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Here are some:

 

VCS:

 

3D Asteroids (Atari)

48 Hours (Sega)

9 to 5 (Fox)

Adventures of Max (Atari)

Airplane! (Sega)

Attack of the baby Seals (Fox)

BC (Tigervision)

BC II (Tigervision)

Bail Out (Zimag)

Battle of the Sexes (Multivision)

Black Lamp (Atari)

Blue Angels (Apollo)

Bouncing Baby Monkeys (Telesys)

Bristles (First Star)

Bubbles (Parker Bros.)

Buck Rogers: Caverns of Zagreb (Sega)

Buck Rogers: Marathon of Zenda (Sega)

Buggers (Unitronics)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Fox)

Capone (Atari) Not to be confused with Kepone :P

Catch (US Games)

Cave-In (Spectravision)

Caverns of Mars (Atari)

Caverns of Oz (Zimag)

Changes (Tigervision)

Circus Charlie (Parker Bros.)

Clone Attack (Starpath)

Computer Revenge (M Network)

Computer Typing (Entex)

Cosmic Avenger (Coleco)

David's Delight (Activision) *Maybe KLOVE knows something?

The Day The Earth Stood Still (Fox) *I'd love to see this one!

Dazzler (Unitronix)

Debbie Does Dallas (AMS)

Deep Throat (GPP)

Depth Charge (Amiga)

Desert Race (Unitronics)

Dragonslayer (Sega)

Drive 'em Crazy (Spectravision)

Dune (Atari)

Dtuch Elm Defender (Fox) *Nice concept, probably never started

Eagle Mountain (Spectravision)

The Fall Guy (Fox)

Final Legacy (Atari)

Fire! (Palmer) *For all you freaky piromaniacs out there.

Flesh Gordon (Wizard)

The Flintstones (M Network)

Flip and Flop (Atari)

Flipper (Technovision)

The Fly (US Games)

Food Fight (Atari) *This game would have sucked as a VCS game.

Formula 1 (Technovision)

Friday the 13th (Sega)

Galaga (Atari) *This game would have sucked as a VCS game.

Galactic Tactic (Spectravision)

Gotcha (Multivision)

Harem (Multivision)

Heartbreak (Multivision)

The Heist (Micro Fun)

Hell Raider (Atari)

Hercules (Xonox)

High Seas (M Network)

Honker Bonker (Atari) WTF was this supposed to be :? :lol:

The Incredible Hulk (Parker Bros.)

Innerspace (Venturevision) * It would have been nice to see this one!

Intuition (Tigervision)

Jaws (Parker Bros.)

Jinks (Atari) *Probably would have sucked

Kungle Jim (Technovision)

Jungler (Konami) *Would have been very interesting

Kaleidosketch (Unitronics)

Kickman (CBS) *Would have been nice to see!

Knight Rider (Studio Games)

Kyphus (Apollo)

Ladybug (Coleco)

Leprechaun (Unitronics) * I hope this company at least made a test unit!

Locomotive (Technovision)

Lode Runner (Atari) Man this would have been interesting; Solaris Anyone?

Magnum PI (Studio Games)

Marathon Man (Sega)

Master Cylinder (Spectravision)

Metamorphosis (Data Age)

Microsurgeon (Imagic) *Very doable IMHO

Mission Impossible (Sega)

Mission Omega (CommaVid)

Mission X (M Network)

Moon Base (Technovision)

Motor Mouth (Technovision)

Mouse Highway (Technovision)

Mr. Bill's Neighborhood (Data Age)

Mr. T (Data Age)

Mystic Castle (M Network)

One Fish, Two Fish (Coleco)

Orange Ranger (M Network)

Power Lords (Probe 2000) *Man this one would have been sweet!

Prince (Atari)

The Rescue of Emmanuelle (Multivision)

Ripley's Believe it or Not (Roklan)

Road Wars (Atari)

Romper Room's Countdown to Fun (Spectravision)

Safecracker (Imagic)

Scavenger Hunt (Amiga)

Scraper Caper (Tigervision)

Sector Alpha (Spectarvision)

Shoot-Out (Technovision)

Sidewinder (Atari)

Silly Safari (Technovision)

Six Pack (Fox)

Sky Blazer (Broderbund) *This one probably exists somewhere

Sky Lancer (Tigervision)

Smokey The Bear (Data Age) *Hey now, I would have bought this one :D

Smurfette's Birthday (Coleco)

Snark (Atari)

Solar Defense (Venturevision)

Solo (Broderbund)

Star Breaker (Atari)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Sega)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Sega)

Stick 'em (Commavid)

