AtariSpot // rob

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2600/5200 aficionado. Video game preservation enthusiast. Collector of unusual stuff. Philly native living in MD. He/him. atarispot @ gmail

A 2600 cartridge that has a green label that reads: VIDEO GAMES AUDIO BAZAR Su Garantia GALERIA DE LONDON LOC.18 PARAGUAY 1325 TEL.: 90 04 18 Montevideo Gracias Por confiar en nosotros A logo depicts a stick-figure type family holding hands, superimposed on a TV screen.
Saquon Barkley rides atop a bus and holds out the Lombardi Trophy for the crowd
An Atari 2600 game, Halloween, featuring a red, black, and white label. The game title is red on a black field, and is above the Wizard Video Games artwork in B&W on a red field. At bottom is the publisher name and product number “No. 007” in black.
Eagles meme with three linear segments: “Oh boy am I excited to watch my team play” “I’m going to kill myself” “Nice we won”
A photo of a blotchy tortoiseshell/calico cat peering over and down from a window ledge.
An Atari 2600 cartridge with a fairly plain label. There are scattered pink triangles on a plain white background. The word 立達 (Leader?) is printed vertically in a purplish color. The name of the game has been neatly written onto the bottom of the label in blue pen. Glue spotting/staining mars the label.
Bart attends the “E4” show and sees a display that reads “ProtoVision”, stylized to look like the Activision logo.
Atari 2600 box for Yars’ Revenge in the silver-label style box. Residue from a price sticker is the only major blemish. A red triangular sticker is affixed to the lower right box corner, which reads “NEW INSIDE” “AMAZING GRAPHICS”.
This artwork features a woman wearing brightly primary-colored clothing. She is on a mostly white background with some diagonal rainbow stripes. Overlaid on top of her are a man who seems to be performing a jump on a motorcycle, a child flying a kite, and two people in exercise outfits. The name "Topper" appears three times in the art on people's tops.
An Atari 2600 cartridge with the standard Defender artwork. The Turkish and English names of the game are above and below the game art, respectively. Standard copyright text is at the bottom and names Atari’s distributor in Türkiye: ME-TA.
Screenshot of the Unauthorizon database website when it was active. Photos of new arrivals to the database are shown on a grid with names and identifying tags when known.
A scan of two Paper Moon Graphics Christmas cards. The first features a smiling Santa leaning out the driver's window of a red fire truck (maybe?) emblazoned with "Xmas Xpress" and a wreath graphic on the door. The second card features the Santa artwork used on the cartridge/box of an unauthorized cartridge that is most commonly found in Australia and some otherr SE Asian / Oceania areas. It shows a surprised Santa with a robot toy walking out of his sack, firing lasers at starships flying around the scene. Other electronic/video games are shown in the sack he's holding.
Snippet of a 9/27/1987 Grand Junction Daily Sentinel newspaper that includes the address of Video World / Parker TV (6276 E. Pine)
Two Atari 2600 cartridges. The screws underneath the main labels are exposed, and the 3D Tic Tac Toe label has over top of it an extra neon green label with the handwritten word “KLUGE” on it. The Air-Sea Battle cart has a torn label corner, suggesting that maybe another label was once affixed to it.
Blue colored label on a black Atari 2600 cartridge cartridge. It’s very plain, with crudely drawn/copied game artwork for Galaxian, Pac-Man, Popeye, Decathlon (maybe?), and a green alien/monster looking thing that some will say is meant to be E.T. but… come on. Stylized red logo for Artkaris is in the center. Plain black text at bottom reads “Industrial Argentina”.
Xzibit laughing, from the Xzibit laughing “yo dawg” meme
Gif of Bart Simpson laughing at the Flintstone Phone
A photo of my computer screen at work that says in all-caps Impact font: “This is where the ATARI SAUCE ! would be if, after their first shipment went lost in transit, they had kept their promise to deliver a replacement order to arrive in time for Atari Party (you know, literally the only reason I ordered the sauces to begin with…) Unfortunately, you’ll just have to imagine taste-testing them 🙁”
A handset/wired telephone with a plastic mold styled to look like Pac-Man (open his mouth to reveal the earpiece, mouthpiece, and dial pad. It sits in front of an original home Pong machine
The Lowrey cartridge photographed next to a standard Atari 2600 cartridge (Centipede). Their dimensions are essentially identical.
A Lowrey Genius cartridge entitled “Musical Games”. It is exactly the same size and shape as a standard Atari 2600 cartridge.
Two off-white cartridges with label art for the movies Independence Day and Rob Roy. The cartridges are very slightly larger than Atari 2600 cartridges. Yes, this is why I bought them.
Photo of the 1962 (?) electromechanical Punching Bag arcade game/machine, by SEGA. In the foreground is a black leather punching bag. In the background is a 5¢ coin slot and a circular meter to display a measure of punch strength.
A hot pink colored Atari 2600 cartridge with art featuring a Game Action logo breaking through a TV screen. A printed “Atlantis” label is irritatingly slapped right onto the label. It comes with a yellow colored mini-box featuring art of a different Game Action logo on a TV screen. Portuguese text on the bottom of the box tells the user to insert/remove the cartridge after turning off the console.
