Stingray Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Picked up a Gangster Alley cart last night. Looks like the one pictured here: http://www.atariage.com/cart_page.html?Sof...wareLabelID=204 Except it says Spectravideo across the top instead of Spectravision. Can anyone shed any light on this variation for me? -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Most Spectravision games were released in Canada and Europe as Spectravideo carts. They are slightly less common than their Spectravision counterparts. There were also a few that were only released as Spectravideo carts like Bumper Bash and Mangia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The MilkMan Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Good find! I love this game. I never heard about it before I got into collecting. For me, Spectravision titles have been really hard to find in the wild. In fact Gangster Alley is the only Spectravision title I have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Thanks for the info on that. I probably wouldn't even have noticed, but I bought another Specratvision cart at the same time that was labled as Spectravision. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Helmet Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 The Spectravision carts are some of my favorites. I don't really know why except maybe it's the shape of the cart. Quite unique. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 The Spectravision carts are some of my favorites. I don't really know why except maybe it's the shape of the cart. Quite unique. Most of their titles are a lot of fun to play as well. Bumper Bash, for example, has the best ball physics of the 3 pinball sims for the Atari and uses the buttons on the paddle controllers to operate the flippers and Gas Hog is Moon Patrol x10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 You gotta love Cross Force and Challenge of Nexar (which I recall had been announced by 20th Century Fox, indicating that the game was programmed outside of corporate control and sold to the highest bidder). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keilbaca Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 The Spectravision carts are some of my favorites. I don't really know why except maybe it's the shape of the cart. Quite unique. Most of their titles are a lot of fun to play as well. Bumper Bash, for example, has the best ball physics of the 3 pinball sims for the Atari and uses the buttons on the paddle controllers to operate the flippers and Gas Hog is Moon Patrol x10. I second that with Gas Hog, I was lucky enough to recieve it as a gift on the Secret Santa, and I have been playing it a lot. Definitely a fun game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Thanks for the info on that. I probably wouldn't even have noticed, but I bought another Specratvision cart at the same time that was labled as Spectravision. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Don't know how that double post happend, sorry about that. -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARImarcus Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Very nice game! I own 4 Spectravideo games, in germany theire really hard to find. You can se them here: http://mitglied.lycos.de/atarimuseum/spectravideo.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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