Scott Stilphen

The homebrew games I know of that have stereo audio are:
A-VCS-tec Challenge
Medieval Mayhem
Skeleton+
Synthcart
Toyshop Trouble
https://www.ataricompendium.com/faq/faq.html#hardware16

That Sword of Saros box art was originally created for Excalibur, which was later renamed Dragonstomper:
 

The voice module was first mentioned at the Summer 1982 CES show in Chicago.  RS Baseball was first mentioned in the March/April 1983 issue of Atari Age magazine, but makes no mention of it having voice. Matthew Hubbard did the initial programming for the game, before leaving for Activision.  Jim Andreasen took it over.  Keith Hayena mentioned at CGE2K7 that consultants Larry Car (sp?) and Andy Barber (sp?) devised a method to insert digitized sounds into a program, and Hayenga used it to add voice to the game.  Programmer Frank Hausman was able to adapt a voice compression algorithm developed by Electronic Speech Systems into the game.  According to the V1N6 March/April 1983 issue of Atari Age, this was to be available in April for $31.95, but it didn't appear for sale until the Sept/Oct issue for $28.95.  Michael Current says it was released November 1983: https://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/wci_games.html
Whether or not an actual voice synthesizer module was being developed or not, we don't know.  Atari had the habit of announcing a lot of things back then that ended up being vaporware (5200 keyboard, expansion module, etc).  I'm sure the voice module was talked about in-house, especially since the Intellivision had one in 1982, as did the Odyssey2.  Remember, Atari's Marketing was looking to one-up Mattel's Intellivision with the 5200, which is why the controllers were designed the way they are, with having a keypad and a "360 degree" joystick, which was deemed far superior to the Intellivision's 16-position pad controller.  But it took Atari a year from announcing a VCS Adaptor to finally releasing it, and it's possible that if a voice module was being worked on, the development of RS Baseball being delayed to add voice into the game probably convinced someone within Atari that the module wasn't needed if voice could be done in software.  Besides, Mattel's Voice Module wasn't the runaway success it had hoped for:
https://history.blueskyrangers.com/hardware/intellivoice.html
 



 

PIctures of Mike Mike and his Berzerk: VE carts from CGE2K2
 

The homebrew games I know of that have stereo audio are:
A-VCS-tec Challenge
Medieval Mayhem
Skeleton+
Synthcart
Toyshop Trouble
https://www.ataricompendium.com/faq/faq.html#hardware16

PIctures of Mike Mike and his Berzerk: VE carts from CGE2K2
 

Berzerk: VE was released at CGE 2K2
Manual for K.O. Cruiser is on my site:
https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/manuals/vcs/ko_cruiser.pdf

PIctures of Mike Mike and his Berzerk: VE carts from CGE2K2
 

That Sword of Saros box art was originally created for Excalibur, which was later renamed Dragonstomper:
 

The voice module was first mentioned at the Summer 1982 CES show in Chicago.  RS Baseball was first mentioned in the March/April 1983 issue of Atari Age magazine, but makes no mention of it having voice. Matthew Hubbard did the initial programming for the game, before leaving for Activision.  Jim Andreasen took it over.  Keith Hayena mentioned at CGE2K7 that consultants Larry Car (sp?) and Andy Barber (sp?) devised a method to insert digitized sounds into a program, and Hayenga used it to add voice to the game.  Programmer Frank Hausman was able to adapt a voice compression algorithm developed by Electronic Speech Systems into the game.  According to the V1N6 March/April 1983 issue of Atari Age, this was to be available in April for $31.95, but it didn't appear for sale until the Sept/Oct issue for $28.95.  Michael Current says it was released November 1983: https://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/wci_games.html
Whether or not an actual voice synthesizer module was being developed or not, we don't know.  Atari had the habit of announcing a lot of things back then that ended up being vaporware (5200 keyboard, expansion module, etc).  I'm sure the voice module was talked about in-house, especially since the Intellivision had one in 1982, as did the Odyssey2.  Remember, Atari's Marketing was looking to one-up Mattel's Intellivision with the 5200, which is why the controllers were designed the way they are, with having a keypad and a "360 degree" joystick, which was deemed far superior to the Intellivision's 16-position pad controller.  But it took Atari a year from announcing a VCS Adaptor to finally releasing it, and it's possible that if a voice module was being worked on, the development of RS Baseball being delayed to add voice into the game probably convinced someone within Atari that the module wasn't needed if voice could be done in software.  Besides, Mattel's Voice Module wasn't the runaway success it had hoped for:
https://history.blueskyrangers.com/hardware/intellivoice.html
 



 

That Sword of Saros box art was originally created for Excalibur, which was later renamed Dragonstomper:
 

Berzerk: VE was released at CGE 2K2
Manual for K.O. Cruiser is on my site:
https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/manuals/vcs/ko_cruiser.pdf

Everything has been tested and works.  Includes:
original 4-port model system (with box and original foam packing!)
power supply (w/ box)
TV switch box
2 joystick controllers (tested and working!)
1 custom paddle controller!
Trak-Ball controller (with manual, box, and original foam packing!)
24 cartridges!  List:
Centipede (boxed)
Countermeasure
Defender
Football (w/ manual)
Frogger (boxed)
Galaxian
Joust (w/ manual)
Kangaoo
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac-Man (boxed)
Pac-Man (boxed)
Pole Position
Popeye (boxed)
Q*bert (boxed)
Qix
RealSports Baseball (w/ manual)
Space Dungeon
Space Invaders
Soccer (w/ manual)
Star Raiders
Super Breakout (boxed)
Vanguard
Wizard of Wor
The protective plastic is still on the aluminum name plates on both the system and Trak-Ball controller!  Price $350 plus shipping.  PM me if interested, thanks.
 
