Ite

So here's a picture I took last night next to a Pac-Man cart to show how much shorter it is than most 2600 carts.



Here's another interesting fact about this game. I tried to get some good quality game footage for EP, so I connected a 2600 to the RF of a VCR and used the video out to connect to a Mac to capture the footage. My Mac refused to "sync" with the signal. I tried another 2600, same result. I tried a different VCR, same result. At first I captured what I could off a CRT screen but of course there was all kinds of "banding" appearing with the refresh rate, so it was suggested that I capture the footage from an LCD TV which is what I ended up doing. What you don't see is the weird "garbage" at the bottom of the screen. It's almost like closed captioning information, or "macro protection". So, while it works on a TV just fine, it threw my image capture device for a loop. That's why the gameplay footage I have captured is quite fuzzy. I did try an image stabilizer with no better results (although I'm not 100% sure the battery in it is working). I suspect, based on what I heard from the family, that the programmer wasn't 100% sure what he was doing. This was his first and only 2600 game. Obviously, once we get the ROM dumped we can hopefully understand what is happening here but it's interesting to say the least. I know it's not my setup because I plugged Earthworld in and it captured fine.

Ite, on Tue Oct 4, 2011 3:18 AM, said:

Yes, and the whole story was made up, a game was programmed and a new cartridge type was created.

Now move along.

The group was hoping to capitalize on the video game market that was booming at the time. They had hoped to get the game out for the 1983 Christmas season, but delays in the programming precluded that and the game missed the Christmas window. After it was finally finished in early 1984, Peter remembers taking the game out to retailers door to door to purchase copies of the game. They had no distributor, and in the end sold only a couple of hundred copies at most. By then, the video game market had collapsed.