Tidus79001 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 (edited) Looking on eBay something the other day I found interesting. Apparently in some regions outside the US Fire Fighter was released with a green label and a shell that resembles the standard Atari 2600 US Activision cartridge shells (as opposed the silver label and tapered end that is was the standard for Imagic games in the US). I have never seen this variant before this and is it not listed on the Atariage software page. Just thought I would share this since I am sure many others haven't seen Imagic games that resemble this. Edited January 11, 2020 by Tidus79001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 To my knowledge almost all PAL Imagic carts used these colored labels instead of the Foil labels that NTSC releases got. I have a yellow Cosmic Ark that is a PAL release. Very common in PAL regions. Not so much in North America. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidus79001 Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, groundtrooper said: To my knowledge almost all PAL Imagic carts used these colored labels instead of the Foil labels that NTSC releases got. I have a yellow Cosmic Ark that is a PAL release. Very common in PAL regions. Not so much in North America. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Ah ha, it is an Activision shell! I can see that on the backside of your cartridge. Did Imagic and Actvision have some sort of partnership to distribute games outside the US? Just odd that Imagic was using actual Activision shells since to the best of my knowledge they were 2 separate companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I don't know the exact details but sometime during the crash I believe Activision bought the rights to at least 3 of Imagic's games because in the US they (Activision) released Atlantis, Demon Attack and Moonsweeper in black boxes and blue labeled Activision shells but the Activision embossed logo is not present on the underside of those shells. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Spriggy Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 6 hours ago, Tidus79001 said: Looking on eBay something the other day I found interesting. Apparently in some regions outside the US Fire Fighter was released with a green label and a shell that resembles the standard Atari 2600 US Activision cartridge shells (as opposed the silver label and tapered end that is was the standard for Imagic games in the US). I have never seen this variant before this and is it not listed on the Atariage software page. Just thought I would share this since I am sure many others haven't seen Imagic games that resemble this. They're Aussie HES variants. Everywhere down here. http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-fire-fighter_15652.html http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-2600-vcs-hes_publisher_1702_2_G.html [excerpt from http://atariboxed.com/] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Yeah they are Aussie HES releases, Imagic variants as follows: Fire Fighter - Green Label Cosmic Ark - Yellow Label Riddle of the Sphinx - Pink Label Laser Gates - Blue Label Quick Step - Orange Label Star Voyager - Pink Label Atlantis - Green Text Label Demon Attack - Red Text Label Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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