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| Mythicon games originally retailed for only $9.95. | 4/5/2002 |
| Spectravision is known as Spectravideo outside of the US. | 4/5/2002 |
| Sunrise created Glacier Patrol for the 2600 but never released it - Telegames released it years later. | 4/5/2002 |
| Ultravision, makers of Condor Attack for the 2600, originally planned to release their own video game system. | 4/5/2002 |
| Commavid was originally called Computer Magic. | 4/5/2002 |
| Only owners of Commavid's Magicard had the opportunity to purchase Video Life for the 2600. | 4/5/2002 |
| Russ Perry Jr. coined the term "Frying" in respect to eliciting strange effects from a 2600 by modulating the power. | 4/5/2002 |
| Nintendo offered Atari the rights to distribute the NES in America - Atari declined. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Atari 7800 was ready in 1984, but wasn't released until 1986. | 4/5/2002 |
| The term "Actiplaque" refers to the label mottling that is common to Activision cartridges. | 4/5/2002 |
| "Heavy-Sixer" is slang for the first production run of Atari 2600's (6 switches on the front and heavy internal RF shielding). | 4/5/2002 |
| The first four games released by Activision were Dragster, Fishing Derby, Checkers, and Boxing. | 4/5/2002 |
| Bill Hogue (Miner 2049er) learned to program while he was a clerk at Radio Shack. | 4/5/2002 |
| Electra Concepts made an adapter that allows you to use regular 2600 controllers on a 5200. | 4/5/2002 |
| G.I. Joe was released as Action Force outside of the US. | 4/5/2002 |
| Bounty Bob Strikes Back is the rarest game for the Atari 5200. | 4/5/2002 |
| Cannon Man is the rarest game released by Sears for the 2600. | 4/5/2002 |
| Pepsi Invaders was a specialty game given only to Coca Cola employees. | 4/5/2002 |
| Tomcat F-14 was sold as Fighter Pilot outside the US. | 4/5/2002 |
| Atari's Haunted House was originally called Nightmare Manor. | 4/5/2002 |
| Ghostbusters II for the 2600 was only released in Europe. | 4/5/2002 |
| Chuck Norris Superkicks was changed to Kung Fu Superkicks when the license expired. | 4/5/2002 |
| M*A*S*H (2600) was originally sold both with and without a T-Shirt. | 4/5/2002 |
| Mogul Maniac, made by Amiga for the 2600, was sold with the "Joyboard", a platform style controller. | 4/5/2002 |
| Q*bert's Qubes for the 2600 was primarily sold in Sears and Hills department stores, making it very hard to find today. | 4/5/2002 |
| The US version of Impossible Mission for the 7800 really is impossible due to a programming bug. | 4/5/2002 |
| Rocky and Bullwinkle was programmed for the 2600, but never released. | 4/5/2002 |
| Wing War by Imagic (2600) was only released in Europe. | 4/5/2002 |
| Tooth Protectors for the 2600 was only available by mail order from Johnson and Johnson. | 4/5/2002 |
| Space Invaders for the 2600 was released with four different labels - Picture, Text, Red, and Silver. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Silver Label version of Gravitar (2600) is much harder to find than the Red Label version. | 4/5/2002 |
| Some Panda games (2600) do not have a main label - they only have an end label. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Brazilian version of Air-Sea Battle is called Batalha Aero-Naval. | 4/5/2002 |
| In Avalon Hill's Shuttle Orbiter you are the pilot of the Space Shuttle "Challenger". | 4/5/2002 |
| Only two games take advantage of the light gun controller on the 2600: Sentinel and the unreleased Shooting Arcade. | 4/5/2002 |
| Imagic's No Escape! for the 2600 was originally called Escape from Argos. | 4/5/2002 |
| 2600 Defender II was first released as Stargate. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Atari 5200 originally retailed for $269.95. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Atari 5200 was originally known as the "Video System X" just prior to release. | 4/5/2002 |
| Atari 5200 Meteorites was originally called Disasteroids but the name was changed under pressure from Atari. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Atari 7800 graphics chip is called "MARIA". | 4/5/2002 |
| General Computer Corporation originally designed the 7800 for Atari. | 4/5/2002 |
| Taz for the 2600 was slightly modified and sold as Asterix in Europe. | 4/5/2002 |
| Zellers' Busy Police (2600) is none other than Keystone Kapers. | 4/5/2002 |
| Zellers' Farmer Dan (2600) is none other than Gopher. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Atari Jaguar was initially manufactured for Atari by IBM. | 4/5/2002 |
| When the Jaguar was released in 1993 it retailed for $250. | 4/5/2002 |
| Atari awarded a $500 million contract to IBM to assemble, test, package and distribute the Jaguar. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Jaguar was designed by a company called Flare 2. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Jaguar has five processors contained in three chips. | 4/5/2002 |
| The two proprietary chips in the Jaguar are known as "Tom" and "Jerry" | 4/5/2002 |
| The Jaguar CD peripheral sold for $150 and included the Tempest 2000 Soundtrack, a Myst demo, and two games: Vid Grid and Blue Lightning. | 4/5/2002 |
| The arcade games Area 51 and Maximum Force were based on a modified Jaguar platform called CoJag. | 4/5/2002 |
| The last title released for the Jaguar by Atari was Fight for Life. | 4/5/2002 |
| Cartridge labels created by Atari for the 5200 are the same size as labels they created for 2600 cartridges, but are rotated 90 degrees. | 4/5/2002 |
| The original design of the 2600 was to include two speakers in the top deck for stereo sound. | 4/5/2002 |
| A keychain game of Activision's popular 2600 title Kaboom! was released sometime around 1998. | 4/5/2002 |
| Video Chess is the game that led Atari to first invent bank-switched ROMs for the Atari 2600, even though the shipping version of the game wouldn't use the technique and was only 4K in size. | 4/5/2002 |
| The Atari XEGS (XE Game System) was the only Atari 8-bit computer to feature a detachable keyboard. | 4/7/2002 |
| Records Found: 159 |
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