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[atarivision]

Interesting closed eBay Australia auction:

· Gold Mine cartridge ·

looks like an 8-bit cartridge was bundled in a larger lot of Atari 2600 games.

Matt A.

[www.atarimania.com]

This is odd as the game is supposed to exist as a proto only

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Atari Frog
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[Tempest]

Could it be a C-64 cart? It's always hard to tell from a distance.

I thought Gold Mine was proto only as well, except I did see a picture of one once. Then again, we all thought Matterhorn was proto only at one point...

Tempest

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Could it be a C-64 cart? It's always hard to tell from a distance.

Nope, it seems only the A8 has a game called Gold Mine.

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I thought Gold Mine was proto only as well, except I did see a picture of one once.

I remember... I thought I had this picture but I can't find it right now

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Then again, we all thought Matterhorn was proto only at one point...

Could be a similar scenario then, with some distributor buying the short run of cartridges made just before the company went bust...

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Edited by www.atarimania.com, Mon May 22, 2006 3:56 PM.