YOK-dfa Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 Hi, Just received a lot of Atari 2600 games from some guy and i noticed 4 strange looking games. All of them are in a black casing with S.S. at the back and are without any labels. 3 of them have a yellow sticker on them with the name of the game and a number: Astro War (83312) Space Robot (83111) Spider Kong (83414) There's also one with a white sticker: Condor Attack (83416). Unfortunately i don't have any pictures yet, but i'll try to get a scan soon. Any chance these could be prototypes of some kind? Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeV0 Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 They are Goliath carts which i think are just pirates. I thought that rainbowvision where the only carts with SS?? Could you posibly scan one of the carts with the SS visible? http://www.atariage.com/company_page.html?...emFilterID=2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted August 4, 2003 Share Posted August 4, 2003 I think I know them. I own myself one from this strange games. First I have too think they are Prototypes. But some other german collector found a complete boxed version from such a game, and so it is maybe no Prototype. But the lable is strange, so I am not sure, what this is at all. They are Goliath carts which i think are just pirates. I thought that rainbowvision where the only carts with SS?? Could you posibly scan one of the carts with the SS visible? The S.S. has nothing to do with the Rainbowvision numbers. Is just the case at the back, where stand S.S., like some Quelle cartridges. Someone in the past has think it stand for Star Soft. But who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeV0 Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 well you learn something new every day. I have some quelle carts with rainbowvision fonts and no SS, These arent here. Go on, tell me they are goliath carts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted August 5, 2003 Author Share Posted August 5, 2003 2 of them are goliath carts, one of them (Astro War) is a Dimax cart, at least it says so on the screen... My guess is that the other one is a Goliath cart too... Cheers, Raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOK-dfa Posted August 13, 2003 Author Share Posted August 13, 2003 Ok, it's a bit late but here are the pictures i promised Astro war (not in the picture) looks the same (yellow label also) Cheers, Raymond ---- Trade? www.rotzorg.org/~raymond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 I suspect these may just be really cheap labels, especially if these did show up boxed. If you open them up, are the chips ROMs or EPROMs? I suspect you might just find little black blobs rather than big chips though... As to the whole "S.S." thing... 2600 Connection did an article about this -- it does not stand for "Star Soft", as that was just a made-up name. But it may very well stand for Suntek Software, as many of the boards in a variety of manufacturer's games say "Suntek" on them (others say "SAE" which is probably "Suntek Asia(??) Electronics". Rainbowvision most likely got their games from Suntek, and Quelle got a bunch this way too. It's not clear, but Suntek may have even made the cases, which would explain the "S.S." stamped into so many of them, despite apparent other companies selling them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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