Activision brings you exciting new games!

TL · February 10, 2014, 01:46:21 AM

Quote from: "TrekMD"That's the picture from the Retro Gamer article.Â Â Love the ad and the use of "tapes" to refer to the carts!

In this case they did mean tapes! This advert appeared in UK computer magazines!

TrekMD · February 10, 2014, 01:48:38 AM

Quote from: "The Laird"
Quote from: "TrekMD"That's the picture from the Retro Gamer article.Â Â Love the ad and the use of "tapes" to refer to the carts!

In this case they did mean tapes! This advert appeared in UK computer magazines!

Ah, so they were games on tape.Â Cool.

TL · February 15, 2014, 11:30:57 AM

[align=center:6jcl8j1i]

[/align:6jcl8j1i]

TrekMD · February 15, 2014, 15:17:05 PM

Love those ads!

onthinice · February 15, 2014, 19:36:00 PM

I so want Frostbite for the Atari 2600. The price for the cart has always been more then I have wanted to pay. At least it can be played on the Activision compilation discs.

TrekMD · February 15, 2014, 20:14:53 PM

I don't have Frostbite either and did not realize it was so expensive to get.Â

TL · February 15, 2014, 20:42:46 PM

Weird, it's pretty cheap to pick up over here. I come across them all the time.

TrekMD · February 15, 2014, 21:08:11 PM

Quote from: "The Laird"Weird, it's pretty cheap to pick up over here. I come across them all the time.

I wonder if they were rarer in the US for some reason.

onthinice · February 15, 2014, 21:50:18 PM

I do not know the answer. Maybe the carts that were sold are staying in private collections. Leading to higher demand and fewer carts.

TrekMD · February 16, 2014, 00:45:17 AM

Who knows?Â I'll see if I can get a lose cart and just get the instructions somewhere else (even if they are just scanned pages I can turn them into a PDF).

sloan · February 16, 2014, 01:10:45 AM

I've still got my original Frostbite cartridge from 1983. Only wish I had kept the boxes on games from that era.

TrekMD · February 16, 2014, 01:36:45 AM

Quote from: "sloan"I've still got my original Frostbite cartridge from 1983. Only wish I had kept the boxes on games from that era.

At least you still have the game, which is cool.Â

onthinice · February 16, 2014, 03:44:43 AM

I agree.

sloan · February 17, 2014, 00:26:00 AM

Not complaining by any means, but I do wonder about life expectancy on older game carts. My original Pitfall II cart bit the dust some years back for unknown reasons. I plugged it into the console one day and all it gave was a striped screen. I cleaned the contacts to no end with no good results. Thankfully, I have picked up two replacements since.

As a backup plan, I do have Activision Anthology on PS2 if all else fails.

TrekMD · February 17, 2014, 00:33:50 AM

That's a good question.Â One of the reasons I like having ROMs for the games as that let's me play them using something like the Harmony cart.Â