Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Does anybody have any TRS80 cartridges laying around that they'd want to get rid of? I picked up about 10 more carts after this picture was taken... Let me know... Thanks!Ray Edited January 5, 2014 by Delmoko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 << HERE >> is one option... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 Ha, thanks... I'm pretty active on ebay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Are you looking for specific games? Are you recycling carts for new games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 I am not recycling old carts... and yes, I am looking for games I don't have. I am working on putting together a list... it's very difficult to find a list of TRS80 cartridges that were put out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) I don't see these in your picture but HIGHLY recommend - Clowns and Balloons, Doubleback (Must have IMO), Rampage, Tetris, Reactoid, Wildcatting and Silpheed. Don't have extras of those unfortunately. Probably others like Cyrus Chess but that's a pretty rare one and of course, if you've got lottery style luck and a good size bank roll, any of the Anteco carts. Of course I don't know what those 10 other games are so maybe you're already set Edited January 5, 2014 by AtariLeaf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I am not recycling old carts... and yes, I am looking for games I don't have. I am working on putting together a list... it's very difficult to find a list of TRS80 cartridges that were put out. I had a list that someone sent me as a spreadsheet file. I'll have to try to find it as it's on another computer that's currently tucked away. I could have sworn someone on the coco list had a link to an online document that contained all rompaks made by both radio shack and other companies, which included things like the speech sound pak, orchestra pak, drive controllers, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 I def. want Clowns and Balloons, Doubleback, Rampage, Tetris, Reactoid, Silpheed (I have Thexder), Tennis, Skiing, Starblaze, Gin Champion, Androne, Araknoid, Robocop, Crosswords, Shanghai and anything else I don't have. Tetris, Football II and Rad Warrior are on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 Oh, and Castle of Thoraggard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 ..and Temple of Rom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Skiing is another excellent one I forgot about. I've done a bunch of coco videos on my youtube channel if you're interested. There was a crosswords on ebay about a month or so ago but I forgot about it and didn't bid. Only ended at about a buck or so too. You could sign up and put a "wanted" list on the coco mailing list if you haven't already. That's how I got a bunch I was after when I first started coco collecting. Edited January 5, 2014 by AtariLeaf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 As for compiling a list of cartridges, most (all?) of the Radio Shack catalogues are available online. It would be possible, if time consuming, to pull together a list of Coco carts https://archive.org/details/radioshackcatalogs A complete run of TRS-80 Microcomputer News is also available online; this includes announcements of new cartridges, etc. http://www.os9projects.com/MAGAZINES/MicroNews/MicroNews.html Of course neither source is going to include third-party titles, but there are going to be many of them, either. There are some odd, early releases, such as Audio Spectrum Analyze and a diagnostics cartridge, that (I assume) were not huge sellers and so they are probably quite rare today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmoko Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 Yeah, I was thinking of compiling a list at work... thanks for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I was playing castle of Tharoggad not too long ago and I could not find my way off the level I was on. All I could do was walk around the empty hallways. I wonder if anyone has played the game enough to know if it is beatable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Nice collection! Amazes me just how many carts were released for the Coco - a computer I've always been mildly interested in. Decided to YouTube some of the titles I hadn't heard before and was surprised to find that Popcorn is a Kaboom! clone. Upon seeing the copyright of '81 for it, seemed a little early for Kaboom! and thought maybe Activision "stole" the gameplay idea. Looking at AtariAge's database, curious that Kaboom! does not have a year of release listed, so I dug through my manuals and finally found a date of 1981 in it. So, more than likely - Popcorn is a Kaboom! clone... just interesting sometimes to learn which came first, what was influenced by whom, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Popcorn is actually Avalanche. [/thatguy] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Popcorn is actually......... [/thatguy] a really crappy game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
labrat Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Do you have any extras to trade? I've got a bunch of carts I can dig out and I'm sure a few of them would be on your list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 a really crappy game. Kind of an annoying song, too! I'll bet it's a bitch to collect CoCo cartridges. They were only sold at one chain, and designed for a computer that was largely shunned for the Commodore 64. So how is Downland, anyway? I remember seeing that one at a Radio Shack in a mall, and it looked like an interesting (if incredibly punishing) platformer in the tradition of Donkey Kong and Manic Miner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 It's not that hard to collect for the CoCo. Naturally, there are a few rare cartridges, tapes, and disks, but overall they're easy to find. While it's true that they were only sold at one chain (don't forget mail order from magazines, too), that chain had many thousands of stores just in the US alone. While it's also true that it was largely shunned for the Commodore 64, so was every other 8-bit/low end computer, so the CoCo is not unique in that regard. It did also have a legitimate commercial lifespan of 10 full years, which is not too shabby in comparison to many other computer platforms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 The majority of CoCo games were on tape or disk and were mostly sold mail order except for the ones Radio Shack carried. Collecting the original tapes and disks that were mail order is a bit more difficult than the carts. I don't think there are any carts that are so rare I haven't seen them on ebay for more than a few months. The problem with ebay is people are asking ridiculous prices most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krslam Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 There's a list at Digital Press: http://www.digitpress.com/video-game-guide/?system[]=3634&mode=Search&title=&Mfr=&Released=&Developer=&Designer=&Scarcity=&Dollars=&PartNo= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerG Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 JamesD, there are some really rare ones that almost never show up on EBay. Several of the small third party publishers released rompaks (Anteco is one, but there may be more). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 I was talking about Radio Shack carts. I've only seen 1 Antico cart show up on ebay. I think they were even more expensive than the disk games and I don't remember any of their games being on a top seller list. I wouldn't be surprised if they only sold in the hundreds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 I would imagine that the mail-order disk based games are almost impossible to collect for. The games from Diecom, Sundog and the likes. How often would a "Gantelet II" or "Quest for Thelda" pop up on ebay I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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