Ed Fries Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 Making Halo 2600 recently got me digging through my old stuff and I found some original Romox Carts from back when I was working for them in the old days. The bottom 3 are the games I wrote. The others are just random ones they sent me from time to time. I may have a few more lying around if I dig a little deeper. Just thought I'd share this here in case anyone is interested. -EdF 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted September 9, 2010 Share Posted September 9, 2010 Very nice, thanks for sharing! It looks like those boxes are all in pretty good condition still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari-passion Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Hello, very good i am interested by your games Arnaud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 Sorry, I've received several private messages asking to buy the carts. I didn't mean to imply they were for sale. They are a reminder of part of my life and so I'm sure they are worth more to me than they would be to you. I guess I was just showing them off... -EdF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Very impressive! It's nice to see all those boxes, they look amazing when lined up all that. The boxes for Romox games are really hard to find for some reason so you don't see them very often. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULS Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Ed, I loved the games you authored. Sea chase was my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 I found a few more things in the furnace room... The things in the lower right are marketing flyers for the first three atari games from Romox. I guess I just need Spark Bugs to complete the collection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 Ed, I loved the games you authored. Sea chase was my favorite. Sea Chase was my favorite too. It was my third game and by then I had started to figure out what I was doing. Too bad that was just before Romox went out of business... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 Huh. I also noticed that two of the packages don't have writing on the side. I wonder if they are box mock ups or if they released some that way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 Here's the backside of the flyer and a price list I found in the same stack. The price list shows the fourth game I was working on but didn't finish before Romox went out of business: "Nitro". It also lists a game called "Eliminator" that I don't know anything about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qix_maniac Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Ed, thanks for sharing. If not too much trouble, could you take a picture of the cartridges? I'm sure in the box most of them are mint or pristine conditon. I have several of those titles but the labels are not in good shape. Thanks in advance! ps- if you posted the entire lot of ebay you probably would get $1500-$2,000 if not more for them :> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qix_maniac Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 (edited) Sorry, I've received several private messages asking to buy the carts. I didn't mean to imply they were for sale. They are a reminder of part of my life and so I'm sure they are worth more to me than they would be to you. I guess I was just showing them off... -EdF LOL, funny!. I bet those private messages involved some slick ricks trying to buy them for $5 a piece? Edited September 12, 2010 by qix_maniac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Great stuff Ed, I just wish you'd resized the pics before posting them. :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defender II Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 WOW! Did you see the Distributor & Dealer costs VS the Suggeted Price/ Also...Were these ever sold? AC-106 NITRO AC-108 ELIMINATOR Wasn't Eliminator also a projected Atari release Part Number: RX8126? See Digital Press. Atarimania has it listed as released on cassette & disk, but not cart.See Atarimania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 WOW! Did you see the Distributor & Dealer costs VS the Suggeted Price/ Also...Were these ever sold? AC-106 NITRO AC-108 ELIMINATOR Wasn't Eliminator also a projected Atari release Part Number: RX8126? See Digital Press. Atarimania has it listed as released on cassette & disk, but not cart.See Atarimania As I said above, I was working on Nitro when the company went out of business so it was never released. I suspect the same is true for Eliminator. The one you link to from Atarimania is a different, older game. I was surprised by the distibutor cost spread too. By comparison, at Microsoft we would sell a game at about $37.85 for a $49.95 retail price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted September 26, 2010 Author Share Posted September 26, 2010 Someone asked me to post pictures of the individual carts. Here they are (sorry they are big...): -EdF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 As I said above, I was working on Nitro when the company went out of business so it was never released. I suspect the same is true for Eliminator. The one you link to from Atarimania is a different, older game. I was surprised by the distibutor cost spread too. By comparison, at Microsoft we would sell a game at about $37.85 for a $49.95 retail price. Ed, I'm trying to document some of the games I have and noticed the blurb about Nitro. Tim McGuinness has that listed as his work and copyright? He also says that for castle and keys but that has diferent credits on it??? Did you ever see a Motorcycle game called RACE? Here's what I have: Romox ECPC - Color Sounds, 1983, M. Bell (Manic song) - Romox Romox ECPC - Color Sounds, 1983, M. Bell (Michael Jackson Beat It!) - Romox Romox ECPC - Porky's, 1983, ?? - Romox Romox ECPC - Spark Bugs, 1983, Mory Mirzazadeh - Romox Romox ECPC - Ripper, 1983, Sam Law - Romox Romox ECPC - Race, 1983, ?? -Fox Video Games Romox ECPC - Dancing Feats, 1983, Christopher Chance - SoftSync Romox ECPC - Castle and Keys, 1983, Marlan Meier - Romox (2, one listed as FINAL) Romox ECPC - Retrofire, 1983, Tom Hudson - Analog Computing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 The way it worked was someone from Romox would send me a game idea. Usually that involved a one page description and maybe a sketch and then I would make the game. In that case I guess you could say that they (Tim?) were the designer and could say it was their work, but I did the actual implementation which usually involved big changes to the initial idea. Then other people would port the finished Atari game to other platforms. I never heard of Race, sorry. I still need a Spark Bugs in box to complete my collection! -EdF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 do you know who's responsible for the Facebook page? To my question someone replied that Tim's site was going back up. https://www.facebook.com/ROMOX.ESD It seems that there is question as to if Romox actually owned or properly licensed some of the titles on the ECPC's. I found an article that stated that Atari would not sign, though there are clearly Atari titles on them??? The Retrofire I have says Analog computing. And Tim's site stated he owned the rights to many of those games? How does an employee (or even partial owner) get the rights? Purchased them? Those rights would have been part of the company assets. Thanx for your input, just trying to uncover more information. I have two Spark bugs, both loose. I've only seen one boxed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted November 1, 2014 Author Share Posted November 1, 2014 Sorry but I don't know the answer to any of your questions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Thanx for the reply. Did you participate in the deployment of the games, meaning, how did you get them to cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted November 3, 2014 Author Share Posted November 3, 2014 I wasn't set up to burn roms or anything. If I remember right I would develop a game in normal memory and then reassemble it to run in the right address space for the cartridge and then transfer it to them somehow (maybe by modem?). They would test it and let me know if I screwed it up somehow. I have a new in-box Sea Chase I will trade for a boxed Spark Bugs. I'll even sign it if that's what the receiver wants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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