAS Lady Bug Coleco 2463 (a homebrew port of this game has been released) Laser Raid Technovision TVS 1015 Last Line of Defense Starpath Last Starfighter, The Atari CX26134 ALIAS Leo's 'Lectric Paintbrush Chalkboard Inc. Leo's Links Chalkboard Inc. Leonardo's Logo Chalkboard Inc. Loco-Motion M Network MT4323 EXISTS Locomotive Technovision Logic Master Chalkboard Inc. Logo Entex Look Ahead Cumma Lord of the Dungeon Probe 2000 M*A*S*H II 20th/Fox MAY EXIST Maddenness CBS Electronics Magnum, P.I. Studio Games Marathon Man Sega Marathon of Zenda Sega Mark of the Mole Atari EXISTS Master Cylinder Spectravision SA-222 Masters of the Universe II Mattel MAY EXIST Meltdown 20th/Fox 11029 FOUND Metamorphosis Data Age Mickey and the Beanstalk Atari Mickey and the Great Outdoors Atari Micro Maestro Chalkboard Inc. Microsurgeon Imagic Midnight Rider Panda Inc. Mission: Impossible Sega Mission Omega CommaVid CM-010 MAY EXIST Mission X Mattel MAY EXIST Miss Piggy's Wedding Atari FOUND Mogul Maniac (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 3105 APM UNRELEASED Monkey Business Mattel MAY EXIST Moon Base Technovision TVS 1010 Moon Corridors (=Computer Corridor) Mattel INTELLIVISION Motorcycle Game (title unknown) Activision MAY EXIST Motor Mouth Technovision TVS 1006 Motor Psycho Atari CX26141 Mouse Highway Technovision TVS 1013 Mr. Bill's Neighborhood Data Age Mr. T Data Age Muffett Sega Music Math Chalkboard Inc. Mystic Castle M Network Nineball Zimag Noah and the Ark Sunrise Nova Blast Imagic Number Games Entex Off Your Rocker Amiga 3130 FOUND Off Your Rocker (for Amiga Power Module) 3115 APM UNRELEASED One Fish, Two Fish by Dr. Seuss Coleco Password Plus Great Game Co. Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt Coleco Penetrator Avalon Hill MAY EXIST Pepper II Coleco 2655 MAY EXIST Pink Panther, The EXISTS+ALIAS Pizza Chef Zimag FOUND Pogoman Computer Magic Poltergeist Cumma Pompeii Apollo FOUND Popeye Atari PARKER Porky's (alternate version) 20th/Fox MAY EXIST Power Lords Probe 2000 Power Play Arcade 1 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 2 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 3 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 4 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 5 (multi-cart) Amiga Preppie Atari Price is Right, The Great Game Co. Protobob Spectravision SA-209 Pursuit of the Pink Panther EXISTS+ALIAS Qix Atari Quest for Inca Gold Zimag Quest for the Idol Ultravision Rally-X Atari RealSports Basketball Atari FOUND-PAL Relax Synapse Rescue of Emmanuelle, The Multivision MAY EXIST Ripley's Believe It or Not Roklan River Rat Zimag Roaring 20s 20th/Fox ALIAS Robotron: 2084 (for The Graduate) Atari MAY EXIST Rocky & Bullwinkle Atari MATTEL Rocky & Bullwinkle Mattel FOUND Rocky Battles the Champ Coleco 2652 Romper Room #1: Do Bee's 1st Alphabet Spectravision SA-224 Romper Room #2: Countdown to Fun Spectravision SA-225 Romper Rm #3: The Str. Where You Live Spectravision SA-226 Round-Up Atari Rush Hour CommaVid FOUND S.A.C. Alert Amiga EXISTS S.A.C. Alert (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 2105 APM UNRELEASED S.A.C. Alert (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 3135 APM UNRELEASED Sabotage Ultravision Safecracker Imagic Scavenger Hunt Amiga 2100 Scavenger Hunt (for Amiga Power Module) APM UNRELEASED Scooby Doo Atari Scooby Doo M Network Scramble Milton Bradley 3501 Scraper Caper Tigervision 7-010 Sea Battle Mattel FOUND Sector Alpha Spectravision SA-220 Sewer Sam Interphase Sharp Shot Mattel MAY EXIST Shoot-Out Technovision TVS 100P Silly Safari Technovision TVS 1007 Six Pack 20th/Fox Sky Blazer Br0derbund MAY EXIST Sky Lancer Tigervision 7-014 Smokey Bear Data Age Smurfette's Birthday Coleco Snark Atari MAY EXIST Snowplow Sunrise MAY EXIST Soap Suds First Star Solar Defense Venture Vision Solo Br0derbund MAY EXIST Space Grid Action Hi-Tech Space Maze Telesys Space Mines Zimag Space Mission Atari CX2603 ALIAS+EXISTS Space Robot Ultravision DIMAX+OTHERS? Space War Ultravision 1002 ALIAS??? Speed Reading Entex Spelling Games Entex Spider Kong Ultravision GOLIATH? Splendour Bomb Squish 'em Sirius (a homebrew port of this game has been released) Squoosh Apollo EXISTS St. Valentine's Day Massacre 20th/Fox Star Raiders II Atari CX26134 ALIAS Star Trek: The Motion Picture Milton Bradley 3500 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Sega Star Trek III: The Search For Spock Sega 007-01 Star Wars: RotJ: Game I Parker Bros. PB5060 FOUND-ALIAS Star Wars: RotJ: Game II Parker Bros. PB5065 