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[Dr Manhattan]

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"While following a lead on the Atari Flashback 3 one of our intrepid writers was able to steal a cam phone pic of the completed Atari 7800 Expansion Module. The is the final, ready to ship product, with its completed packaging."

SOURCE WITH PICS & INFO

Looks sooooooo nice!

My body is ready. (And so is my wallet!)

[PAC-MAN PRIME]

Hours gone by and no one else commented on this? Wow! @.@

Well, I'm just now seeing it, and all I can say is... AWWWESOME! Both the unit and the box look great!!! Excellent work, Curt!

[Austin]

That is awesome, thanks for posting it. Would have commented sooner, but it didn't show for me at work..

[AtariNerd]

PAC-MAN PRIME, on Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:34 PM, said:

Hours gone by and no one else commented on this? Wow! @.@

Well, I'm just now seeing it, and all I can say is... AWWWESOME! Both the unit and the box look great!!! Excellent work, Curt!

I was just about to PM you about the box after you mentioned its' reveal in the other thread! I wanted in on the scoop! Seems I just had to look around a bit.

Looks like Not Gauntlet, PacManPlus' Fabulous Pinball/Breakout hybrid game..is it still Pinbot? and Groovey's also -as -yet unnamed Halloween-themed-game made the cover. Whew!

Can't quite read the text as the box features just a small bit of the frame...

[Vic George 2K3]

At least the unit doesn't look as unwieldly as the Sega 32X mounted on a Genesis system.

[eddhead]

Dr Manhattan, on Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:21 PM, said:

...

My body is ready. (And so is my wallet!)

Ummm... what exactly do you plan on doing to your XM? LOL!



Looking awesome, I just can't wait!!!

[GroovyBee]

Let me fix that for you :-

AtariNerd, on Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:24 AM, said:

Looks like Not Gauntlet Dungeon!, PacManPlus' Fabulous Pinball/Breakout hybrid game..is it still Pinbot? and Groovey's also -as -yet unnamed Halloween-themed-game made the cover. Whew!

[PacManPlus]

GroovyBee, on Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:42 PM, said:

Let me fix that for you :-

AtariNerd, on Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:24 AM, said:

Looks like Not Gauntlet Dungeon!, PacManPlus' Fabulous Pinball/Breakout hybrid game..is it still Pinbot? and Groovey's also -as -yet unnamed Halloween-themed-game made the cover. Whew!

Fixed Again:

AtariNerd, on Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:24 AM, said:

Looks like Not Gauntlet Dungeon!, PacManPlus' Fabulous Pinball/Breakout hybrid game..is it still Pinbot Propane13's Arkanoid, and Groovey's also -as -yet unnamed Halloween-themed-game made the cover. Whew!

[Dr Manhattan]

eddhead, on Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:14 AM, said:

Dr Manhattan, on Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:21 PM, said:

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My body is ready. (And so is my wallet!)

Ummm... what exactly do you plan on doing to your XM? LOL!

[TrekMD]

I can only think of one word: AWESOME!

[AtariLeaf]

I'm feeling tingly in my special places.

[horseboy]

AtariLeaf, on Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:19 PM, said:

I'm feeling tingly in my special places.

My bad. I'll keep my hands to myself.

[Marc Oberhäuser]

Shame that no game from Bob made it on the box...

[Emehr]

I wants it

[Shawn Sr.]

Marc Oberhäuser, on Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:26 PM, said:

Shame that no game from Bob made it on the box...

I think that is about the most polite way to put it Marc.

Edited by Shawn Sr., Mon Jul 4, 2011 6:11 PM.

[DracIsBack]

Marc Oberhäuser, on Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:26 PM, said:

Shame that no game from Bob made it on the box...

What's on the back, bottom and top? The pic only shows the front really.

Edited by DracIsBack, Mon Jul 4, 2011 6:50 PM.

[AtariNerd]

Seriously? I love Bob's work, but the slipcover art was selected as placemarker art months ago, from the small handfull of games that had actively been announced and doesn't reflect recent months work. It's been sitting waiting for the rest of the project to come together. Curt is already thousands in the hole and not likely to spend a couple thosand more just to have them reprinted...

[PacManPlus]

AtariNerd, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 2:23 PM, said:

Seriously? I love Bob's work, but the slipcover art was selected as placemarker art months ago, from the small handfull of games that had actively been announced and doesn't reflect recent months work. It's been sitting waiting for the rest of the project to come together. Curt is already thousands in the hole and not likely to spend a couple thosand more just to have them reprinted...

