Rowsdower70 Posted November 16, 2015 Report Posted November 16, 2015 http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/27-Assorted-Vintage-Atari-Games-incl-Pac-Man-25522505.html "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square
nosweargamer Posted November 16, 2015 Report Posted November 16, 2015 Activision Prototypes Judging by the bids, the bidders are already aware of that. The No Swear Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtJuo040EOCTVziObIgVcg Host of The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube
AlamoAtari Posted November 16, 2015 Report Posted November 16, 2015 Never saw one in person, how do these bids end up? In the thousands?
AlamoAtari Posted November 16, 2015 Report Posted November 16, 2015 Pitfall mega mania and star master.
chas10e Posted November 16, 2015 Report Posted November 16, 2015 crap , yeah prototypes ... buyer got a good deal on them ... prolly see 'em on ebay http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/2600software.htm I'm not fully sure why Megamania & Star Master isn't listed here yet ... this guy haz a pretty cool hobby documenting them http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=atari%20prototype&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684
AlamoAtari Posted November 16, 2015 Report Posted November 16, 2015 I'm wondering how this came around and if there are just a bunch of prototypes just floating around out there. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. No wonder that these companies went down if they didn't hold on to their intellectual properties.
fergojisan Posted November 17, 2015 Report Posted November 17, 2015 I used to live in NJ, where Activision had a satellite office. There was a flea market near my house, and one week my brother in law went and said that someone was selling a bunch of Activision stuff, including protos. He picked up a Frostbite proto, which had the same red label w/handwritten sticker. It was called Iceman and had some differences from the released version. A lot of them don't differ from the released versions, but there is that one Pitfall proto with the 4 game variations that I would LOVE to own. Whoops, forgot my original point. It seemed to us that maybe they had a storage unit that got sold, or they finally got around to cleaning out their offices (this was around 1996). It was just weird seeing that stuff. By the time I got to the flea market, all I got was a Super Battletank hat. Whomever bought this got a great deal!
LeeJ07 Posted November 17, 2015 Report Posted November 17, 2015 Lots of protos ended up in landfills, too. I know of at least three, two unknown Activision and one unknown company were found in a landfill several years ago. "I'd buy that for a dollar!" -Smash T.V.
Rowsdower70 Posted November 20, 2015 Author Report Posted November 20, 2015 I didn't bid on it, unfortunately. I had to spend my game gathering funds more diversely. "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square
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