Stomp It (CBS)

Stone Age (Technovision) *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :ponder:

Street Fight (Atari)

The Street Where You Live (Spectravision)

Super Crush (Tigervision)

Super Scrambel (Konami)

Super Stunt Cycle (Atari)

Surround II (Atari)

Swimming Meet (Ultravision)

Sword and Sorcerer (Coleco)

Swordquest Airworld (Atari) ...but someone has this one. :roll:

Tachyon Beam (Technovision)

Talk Dirty To Me (AMS)

Tank Blitz (MB)

Targ (CBS)

Tarzan (Coleco)

Thunderfox (Atari)

Tic Tacstris (Multivision)

Timescape (Spectravision)

Tough Enough (Fox)

Tower Toppler (Atari)

Turbo (Coleco) *I Bet Bushie has this one. :x :P

Underworld (Commavid)

Vertinko (Spectravision) *Cool Concept!

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Fox)

War of the Worlds (Fox) *I would have bought this one!

War Room (Probe 2000)

White Water Madness (Atari) *Where was this when the HSC hosted

Atarilympics? :D

Wild Western (Coleco)

Xenon (Atari)

Zookeeper (Atari) *Would have liked to see this on the 5200 or 7800!

 

Atari 5200:

 

Adventure (Atari)

Antic (Atari)

Arabian (Atari)

Astro-Grover (Atari)

Black Widow (Atar) *It's blashphemy that this one never made it!

Bump n Jump (Sega)

Circus Charlie (Parker Bros.) *Would have been nice!

Cloak and Dagger (Atari)

Crystal Castles (Atari)

Domino Man (CBS) *Would have been nice!

Food Fight (Atari)

Galaga (Atari)

Gravitar (Atari)

Highway (Atari)

Krull (Atari)

Locomotion (Atari)

Madden Football (CBS) *Would have been an interesting start to an

unrivaled franshise!!!

Satan's Hollow (CBS)

Sinistar (Atari)

Spy Hunter (Sega)

Toy Bizarre (Activision)

Wrath of Quintana Roo (Sunrise) *This game could have been legendary!

 

Atari 7800:

 

Airball (Atari)

Atari Team Wrestling (Atari)

Badlands Pete (Atari)

Black Lamp (Atari)

Bounce Back 9Atari)

Breakneck (Atari)

Brute (Atari)

Capone (Atari)

Chess (Atari)

Crystal Castles (Atari) *This version would have been nice to see!

Deflektor (Atari)

Electrocop (Atari)

Eliminator (Atari)

F-16 Falcon (Atari)

Fantasy Fight (Atari)

Hell Radier (Atari) *Would have been nice to see!

Hoop Wars (Atari)

Jr. Pacman (Atari)

Moon Patrol (Atari) *I'd love to see an updated version of this one!

Nam Ninja (Atari)

Nine Lives (Atari)

Pit Fighter (Atari) *Why???

Prince (Atari)

Rampage (Atari)

Rampart (Atari) *Would have been nice to see!!!

Rescue on Fractalus (Atari)

Road Riot 4WD (Atari)

Sky Fox (Atari)

Sprintmaster (Atari)

Star Breaker (Atari)

Steel Talons (Atari)

Thunder Fox (Atari *Interesting name.

Time Lord of Zantac (Atari) *I guess someone at Atari was into Dr. Who and downers. :lol:

Toki (Atari)

Track & Field (Atari) 8I wonder how this would have compared to the NES

version? :ponder:

UFO (Atari)

White Water Madness (Atari)

Xenon (Atari)

 

That's all from me. I might have made some typos, but I'm not up to editing right now. I know I missed some. Maybe someone can pick up with the Atari computers, Jaguar and Lynx titles. :D

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Super Mario Brothers       CX78??    NR       f13d|No    No

 

This is werid does anyone know anything about it.

 

AFAIK, this is an urban myth originating from a misprint in some video game magazine in the 80s. The game that they were intending to talk about was the original "Mario Bros" that was, in fact, released fro the 7800.

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VCS:

 

Surround II (Atari)

 

Atari 5200:

 

Adventure (Atari)

 

Huh, any idea what these two were supposed to be like, as opposed/compared to the originals? (Yeah, dragons that actually LOOK like dragons on the latter, I imagine :D)

 

Atari 5200:

 

Black Widow (Atar) *It's blashphemy that this one never made it!

