strange activision cart

[Zybex]

This poor cartridge is affected by the direct sunlight, for several weeks!

[sku_u]

That poor Ice Hockey cart.

[pinball22]

Well, is is ICE Hockey, after all... sunlight is bad for it!

[adams_ale]

Well, is is ICE Hockey, after all... sunlight is bad for it!

 

Touche' By the way why was the cart left in the sunlight for so long?

[ActionGeek]

Speaking of odd Activision carts...

(This may sound stupid, but bear with me...)

 

I've noticed that there are the REGULAR

Activision carts with pic of game, name, etc.

 

THEN there are the blue labeled carts.

 

But I found recently a copy of Keystone

Vapers that had a different style

of plastic box altogether and a different

vintage-looking label that was still

OFFICIALLY an Activision game, but

was of a style I'd never seen before.

 

Is this a rare find? Any more value to this

style of Activision cart that any other?

Anyone else seen any games as I'm

describing?

[Voch]

The blue label games are a little rarer than the standard Activision carts, but they're not necessarily hot commodoties AFAIK. Here is the AtariAge page on the Activision titles (found by going to AtariAge.com, clicking "2600" under Systems on the left, clicking "Companies", and scrolling down and clicking "Activision").

 

Voch

[ActionGeek]

I can't believe I might have an Atari cart in my

possession that AtariAge doesn't even have pics

or a mention of. I'll take a pic of this Keystone

Cops game next week... It's not a ble cart, a reg

cart or the "???" white cart listed on the AtariAge

Activision list.

[Christophero Sly]

Does it say 'Keystone Kapers' on the label?

[ActionGeek]

It's so definitely NOT a bootleg or a

knockoff or anything like that. It just

has a more prestige / vintage / 20s

kinda look / feel to the label design.

It screams Activision in every sense.

I'm just surprised that this is such a

rarity... hmmm...

[pinball22]

Are you sure it's a 2600 cart? Does the pic look like the 5200 one in the database?

I'm not sure which label the ColecoVision one used, and I can't seem to find a pic of it...

[ActionGeek]

I'll take a pic of this Keystone

Cops game next week.

 

read above again.

 

Yes it's a 2600 game.

[pinball22]

Sorry... you didn't mention whether or not you'd actually played it, and CV carts are a very similar size.

[pinball22]

Ah, finally found a pic of one... http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V...8152625036&rd=1

 

Does it look like that? If so and it really is a 2600 cart, that's nifty, they must have put some in the wrong cases.

[Mindfield]

I can't believe I might have an Atari cart in my

possession that AtariAge doesn't even have pics

or a mention of. I'll take a pic of this Keystone

Cops game next week... It's not a ble cart, a reg

cart or the "???" white cart listed on the AtariAge

Activision list.

 

If it's a maroon label with orange trim, old-style type and a live-action pic of the cop chasing the robber in a circular border, and if the cart has finger grip indentations on either side of the top of the cart shell, then it's the Colecovision cart. Activision did different labels than their "standard" style when releasing on other platforms.

[Mindfield]

Ah, finally found a pic of one... http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V...8152625036&rd=1

 

Does it look like that?  If so and it really is a 2600 cart, that's nifty, they must have put some in the wrong cases.

 

Yeah, that'd be the CV version. That label didn't appear on the 2600 version.

[pinball22]

Yeah, that's what I meant, that that was a pic of the CV version.

And that either the one in question is a CV one, or there's an error 2600 one out there.

[ActionGeek]

Yeah, that's exactly what it is, a Colecovision cart. Damn. Now all I need is a Colecovision to actually play it. I thought I'd stumbled upon some limited edition version of Keystone.