What I have get today. You never have see it.

[MattyXB]

 

Selfmade from Unknown. Has 8 games you can choose them with the switch on the small side. 0-7. he games are Starmaster, Air Sea Battle, Minigolf, Video Pinball, Space Invaders, Defender, Missile Command and Donkey Kong.

 

Matthias

[san-d-2000]

did you find it at othe fleamarket?

 

San.

[MattyXB]

No on ebay.de.

But I think the seller have not built it. Maybe he has found it somewhere and buy it.

 

Matthias

[videotwit]

It looks like a cart that was actually used by game programmers to test EPROMS on an actual console. The hole cut in top made for easy switching between games.

 

I've seen others similar to this that have claimed to be as I described above. If it is true, that's quite a rarity! (In any case, it looks like an interesting item -- nice find!)

[MattyXB]

I know only that these are PAL games. You must spin the switch. Is not a switch like the 4 Game in 1 or Dactar games. And it looks that you can change the EPROM, but I will not test it. The 8 games must be on 1 EPROM, I think.

 

I have never seen this before. And I have not know how it looks, I have only bid on the action, because it was an interest describtion.

 

PS: The white sticker on the EPROM is from me, to protect the EPROM. There was nothing on it as I get this.

 

Matthias

[liquid_sky]

do the games play any differently? maybe you might get a hold of a prototype somehow

[MattyXB]

I have only test it short. But I will test it later again and look if something is diffrent. But the first short test have seems that they are all the same.

 

Matthias

[MattyXB]

I have think about it if this is a Prototype. But I think this is not, because the games from diffrent companys.

Activision 1x, Atari 6x and CBS Electronics (Nintendo) 1x.

 

I think Atari has not the rights to do this with other companys and built a Prototype. If these are only from Atari this can be. But so I don't think this is a Prototype.

 

As I said before, I think someone has built it self and sell it.

 

Matthias

[Albert]

quote:

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Originally posted by MattyXB:

I have think about it if this is a Prototype. But I think this is not, because the games from diffrent companys.

Activision 1x, Atari 6x and CBS Electronics (Nintendo) 1x.

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It's extremely unlikely that this cartridge has anything to do with Atari whatsoever. I've seen quite a few carts like this over the years and they're usually done by individuals who want to pirate games. This is especially true before there were many excellent Atari 2600 emulators--about the only way you could copy and play games was by using EPROMs and carts like this. And it isn't too difficult to hack a cart in the above manner.

 

..Al