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[canyonfisher]

I have these 5200 protos available. They were all found together, forgotten in a storage closet underneath the stairwell of my mom's newly purchased 1980s vacation rental @ Sea Ranch (north coast California).

w/o case

Sport Goofy 3-28
Basketball 3-20
Golf 2-16
Baseball 3-25
__________

in loaner cartridge case w/ handwritten sticker
(return to prototype lab, consumer division, software dept)

Microgammon
Mario Bros
Pengo
Football
PolePosition
Joust
__________

in loaner cartridge case w/ handwritten sticker
(return to Jan Boehm, consumer division, software dept)

MOONPATROL
__________

in loaner cartridge case w/ typed sticker and red dot sticker
(return to prototype lab, consumer division, software dept)

Football
___________

in blank cartridge case w/ typed sticker (EPROM Cartridge) and red dot sticker


Centipede

___________

in a generic ATARI "game program" loaner cartridge with typed label sticker

Galaxian
___________

Photos available upon request.

Edited by canyonfisher, Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:26 PM.

[Tempest]

The first batch you listed all appear to be WIP versions. I would love to see what's different about them.

Tempest

[canyonfisher]

Attached are pics the 14 protos I have available...

canyonfisher, on Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:02 PM, said:

I have these 5200 protos available.  They were all found together, forgotten in a storage closet underneath the stairwell of my mom's newly purchased 1980s vacation rental @ Sea Ranch (north coast California).

w/o case

Sport Goofy 3-28
Basketball 3-20
Golf 2-16
Baseball 3-25
__________

in loaner cartridge case w/ handwritten sticker
(return to prototype lab, consumer division, software dept)

Microgammon
Mario Bros
Pengo
Football
PolePosition
Joust
__________

in loaner cartridge case w/ handwritten sticker
(return to Jan Boehm, consumer division, software dept)

MOONPATROL
__________

in loaner cartridge case w/ typed sticker and red dot sticker
(return to prototype lab, consumer division, software dept)

Football
___________

in blank cartridge case w/ typed sticker (EPROM Cartridge) and red dot sticker


Centipede

___________

in a generic ATARI "game program" loaner cartridge with typed label sticker

Galaxian
___________

Photos available upon request.

Attached Files

•  proto_pics.zip   1.67MB   146 downloads

Edited by canyonfisher, Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:40 PM.

[Crimefighter]

That is weird that so many carts were stuck down there like that...

[canyonfisher]

with the protos was a 5200 system and trackball, along with a bunch of regular released games, it wasn't a stash of just protos... that would be truly strange. I Think the whole set up had been there since the early 80s, everything was in good shape. I sold the system and trackball on ebay 5 years back, now I wish I held on to it. The trackball sold for $125. I think the system sold for $50.
At the time I didn't know what the protos were, and I didn't think they were sellable on ebay, so I just held on to them as a curiosity. glad I did!

C

Crimefighter, on Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:53 AM, said:

That is weird that so many carts were stuck down there like that...

[Dutchman2000]

I would love to see that Basketball proto!

[canyonfisher]

Dutchman2000, on Wed Mar 1, 2006 1:56 AM, said:

I would love to see that Basketball proto!

Edited by canyonfisher, Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:18 PM.

[canyonfisher]

I just tested all the carts yesterday and they are working.

[tenoch]

canyonfisher, on Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:03 AM, said:

At the time I didn't know what the protos were, and I didn't think they were sellable on ebay, so I just held on to them as a curiosity. glad I did!

C

nice instincts

[canyonfisher]

I sold Microgammon and Galaxian last night.. The other protos are available.

tenoch, on Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:25 PM, said:

canyonfisher, on Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:03 AM, said:

At the time I didn't know what the protos were, and I didn't think they were sellable on ebay, so I just held on to them as a curiosity. glad I did!

C

nice instincts