retroillucid Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Any update Seaquest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coleconut Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Dont mean to stick my nose in this but does this fellow have an ADAM or know someone with an ADAM and if he was to get a copy of the cart on a tape or disk via Copycart+ or similar would this help? Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Dont mean to stick my nose in this but does this fellow have an ADAM or know someone with an ADAM and if he was to get a copy of the cart on a tape or disk via Copycart+ or similar would this help? Just a thought. I put him in touch with someone in his area that has all the necessary equipment to get the cart dumped and converted to a PC rom file. So now it is just a matter of waiting and hoping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Still waiting, still hoping... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGDiRocco Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Seaquest.....I am in the North Atlanta area and would love to assist the Coleco community in making a digital copy for distribution!!! I have the required hard/software!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Seaquest.....I am in the North Atlanta area and would love to assist the Coleco community in making a digital copy for distribution!!! I have the required hard/software!!! He hasn't been on AtariAge since Jan. 15th, so it doesn't look good for getting it dumped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 He briefly came on the Digital Press board last May, then disappeared for 7 months, and popped up again. He could show again in a few months. I'd have to think he'd look at emails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Yurkie Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 I think the whole thing about the cart was more of a tease and bragging rights than having the thing dumped. There is also fear of the cart getting lost in transit, and lack of any financial gain to motivate him. So in his defense I really can't blame him. Although I think it would be really cool to have this rare rom, the thing that makes it easier for me to accept is that the game is probably not much fun to play. King Salamon offered to pay shipping and I messaged Steve (Mr. Atatimax) and he said he would dump it for him, I offered to pay round trip shipping too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
65Gamerguy Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 The Cat S.O.S game (Caterpillar scheduled oil sampling game)along with a colecovision was given to every cat dealership in 1983 to support the S.O.S. program. The customers would play it while waiting in the lobby. The game was made by the company Nuvatec. It was never sold commercially and could only be found exclusively in cat heavy equipment dealerships. My dad (who worked at cat) found that they were about to discard of both the game and the console so he saved it and gave it to me to add to my collection. The game consists of a bulldozer that rides around and pushes dirt. Each dirt pile represents a "job". To keep from exploding you have to send in oil samples to the cat dealership ,then you will be told if the oil is good or bad. If you fail to do this occasionally your oil will go bad and your bulldozer will explode. To clean the oil you have to go to the cat dealership. The goal of the game is to make the most money from finishing "jobs". I am pretty sure I have one of the last copys left in existinse. If anyone knows anything about the value or has any questions please send me a message. Thanks! I have a friend that works for Caterpiller in Illinois, I think I will contact him and see if he can find out something about this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I have a friend that works for Caterpiller in Illinois, I think I will contact him and see if he can find out something about this. Good idea, you never know! Sadly, Seaquest is MIA , and I doubt that he will comeback here with a dumped rom file... but... we never know! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 I contacted the CAT corporate office about this game, we shall see if it did any good.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I received some communication from CAT. Three different emails. They do not have any new info on it and i don't think they a copy themselves. here is the last email i received today: Hello Jon, I was able to find out much of the same information about the game that was posted on the blog. Unfortunately we do not have a game available. If a game is re-created we would be very interested in seeing a sample of the game. Please keep me informed of the progress and if can be of any assistance, please let me know. Thank you, (name removed for privacy) Retail Business Development Caterpillar Inc. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Cool, thanks REV for this Hope someone will dump it someday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Not surprised by that, companies don't keep such records that far back, especially for something like this. I've personally asked a couple sports celebrities about games that had their name on it, and they acted like I was making it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 (edited) Here's how it all went down: Edited April 27, 2014 by 5-11under 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I guess it would be a good idea to sell the previously "one and only known existing" cart of CAT: S.O.S. before the market gets flooded with them!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamcon Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I guess it would be a good idea to sell the previously "one and only known existing" cart of CAT: S.O.S. before the market gets flooded with them!!! AND Jim, i can just imagine that you would volunteer to be willing to sacrifice yourself by purchasing the cart ....... just for the good of mankind, of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 AND Jim, i can just imagine that you would volunteer to be willing to sacrifice yourself by purchasing the cart ....... just for the good of mankind, of course! Who said anything about ME purchasing the cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Who said anything about ME purchasing the cart? Yeah, Jim needs to keep his money to buy that elusive He-Man proto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Very happy with my new copy I just got today! Sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I received some communication from CAT. Three different emails. They do not have any new info on it and i don't think they a copy themselves. here is the last email i received today: Hello Jon, I was able to find out much of the same information about the game that was posted on the blog. Unfortunately we do not have a game available. If a game is re-created we would be very interested in seeing a sample of the game. Please keep me informed of the progress and if can be of any assistance, please let me know. Thank you, (name removed for privacy) Retail Business Development Caterpillar Inc. I work at Cat and did some poking around out of curiosity. I didn't find anything on the game, but I did find the game supplier, Nuvatec, in our supplier database. Here's a snippet. Name: NUVATEC, INC. *** TO BE DELETED *** Address: *** NO BUS SINCE 12/31/89 *** *** DO NOT MAIL *** City: DOWNERS GROVE IL 60515 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) ^ Interesting to see that in addition to all the work they did with Colecovision, the company holds a variety of different patents including this one: http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/4322073.html Electronic game apparatus Date Issued: March 30, 1982 A game apparatus is disclosed having a one-dimensional array of LED's which are sequentially activated in first and second sweep sequences which proceed toward first and second goal indicators, respectively. First and second buttons are provided which operate to reverse the first and second sequences, respectively, and the object of the game is for each player to operate his button before the appropriate sweep sequence causes his goal indicator to be activated. The rate of each sweep is variable and a player can select a higher sweep rate for his opponent by delaying his reaction until a relatively later time in the sweep sequence. The score is displayed on the same indicators as are used to play the game, and successively higher scores correspond in sequence to the sequence in which the indicators are activated during play. Here's the rest of them: http://www.patentgenius.com/assignee/NuvatecInc.html Edited March 31, 2015 by TPR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) Oh, wow, I just found the images from that patent. Any idea what this could have been? Kind of looks Merlin-esque. Edited March 31, 2015 by TPR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Oh, wow, I just found the images from that patent. Any idea what this could have been? Kind of looks Merlin-esque. That looks like a Coleco Zap: http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Coleco/Zap.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Ahh, yep. Knew it looked familiar.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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