Steeplechase Atari CX2614 SEARS Stellar Track Atari CX2619 SEARS Stomp It CBS Electronics Stone Age Technovision TVS 1014 Strafe (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 2115 APM UNRELEASED Street Fight Atari CX26167 Subterfuge Sega ALIAS Super Crush Tigervision 7-015 Super Cycle Epyx Super Pac-Man Atari MAY EXIST Super Scramble Konami Super Soccer Atari CX26138 Surfing (see Candyland Surfing) Surf's Up Amiga FOUND Surf's Up (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 3110 APM UNRELEASED Surround II Atari CX26158 Survival Run Data Age (not MB) Sweat: The Decathlon Game Starpath FOUND Swim Meet Ultravision 1005 Sword and the Sorceror, The Coleco 291905 Sword Fight (AKA Sword, Swordfighting)Mattel FOUND Swordquest Airworld Atari CX2672 MAY EXIST Tachyon Beam Technovision TVS 1012 Tank Blitz Milton Bradley MAY EXIST Tank City Action Hi-Tech Targ CBS Electronics EXISTS Tarzan Coleco 2662 MAY EXIST Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (alt.) Wizard MAY EXIST Thundarr the Barbarian I/II Xonox X404X Thunderfox Atari CX26153 Tic-Tac-Dough Great Game Co. Tic-Tac-Strip Multivision Time Scape Spectravision SA-213 Touch Typing Entex Trail of the Pink Panther U.S. Games EXISTS+ALIAS TRON Deadly Discs/Adventures of TRON M Network MT4609 RELEASED(seprt) Turbo Atari CX26148 DROPPED-COLECO Turbo Coleco 2455 EXISTS Typo Attack Atari Underworld CommaVid MAY EXIST Unexpected Danger Ultravision 1009 Up & Atom Telesys Vertinko Spectravision Video Fitness System Garden Vortex Spectravision Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 20th/Fox ALIAS War Room Probe 2000 War Zone Action Hi-Tech War of the Worlds Sega Wheel of Fortune Great Game Co. White Water Madness Atari CX26184 Wild Western Coleco 2660 Wings CBS Electronics FOUND Word Games Entex XIV Winter Olympics M Network MT4324 Zaxxon Atari CX26149 COLECO Zenji Activision Zookeeper Atari CX26121 PARTS EXIST 9x Unknown Titles J.S. & A. Group, Inc. (= Joseph Sugarman and Associates) (these titles may not be originals, but merely existing titles whose rights J.S. & A. purchased to help sell their unreleased Prom Blaster copier) Edited July 22, 2010 by A.J. Franzman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 A few notes: Aerial Ace was just a WIP name for Sky Patrol I believe Astrochase most definitely exists, I saw the prototype (not in action, just the actual proto) Squish 'em would have been released as The Fall Guy by TCF Catch the Fly was a WIP name for Picnic Splendour may exist, catalogs seem to indicate so Pepper II never got past the screen layout phase. There was no working prototype, just some graphics of the background Kyphus has been found (the unlabeled Apollo proto) Honker Bonker may or may not be the same game as Holey Moley. I keep getting conflicting info on this one. I would count it as a separate game for now. Soap Suds is a WIP name for Boing (prototype has been found with this label) Survival Run prototype exists Thundarr the Barbarian was a WIP name for Tomarc the Barbarian Forest by Panada was eventually released by Sancho in PAL land I'm not sure if 2600 Star Raiders II is the same thing as 2600 TLSF/Solaris. Just because they did it on the 8-bit doesn't mean they'd do it on the 2600. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Air-Sea Attack Space War B-52 Bomber Swimming Contest (Swimming Met or Swim Meet) Baseball Top (Baseball Best) Emergency I (Emergency!) Unexpected Dangers from Ultravision were all announced Colecovision titles, not VCS. Astro-Battle from Ultravision was released by Dimax/Sinmax as Astrowar. An empty Pepper II cart exists. Foxbat is most probably the WIP title of Realsports Baseball, since they have the same model number. Artic = Bogus or Dimax. Baby Boom Boom is a WIP title of Bouncing Baby Bunnies. Power Lords for the VCS exists. All the Action Hi-Tech titles exist. Cat-Nap Collision Course Kerplop Nineball Quest for Inca Gold River Rat Space Mines from ZiMAG were all Atari 8 bit or Vic 20 titles, not VCS. Edited July 22, 2010 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Galaga does not exist, only a few test screens were done to show that it wasn't feasible on the VCS. I doubt EPROMs were burned for it. Also, these may still exist (all from Atari): Pipeline "Submarine Simulator" "Real Time Chess" Foxbat is most probably the WIP title of Realsports Baseball, since they have the same model number. No, it was a completely different game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Galaga does not exist, only a few test screens were done to show that it wasn't feasible on the VCS. I doubt EPROMs were burned for it. Interesting. Where did you hear that? Pipeline "Submarine Simulator" "Real Time Chess" Tell me more. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Galaga does not exist, only a few test screens were done to show that it wasn't feasible on the VCS. I doubt EPROMs were burned for it. Interesting. Where did you hear that? The programmer (Greg Easter) told me. I suppose it could have been reassigned to someone else though. Pipeline "Submarine Simulator" "Real Time Chess" Tell me more. Tempest Pipeline was a surfing game, don't know too much about it. It was definitely started, don't know how far along it got though. Submarine Simulator and Real Time Chess were both by Greg Easter. Here are his descriptions: an original title that was kind of a real-time chess with fewer pieces that you had to navigate through a maze past enemy pieces (kind of hard to explain). I only spent about 2-3 weeks on the submarine game, but it did have a massive interface built with about 20 different controls you could manipulate by using the joystick to select which control you wanted to move, then the button to pick it, then the joystick again to move it, and the button to release the control and go to the next control Unfortunately, he doesn't believe any EPROMs were burned for the Chess game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Wow, that is quite the list of unreleased games for the 2600! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Foxbat is most probably the WIP title of Realsports Baseball, since they have the same model number. No, it was a completely different game You're talking about the Jet Fighter simulator hint from an old magazine? Or the WIP Raiders title theory? Check out this catalog: http://www.atarimania.com/list_catalogs_atari_publisher-_2570-_2.html All other announced model numbers in this catalog match with the officially released titles. Why wouldn't this one match as well? Edited July 22, 2010 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) I only spent about 2-3 weeks on the submarine game, but it did have a massive interface built with about 20 different controls you could manipulate by using the joystick to select which control you wanted to move, then the button to pick it, then the joystick again to move it, and the button to release the control and go to the next control This sounds like a precursor to 688 Attack Sub; and very ambitious for a 2600 title! Edited July 22, 2010 by jhd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Aerial Ace was just a WIP name for Sky Patrol I believeCatch the Fly was a WIP name for Picnic These are in my Aliases file so I should have caught them. Astrochase most definitely exists, I saw the prototype (not in action, just the actual proto)Soap Suds is a WIP name for Boing (prototype has been found with this label) Survival Run prototype exists These are all news to me, thank you. Squish 'em would have been released as The Fall Guy by TCFI knew that, but what I don't know, is whether the game was changed at all in order to fit the name change. Is it just an alias, or are we looking for two slightly different games, like Saboteur and The A-Team? Or perhaps games with bigger differences, such as The Last Starfighter and Solaris, Solaris and Radar Lock, or even The Last Starfighter and Radar Lock? Splendour may exist, catalogs seem to indicate soHmm, I don't know if a catalog entry is enough for a "May Exist"... didn't many of the names in this topic come from catalogs? I guess I'll take your word for it for now. Pepper II never got past the screen layout phase. There was no working prototype, just some graphics of the backgroundIf the screen demos were running on a VCS, I count that as a "May Exist". Kyphus has been found (the unlabeled Apollo proto)D'oh, I knew that! Honker Bonker may or may not be the same game as Holey Moley. I keep getting conflicting info on this one. I would count it as a separate game for now.OK, I've added a question mark on this alias. Thundarr the Barbarian was a WIP name for Tomarc the BarbarianI knew that, but what's with the "I/II"? Were there really two games in the pipeline, and if so, what happened regarding "II"? Forest by Panada was eventually released by Sancho in PAL landOK, I should have made that connection. I'm not sure if 2600 Star Raiders II is the same thing as 2600 TLSF/Solaris. Just because they did it on the 8-bit doesn't mean they'd do it on the 2600.All right, I've put a question mark on this one as well. Thank you very much for all the info! Edited July 22, 2010 by A.J. Franzman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Galaga does not exist, only a few test screens were done to show that it wasn't feasible on the VCS. I doubt EPROMs were burned for it. Interesting. Where did you hear that? The programmer (Greg Easter) told me. I suppose it could have been reassigned to someone else though. Interesting, because when I asked him about Galaga he said he definitely didn't do it. Memory lapse perhaps? Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Air-Sea AttackSpace War B-52 Bomber Swimming Contest (Swimming Met or Swim Meet) Baseball Top (Baseball Best) Emergency I (Emergency!) Unexpected Dangers from Ultravision were all announced Colecovision titles, not VCS. Thank you. Astro-Battle from Ultravision was released by Dimax/Sinmax as Astrowar. Artic = Bogus or Dimax. I suspected as much, thank you for the confirmation. An empty Pepper II cart exists.Interesting to know, but doesn't really change anything in the list. Foxbat is most probably the WIP title of Realsports Baseball, since they have the same model number.I actually had this one in my Aliases file already, but based on Wickeycolumbus's post I'm marking it as questionable (I hope he isn't just messing with us!) Baby Boom Boom is a WIP title of Bouncing Baby Bunnies.Thank you. Power Lords for the VCS exists. All the Action Hi-Tech titles exist. I'll take your word on these. Cat-NapCollision Course Kerplop Nineball Quest for Inca Gold River Rat Space Mines from ZiMAG were all Atari 8 bit or Vic 20 titles, not VCS. Noted, thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Galaga does not exist, only a few test screens were done to show that it wasn't feasible on the VCS. I doubt EPROMs were burned for it. Interesting. Where did you hear that? The programmer (Greg Easter) told me. I suppose it could have been reassigned to someone else though. Interesting, because when I asked him about Galaga he said he definitely didn't do it. Memory lapse perhaps? Tempest Yes, probably. This is what he said: I'd forgotten about that. They did assign me that temporarily when Snow White seemed to be done about the third time. Galaga simply could not be done within the limitations of the 2600 - at least not in such a way as to look anything like the arcade game. I think I did a couple of graphic screens that would display on a 2600 to show them what the game would look like. This way I cut to the chase and avoided investing tons of labor in something that they would only dismiss later as not looking like the arcade game. Remember it has been 27 years ago for me now, so I can't recall exactly what happened. Edited July 22, 2010 by Wickeycolumbus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Galaga does not exist, only a few test screens were done to show that it wasn't feasible on the VCS. I doubt EPROMs were burned for it.Well, doubtful or not, test screens count as code to me, so I'm marking this one "May Exist". Also, these may still exist (all from Atari): Pipeline "Submarine Simulator" "Real Time Chess" Added to the list, thank you. Foxbat is most probably the WIP title of Realsports Baseball, since they have the same model number.No, it was a completely different game If you're serious, what leads you to believe that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Foxbat is most probably the WIP title of Realsports Baseball, since they have the same model number. No, it was a completely different game You're talking about the Jet Fighter simulator hint from an old magazine? Or the WIP Raiders title theory? Check out this catalog: http://www.atarimania.com/list_catalogs_atari_publisher-_2570-_2.html All other announced model numbers in this catalog match with the officially released titles. Why wouldn't this one match as well? I was talking about the jet fighter. The catalog says Foxbat is a trademark of "Dark Horse Productions" which would lead me to believe it is not RS baseball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 "Foxbat" is also the NATO reporting name for the MiG-25 Soviet fighter plane, so adding to the confusion. But it seems a bit early for an American game to be named for an enemy weapon; the Cold War wasn't exactly winding down just yet. Maybe there are other examples that would make this seem less unusual? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) OK, here's my latest update to the list: Unreleased Atari 2600 Carts (OLD LIST -- Some of these have been found, some are aliases of released titles, and some are titles for other systems never intended for the VCS) Last updated 2010-07-22 Key: ALIAS game is better known by another name-- in most cases, released FOUND game exists and binary has become readily available to the public EXISTS game prototype, EPROM, or binary has been discovered or is believed to be in a private collection but the binary is not publicly released MAY EXIST at least one credible source confirms that at least some coding of the game was started - perhaps as little as a 1-screen static demo ALIAS+EXISTS Space Mission was a working title shown in ads for what Atari released as Star Ship. The game was also released by Sears as Outer Space. However, one person has found an Atari-branded cartridge bearing the Space Mission name. EXISTS+ALIAS one copy of the Pink Panther game is known to exist. The game is known by several different titles. Titles without any entry in the NOTES column may never have been started. If the NOTES entry is a system name, that title was not a VCS game. If the NOTES entry is a different publisher, the game was released by that publisher. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title Publisher Mfg # NOTES ------------------------------------- -------------- ------- --------------- $25,000 Pyramid Great Game Co. 28 in 1 Atari BOGUS??? 3-D Asteroids Atari CX26105 3-D Genesis Amiga EXISTS 3-D Ghost Attack Amiga EXISTS 3-D Ghost Attack (for Amiga Power Module) 1100 APM UNRELEASED 3-D Havoc Amiga EXISTS 3-D Havoc (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 2110 APM UNRELEASED 3-D Rubik's Cube Atari FOUND 30 in 1 Atari BOGUS??? 48 Hours Sega 9 to 5 20th/Fox Actionauts (AKA Microbots) Atari EXISTS AD&D: Tower of Mystery Mattel MT7175 EXISTS AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin Mattel MT4325 EXISTS Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Mattel SEE 2 ABOVE Adventures of the Pink Panther Probe 2000 EXISTS+ALIAS Adventures of Max, The Atari MAY EXIST Aerial Ace Imagic IA3409 ALIAS Air-Sea Attack Ultravision 1001 COLECOVISION Airplane! Sega Alligator People 20th/Fox FOUND Androman on the Moon (for Androman) Atari FOUND Anteater Mattel EXISTS Aquaventure Atari FOUND Astro-Battle Ultravision ALIAS->DIMAX Astrochase Parker Bros. EXISTS Astrowar Artic SM8002 DIMAX Atom Smasher Cumma 20TH/FOX-ALIAS? B-52 Bomber Ultravision 1003 COLECOVISION B.C.'s Quest For Tires Tigervision COLECOVISION B.C. II: Grog's Revenge Tigervision COLECOVISION Baby Boom Boom Telesys ALIAS Bagman Atari MAY EXIST Ballblazer Atari MAY EXIST Baseball Panda Inc. Baseball Best (AKA Baseball Top) Ultravision 1004 COLECOVISION BASIC Unitronics Battle of the Sexes Multivision MAY EXIST Bear Jam Chalkboard Inc. Beginning Algebra Entex Beginning Math Entex Bird Activision MAY EXIST Blockade Runner Interphase Blow Out M Network MAY EXIST Blue Angels Apollo Bobby's Cosmic Adventure Telegames Boing! Atari CX26128 XONOX,1ST STAR? Bouncing Baby Monkeys Telesys ALIAS Brain Ball Telesys Buck Rogers: Caverns of Zagreb Sega Buck Rogers: Marathon of Zenda Sega Buck Rogers: Secret of Sabar Sega Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th/Fox Candyland Surfing 20th/Fox MAY EXIST Catch the Fly U.S. Games VC 2004 ALIAS Cat-Nap Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Cave-In Spectravision Caverns of Mars (for The Graduate) Atari GRAD UNRELEASED Challenger Atari Changes Tigervision 7-013 Childrens Intro to Programming Atari CHIPs Ultravision Choplifter! Atari CX26124 Circus Charlie Parker Bros. PB5750 MAY EXIST Clone Attack Starpath Collision Course Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Combat II Atari CX26156 FOUND Computer Corridor (=Computer Revenge) Mattel MT4318 MAY EXIST Confrontation Answer EXISTS Contenders Activision AK-041 Conservation: The Watt Way Panda Inc. Cosmic Avenger Coleco 2464 Countermeasure Atari Count's Castle Atari MAY EXIST Cumulus Mattel MAY EXIST Darts U.S. Games Day the Earth Stood Still, The 20th/Fox Dazzler Unitronics Deep Throat Games People Play Depth Charge Amiga EXISTS Depth Charge (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 1100 APM UNRELEASED Domino Man CBS Electronics Donkey Kong (for The Graduate) Atari GRAD UNRELEASED Dragon's Lair Coleco Dragonslayer Sega Dreadnaught Factor Activision Drive 'Em Krazy Spectravision SA-216 Dual Scrolling (untitled) Mattel MAY EXIST Dukes of Hazzard, The Atari FOUND Dumbo's Flying Circus Atari FOUND Dungeon Master Telegames Eagle Mountain Spectravision SA-221 Electronic Football (port of handheld) Mattel Emergency! (AKA Emergency I) Ultravision COLECOVISION Entity, The 20th/Fox Escape From Alcatraz Sega Escape from Argos Imagic ALIAS Exus Health Cycle Program Exus Fail Safe Atari Fall Guy, The 20th/Fox 11018 Family Feud Great Game Co. Family Finances Atari Fire! Palmex Flap! Imagic EIZ-002-041 Flapper (AKA Beanie Bopper, Jumper) Mattel MAY EXIST Flashlight (untitled) Mattel MAY EXIST Flesh Gordon Wizard Video MAY EXIST Flintstones, The M Network Flipper Technovision Food Fight Atari CX2693 Football Fanatic Sports Comp-U-Stat Forest Panda Inc. SANCHO-PAL Formula I Technovision TVS 1008 Foxbat Atari Frantic Starpath Frenzy Coleco Friday the 13th Sega Frogger Atari CX26147 PARKER Frog Pond Atari EXISTS Galactic Invaders Panda Inc. Galaga Atari CX26116 MAY EXIST Galaxy Invader Action Hi-Tech EXISTS Gamma Attack Gammation FOUND Getcha Multivision Ghostbusters II Activision RELEASED-PAL Glactic Tactic Spectravision SA-211 Going-Up?? Starpath EXISTS Harem Multivision FOUND Harem 1 Multivision ??? Harem 2 Multivision ??? Heartbreak Multivision Hercules Xonox High Seas M Network Home Finance Entex Honker Bonker Atari CX26130 ALIAS? Hop to It Imagic ALIAS Hot Rox Atari CX2615 ALIAS Hydroplane Mattel MAY EXIST Ice Trek Imagic Impossible Game, The Telesys MAY EXIST Incredible Hulk, The Parker Bros. In Search of the Golden Skull M Network MT4627 EXISTS Inner Space Venture Vision Intuition Tigervision 7-009 Jaws Parker Bros. Jeopardy Great Game Co. Jinks Atari James Bond 007 as Seen in Octopussy Parker Bros. MAY EXIST James Bond in Moonraker Parker Bros. MAY EXIST Joker's Wild Great Game Co. Jumbo Jet Pilot Thorn EMI Jungle Jim Technovision TVS 1005 Jungle Raid Starpath ALIAS Jungler Gakken Kamikaze Saucers Syncro Kerplop Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Kickman CBS Electronics MAY EXIST Knight Rider Studio Games Kyphus Apollo AP 2007 FOUND Labyrinth Starpath ALIAS Lady Bug Coleco 2463 (a homebrew port of this game has been released) Laser Raid Technovision TVS 1015 Last Line of Defense Starpath Last Starfighter, The Atari CX26134 ALIAS Leo's 'Lectric Paintbrush Chalkboard Inc. Leo's Links Chalkboard Inc. Leonardo's Logo Chalkboard Inc. Loco-Motion M Network MT4323 EXISTS Locomotive Technovision Logic Master Chalkboard Inc. Logo Entex Look Ahead Cumma Lord of the Dungeon Probe 2000 M*A*S*H II 20th/Fox MAY EXIST Maddenness CBS Electronics Magnum, P.I. Studio Games Marathon Man Sega Marathon of Zenda Sega Mark of the Mole Atari EXISTS Master Cylinder Spectravision SA-222 Masters of the Universe II Mattel MAY EXIST Meltdown 20th/Fox 11029 FOUND Metamorphosis Data Age Mickey and the Beanstalk Atari Mickey and the Great Outdoors Atari Micro Maestro Chalkboard Inc. Microsurgeon Imagic Midnight Rider Panda Inc. Mission: Impossible Sega Mission Omega CommaVid CM-010 MAY EXIST Mission X Mattel MAY EXIST Miss Piggy's Wedding Atari FOUND Mogul Maniac (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 3105 APM UNRELEASED Monkey Business Mattel MAY EXIST Moon Base Technovision TVS 1010 Moon Corridors (=Computer Corridor) Mattel INTELLIVISION Motorcycle Game (title unknown) Activision MAY EXIST Motor Mouth Technovision TVS 1006 Motor Psycho Atari CX26141 Mouse Highway Technovision TVS 1013 Mr. Bill's Neighborhood Data Age Mr. T Data Age Muffett Sega Music Math Chalkboard Inc. Mystic Castle M Network Nineball Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Noah and the Ark Sunrise Nova Blast Imagic Number Games Entex Off Your Rocker Amiga 3130 FOUND Off Your Rocker (for Amiga Power Module) 3115 APM UNRELEASED One Fish, Two Fish by Dr. Seuss Coleco Password Plus Great Game Co. Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt Coleco Penetrator Avalon Hill MAY EXIST Pepper II Coleco 2655 MAY EXIST Pink Panther, The EXISTS+ALIAS Pipeline Atari MAY EXIST Pizza Chef Zimag FOUND Pogoman Computer Magic Poltergeist Cumma Pompeii Apollo FOUND Popeye Atari PARKER Porky's (alternate version) 20th/Fox MAY EXIST Power Lords Probe 2000 EXISTS Power Play Arcade 1 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 2 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 3 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 4 (multi-cart) Amiga Power Play Arcade 5 (multi-cart) Amiga Preppie Atari Price is Right, The Great Game Co. Protobob Spectravision SA-209 Pursuit of the Pink Panther EXISTS+ALIAS Qix Atari Quest for Inca Gold Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Quest for the Idol Ultravision Rally-X Atari RealSports Basketball Atari FOUND-PAL