TEXAS CHAINSAW CART, IS IT REAL?

[wesofthedead]

I bought this cart from a seller and they seemed genuine but I wanted to make sure if it is real and this is the best place to check.

[Albert]

Looks real to me.

 

 ..Al

[+groundtrooper]

Looks real to me.
 
 ..Al

I agree. Looks great and pretty clean for a Wizard title.

Congrats.

[Crazy Climber]

Looks real, no obvious signs it's fake at least. I mean if people are making fakes that good it's going to get ugly out there.

(Long story short I think it's real)

[Cebus Capucinis]

Short story long, I have drafted the following 17 page white paper explaining in great detail why it's real.

[_The Doctor__]

plug it into your 2600 and play it already!

[ctelkin19]

For comparison, here's my copy.  The labels are certainly massacred, this much I know!  Guess the label is supposed to be red & not white LOL

[AtariAger]

Looks like a great survivor to me.  Were you able to grab the box as well..?

[roadrunner]

I think most if not all the TCM fakes use a atari cart shell.

Edit - forgot about the double enders of TCM people make.

 

Edited November 26, 2021 by roadrunner

[AtariAger]

On 11/26/2021 at 3:45 PM, roadrunner said:

I think most if not all the TCM fakes use a atari cart shell.

Edit - forgot about the double enders of TCM people make.

 

😎😉

[Mik's Arcade]

I read this off Wikipedia just a couple of weeks ago regarding Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the Atari

 

Like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wizard's other offering, Halloween was a controversial title at the time due to its violent content and subject matter. Many game retailers refused to carry the game and the ones who did often kept it behind the counter on a request-only basis.

Halloween, along with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, drove Wizard Video Games to bankruptcy.^{[citation needed]} While Wizard Video Games were liquidating its merchandise, some copies of the game were shipped and sold without a label, or with a simple white sticker with "HALLOWEEN" hand-written on it to cut costs. This led to even more stores rejecting the game due to its appearance. Wizard Video's other commercial release, Halloween, had a slightly better reception than their The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,^[8] however, the limited number of copies sold has made both games highly valued items among Atari collectors.^[9]

[holygrailvideogames.com]

On 11/18/2021 at 4:03 PM, ctelkin19 said:

For comparison, here's my copy.  The labels are certainly massacred, this much I know!  Guess the label is supposed to be red & not white LOL

Was that buried with E.T.?

[video game addict]

Probably and old hozer copy that got trashed! If it plays keep and enjoy. Perhaps remove the labels, clean, and reprint nice new ones. 

[Albert]

56 minutes ago, video game addict said:

Probably and old hozer copy that got trashed! If it plays keep and enjoy. Perhaps remove the labels, clean, and reprint nice new ones. 

I'm confident that is an original cart (and it does appear to be in the correct shell), but looks like the cart was obviously not well taken care of.  it appears the cart was exposed to the elements (water, sun).  Impressive if the game actually works.

 

 ..Al

[video game addict]

It is the correct shell, I didn’t look too closely, probably just a weathered warrior then. 

[roadrunner]

Mighta been in someone's damp basement or in a flood?

 

[ctelkin19]

On 11/26/2021 at 1:19 PM, AtariAger said:

Looks like a great survivor to me.  Were you able to grab the box as well..?

It was just the loose cart unfortunately

 

20 hours ago, holygrailvideogames.com said:

Was that buried with E.T.?

Haha definitely a possibility 😎

 

19 hours ago, Albert said:

I'm confident that is an original cart (and it does appear to be in the correct shell), but looks like the cart was obviously not well taken care of.  it appears the cart was exposed to the elements (water, sun).  Impressive if the game actually works.

 

 ..Al

Amazingly it does still work Al!

[Mrshoujo]

I bought Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the 2600 around 1986 at a store in Columbus Ohio called Video Express, with instructions. I think the box was long gone. My cart looks like your pristine red label cart. 

Edited December 13, 2021 by Mrshoujo
Forgot a word