Gravitar (Atari)

Satan's Hollow (CBS)

Sinistar (Atari)

 

Damn, woulda loooooved to see these four :)

 

 

VCS:

 

Bouncing Baby Monkeys (Telesys)

Clone Attack (Starpath)

Flip and Flop (Atari)

One Fish, Two Fish (Coleco)

Prince (Atari)

Snark (Atari)

Star Breaker (Atari)

 

Atari 7800

 

Nine Lives (Atari)

 

Any idea about the above? I'm particularly interested in the Telesys and Clone Attack Starpath games, since I was a big fan of both companies.

 

 

VCS:

 

Black Lamp (Atari)

 

And what the hell was Black Lamp supposed to be, especially?!

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I read on an Atari 2600 website about some company who had a catalog and planned to make a bunch of game show games for the VCS, such as: The Price is Right, Jeapordy, Wheel of Fortune and so on. If you ask me, all of those are totally undo-able. If anyone else has more info about these, please say so. :?

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You know, I wonder how doable a game-show game would have been . . . Wheel, at least, I can see not being entirely impossible, although it'd look like shit, and you'd know all the puzzles by heart after like 6 games . . .

 

I believe the consensus on that is that no VCS code was ever laid down and they developed the same titles for the NES and various computers instead.

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VCS:

 

Black Lamp (Atari)

 

And what the hell was Black Lamp supposed to be, especially?!

 

Black Lamp was a side-scrolling adventure game that was released in Europe by Atari for the XE line in the late '80s. There was also a game of the same name released by Rainbird for the ST around the same time; I'm not sure if this was the same title. Perhaps the VCS version of BL would have followed the general plotline of these two games.

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Here are some:

 

VCS:

 

3D Asteroids (Atari)

 

3D how? Just via vague shading on the asteroids or something closer to Blaster for the 5200.

 

 

48 Hours (Sega)

9 to 5 (Fox)

Adventures of Max (Atari)

Airplane! (Sega)

 

How in the fuck, how in the fuck, meh, how in the fuck. . .

 

Attack of the baby Seals (Fox)

 

Aaah, imagine the hack possibilities. . . :)

 

 

BC (Tigervision)

BC II (Tigervision)

 

They would've ate ass compared to the CV versions . . .

 

Blue Angels (Apollo)

 

Apollo + planes = scary.

 

 

 

Bouncing Baby Monkeys (Telesys)

 

Possibly a WIP name for Coconuts? And hasn't it been found anyway?

 

Buck Rogers: Caverns of Zagreb (Sega)

Buck Rogers: Marathon of Zenda (Sega)

 

Thank God they're missing . .. One of those turds was enough.

 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Fox)

 

Oh, great, a game where you have to die in the end . . .

 

Circus Charlie (Parker Bros.)

 

Wouldn't bet against this one existing. . . Konami couldn't release the NES/SMS versions in North America because PB held the rights, and it's doubtful that vaporware from a company whose VG division went splat would've been protected.

 

Computer Revenge (M Network)

 

One of the Tron games, before they secured the license, maybe? Remember, Space Attack was almost Battlestar Galactica.

 

 

 

Debbie Does Dallas (AMS)

Deep Throat (GPP)

 

Must be found . . . Need more blocky porn . . . :)

 

 

Dune (Atari)

 

Exists, and a completion along the lines of Saboteur would be way cool.

 

Flesh Gordon (Wizard)

 

See "Deep Throat" and "Debbie Does Dallas"

 

Flipper (Technovision)

 

Just what the VCS needs, another dolphin game . .

 

Galaga (Atari) *This game would have sucked as a VCS game.

 

No, it wouldn't have . . . I'd say it's doable, Galaxian is great, and Spider Fighter's kinda Galagesque and also great.

 

The Heist (Micro Fun)

 

Maybe some of the bells and whistles of the CV title were left out and it became Criminal Pursuit?

 

Jinks (Atari) *Probably would have sucked

 

Why? Would have made far more sense being on a system with an actual paddle than it did on the 7800 . . .

 

Ladybug (Coleco)

 

Doesn't Santulli own it?

 

 

Microsurgeon (Imagic) *Very doable IMHO

 

Hopefully Manuel does it . . .

 

 

Power Lords (Probe 2000)
*Man this one would have been sweet!

 

Supposedly exists, right? Owned by the programmer?

 

 

 

Safecracker (Imagic)

 

Would be very cool . . .

 

Six Pack (Fox)

 

Hey, the system doesn't have a stock car game.

 

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Sega)

 

That's a worse idea than Airplane.

 

Stone Age (Technovision) *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :ponder:

 

Exists in a highly unfinished version, right? Doesn't CPU own it?

 

 

Talk Dirty To Me (AMS)

 

WIP name for ET. :)

 

Targ (CBS)

 

Finished by Telegames, it was around for years and nobody knew it.

