Trivia question

[RobR]

I was perusing the trivia section and came across this:

 

"Starpath was able to make Frogger for the VCS, because Parker Brothers didn't own the magnetic media rights."

 

I have a question: How is a 2600 cartridge considered "magnetic media"? It certainly has no tape in it

[+Special Teams]

The 2600 isn't magnetic media, it's the cassette that Starpath used that is. They were able to make a cassette version because Parker Bros didn't own the rights to that type of game vehicle.

[yllawwally]

The starpath version was sold on cassette, and required a supercharger to run. All starpath games were like this. You would connect a cassette player to the supercharger, and play frogger on the cassette player. The supercharger was a really nice gadget for the 2600. It was a ram cartridge that was loaded via sound from cassette tapes. This allowed the games to be significantly more complex.