Tempest Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Can someone explain this picture to me? http://www.geocities.com/atarirx/missionx.jpg I wasn't aware that anyone had found a 2600 Mission X prototype. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyXB Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Maybe from an other console. I have buy for some weeks a games that look too as a Atari 2600 game. But it was a Coleco Vision game when I right, but it was for 100% no Atari 2600 game. Or someone has found it. Never hear of this game before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 I was not aware of a MissionX prototype either. The MNetwork page doesn't say that it was not programmed, just that the game was cancelled. The curious thing is that this has an INTV style label. Does anyone have an MNetwork/INTV protos to compare it to? I'll let you know if I find out anything more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 23, 2002 Author Share Posted January 23, 2002 Here's the page I got it from: http://www.geocities.com/atarirx/ Apperently Geocities doesn't like you linking to pictures directly. I hate these cheesy free sites... I could just be a regular Intellicart with an adapter glued to the end, or a mock up from a CES show or catalog. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Hehe... Now you guys know the source for my old Signature Pic I was using before. Which I still use from time to time on other sites. I hadn't seen it unedited in a long long time. Nice site...glad you found it Matt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 It would be so easy to slap a white-label Intellivision Mission X label onto an M Network/INTV cart, that I wouldn't count on that "proto" being legitimate. Especially since it's obviously a production label, which would imply there'd be a *lot* of these things floating around. You could quite easily make "protos" of a good number of Intellivision games this way. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 I've actually seen that photo floating around the net sometime before -- IIRC it was quite a while ago. My best guess is that it is one of two possible items: a) A well-done forgery (or "creation of someone's imagination" if you want to be nice about it) b) A display mock-up for a trade show. (If this is what it truely is, that's not too shabby of an item!) I doubt it is an actual prototype. I see very little reason for INTV to go to the expense of creating finished labels for the game just for the sake of testing or development. I guess there is a third possability as well. c) It was a released game, a very limited release put out late in the lifecycle of the 2600. Possible? Yes. Likely? No. [ 01-23-2002: Message edited by: twit ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 maybe it was an opium smoking cart manufacturer in asia, that didn't know what's written on these labels anyway .... they might just took a name from the list, confused a number, and started the production of another game with some wrong labels. i've seen the funiest errors on pirate cart, a short S.S. cartridge (supposed to have those plain english titled black labels) with a grey label on top and colored german title and a rainbowvision/suntek label on the front. is just a stoned producer making us crazy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattG/Snyper2099 Posted January 24, 2002 Share Posted January 24, 2002 wow, i didn't know that there was an atari red label version of dig dug??? kudos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 24, 2002 Author Share Posted January 24, 2002 Yeah thats what I was thinking, but I did see a Air Raiders prototype labeled Air Battle (or something like that), that had what appeared to be a production label. I'm not 100% sure what a real M-Network proto looks like. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Whose site is that? Have them get screenshots of it, if it really is a proto. Or send the cart picture to BSR and see what they have to say about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 I've talked to the owner, and the cart does not work. He took it to a NAVA meeting and they couldn't get anything out of it. He suspects it might be a hoax by another collector (like Pitfall III), but nobody has fessed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted January 25, 2002 Author Share Posted January 25, 2002 Could be, but that label looks pretty professional to me. Either they snagged it from an Intellivision cart, or it's a mock-up from a show. Either way I'd like to see it some time. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Stilphen Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Did he open it to see if it's a real proto, or just some other released game that was "made" inoperable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Tempest: Could be, but that label looks pretty professional to me. Either they snagged it from an Intellivision cart, or it's a mock-up from a show. Either way I'd like to see it some time. The thing is, one of these INTV style labels would be extremely easy to fake. I could whip out one in 15 minutes and print it up on my office's color laser printer. I believe that an untrained eye couldn't tell the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel D. Park Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Here's my Start Strike proto. It's got the while production lable. http://www.atari2600.net/cartimages/Mattel...lStarStrike.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videotwit Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 Joel- Where did you dig up that little gem? Is the finished game, or are there differences between it and the released version? So many questions ... what can you tell us? [ 01-25-2002: Message edited by: twit ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 25, 2002 Share Posted January 25, 2002 While the label on that Star Strike looks like a production label in that it's white and uses a similar font/layout, it appears from the picture that it's a little too tall and not cut to the same size as production labels. Since I don't have the cart in front of me, I can't verify this. Can you, Joel? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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