King_Salamon Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Hi everyone, I'm still new to the 7800 and in all my games I've noticed that the carts chip is exposed (like 2600 Activision carts) but recently I got a copy of Joust in the mail and it had the plastic sliding piece that most 2600 carts had back in late 70's and early 80's. I was just wondering how many 7800 games were like this? The extra protection it provides is nice but I guess Atari wanted to save money and that was an easy way to cut a cost. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 The original 1986 releases have them. Not terribly hard to find but not real common either. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Salamon Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Interesting.. I suppose it was a transition period for Atari when they started changing cart shells. Perhaps I will come acroos more of these releases as I build my library. By the way Mitch, your site is awesome! I like the list of 7800 games you have where you note whether the game is 1 or 2 button games... comes in handy at the moment, until I get some 2 button controllers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Hi everyone, I'm still new to the 7800 and in all my games I've noticed that the carts chip is exposed (like 2600 Activision carts) but recently I got a copy of Joust in the mail and it had the plastic sliding piece that most 2600 carts had back in late 70's and early 80's. I was just wondering how many 7800 games were like this? The extra protection it provides is nice but I guess Atari wanted to save money and that was an easy way to cut a cost. I would've preferred had they kept the doors on the carts. Shame they didn't add doors to the actual cartridge slot on the consoles. That goes for Atari Inc. as well [not just the later Tramiel Atari Corp.]. I mean, they did for the XL computer line [and I suppose the actual hinged door on the 400/800 also counts]. Funny there were so few revisions on the 7800 carts themselves versus how many revisions they shortly went through for the Lynx. Wasn't it 4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I got some original 7800 games with 2600 cases today in a sale from ebay. Galaga and Ms. Pac Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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