Has Activision used standard Atari shells?

[OldPAL]

One of the lot I got had this very aged Grand Prix game with pink label, blue road, and no spring. But it is a standard shell rather than the Activision branded one. I was wondering if this was Activision's doing or a bootlegger's

[+groundtrooper]

I seriously doubt it.

Is the game in the cart actually Grand Prix?


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[BONEMAN]

Can you take a picture of the front of the cart?

[jaybird3rd]

14 hours ago, OldPAL said:

One of the lot I got had this very aged Grand Prix game with pink label, blue road, and no spring. But it is a standard shell rather than the Activision branded one. I was wondering if this was Activision's doing or a bootlegger's

The label clearly seems to have been transplanted from an original Activision shell, after it had already taken some wear and tear, so it would not have been made this way by Activision.  You can see the indentations left in the label from the two original screws; there are no screw posts at those locations in Atari's shells, which have only one screw in the center.

[Mockduck]

Could be a local fix, maybe a cart was smashed and they took an unwanted atari cart and swapped over the PCB and sticker?

[OldPAL]

6 hours ago, jaybird3rd said:

The label clearly seems to have been transplanted from an original Activision shell, after it had already taken some wear and tear, so it would not have been made this way by Activision.  You can see the indentations left in the label from the two original screws; there are no screw posts at those locations in Atari's shells, which have only one screw in the center.

Excellent, thank you!

[Video]

Were Atari and Activision pcbs compatible though? Like said above, Atari carts have a central screw while Activision has two. Never saw an Activision pcb, but assumed they may have made use of the lack of a central post to have longer pcbs or something.

[OldPAL]

1 minute ago, Video said:

Were Atari and Activision pcbs compatible though? Like said above, Atari carts have a central screw while Activision has two. Never saw an Activision pcb, but assumed they may have made use of the lack of a central post to have longer pcbs or something.

It turns out, it was the Berzerk game inside. False alarm, sorry!