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[Atari Rescue Group]

The other day I found a 2600 Berzerk Loaner Cartridge in a thrift store with a bunch of other cartridges. It has a gold dot on the label, and no hand written or typed date on the white label. I'm guessing it is a final version. Tempest's Atari Protos site says that the dots represented different areas where some cartridges were used in (focus group testing, internal development, home testing, etc.)

I have a few questions --

1. If a cartridge has a dot does it mean that it is a final version?

2. Has anyone ever deciphered what area the different color dots represented?

3. How many different color dots have been discovered?

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[Crimefighter]

Is there any differences when you play this?

[Schitti]

wasn't white=ntsc and yellow=pal ?
but i'm not sure.

[Atari Rescue Group]

Crimefighter, on Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:42 PM, said:

Is there any differences when you play this?

No differences. The screens look the same and it plays like a regular Berzerk cartridge.

Schitti, on Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:24 AM, said:

wasn't white=ntsc and yellow=pal ?
but i'm not sure.

It is NTSC.

[nofrills100]

good questions!
i'm keen to hear what the answers are too....