Seriously? Super Circus Atari Age was announced for the XM *October 2010* - Nine Months Ago - and has been completed since *November 2010*. None of the other games are even completed as of yet. No offense to GroovyBee or Propane13 - GB is a much better programmer for this system than I'll ever be, and Propane13's Arkanoid is on it's way to being a great release. But after trying to put off anyone wanting a Stand-Alone release to have a COMPLETED game for the launch of the XM, I'm starting to wonder why I even bothered. Would it have hurt sales so much to have one GB screenshot, one Propane13 shot and one of my shots?

Anyway, what's done is done and it really doesn't matter.

[save2600]

Sexy!

[Underball]

PacManPlus, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 3:59 PM, said:

AtariNerd, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 2:23 PM, said:

Seriously? I love Bob's work, but the slipcover art was selected as placemarker art months ago, from the small handfull of games that had actively been announced and doesn't reflect recent months work. It's been sitting waiting for the rest of the project to come together. Curt is already thousands in the hole and not likely to spend a couple thosand more just to have them reprinted...

Seriously? Super Circus Atari Age was announced for the XM *October 2010* - Nine Months Ago - and has been completed since *November 2010*. None of the other games are even completed as of yet. No offense to GroovyBee or Propane13 - GB is a much better programmer for this system than I'll ever be, and Propane13's Arkanoid is on it's way to being a great release. But after trying to put off anyone wanting a Stand-Alone release to have a COMPLETED game for the launch of the XM, I'm starting to wonder why I even bothered. Would it have hurt sales so much to have one GB screenshot, one Propane13 shot and one of my shots?

Anyway, what's done is done and it really doesn't matter.

So in a way, it's kind of like the original Atari 7800 box, with screenshots of SkyFox and Rescue On Fractalus. Oh, wait.....

[Madaracs]

PacManPlus, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 3:59 PM, said:

AtariNerd, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 2:23 PM, said:

Seriously? I love Bob's work, but the slipcover art was selected as placemarker art months ago, from the small handfull of games that had actively been announced and doesn't reflect recent months work. It's been sitting waiting for the rest of the project to come together. Curt is already thousands in the hole and not likely to spend a couple thosand more just to have them reprinted...

Seriously? Super Circus Atari Age was announced for the XM *October 2010* - Nine Months Ago - and has been completed since *November 2010*. None of the other games are even completed as of yet. No offense to GroovyBee or Propane13 - GB is a much better programmer for this system than I'll ever be, and Propane13's Arkanoid is on it's way to being a great release. But after trying to put off anyone wanting a Stand-Alone release to have a COMPLETED game for the launch of the XM, I'm starting to wonder why I even bothered. Would it have hurt sales so much to have one GB screenshot, one Propane13 shot and one of my shots?

Anyway, what's done is done and it really doesn't matter.

I have a sneaking suspicion that your body of work will gross more than the XM units themselves anyway. You make the best games, Bob.

[AtariNerd]

PacManPlus, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 3:59 PM, said:

AtariNerd, on Tue Jul 5, 2011 2:23 PM, said:

Seriously? I love Bob's work, but the slipcover art was selected as placemarker art months ago, from the small handfull of games that had actively been announced and doesn't reflect recent months work. It's been sitting waiting for the rest of the project to come together. Curt is already thousands in the hole and not likely to spend a couple thosand more just to have them reprinted...

Seriously? Super Circus Atari Age was announced for the XM *October 2010* - Nine Months Ago - and has been completed since *November 2010*. None of the other games are even completed as of yet. No offense to GroovyBee or Propane13 - GB is a much better programmer for this system than I'll ever be, and Propane13's Arkanoid is on it's way to being a great release. But after trying to put off anyone wanting a Stand-Alone release to have a COMPLETED game for the launch of the XM, I'm starting to wonder why I even bothered. Would it have hurt sales so much to have one GB screenshot, one Propane13 shot and one of my shots?

Anyway, what's done is done and it really doesn't matter.

Ahhh! I had known about the planned POKEY-enhanced version of Pac Man Collection, but I hadn't realized Circus was planned as an enhanced game, back then.

Edited by AtariNerd, Thu Jul 7, 2011 10:23 AM.

[DracIsBack]

Sorry to hear that Bob. Definitely appreciate your efforts and love your games. I doubt it was intentional ... probably an oversite amidst the 12,000 details of trying to give birth to an ambitious homebrew project like this.

In the old days, when a box had to sell your product an accessories, this would probably hurt a lot more than it does today. Maybe Curt can include if he does a second run later?

[AtariNerd]

For some strange reason, i seem to remember Curt asking Bob about artwork/screenshots ...buried deep within one of the threads. Might be my mind playing tricks on me...

[sermajic]

waiting to order one!

if only i ever receive those atari usb sticks payed to Curt on 2009...