Internal Cartridge Lists

[Toucan]

I was wondering if anyone here might happen to have any Internal Product Lists from companies such as Sega, Activision, Milton Bradley, Tigervision, etc? I ask this because I have seen numerous Atari 2600 and 5200 lists that have product numbers for unreleased games that I would love to find out where the info came from. Such an example is Sega's "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" which has a product number listed in the 2600 lists and also is mentioned in the 5200 Cartridge Lists. I figured someone might have had an internal listing from companies, such as Sega, where they pulled these product numbers from. Also, this is true with some Milton Bradley titles where the product numbers are known for 2600 Scramble and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The main reason for me asking this is because I thought it would be a great idea to try and round up any internal lists people have and see if there are references to game cartridges that were planned for other systems outside the 2600 and 5200. Since the 2600 and 5200 are two of the top collected systems, I figured that it is very likely some internal lists (if indeed this is where some of these product numbers came from) might have made their way into hands of mostly 2600 and 5200 collectors, and since they did not collect for say the Intellivision, Atari 8-Bit, C64, TI-99/4A, etc. they might have passed up the references to games made for other systems. I know I did this in the past once where I got an internal Parker Brothers 1984 release schedule that mentioned "Mr.Do!'s Wild Ride". I never gave the game a second thought until looking at some 2600 Rarity Lists and noticing "Mr.Do!'s Wild Ride" was not listed. I figure other people might have done this same thing in the past with any internal lists they might have found, which is why I am posting this message.

If anyone has any internal product listings from video game companies, it would be great to somehow extract all the data from them for all the systems on them. As I have the feeling since most collectors collect 2600 games, mostly 2600 info might have been extracted from these lists. Just thought I would mention this in case there were any lists floating around out there that might contain some interesting info that has not been added to cartridge lists on the net for other systems. Thanks in advance for any help!

 

Sincerely,

 

Bryan Roppolo