Screenshot of Tic-Tac-Toe on the Fairchild Channel F, showing a player (X) loss to the computer (O), including the on-screen caption “YOU LOSE TURKEY”.
A framed multi-colored crosshatch plotter print of Atari’s company logo on a white wall.
A foil label for the Atari 2600 game “Journey Escape” that suffers from what looks like worm-like corrosion
A bottle of “Quebec Maple” Coca-Cola photographed on a table
Roller Typing, a CD ROM for Windows and Macintosh, by EdVenture Software. The artwork features sick 3D inline skaters doing tricks on a keyboard in front of a mountain range. The tagline is “If you thought learning how to type was boring, then you haven’t tried Roller Typing.”
The “International Edition” version of Tennis sitting on top of a standard size Space Shuttle box. Tennis’ box is about 1/4 inch narrower and 3/4 inch shorter than a standard box. Viewed top-down.
International Edition boxes for Tennis and Boxing for the Atari 2600, by Activision. Both have stickers on the bottom that state: “Activision cartridges are not manufactured by Atari Inc. activision warrants that they are compatible with the Atari system.”
Combat Superman Space Invaders Star Raiders Asteroids Pac-Man Solaris Demon Attack Donkey Kong Space Shuttle Custer’s Revenge Wabbit Star Wars: The Arcade Game Kaboom Phaser Patrol Enduro Star Wars: TESB Pitfall II Space Robot
Tops of two Pac-Man Telephone boxes, both are identical. Each box states “IT’S FUN TO USE!”
A photo of two large Atari stickers photographed on a wood table. One sticker has cartoon art in the style of the old product catalogs, and has the slogan I VIDEOGIOCHI PROGRAMΜΑΤΙ (Programmed Video Games). The other sticker has art depicting an astronaut, E.T., a Yar from Yars’ Revenge, the ship from Space Invaders, an open-wheel racing car, demons from Demons to Diamonds, a golfer, and a baseball player. It has large Japanese text at the top stating 世界のコンピュータゲームアタリ上陸 (The Landing/Arrival of Atari World Computer Games).
The front of two Pac-Man Telephone boxes that have been stacked on top of each other. The top one has a ValuTel logo, while the bottom one has a Bell Telephone logo.
The “under” side of four 2600 cartridges, where stickers showing the orthodontist’s name have been placed on the games’ dust covers
Four Atari 2600 cartridges all with additional stickers featuring info (name, phone numbers) for an orthodontics practice. Holes are drilled through the stickers and cartridges
An Atari 2600 cartridge with blue and yellow spaceship artwork and stylized Ultra Vision text. Portuguese on the label tells you to turn off your console before inserting or removing the cartridge.
Four Atari 2600 cartridges photographed on a table in front of a window so that the sun is shining directly through one of the holes drilled through them.
A sealed Atari 2800 box for Asteroids. (It did not contain a silver foil label cartridge. )
A silver foil Asteroids cartridge for the Atari 2600
A 1984 Phillies/Tastykake oversize card featuring a glistening and unkempt Dave Wehrmeister.
Wikipedia excerpt discussing chads during the 2000 US Presidential Election controversy
Picture of a sealed board game called “The Prez”. The lid photo depicts game pieces on an electoral map of the USA surrounded by a Monopoly-style board comprised of US states. Text on the box lid includes “Inspired by a Hanging Chad…” and “Learn the significance of the Electoral College in American Politics!” Text on the side of the lid reads “The Wild & Wacky Run for the White House!”
Back of the flyer with a little bit of marketing copy, part numbers for ordering, and an unsettling image showing the toothed Pac-Man encased in blister packaging.
A mini-shrine to Pac-Man-with-teeth, featuring a flyer for the Gabriel Pac-Man toy, alongside two of the advertised toys and a mini-pin. The flyer simply reads “PAC-MAN is coming.” The toys depicting Pac-Man with rather human-like teeth are unsettling.
Title screen for Donald Duck’s Speedboat for the Atari 2600
Photo of the inside of the Pato Donald cartridge showing the back side of a PCB. The board is held in place by an additional screw inside, which is somewhat unusual for a 2600 cartridge. Oh well, one more thing to unscrew…
Photo of a PCB with a mask visible inside a cartridge shell which has a clear top half. A blue oval sticker warns consumers that opening it will void a warranty.
Photo (from @pingarage on Twitter) showing a marketing brochure showing some upcoming Atari 2800 titles, some of which never materialized (like DDS).
Screenshot of the game’s info page on AtariAge, which wrongly claims that the game was released by Polyvox in Brazil.
Photo showing the opened gatefold box. There is an empty slot where an instruction sheet should be. The cartridge is held in place by folded cardboard. The cartridge label is badly torn, with one of two screws exposed.
Photo showing the front box cover (with generic Atari-like cartoon artwork) and spine of “Pato Donald” from publisher Edu Juegos.
Unusual Chinese release of Unreal Tournament for PC, inexplicably featuring an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator on the front of the box
Front page of a Sears pamphlet. It has an action art collage and states that you can “Make your TV set a family fun and games center with Sears (sic) new CARTRIDGE TELE-GAMES™ SYSTEM”
Comet C2023/A3 as photographed from Sellman, MD. A smaller satellite is also visible at far right.
Photo of the currently sorta-visible comet, taken from the USDA ARC in Beltsville