EPROM Chips and Cartridge

[tigersshadow]

Hi, This is my first post so it may be in the wrong topic. I have EPROM Chips and 1 Cartridge. I have listed them on Ebay and had an offer of $300!!!! but Ebay threw the listing off because I called them test chips. The bidder will only buy if I relist them, afraid I might take the money and run. Does anyone know how I can sell them here? I went to the store but can't find anywhere to click on to sell. Can members sell here? Is anyone interested in 9 chips and 1 cartridge, all working. Thes were bought directly from a Matel employee along with other Barbie and Hot Wheels demo stuff so these are not bootlegs. I can send photos of the chips working on our TV. Thanks for any help. Again, if this is the wrong place to ask I 'm sorry for taking your time. I am new to this site but have been playing Atari for years.

 

[badbrad]

Hi, This is my first post so it may be in the wrong topic. I have EPROM Chips and 1 Cartridge. I have listed them on Ebay and had an offer of $300!!!! but Ebay threw the listing off because I called them test chips. The bidder will only buy if I relist them, afraid I might take the money and run. Does anyone know how I can sell them here? I went to the store but can't find anywhere to click on to sell. Can members sell here? Is anyone interested in 9 chips and 1 cartridge, all working. Thes were bought directly from a Matel employee along with other Barbie and Hot Wheels demo stuff so these are not bootlegs. I can send photos of the chips working on our TV. Thanks for any help. Again, if this is the wrong place to ask I 'm sorry for taking your time. I am new to this site but have been playing Atari for years.

 

 

 

 

It looks to me like you ended the listing yourself.

http://cgi.ebay.com/13-ATARI-DEMO-GAMES-ON...1QQcmdZViewItem

[tigersshadow]

Yes, I did. I realized I would attract more bidders by changing the title to "Atari test demos ?prototypes?" so I ended it and relisted it and Ebay threw it out for listing test demos/prototypes. I had an email offering $300.00 if I would end the listing. Well it ended alright, just not how we planed. The bidder wants to buy through Ebay only or an escrow service which I don't know anything about so I just want to sell it some other way.

 

 

It looks to me like you ended the listing yourself.

http://cgi.ebay.com/13-ATARI-DEMO-GAMES-ON...1QQcmdZViewItem

[Cassidy Nolen]

Look man,

 

I don't want to bust your chops, as you can search my postings and see I am a nice enough guy. I do want you to know what you have is not a proto of any sort. You have games from several manufactures (first clue; the companies did not play well together and you have at least three companies represented there). The switch most likely is to turn the 7404 on and off inside (Several of the ones I have had over the years did this). I have seen many of these in my years, even made a few for the 2600 and Vectrex. If your buyer believes they are buying a true prototype I think you owe it to him/her to make good on what it really is. I think others on the board here would agree this is not a company made item, rather a homemade hack cart and in no way related to Mattel as your auction stated. Very common in the early computer days. Most likely the games that don't work are on the wrong format of eprom (2732's are the same size as 2532's but pinned out differently). If you check I would not be suprised to see those were the ones that did not work. Not much was known back then.

 

I don't doubt they are from "back in the day", I just want you to know what you have.

 

As for selling on ebay, why not just list them with a BIN and arrange to email the guy as soon as they are listed so he can use the BIN? What you have there is exactly what ebay does not want to sell (bootleg software).

 

FTWIW,

Cassidy

[Shawn]

At $1.00 per chip and $10 bucks for the homemade test cart plus shipping your gonna get about $20 bucks total for the lot you got there.

[tigersshadow]

At $1.00 per chip and $10 bucks for the homemade test cart plus shipping your gonna get about $20 bucks total for the lot you got there.

 

 

Thanks for all your advice. I don't think I will get the $300. Right? Even if I took the $300 he would request a refund if you are right and I have a very good Ebay ID so I don't need to risk it. I will tell him what you said. However, I still believe they are from the company because it was back in the late 80s and he had so much Matel Company items. I bought other things he could not have made himself. But you all do know so much more than I do about them. For $20 I'll just keep playing them myself. I love Atari. I can't even see the screen on our grandkids hand-held games!!! We have Xbox for them and I've never even tried it, toooo confusing. Wish they made Tetrisphere for it like the old Nintendo does. I play that most but the grandkids find it tooo hard!! Can you believe that?? Anyways, thanks again, and no harm done, the sale will not be made.

[Cassidy Nolen]

It could easily have been a Mattel board in there but that is an Atari brand case. Those big green sockets were/are used for development/testing/burning and are great for just what you are using them for.

 

None of the titles you have there are Mattel titles. Some Atari, Activision and a Parker Brothers. I got one from a Coleco guy once that had a club who "traded" games. They would all buy a game a month and bust them open, rip the rom image and then copy to all the guys in the club. Smart way to do it. Sort of backfired thought when games got bigger than the image the Atari could "see" and there were special chips involved.

 

Again, I am sorry to bust the bubble. If its of any value, I sold a set similar to that at PhillyClassic a few years back for about 60 bucks. The guy knew what it was and just really liked it.

 

You know, you could list it on ebay as a test cart and sell it that way? No chips for sale. Wonder if you could send the chips for free?

 

Cassidy

[phaxda]

I have a set of EPROMS much like yours, but they didn't come with a cart--just the bare adapter. The homeade cart actually looks kind of cool!

 

I was totally scammed on my purchase of the chips--the seller said that they were "prototypes" and also advertised the included Atari as a heavy sixer. It wasn't. I eventually got some of my money back, but it was a pain...

 

Anyway, the really funny thing is that the handwriting on your chips looks a lot like the handwriting on my chips, and they are also color-coded with the sticky dots (to tell which adapter to use). Wonder if they came from the same place?

[Bruce Tomlin]

First of all, as others have said, these are absolutely not protos. They are the 1981 equivalent of "backups" today.

 

That being said, I love the woodgrain.

 

And the switch might be a 2K/4K switch.

[yuppicide]

I think they look cool. I'm not a woodgrain fan, but it looks cool anyhow.

 

What we used to do back in the NES days we get say 5 guys to chip in $10 and a Super Mario or Duck Hunt cartridge. We'd buy one game (Tecmo Superbowl comes to mind) and swap out the boards inside. 4 people would get the game in the wrong case, one would get the original. Everyone would get a manual copy if they wanted.

[Josh]

So...

What Ever Happened To TigerShadow?

[tigersshadow]

Hi, I'm still here, Took a 2 week vacation, 1 week cruise and 1 week land. I had not writen any since way back when, felt way out of my league. You guys are just too smart. Don't want to offend anyone but I can't part with them for so little, I know they are from the Matel Co. as I said I also bought many Barbie and Hot Wheels promos at the same time. I have a Barbie promo tape of the Barbie ad tune and it's marked as such. I also have THE ORIGINAL Hot Wheels race suit that the Co "rep model" toured around wearing. Unfortunately we never thought how valuable it would become and our son wore it as part of his uncle's pit crew for Sunoco Mods. He even had to remove the Hot Wheels patches!!! (Co rep asked us to do it) I still have the white promo box that an old Barbie promo was stored in but the doll is long gone. Anyways I could go on but it all boils down to I can't prove anything. Thanks for all the advice and interest.