 
 
 

Everything has been tested and works.  Includes:
original 4-port model system (with box and original foam packing!)
power supply (w/ box)
TV switch box
2 joystick controllers (tested and working!)
1 custom paddle controller!
Trak-Ball controller (with manual, box, and original foam packing!)
24 cartridges!  List:
Centipede (boxed)
Countermeasure
Defender
Football (w/ manual)
Frogger (boxed)
Galaxian
Joust (w/ manual)
Kangaoo
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac-Man (boxed)
Pac-Man (boxed)
Pole Position
Popeye (boxed)
Q*bert (boxed)
Qix
RealSports Baseball (w/ manual)
Space Dungeon
Space Invaders
Soccer (w/ manual)
Star Raiders
Super Breakout (boxed)
Vanguard
Wizard of Wor
The protective plastic is still on the aluminum name plates on both the system and Trak-Ball controller!  Price $350 plus shipping.  PM me if interested, thanks.
 
 
 
 

Everything has been tested and works.  Includes:
original 4-port model system (with box and original foam packing!)
power supply (w/ box)
TV switch box
2 joystick controllers (tested and working!)
1 custom paddle controller!
Trak-Ball controller (with manual, box, and original foam packing!)
24 cartridges!  List:
Centipede (boxed)
Countermeasure
Defender
Football (w/ manual)
Frogger (boxed)
Galaxian
Joust (w/ manual)
Kangaoo
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac-Man (boxed)
Pac-Man (boxed)
Pole Position
Popeye (boxed)
Q*bert (boxed)
Qix
RealSports Baseball (w/ manual)
Space Dungeon
Space Invaders
Soccer (w/ manual)
Star Raiders
Super Breakout (boxed)
Vanguard
Wizard of Wor
The protective plastic is still on the aluminum name plates on both the system and Trak-Ball controller!  Price $350 plus shipping.  PM me if interested, thanks.
 
 
 
 

Everything has been tested and works.  Includes:
original 4-port model system (with box and original foam packing!)
power supply (w/ box)
TV switch box
2 joystick controllers (tested and working!)
1 custom paddle controller!
Trak-Ball controller (with manual, box, and original foam packing!)
24 cartridges!  List:
Centipede (boxed)
Countermeasure
Defender
Football (w/ manual)
Frogger (boxed)
Galaxian
Joust (w/ manual)
Kangaoo
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac-Man (boxed)
Pac-Man (boxed)
Pole Position
Popeye (boxed)
Q*bert (boxed)
Qix
RealSports Baseball (w/ manual)
Space Dungeon
Space Invaders
Soccer (w/ manual)
Star Raiders
Super Breakout (boxed)
Vanguard
Wizard of Wor
The protective plastic is still on the aluminum name plates on both the system and Trak-Ball controller!  Price $350 plus shipping.  PM me if interested, thanks.
 
 
 
 

Everything has been tested and works.  Includes:
original 4-port model system (with box and original foam packing!)
power supply (w/ box)
TV switch box
2 joystick controllers (tested and working!)
1 custom paddle controller!
Trak-Ball controller (with manual, box, and original foam packing!)
24 cartridges!  List:
Centipede (boxed)
Countermeasure
Defender
Football (w/ manual)
Frogger (boxed)
Galaxian
Joust (w/ manual)
Kangaoo
Missile Command
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac-Man (boxed)
Pac-Man (boxed)
Pole Position
Popeye (boxed)
Q*bert (boxed)
Qix
RealSports Baseball (w/ manual)
Space Dungeon
Space Invaders
Soccer (w/ manual)
Star Raiders
Super Breakout (boxed)
Vanguard
Wizard of Wor
The protective plastic is still on the aluminum name plates on both the system and Trak-Ball controller!  Price $350 plus shipping.  PM me if interested, thanks.
 
 
 
 

Found this on Instagram.  Sent this to a good friend of mine who had this memory to share:
"I paid 40 bucks for Asteroids, I'll never forget it.  Went to 4 or 5 stores when it came out and they were all charging 45-50 bucks and already sold out.  Ending up standing in a line in JC Penney's that went out of the store all the way out into the mail itself to get a copy, it seemed like they had hundreds of copies for sale.  Same thing with Missile Command; that was also an expensive cart when it was new."
 

Found this on Instagram.  Sent this to a good friend of mine who had this memory to share:
"I paid 40 bucks for Asteroids, I'll never forget it.  Went to 4 or 5 stores when it came out and they were all charging 45-50 bucks and already sold out.  Ending up standing in a line in JC Penney's that went out of the store all the way out into the mail itself to get a copy, it seemed like they had hundreds of copies for sale.  Same thing with Missile Command; that was also an expensive cart when it was new."
 

This is sold.
 
 
 
 

This is sold.
 
 
 
 

This is sold.
 
 
 
 

This is sold.

This is sold.

This is sold.