garetjax Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 I have a Tarzan Cartridge that says it i s for the 2600 but it is actually in a Coleco Cartridge . i cant find any info on this any help would be appriciated. thanks 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Atarimania says that a dump of it is missing 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 My first thought is that this was a mock-up for marketing purposes, but it would be easier to just use an empty shell instead. A limited amount of information, including the manual, is available, but the game itself has never been found: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-tarzan_20495.html What game is this -- the Coleco version of Tarzan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) Atariprotos.com does have some information about this, too: http://www.atariprotos.com/rumormill/2600/2600rumor.htm#T Edited February 10, 2023 by Bomberman94 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennybrooks Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 First CatTrax and now Tarzan this week? Where did you manage this amazing find? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 2 hours ago, garetjax said: I have a Tarzan Cartridge that says it i s for the 2600 but it is actually in a Coleco Cartridge . i cant find any info on this any help would be appriciated. thanks Hey there…be sure to visually verify and check the edge connector off the board on the inside. (verify it is indeed a ColecoVision board inside and not an Atari 2600 board) Failing that, yes, it is most likely just the ColecoVision version, but that sticker needs a really nice scan for the database. (end label as well) Oh, and if it’s for sale, I’m VERY interested. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garetjax Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) I tried this and i get a screen that says Coleco Presents from out of the jungle but nothing after that . It probably needs to be taken apart and given a good cleaning but i think i need to find someone more qualified expert Edited February 10, 2023 by garetjax 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garetjax Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) Kennybrooks i don't remember were i found this i was going trough stuff i bought years ago . But i live about 17 miles form the old Coleco factory in Amsterdam ny . Alot of my friends worked there and i worked for a factory that made the styrofoam packing Edited February 10, 2023 by garetjax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 22 minutes ago, garetjax said: I tried this and i get a screen that says Coleco Presents from out of the jungle but nothing after that . It probably needs to be taken apart and given a good cleaning but i think i need to find someone more qualified expert Can you please post a picture of this? Would be fabulous 😊 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Well the end label (fold over to the edge) is key here because the text will be oriented “upside down” relative to a standard ColecoVision label since Coleco 2600 carts are inserted in that orientation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 51 minutes ago, garetjax said: I tried this and i get a screen that says Coleco Presents from out of the jungle but nothing after that . It probably needs to be taken apart and given a good cleaning but i think i need to find someone more qualified expert Did you test it in a 2600 or a Colecovision? Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 April 1st today? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 3 minutes ago, Mitch said: Did you test it in a 2600 or a Colecovision? Mitch I would guess CV. The shell looks like a CV shell and as such wouldn't fit in a 2600 unless he took the PCB out of the shell. And his "screen" description sounds like a CV title screen because none of their 2600 ports really had Title screens. But I guess we shall see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 For the record, out of all 9 of the later released (and second label variation) Coleco Atari 2600 labels, only 1 of them (Front Line) has the “video game cartridge for use with ATARI 2600 VCS” text in white, like this Tarzan cartridge. The other 8 have that text in yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garetjax Posted February 11, 2023 Author Share Posted February 11, 2023 Here is more pictures and i did try it on the coleovision 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 Thanks so much. The orientation on the end of the label confirms it as an Atari 2600 label. Clearly a factory mismatch, but what makes it so crazy is, of course, the fact that 2600 Tarzan never made it into production. And we found the manual for 2600 Tarzan awhile back as well, so this just adds even more evidence that 2600 Tarzan was most likely a finished game. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 2 hours ago, Supergun said: Thanks so much. The orientation on the end of the label confirms it as an Atari 2600 label. Clearly a factory mismatch, but what makes it so crazy is, of course, the fact that 2600 Tarzan never made it into production. And we found the manual for 2600 Tarzan awhile back as well, so this just adds even more evidence that 2600 Tarzan was most likely a finished game. This is really cool. Maybe some will finally stumble across the cart and we will finally get a dump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Incredible find. Congratulations. Let's hope the game itself will surface one day as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenfuzz Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 1 hour ago, Rom Hunter said: Incredible find. Congratulations. Let's hope the game itself will surface one day as well. Sorry…if this isn’t the game, then what it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+groundtrooper Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 24 minutes ago, Greenfuzz said: Sorry…if this isn’t the game, then what it is? It's just an Atari 2600 prototype label that somehow got attached to a ColecoVision cartridge shell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 A similar example would be if a standard ColecoVision cartridge came with this label attached: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 10 hours ago, Rom Hunter said: Let's hope the game itself will surface one day as well. Actually, it already may have but no one seems to have noticed. I responded to that post asking for more info but received no response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergun Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Psionic said: Actually, it already may have but no one seems to have noticed. I responded to that post asking for more info but received no response. Wait…what… damn, somebody really dropped the ball around here. I mean, how the hell did this go unnoticed and worse, completely undocumented? do you at least remember how many pics were provided and what they showed? Edited February 13, 2023 by Supergun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Psionic Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Supergun said: do you at least remember how many pics were provided and what they showed? No...I never saw the actual listing. Hence why I asked if it was legit. Maybe @mumbai knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 8 hours ago, Psionic said: Actually, it already may have but no one seems to have noticed. I responded to that post asking for more info but received no response. Shit. That's a shame. I never noticed this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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