slobu Posted January 20, 2019 Report Posted January 20, 2019 So, for my own personal interest (as well as my own game making reasons) I'm wondering how many new Atari 2600 games started at 100 copies. I'm not sure I can plunk down for that many boards at a time being a one man game development house. It sounds like a lot compared to other homebrew runs I've seen. What's the average? What have y'all seen in the past? Arenafoot 1 Quote Please check out my Atari 2600 party favors at https://theloon.itch.io/ Downloadable games include Upp Plus Plus, Stranglehand, Nitebear on Sleepystreet and more!
Arenafoot Posted January 20, 2019 Report Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) Probably all of the heavy hitters in the AA store..... Stay Frosty 2 (180+ 1st run), Halo 2600 (150 copies 1st run), Syncart, Lady Bug (LE- 1st run), Space Rocks, Medieval Mayhem, Zippy..... (definitely known 100 copies: Another Adventure hack, Boulder Dash, FPF 2017 hack, Lasercade, L.E.M.) Also alot of repros and prototypes were printed in 100+ copies too: Extra Terrestrials repro, Actionauts proto, Bugs Bunny proto, Combat Two proto, Looping proto, RealSports Basketball proto, Snow White proto AA store has a live best sellers list at: https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=bestsellers but Al doesn't give out actual numbers. Hope this info helps you out. I wouldn't do 100 copies to start out. Average is 10-30 copies. You can look at my comprehensive Atari 2600 homebrew list and do a search (Ctrl + F) and see the "xx copies" of said titles. The link is https://1drv.ms/x/s!ArXu52QZivTrgVbQayev1Wc1QprN Edited January 20, 2019 by Arenafoot slobu 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne
slobu Posted January 20, 2019 Author Report Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) That's pretty darn comprehensive!! Thank you for the super huge spreadsheet of homebrew knowledge! Yeah, I also remember Neo Games releases go into the 60+ range. So, it may be more normal than I at first imagined. Which is a great thing in general. Still, a huge investment for one indie developer. Hitting a viable 100 range seems to involve more remakes of already well known titles. I dun think completely new, original titles have the same oomf. Especially since I'm dirt dumb when it comes to publicity Edited January 20, 2019 by slobu Arenafoot 1 Quote Please check out my Atari 2600 party favors at https://theloon.itch.io/ Downloadable games include Upp Plus Plus, Stranglehand, Nitebear on Sleepystreet and more!
Arenafoot Posted January 20, 2019 Report Posted January 20, 2019 2 hours ago, slobu said: That's pretty darn comprehensive!! Thank you for the super huge spreadsheet of homebrew knowledge! Yeah, I also remember Neo Games releases go into the 60+ range. So, it may be more normal than I at first imagined. Which is a great thing in general. Still, a huge investment for one indie developer. Hitting a viable 100 range seems to involve more remakes of already well known titles. I dun think completely new, original titles have the same oomf. Especially since I'm dirt dumb when it comes to publicity Currently NEO Games (Scott Dayton) does his limited editions in groups of 10-40. He only sells thru his FB group and not thru the AA forums anymore. Q*Bert Jump was 10 copies (at FPF 2018), Bouncer was 30 copies & Zombie Road Kill was 40 copies available in 2018 from him/NEO Games. My "List" is live and living, at that link I gave you above and also at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11cd6MWV5ukETB9Q377kG80ufxAESPY6D/view I try and update it on a regular basis (cell K2 date/time stamp). slobu 1 Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne
Scott Stilphen Posted February 5, 2019 Report Posted February 5, 2019 On 1/19/2019 at 11:13 PM, Arenafoot said: Probably all of the heavy hitters in the AA store..... Stay Frosty 2 (180+ 1st run), Halo 2600 (150 copies 1st run), Syncart, Lady Bug (LE- 1st run), Space Rocks, Medieval Mayhem, Zippy..... (definitely known 100 copies: Another Adventure hack, Boulder Dash, FPF 2017 hack, Lasercade, L.E.M.) Also alot of repros and prototypes were printed in 100+ copies too: Extra Terrestrials repro, Actionauts proto, Bugs Bunny proto, Combat Two proto, Looping proto, RealSports Basketball proto, Snow White proto 3-D Rubik's Cube - 250 copies were made. Actionauts - 250 numbered copies were made, with an additional 50 "unnumbered" copies (but from what I've heard, those are numbered as well). Boulder Dash - 250 copies were made. Bouncin' Baby Bunnies - 60 copies in first run. Good Luck, Charlie Brown - 50 copies were made. Halo 2600 - 130 copies were originally sold at CGE2K10 with a black label. Lasercade - 100 copies were made. Racer - 75 copies were made. CGE releases: Bugs Bunny, Combat Two, Crack'ed, Elevator Action, The Entity, Looping, Pick Up, RealSports Basketball, Snow White - 250 copies of each were made. VideoSoft releases: 3-D Genesis, 3-D Ghost Attack, 3-D Havoc, Atom Smasher, Depth Charge, S.A.C. Alert - 100 copies of each were made. slobu and Arenafoot 1 1 Quote
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