 

Tower Toppler (Atari)

 

How?

 

Wild Western (Coleco)

 

Would have blown w/o a dual-joystick holder.

 

Zookeeper (Atari) *Would have liked to see this on the 5200 or 7800!

 

Doable . . .

 

Atari 5200:

 

Arabian (Atari)

 

Another NES title the US was screwed out of because it was licensed to the Atari systems . . . Hope it exists, though.

 

 

Circus Charlie (Parker Bros.) *Would have been nice!

 

See above, also see 2600 version.

 

Crystal Castles (Atari)

Food Fight (Atari)

Galaga (Atari)

Gravitar (Atari)

 

I want them all!

 

Madden Football (CBS) *Would have been an interesting start to an  

   unrivaled franshise!!!

 

Well, the 2600 version had to exist in some form for Madden to see it and kill it, this one might as well.

 

Satan's Hollow (CBS)

Sinistar (Atari)

Spy Hunter (Sega)

 

Oooh, I want these, too!

 

Atari 7800:

 

Atari Team Wrestling (Atari)

 

Had to be better than Mat Mania. . .

 

 

Electrocop (Atari)

 

Will eventually be found.

 

 

Hoop Wars (Atari)

 

Has to be a BasketBrawl WIP.

 

Pit Fighter (Atari) *Why???

 

Sadly, a very unfinished version exists.

 

Road Riot 4WD (Atari)

 

**drool**

 

 

Sky Fox (Atari)

 

See Electrocop

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Bouncing Baby Monkeys (Telesys)

 

Possibly a WIP name for Coconuts? And hasn't it been found anyway?  

 

Nope. An entirely different game. Has not been found yet.

 

 

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Circus Charlie (Parker Bros.)

 

 

Wouldn't bet against this one existing. . . Konami couldn't release the NES/SMS versions in North America because PB held the rights, and it's doubtful that vaporware from a company whose VG division went splat would've been protected.  

 

I'm quite sure this one exists somewhere.

 

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Computer Revenge (M Network)

 

One of the Tron games, before they secured the license, maybe?  

 

I believe that is the case.

 

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Dune (Atari)

 

Exists, and a completion along the lines of Saboteur would be way cool.  

 

Not enough exists to finish. Maybe a more complete version will be found someday.

 

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Flesh Gordon (Wizard)

 

 

See "Deep Throat" and "Debbie Does Dallas"  

 

Was actually started. I talked to the programmer. Unfortunately it didn't get far before it was canceled. There is no prototype :(

 

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Galaga (Atari) *This game would have sucked as a VCS game.

 

 

No, it wouldn't have . . . I'd say it's doable, Galaxian is great, and Spider Fighter's kinda Galagesque and also great.  

 

There is some mention of Galaga on some Atari internal documentation. Unfortunately the programmer they have listed says he didn't do it! This one may have been started, but most likely got put on hold and never picked up.

 

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Ladybug (Coleco)

 

Doesn't Santulli own it?  

 

Nope that was a hoax. However I believe the real one is out there somewhere. A case for this game has been found (empty since it was for promotional purposes).

 

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Power Lords (Probe 2000)

*Man this one would have been sweet!  

 

Supposedly exists, right? Owned by the programmer?  

 

I think you're thinking of the Colecovision version. I don't recall hearing anything about the 2600 version being found.

 

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Stone Age (Technovision) *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  

 

 

Exists in a highly unfinished version, right? Doesn't CPU own it?  

 

I haven't heard anything about that.

 

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Targ (CBS)

 

Finished by Telegames, it was around for years and nobody knew it.  

 

Actually it was well known that Universal Chaos was Targ. I had it on my site for years.

 

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Wild Western (Coleco)

 

Would have blown w/o a dual-joystick holder.  

 

May exist. Who knows?

 

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Zookeeper (Atari) *Would have liked to see this on the 5200 or 7800!

 

Doable . . .  

 

Not only doable, but DONE! I've talked to the sound programmer for the game and he says it was done. I haven't been able to track down the programmer, but I'm hoping a copy exists somewhere.

 

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Atari 5200: Arabian (Atari)

 

Another NES title the US was screwed out of because it was licensed to the Atari systems . . . Hope it exists, though.  

 

I would love to see this prototype surface. Could exist, who knows?

 

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Circus Charlie (Parker Bros.) *Would have been nice!

 

See above, also see 2600 version.  

 

I would say there's a better chance of the 8-bit version existing than the 2600 version. Most likely the 5200 version was never started since it would have been ported from the unreleased 8-bit version.