Real Time Chess (untitled) Atari MAY EXIST Relax Synapse Rescue of Emmanuelle, The Multivision MAY EXIST Ripley's Believe It or Not Roklan River Rat Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Roaring 20s 20th/Fox ALIAS Robotron: 2084 (for The Graduate) Atari MAY EXIST Rocky & Bullwinkle Atari MATTEL Rocky & Bullwinkle Mattel FOUND Rocky Battles the Champ Coleco 2652 Romper Room #1: Do Bee's 1st Alphabet Spectravision SA-224 Romper Room #2: Countdown to Fun Spectravision SA-225 Romper Rm #3: The Str. Where You Live Spectravision SA-226 Round-Up Atari Rush Hour CommaVid FOUND S.A.C. Alert Amiga EXISTS S.A.C. Alert (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 2105 APM UNRELEASED S.A.C. Alert (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 3135 APM UNRELEASED Sabotage Ultravision Safecracker Imagic Scavenger Hunt Amiga 2100 Scavenger Hunt (for Amiga Power Module) APM UNRELEASED Scooby Doo Atari Scooby Doo M Network Scramble Milton Bradley 3501 Scraper Caper Tigervision 7-010 Sea Battle Mattel FOUND Sector Alpha Spectravision SA-220 Sewer Sam Interphase Sharp Shot Mattel MAY EXIST Shoot-Out Technovision TVS 100P Silly Safari Technovision TVS 1007 Six Pack 20th/Fox Sky Blazer Br0derbund MAY EXIST Sky Lancer Tigervision 7-014 Smokey Bear Data Age Smurfette's Birthday Coleco Snark Atari MAY EXIST Snowplow Sunrise MAY EXIST Soap Suds First Star ALIAS Solar Defense Venture Vision Solo Br0derbund MAY EXIST Space Grid Action Hi-Tech EXISTS Space Maze Telesys Space Mines Zimag ATARI8BIT/VIC20 Space Mission Atari CX2603 ALIAS+EXISTS Space Robot Ultravision DIMAX+OTHERS? Space War Ultravision 1002 COLECOVISION Speed Reading Entex Spelling Games Entex Spider Kong Ultravision GOLIATH? Splendour Bomb MAY EXIST Squish 'em Sirius (a homebrew port of this game has been released) Squoosh Apollo EXISTS St. Valentine's Day Massacre 20th/Fox Star Raiders II Atari CX26134 ALIAS? Star Trek: The Motion Picture Milton Bradley 3500 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Sega Star Trek III: The Search For Spock Sega 007-01 Star Wars: RotJ: Game I Parker Bros. PB5060 FOUND-ALIAS Star Wars: RotJ: Game II Parker Bros. PB5065 Steeplechase Atari CX2614 SEARS Stellar Track Atari CX2619 SEARS Stomp It CBS Electronics Stone Age Technovision TVS 1014 Strafe (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 2115 APM UNRELEASED Street Fight Atari CX26167 Submarine Simulator (untitled) Atari MAY EXIST Subterfuge Sega ALIAS Super Crush Tigervision 7-015 Super Cycle Epyx Super Pac-Man Atari MAY EXIST Super Scramble Konami Super Soccer Atari CX26138 Surfing (see Candyland Surfing) Surf's Up Amiga FOUND Surf's Up (for Amiga Power Module) Amiga 3110 APM UNRELEASED Surround II Atari CX26158 Survival Run Data Age (not MB) EXISTS Sweat: The Decathlon Game Starpath FOUND Swim Meet (AKA Swimming Contest) Ultravision 1005 COLECOVISION Sword and the Sorceror, The Coleco 291905 Sword Fight (AKA Sword, Swordfighting)Mattel FOUND Swordquest Airworld Atari CX2672 MAY EXIST Tachyon Beam Technovision TVS 1012 Tank Blitz Milton Bradley MAY EXIST Tank City Action Hi-Tech EXISTS Targ CBS Electronics EXISTS Tarzan Coleco 2662 MAY EXIST Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (alt.) Wizard MAY EXIST Thundarr the Barbarian I/II Xonox X404X ALIAS Thunderfox Atari CX26153 Tic-Tac-Dough Great Game Co. Tic-Tac-Strip Multivision Time Scape Spectravision SA-213 Touch Typing Entex Trail of the Pink Panther U.S. Games EXISTS+ALIAS TRON Deadly Discs/Adventures of TRON M Network MT4609 RELEASED(seprt) Turbo Atari CX26148 DROPPED-COLECO Turbo Coleco 2455 EXISTS Typo Attack Atari Underworld CommaVid MAY EXIST Unexpected Dangers Ultravision 1009 COLECOVISION Up & Atom Telesys Vertinko Spectravision Video Fitness System Garden Vortex Spectravision Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 20th/Fox ALIAS War Room Probe 2000 War Zone Action Hi-Tech EXISTS War of the Worlds Sega Wheel of Fortune Great Game Co. White Water Madness Atari CX26184 Wild Western Coleco 2660 Wings CBS Electronics FOUND Word Games Entex XIV Winter Olympics M Network MT4324 Zaxxon Atari CX26149 COLECO Zenji Activision Zookeeper Atari CX26121 PARTS EXIST 9x Unknown Titles J.S. & A. Group, Inc. (= Joseph Sugarman and Associates) (these titles may not be originals, but merely existing titles whose rights J.S. & A. purchased to help sell their unreleased Prom Blaster copier) Edited July 23, 2010 by A.J. Franzman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) These are also missing: Peek-A-Boo Monstercise Good Luck, Charlie