Microgammon SB Proto or bootleg?

[vintagegamecrazy]

I got this many years ago when I purchased another Atari 5200 game on Ebay, when I got the package this extra game was in there too with a note saying to enjoy the freebie. Are the chips real originals that are obviously resoldered onto the board or are these repro chips soldered onto a new board? I don't know much about this either way so help is appreciated. Even if it's fake though, it's still a pretty cool freebie!

Edited April 15, 2010 by vintagegamecrazy

[Tempest]

That's not an official Atari EPROM board. It looks like the kind you see inside 5200 Parker Bros games. I had two boards just like that with Astrochase and Super Cobra on them (never could tell if they were review copies or not). Atari never used boards like that so I'm saying it's a homemade job.

 

Tempest

[vintagegamecrazy]

So did someone find a bland Parker Bros board and just dump this game onto it?

[jwierer]

So did someone find a bland Parker Bros board and just dump this game onto it?

I'd say they cannibalized a label-less Frogger/Popeye. It's quite easy.

 

-Jeff

[Tempest]

So did someone find a bland Parker Bros board and just dump this game onto it?

They might have just popped the chips out and replaced them. Who knows?

 

Tempest

[CPUWIZ]

The manufacturing date on the right EPROM is 1992 and this is clearly a Parker PCB. Hackjob.