kingsway pirate 2600, ever heard of it?

[christianscott]

just got my 7th ed. digital press, its not in there, checked thru the files here, no mention of it... so should i bring this beast to light or would i just be revisiting ground already covered by other atarians?

 

ok what i'm talking about is this console i picked up on a swing thru new zealand, so lets assume its PAL. its a 2600 that claims to have 68 or so built in games, has funny looking 7800esque controllers and looks rather like a goofy 4 switcher. so if anybody has any details on this thing share them with me, if not does anybody want me to take pics and try and fire it up? i never have since its PAL and would most likely have some exotic sort of power needs.

 

anybody got one?

[charin]

Weird/obscure Atari-2600 clones with a set of built-in games can be found in several parts of the world. Some months ago I found a Atari 2600-based console named "Atlantis", there is absolutely no info available about it...

About the power needs, probably it can use the same power supply used by the original Atari 2600, but opening the console to confirm this is recommended (to check if it has a 7805 voltage regulator, etc.).

 

Best regards,

 

Sergio

[christianscott]

lazy me did a google search AFTER posting this.

 

i came up with a few references to it, saying things like "clone found in NZ" so aside from proving i dont own the only one i didnt find out much. what i'd really like to see is a list of the built in games. if theres something there i've never played it could be worth setting up.

[Lumpbucket]

Theres a photo on this page, and the guy says he has around 8 of them, and has seen at least 3 different sets of games. So the only way you'll find out what games you have would be to power it up.

[slapdash]

Weird/obscure Atari-2600 clones with a set of built-in games can be found in several parts of the world. Some months ago I found a Atari 2600-based console named "Atlantis", there is absolutely no info available about it...

 

Got pictures of that one?

[King Atari]

Are there any chances of finding a pirate system in America, or is this pretty much strictly overseas?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

...or is this pretty much strictly overseas?

Would you call Brazil "overseas"?

[King Atari]

Whoops, wrong wording. I mean, were these ever greatly produced in North America?

[MegaManFan]

Whoops, wrong wording. I mean, were these ever greatly produced in North America?

 

Besides the 2600 itself, there was Sears Tele-Games, Coleco's 2600 clone, and several different adaptors to play 2600 games on other systems. These were all known and legitimate products, and even though Atari sued several times, they never (to my knowledge) succeeded in taking ANY of them off the market. I think the argument that sunk them in court was that (at least back then) there was nothing you couldn't buy off the shelf at an electronics store or through a vendor that would prohibit you from building your own 2600; in other words no specialty chips or proprietary parts. Therefore, who would need to be bootleg, at least in the U.S.? Bootleg usually means you mass produce something illegally hoping to make a quick buck and NOT get caught, but nobody here had anything to fear. Thus (though I'm not an expert) I doubt that there are any undiscovered consoles that play 2600 games that were made in the states.