Tempest Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 I've slowly been going through a collection of prototypes that Frank Cifaldi sent me and discovered something interesting. Apparently Atari and Lucasfilm held a joint press conference on May 8th, 1984 and gave out Atari 5200 cartridges as a press pass. I don't think I've ever seen this documented anywhere so I thought I'd share it. I don't believe there's any board inside the cartridge, it's just an empty shell. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Open it up and lets see. Or push the tabs with a screw driver and see if there is a board inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 I don't actually own it, I was just sent the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 31 minutes ago, Tempest said: I've slowly been going through a collection of prototypes that Frank Cifaldi sent me and discovered something interesting. Apparently Atari and Lucasfilm held a joint press conference on May 8th, 1984 and gave out Atari 5200 cartridges as a press pass. I don't think I've ever seen this documented anywhere so I thought I'd share it. I don't believe there's any board inside the cartridge, it's just an empty shell. That was less than two weeks before the 5200 was discontinued. Now we know why. They ran out of cart shells for some reason... ? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 That's a pretty cool press pass. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 That is cool. Wonder how many exist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Just now, sramirez2008 said: That is cool. Wonder how many exist. At this point, I doubt very many exist at all. ..Al 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 15 minutes ago, Albert said: At this point, I doubt very many exist at all. ..Al Yeah...pretty cool time capsule piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I doubt they would have killed the 5200 if this even had been on Friday May 4th instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) On 4/4/2022 at 12:37 PM, sramirez2008 said: That is cool. Wonder how many exist. Probably a few dozen online being auctioned somewhere, complete with fuzzy and non-distinct images of the label and lots of proclamations of "It's an original, pinky-swear!" Except it's not the pinky being waved in your face... ? A shame, since LucasFilm Games was one of, if not the best trendsetters of the day with gameplay originality and hardware-pushing. Fractal-generated landscapes in real time, antialiasing, etc... a shame the 8-bit stereo sound chip never got released for the 65 XEM... Edited April 8, 2022 by CommodoreDecker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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