joshua Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 i've heard the 7800 was released in limited amounts in '84, were any of the games released to the public then as well? do they all have the colored labels? also roughly how scarce are the '84 7800 systems and are the older boxes with rescue on fractalus pictured on the front the earlier '84 systems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 I have 2 Boxed Joust's that are color labels and a Ms Pac Man color cartridge. Centipede and one other game were also prepared with color labels. Weird thing is the 84' Pole Position II's that came out with the 7800 were B&W labels. Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyranthraxus Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Even weirder is that Atari released PP2 as a standalone game. I'd love to know the sales figures of that one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockman_x_2002 Posted February 21, 2004 Share Posted February 21, 2004 Sounds like some more of that "E.T." logic leaking over into later years. Sure the games outnumber the systems 2 to 1. But who cares? They'll sell anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshua Posted February 22, 2004 Author Share Posted February 22, 2004 I have 2 Boxed Joust's that are color labels and a Ms Pac Man color cartridge. Centipede and one other game were also prepared with color labels. Weird thing is the 84' Pole Position II's that came out with the 7800 were B&W labels. Curt did you find these in the public market? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzLee Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Curt, Were did the color label PP2 appear then? I have one of these. Very bizzare. I always assumed it be an original '84 release. But you stated otherwise. -Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 One of the Jousts was on ebay about a half year ago. I remember almost bidding on that. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 One of the Jousts was on ebay about a half year ago. I remember almost bidding on that. Tempest Yeah, Curt sniped me on that one. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchman2000 Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Guys- Is there a way that we can see the original 1984 versions of these labels? They used to be on Atari7800.com but I can't find them there now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 Guys- Is there a way that we can see the original 1984 versions of these labels? They used to be on Atari7800.com but I can't find them there now. You can see the Ms Pac-man one here. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tomlin Posted February 23, 2004 Share Posted February 23, 2004 All of the PPII carts that I've ever found at thrifts and fleas have been the B&W versions. PPII color label in a box was in many of the FBE set boxes, but I recall a few sets had a loose B&W PPII with instructions and no box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshua Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 Curt, Were did the color label PP2 appear then? I have one of these. Very bizzare. I always assumed it be an original '84 release. But you stated otherwise. -Lee you have a color version of the b&w label, or the color picture label? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshua Posted February 23, 2004 Author Share Posted February 23, 2004 I have 2 Boxed Joust's that are color labels Curt care to post a pic of one of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Kay Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 I'm sure I've mentioned this before... but... What surprises me the most about the 1984 labels are that you can see the indent where the cartridge plastic is cut out to make the cartridge "anchors". Here I always thought that was a Tramiel cost reduction method, but it appears that the idea came from Warner Atari. Score one for James Morgan for cost-cutting... Cheers! Joey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzLee Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Lee Krueger wrote: Curt, Were did the color label PP2 appear then? I have one of these. Very bizzare. I always assumed it be an original '84 release. But you stated otherwise. -Lee you have a color version of the b&w label, or the color picture label? Color picture label version. -Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Posted March 2, 2004 Share Posted March 2, 2004 I own several of each of these. I have collected them over the past few years from different sources. Here are some pictures: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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