Did Tramiel manufacture Vaders?

[Joey Kay]

The latest ET thread has me thinking...

 

Atari manufactured more ET games than they had sold 2600s on the belief that the game would move the system. Well, we know the rest of that story.

 

Anyhow, if Atari believed 2600s were going to move off of shelves, they would have manufactured the consoles.

 

Now, the 2600jr appeared in 1986, and I don't recall the 2600 ever disappearing off of store shelves between the Tramiel take-over and the Jr. debut.

 

In fact, there's 1985 CES pics where vaders were on display at Atari's booth, so it's not like Tramiel's Atari totally abandoned the line... there were still a few bucks to be made and Tramiel needed capital flowing into the company. But, I've never seen a vader in Atari Corp. (not Inc.) packaging.

 

So, did Tramiel manufacture any Vader machines, or was all that stock leftovers from the Warner days of 1983?

 

Cheers!

 

Joey

[Joey Kay]

And I should add to this...

 

Or, was the late debut of the Jr. simply a result of Tramiel running out of stock of Vaders, and reverting to the cheaper, smaller design?

 

Cheers!

 

Joey

[NovaXpress]

Now, the 2600jr appeared in 1986, and I don't recall the 2600 ever disappearing off of store shelves between the Tramiel take-over and the Jr. debut.

I recall it disappearing from store shelves. If they were still showing off Vaders in 1985, I don't know where they would have been selling them other than through mail order.

[Stingray]

I remember seeing Vaders on the shelves at Toys R Us up ntil the Juniors were introduced.

 

-S

[sku_u]

By the time the jr's were coming out, I was only seeing VCS stuff in discount stores. NES was already out and in full swing at that point, so even if the vaders were around, they were probably greatly reduced in price.