Godzilla Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Interesing how the readers of atari age's forums rated commavids magicard as the rarest 2600 cartridge, when only owners of the magicard could get video life. Thus drastically reducing the number of people who got video life, and making video life tons rarer than the magicard. What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubersaurus Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 I think it was reported that only about 20 copies of video life were ever produced, it was something around that number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted January 21, 2003 Author Share Posted January 21, 2003 guess we will have to wait for the sadistic f--k adavie to release 10 copies of his kung fu game until there is a 2600 game rarer than video life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 no homebrew should ever fall into the same category as the originals Cheers, Marco PS: no dissing of anything implied in this post :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 They never will Marco. Yes, Video Life is more rare than MagiCard, I consider a MIB one an eleven ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Interesing how the readers of atari age's forums rated commavids magicard as the rarest 2600 cartridge, when only owners of the magicard could get video life. Thus drastically reducing the number of people who got video life, and making video life tons rarer than the magicard. Agreed 100%. Video Life (I think) is the rarest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 I think Air Raid is even rarer, less than five have been accounted for, I think, none of them boxed... Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Bah, Air Raid is a bloody PAL cart though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Only that weird one that I have - there should be good ole NTSC versions out there as well Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted January 21, 2003 Author Share Posted January 21, 2003 what is air raid? (is it that menavision thing?) And just because you only have/know of five doesnt mean the production run wasnt larger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Yep, it is the Men-A-Vision game. It's not likely we will know how many games of Air Raid were produced or released. But perhaps that goes for Video Life as well? I have a letter from CommaVid that states that they intended to produce 1200 games combined of Magicard and Video Life. They may have ended up with only 20 Video Lifes, like the CommaVid guys told John and Sean. What amazes me is that we can account for about half of the Video Lifes in existence then. I don't think any other game, besides Cubicolor and homebrews, has that high of a "hit rate". If there were hundreds or even thousands of Air Raids, I think it would be likely that we should have seen some more. I personally know of only two popping up in the past ten years, but perhaps others know dozens more owners. Who knows, Men-A-Vision may have been some kind of homebrew company - are there any ads known to exist? Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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