US Games casing variations

[+RichG1972]

Is there a reason why I have seen US Games branded games in 2 different molded casings? The one game I have is Name This Game which is in a casing that is identical to the ones Space Jockey and Word Zapper have even though they are different companies, and then there is a second version of the casing that makes it look as if the top of the cartridge has a grab handle. Can anyone maybe shed some light on this? It's a bit confusing

[krslam]

The design was probably changed to reduce costs. Telesys, First Star, Sega, and probably some others also released 2600 games in different case styles.

[thetick1]

This was very common. Sears also repackaged Atari 2600 games.

 

Take a picture of your cartridge and do a google image search. You'll likely get a quick answer.

Edited January 9, 2019 by thetick1

[26gc]

Hi,

 

these are the two known cartridges used by U.S. Games Corporation to release games mainly for the U.S. market.

 

 

 

For other markets than US and Canada (mainly EU), Carrere and Tigervision did a joint venture to release the U.S. Games Corporation Titles with Tigervision Cartridges.

 

 

During the "Name this game" contest, U.S. GC went out of business and Carrere released the title as "Octupus".

 

So actually there are three known licensed cartridges.

 

There graphics are from my Game Collection tool that I'm currently working on just if wanted to ask

 

All the best,

 

Andre