CincYnoTi Posted December 11, 2002 Share Posted December 11, 2002 let's make a list...who owns one of these? please specify if yours has a lab loaner label or has no label. thanks,tony why not tell where you found your pepsi invaders? i found mine in a thrift store with a $0.90 sticker on it. there were no glue marks where a label should be, so i couldn't resist buying it to find out what game it was. oh, it was half-price day, so i paid $0.45. tough to describe the thrill i got when i plugged it in and saw the opening screen with the P E P S I letters there was a second one found in cincinnati at a flea market. sam twiford kept trying to buy it from the shop keeper, but somehow, the deal never happened. the guy finally sold it to someone else, but he couldn't remember to who. the same guy also said he once had a surf's up prototype. if mattg also found his in cincinnati, that would make three copies found here. there is a coke bottling plant here, so that makes some sense. from the other pepsi invaders topic in this forum, these people own one: PEPSI INVADERS (no label) . marco . ianoid? PEPSI INVADERS lab-loaner label . mattg . cpuwiz . marco . rick weis anyone know who owns the white box with red sticker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco(2) Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 I know that Ianoid also owns the box (but perhaps he should tell that himself) Cheers, Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 I have one and I don't think it had a label. If I remember correctly it was a ROM and not an eprom. That really took me for a suprize. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattG/Snyper2099 Posted December 19, 2002 Share Posted December 19, 2002 I bought mine on ebay. It was a lab loaner one. It was purchased from a former employee of Coke. This person actually lived in St. Louis though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted February 25, 2003 Author Share Posted February 25, 2003 I know that Ianoid also owns the box (but perhaps he should tell that himself) Cheers, Marco ianoid says he does not have the box: "must have been some other body, no no no, it wasn't me." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 I have been lucky enough to come across 3 Pepsi Invaders which are all from the same source. I was with a friend of mine in a local flea market looking at some Coke merchandice. When the booth owner asked if we needed any help, we said that we were really looking for old video games but couldn't help but stop just to look at all the Coke stuff. He pulled a "Coke Wins" out and said that it was the only game he had and he couldn't let it go cheap. Then he also said that he had another at home still in the box that he would let go for the right price. Turns out that the right price was $10 loose and $25 for the boxed one If I remember right he had a family member that was a manager at a bottling facility and his family had 2 of these. My friend still has the loose cart and I have the boxed version. About a year later, this same guy's brother happened to be talking with someone he worked with and they still had theirs (no box though). I paid more for that one and traded it away for several carts I needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 What box? I thought the game came in a cardboard insert with a coke label on it. You guys are very lucky. Only around 200 of these were even made, so coming across multiple copies in Thrift Stores is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 I got mine from a guy who said his uncle worked for Coke at one point and he and his cousin had one. I forget what I traded for it (not all that much, just a buttload of Colecovision games). I ended up trading it off to Ian for a bunch of stuff. It was only later we found out it was so rare. I still don't regret trading it though, even though it was an UR game it was still a hack. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 What box? I thought the game came in a cardboard insert with a coke label on it. You guys are very lucky. Only around 200 of these were even made, so coming across multiple copies in Thrift Stores is amazing. It looks like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Oberhäuser Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 I have one without label. Bought in 1995 from a reliable source. Marc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted February 25, 2003 Share Posted February 25, 2003 It looks like this: Yep, that's what mine looks like also. The cart has no label but oddly, there was an Atari catalog in the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 Since Pepsi Invaders doesn't have a a label to mess up, I suggest everyone open theirs up and see if it contains an EPROM or a ROM chip. If it has an EPROM then you've got a copy not the real deal. You never know... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 Is there anything on the exterior to distinguish a real Pepsi Invaders from a copy? For this one, I'm happy with the EPROM copy made for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buyatari Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 Hey mine has a ROM. I thought they were supposed to be eproms? Where did this 200 number come from anyway? They made a production run of 200? great now I can't get it back together. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 Hey mine has a ROM. I thought they were supposed to be eproms? Where did this 200 number come from anyway? They made a production run of 200? great now I can't get it back together. Adam The cart was made as a gift for a select few Coca-Cola employees. I can't remember if 200 was the exact number, but it was a very small run (hence the 10 rating). