atarimind Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 I read that there are four unique Sears games. One is Steeplechase, what are the other three? Are they any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Submarine Commander, Stellar Track, and Steeplechase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Basic Atari trivia #567: Super Breakout was a Sears exclusive for fall 1981 before being released as an Atari-branded cart in January 1982. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Are they any good? Steeplechase is fun for up to four players. Alone it is a yawn. Stellar Trak is like Star Trek on mainframes back in the 60s & early 70s. "The Klingons are firing on you." Submarine Commander is interesting for five minutes. Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Are they any good? Steeplechase is fun for up to four players. Alone it is a yawn. Stellar Trak is like Star Trek on mainframes back in the 60s & early 70s. "The Klingons are firing on you." Submarine Commander is interesting for five minutes. What Rob said. They're a lot more interesting to own than they are to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Steeplechase is one of the few 4-player simultaneous games. It's a good party game, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 I couldn't be interested in playing games like Stellar Track when I typed them into my computer, and I was even more bored with Stellar Track. I'm glad I only paid a dollar for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilbay Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Why would anyone want to play these games They're not even fun to collect. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarimind Posted August 16, 2004 Author Share Posted August 16, 2004 so, are there three or four unique Sears games? Is there any missing in the list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Lodoen Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Stellar Track is a neat piece of work. Using the interlaced-text idea from BASIC Programming for something usable. If I'd known about it, I would have liked it... I think. A screenshot in the Sears catalog didn't help much. But then I got the //e and eventually AppleTrek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienblue Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 No, the four "unique" sears games were Stellar, steeple, Submarine and the fourth was Super Breakout for a year....I wonder if Atari promised Sears that would always be an exclusive and then reconsidred? anyway, SB is one of my faves.. I thought Sub commander was decent. Thats the hardest to find.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Around 1982 Sears was having its own problems. Their policy of rebranding everything they sold was starting to backfire on them. Shoddy goods in one area cast a bad reflection on all other Sears products. Their agreements with Atari probably weren't a big concern at the time. It's probable that Sears only had the exclusivity rights for one Xmas season, the time when a new game sells the most. Super Breakout was certainly the only Sears title popular enough to release in other stores under the Atari label. Notice that it was released right after Xmas. Sears probably demanded a hot title for a change. All of the Sears exclusives were Xmas releases (80-82) I believe. The first non-Sears brand item sold at Sears were Activision carts in the summer of 82. Atari sold games under their own label at Sears starting in September 82. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Did Atari program these games(well, obviously SB) or did Sears contarct out to somebody else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Atari programmed the games. Sears had a contract for exclusive titles, so Atari gave them some of their weaker games. Remember that at the time Sears dominated retail the way that WalMart does today. Atari would do anything to get that shelf space. People must have been really confused when the Intellivision appeared as the Sears Super Video Arcade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 People must have been really confused when the Intellivision appeared as the Sears Super Video Arcade. Wasn't there a Tandy branded version of the Intellivison too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 That would be the Tandyvision. Intellivision and Clones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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