Just bought a bulk lot of games and found a surprise...

[+bennybingo]

So I bought a lot of 53 Atari 2600 carts off eBay, knowing there were some oddball labels. The photo was small, so I was taking a gamble....for $54...I think I won.

 

Most of the games were the standard variety, with immaculate labels (I just added a bunch of Activision carts to my loose collection without any Actiplaque). Then I got to the ones with the strange labels.

 

3 prototype Activision carts - River Raid, Spider Fighter and Sky Jinks:

 

 

 

The River Raid even came with a b/w typed set of instructions

 

Additionally, I found this copy of Spider Man:

 

 

 

It looks normal on the outside, but look at the board inside:

 

 

 

I've never seen one like this. It also came with typed instruction. I was wondering if it is also a proto. Any thoughts?

[Kreeboy]

Now thats a pretty damn cool!

Edited June 2, 2011 by Kreeboy

[AtariLeaf]

How does the Spiderman play? Notice any differences with the regular version?

[Cebus Capucinis]

Cool! Very awesome find!

[iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin]

Awesome!!!!

[+bennybingo]

How does the Spiderman play? Notice any differences with the regular version?

 

I didn't play for long...just to test, so I don't know if there are any differences. What does that board look like to you though? I was perplexed when I saw it.

[Wickeycolumbus]

Very nice find!

 

 

Additionally, I found this copy of Spider Man:

 

 

 

It looks normal on the outside, but look at the board inside:

 

 

 

I've never seen one like this. It also came with typed instruction. I was wondering if it is also a proto. Any thoughts?

 

Looks like there's an probably an ERPOM in there. Since it came with typed instructions, it was probably a pre-production sample/review copy.

[+bennybingo]

Very nice find!

 

Additionally, I found this copy of Spider Man:

 

 

 

It looks normal on the outside, but look at the board inside:

 

 

 

I've never seen one like this. It also came with typed instruction. I was wondering if it is also a proto. Any thoughts?

 

Looks like there's an probably an ERPOM in there. Since it came with typed instructions, it was probably a pre-production sample/review copy.

 

WooooooHooooooo!!!!!!

 

Just found the Sky Jinks b/w manual as well...looks like a photo copy of something done in house.

[ntavio]

Congrats on your surprises!

[nathanallan]

Excellent score, very cool!

[+bennybingo]

I have been checking out all of my games to see if there were any other oddities and I found something (could be nothing)....

 

Cosmic Creeps seems to have a different start up screen on the one I bought. Everything looks the same on the cart (both are handle carts - same label)...just the opening screen seems to be really glitchy. Anyone else ever find this?

 

Also. I checked Spider Man and the 1st board looks and plays the same as my normal cart.

[Schizophretard]

Congrats. I hope you get those dumped.

[CPUWIZ]

Nice for the price, I have ripped open a few share of Parker carts and a lot of the early ones had EPROM's in them, mostly the 4K titles. They didn't use an inverter IC, they used a transistor circuit to invert the line.

 

Cool about the Actiprotos though.

[+bennybingo]

Nice for the price, I have ripped open a few share of Parker carts and a lot of the early ones had EPROM's in them, mostly the 4K titles. They didn't use an inverter IC, they used a transistor circuit to invert the line.

 

Cool about the Actiprotos though.

 

Any ideas as to why the title screen would be slightly different on that cosmic creeps?