 

 

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Crystal Castles (Atari)

 

Doesn't exist. The 5200 version would have been ported from the 8-bit version which was never 100% finished. The programmer of the 8-bit version left Atari before it was done.

 

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Madden Football (CBS) *Would have been an interesting start to an unrivaled franshise!!!

 

Well, the 2600 version had to exist in some form for Madden to see it and kill it, this one might as well.  

 

Never heard that Madden killed the 2600 version. Where did you read that?

 

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Sinistar (Atari)  

 

Oooh, I want these, too!  

 

Sinistar exists somewhere. The 8-bit version (which would have been ported to the 5200) was done or nearly so. Been trying to track down the programmer for some time now. Another programmer I talked to said the game looked awesome!

 

Atari Team Wrestling (Atari)  

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Had to be better than Mat Mania. . .  

 

Probably. Makes sense.

 

Electrocop (Atari)

 

Will eventually be found.  

 

We all hope so.

 

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Road Riot 4WD (Atari)

 

**drool**  

 

May exist. Documentation says that it was done or nearly so. I'm trying to track it down.

 

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Sky Fox (Atari)

 

 

A non-playable demo was found on a developer machine. Rom has not been released. Who knows how much further it got?

 

 

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Stone Age (Technovision) *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  

 

 

Exists in a highly unfinished version, right? Doesn't CPU own it?  

 

I haven't heard anything about that.

 

I think it's referenced in the thread about the NTSC Nuts repros, but it was definitely in the 2600 forum . . . Apparently has a sub-NTSC level of scanlines . . .

 

 

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Zookeeper (Atari) *Would have liked to see this on the 5200 or 7800!

 

Doable . . .  

 

Not only doable, but DONE! I've talked to the sound programmer for the game and he says it was done. I haven't been able to track down the programmer, but I'm hoping a copy exists somewhere.

 

Now, that would be sweet indeed.

 

 

 

 

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Madden Football (CBS) *Would have been an interesting start to an unrivaled franshise!!!

 

Well, the 2600 version had to exist in some form for Madden to see it and kill it, this one might as well.  

 

Never heard that Madden killed the 2600 version. Where did you read that?

 

Believe it was on the GSN History of Video Games Special . . . He didn't want his name on the game because it didn't have a full 11 players on each side . . . For that to have been the case, some sort of proto w/o 11 players on each side would have had to exist . . . Personally, I suspect we'll see it next summer sometime. :ponder:

 

 

 

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Road Riot 4WD (Atari)

 

**drool**  

 

May exist. Documentation says that it was done or nearly so. I'm trying to track it down.

 

That would be another awesome find . . .

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Computer Revenge from M Network was a port of an Intellivision game. The problem was, the Intellivision game didn't get made. There were two different Intellivision programmers working on games that had a similar look, a moving 3D grid. The marketing guys wanted the two programmers to combine the games, even though they weren't related at all except for a nice graphic effect. If I remember right from what was said on the Blue Sky Ranger's web site, one programmer left the company, and no work ever got started to combine what little code was available. The marketing department wanted ports for other systems at the same time, so it was announced for the 2600, but no code was ever started. In fact, they didn't really have much of an idea what the game would even be about, other than have a nice Battlezone kind of look.

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Stone Age (Technovision) *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  

 

 

Exists in a highly unfinished version, right? Doesn't CPU own it?  

 

I haven't heard anything about that.

 

I think it's referenced in the thread about the NTSC Nuts repros, but it was definitely in the 2600 forum . . . Apparently has a sub-NTSC level of scanlines . . .

 

Nope, he owns a Stone Age by CCE (a brazilian company who mostly released pirate games). At this moment it is however unclear of which game Stone Age is a pirate of :) It looks and plays like Pengo but it is a completely different code base. So it might be a unique game, or a pirate of an undiscovered game...

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Stone Age (Technovision) *Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  

 

 

Exists in a highly unfinished version, right? Doesn't CPU own it?  

 

I haven't heard anything about that.

 

I think it's referenced in the thread about the NTSC Nuts repros, but it was definitely in the 2600 forum . . . Apparently has a sub-NTSC level of scanlines . . .

 

Nope, he owns a Stone Age by CCE (a brazilian company who mostly released pirate games). At this moment it is however unclear of which game Stone Age is a pirate of :) It looks and plays like Pengo but it is a completely different code base. So it might be a unique game, or a pirate of an undiscovered game...

 

Yep, indeed, I do. It kind of looks like Pengo but not really. TJ was unable to find a cross-reference to any other code base.

 

Very hard to get cart, much like Immies & Aggies from CCE.

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