Warner-era brown plastic cartridges

[Chris Strong]

So this came up when I discussed my 8-bit Gremins prototype. It was in a brown plastic shell, such as used for the bankswitching XE cartridges in the Tramiel era, but in brown plastic, prototype non-textured tooling, and made during the Warner era.

 

Clearly Atari Corp had the Warner tooling modified for their cheap cartridges later on.

 

When I posed the images of Gremlins, some people were more interested in the shell than the cartridge. I had said it was the same brown color as the XL trim, but I was wrong...the cartridge is more "milk chocolate" and the XL (or old 800 carts) are more of a bittersweet chocolate color.

 

So here is another one I have. These are high-res photos of a standard XEGS cart, a prototype Final Legacy cart (which I assume is bankswitched) in the unusual case, and then a normal-cased Final Legacy for color comparison. Again, I made an agreement with the engineer who sold them to me to not reveal my source, so I've blurred his handwriting. But it just says "Final Legacy".

 

 

[tjlazer]

Very cool! I like those cases.