Supervision = Atari

[Marco(2)]

Hi all,

 

Today I got two Supervison games from a German Ebay auction. One of the carts had a little rattle inside, so I decided to try my luck and force it open. When I did, the pcb fell out and when I picked it up from the floor I was stunned: I was holding an Atari pcb in my hands!

 

 

I also opened up the second one: same story, similar Atari pcb inside...

 

Now, what are our options here? Was Atari secretly making pirate carts? Did Supervision somehow get their hands on Atari pcbs?

 

Also note the typical (early production run?) form of the game chip...

 

Weird huh?

 

Marco

[Atari-Jess]

id say its odd!

perhaps Atari Ssold pcbs

perhaps sumguy stole a crate of blank ones

but looking at the activision like logo i wouldn't think Atari themselves did it.

[Marco(2)]

I've always been puzzled by some of these pirates. A friend of mine has been studying some of the artword on these and found some interesting similarities. It made him think there was some worldwide "conspiracy" of big firms (Atari and Activision) selling their stuff under cheap labels, trying to make some final money out of their games when the crash had already hit the USA but other parts of the world were still interested in (cheap versions of) their games...

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

[moycon]

Also the "V" in Supervision is alot like the Activision "V" So if Atari did make em... They were selling pirated copies of their own games and ripping off Activision at the same time!!