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 The number is 125. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted February 26, 2003 Author Share Posted February 26, 2003 my fortune cookie says the number is 132.8 it would be helpful to site your original source if you are going to quote a number. i've seen various numbers quoted on different web sites, 100, 125, 150, 200, but nothing that had any credible source to back it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 26, 2003 Share Posted February 26, 2003 ??? recently caught up with Christopher Omarzu at the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose, CA. As we typically do, the probing began early and often. We knew Chris was involved with Atari but were not sure which games he had been responsible for developing. Interestingly enough, Chris gave us a list of familiar Atari titles as well as one that didn't quite match our lists: "Good Luck, Charlie Brown" "Oscar's Trash Race" "Big Bird's Egg Catch" "Pepsi Invaders" PEPSI Invaders? That got us especially interested. This had become more than just a match the designer to the game project. It seemed as if we were onto something here. As it turns out, Pepsi Invaders was written for a 1983 Coca-Cola Sales Convention. The convention was attended by all the top Coke Executives. Each exec got a complete Atari 2600 game system and a bunch of games including... Pepsi Invaders! This was the title originally given to the game. How it became Coke Wins is a mystery to everyone including Chris. It's quite obvious that the invaders spell the word PEPSI. And for those of you who own the game, REJOICE! There were only 125 of these made. It's even more rare than we had imagined. Here's another interesting tid-bit Chris shared with us: Big Bird's Egg Catch was originally called "Grover's Egg Catch" and likewise Grover was originally called "Big Bird's Music Maker". The programmers were talking one day and they asked themselves, "Why would Grover be catching eggs? That's Big Bird' job, isn't it?" They decided to swap characters and that's how they ended up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted February 26, 2003 Author Share Posted February 26, 2003 anyone know if this coca-cola convention was held in cincinnati? several copies of pepsi invaders have been found in cincinnati. "convention" probably means people came from all over the country and took the stuff home. there was a flea market vendor in cincinnati (trader's world) that claims to have given it the name "coke wins". he had one of them and as you know, there is no label and no game title. he called it coke wins because coke always wins the game. sam twiford kept trying to make a deal for that game, but eventually, the vendor sold it to somebody else. at that time, that might have been the only known copy. maybe the guys at digital press have a story of the first discovered copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted July 15, 2003 Author Share Posted July 15, 2003 from the ebay auction forum: I just stumbled onto this past thread, and have an interesting story to add. I bid on that Coke game. When the high bidder didn't pay (as I now see why), I offered to buy it at $5 above the 3rd bidder's high bid (which would be around $425. He refused saying he was giving it to a friend to sell in his store saying it's worth $750-1000. Two weeks later, it showed up again, only in Pennsylvania this time (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...0&category=3537) and with an added pen mark. I won it for $312, which is pretty funny if I actually get it and it works. If not, at least I paid by credit card. i hope to hear from bloatedmonkey when he receives it, that it does indeed work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radio F Software Posted October 6, 2004 Share Posted October 6, 2004 I hope yall dont slam me for asking this and buming a 1 1/2 year old thread, but I would like to ask a couple of questions about the cartridge for Coke Wins. >Was the game manufactured with NO label or have the existing ones just lost theirs? >Also, is the cartridge color white like the box it came in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted October 6, 2004 Author Share Posted October 6, 2004 It came in a standard original atari cartridge (with the locking pcb protector) with no main nor end label. There is no evidence of any glue residual on the cart and no label has ever been found on existing copies. Inside the cartridge is a production board and ROM. If you open a Pepsi Invaders cartridge with no label and find an eprom inside, that means it is a homebrew reproduction of the game. Some reproductions have had custom homemade labels put on them and have been seen on ebay. If you want to see a compiled list of owners of this game and other r=10 games, look at this thread: http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15567 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CincYnoTi Posted October 6, 2004 Author Share Posted October 6, 2004 And the cartridge is standard Atari black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariAger Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 I'd love to have either an original or lab loaner...Anbody?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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