Brown Dune Wizard The Survival Run ROM is online by the way I'm not sure if 2600 Star Raiders II is the same thing as 2600 TLSF/Solaris. Just because they did it on the 8-bit doesn't mean they'd do it on the 2600.All right, I've put a question mark on this one as well. Thank you very much for all the info! I asked Gary Stark about this, this is what he said I was flown down to Hollywood to see a pre-release version of "The Last Starfighter". We did a game on this that was later converted into Star Raiders II. He later went on to say he doesn't know anything about SRII becoming Solaris. It's probably safe to assume they are the same thing since SRII was based on The Last Starfighter movie. Edited July 23, 2010 by Wickeycolumbus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I asked Gary Stark about this, this is what he said I was flown down to Hollywood to see a pre-release version of "The Last Starfighter". We did a game on this that was later converted into Star Raiders II. He later went on to say he doesn't know anything about SRII becoming Solaris. It's probably safe to assume they are the same thing since SRII was based on The Last Starfighter movie. That's because Gary worked on the 8-bit version of TLSF not the 2600 version. The 2600 version was done by Doug Neubauer Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I asked Gary Stark about this, this is what he said I was flown down to Hollywood to see a pre-release version of "The Last Starfighter". We did a game on this that was later converted into Star Raiders II. He later went on to say he doesn't know anything about SRII becoming Solaris. It's probably safe to assume they are the same thing since SRII was based on The Last Starfighter movie. That's because Gary worked on the 8-bit version of TLSF not the 2600 version. The 2600 version was done by Doug Neubauer Tempest Ah, I did not realize that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 I asked Gary Stark about this, this is what he said I was flown down to Hollywood to see a pre-release version of "The Last Starfighter". We did a game on this that was later converted into Star Raiders II. He later went on to say he doesn't know anything about SRII becoming Solaris. It's probably safe to assume they are the same thing since SRII was based on The Last Starfighter movie. That's because Gary worked on the 8-bit version of TLSF not the 2600 version. The 2600 version was done by Doug Neubauer Tempest Ah, I did not realize that. We also found some code for a version that Todd Frye did. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Wickey, I'm adding those and several more from Atariprotos.com. Tempest, do you know what's the story with Boing!? Your site credits it as First Star, but the original list above shows it as Atari and Xonox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Sword and the Sorceror,The Coleco 291905 No way?!?! Based on the movie with Lee Horsley? I love that movie. It would have been awesome to see a game based on this. I hope a playable demo at least exists and gets released/leaked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) Wickey, I'm adding those and several more from Atariprotos.com. Tempest, do you know what's the story with Boing!? Your site credits it as First Star, but the original list above shows it as Atari and Xonox. First Star: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-boing_12092.html A lab loaner was found at Atari after that. One version came in a Xonox type cart, hence the confusion I think. Edited July 23, 2010 by Rom Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Wickey, I'm adding those and several more from Atariprotos.com. Tempest, do you know what's the story with Boing!? Your site credits it as First Star, but the original list above shows it as Atari and Xonox. First Star: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-boing_12092.html A lab loaner was found at Atari after that. One version came in a Xonox type cart, hence the confusion I think. Alex Leavens and Shirley Russell did the game and sold it to First Star (they were freelance programmers). First Star released it, but since they didn't have they're own case design they used two different suppliers one of which was the same group who did the XonoX cases. After the crash Atari considered releasing the game like they did with the Coleco games but never did. Hence the First Star > Xonox > Atari connection. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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