Atari 5200 Guy Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 I have a boxed Asteroids for the 7800 and I was looking it over and noticed something odd. See if you can catch it. Looks normal, right? Screenshot of Asteroids, what it's for, some of it features. Keep looking. Here...I'll zoom in. I'll leave now for you all to comment about it. RickR and DegasElite 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DegasElite Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 It describes Centipede as the trademark instead of Asteroids. Nice catch! :O) Atari 5200 Guy and RickR 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Pro Gamer Posted February 20, 2023 Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 Oh wow I'll have to see if my copy says that or not. Good eye. DegasElite and Atari 5200 Guy 2 Quote Watch 7800 Pro Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAtariNetwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted February 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 When I was a kid I enjoyed the reading materials that came with my 5200 stuff. I would take the poster, owner's manual, game catalog with Asteroids advertised, and sometimes manuals to newly acquired games, with me to school and read them. Today I still enjoy reading the materials that comes with the NOS games. Especially Atari games because the stories they would come up with to support the game was very imaginative. I remember when I started taking care of my grandmother. My 5200's game catalog was found in her bedside night stand. I have no clue how long it had been there because I thought I lost it at school. I like reading them because you never know. Let us know what your Asteroids says. RickR and DegasElite 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted February 20, 2023 Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 Mine is the same! Atari 5200 Guy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted February 20, 2023 Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 Found the problem: "For use with the 7800 controllers." NOTHING is for use with THOSE awful things!! Atari 5200 Guy, TrekMD and DegasElite 3 Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted February 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2023 12 hours ago, dauber said: Found the problem: "For use with the 7800 controllers." NOTHING is for use with THOSE awful things!! What?!? No light gun or trakball support? 😞. Kind of along the same lines as a movie quote from Doc Brown. "No wonder this sucked failed, it says 'Made in Japan'." "What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff comes from Japan." 😲 I have to agree with you, though. As much as I love the 7800 and its games those controllers were tendonitis-inducing weapons of destruction. The balance is way off. Another design should have been tried or both regions should have received the pad controllers with the system. At least with that it would have had a bit more success. Maybe. That was the only thing that kept me from enjoying it like I wanted to BITD otherwise I would have played it more than the NES. RickR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800 Pro Gamer Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 Mines the same too! Nice find for as long as I've had this game I never noticed that DegasElite 1 Quote Watch 7800 Pro Gamer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAtariNetwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted February 22, 2023 Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 Looks like a pervasive misprint! LOL DegasElite 1 Quote 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted February 22, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2023 All of these have a 1987 year. And I know some 7800 games have year variations. Does anyone have a boxed Asteroids from another year? Or, just it can be verified, a loose cart with a different year on it. DegasElite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted March 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 Hmm...so would it be safe to theorize that Centipede came before Asteroids and the boxes we done Centipede first and then Asteroids? DegasElite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteym5 Posted March 12, 2023 Report Share Posted March 12, 2023 Maybe a giant Space Centipede pops up in one of the upper levels. Atari 5200 Guy, RickR and TrekMD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted March 12, 2023 Report Share Posted March 12, 2023 9 hours ago, peteym5 said: Maybe a giant Space Centipede pops up in one of the upper levels. Or those aren't 3D asteroids...they are centipede segments! Atari 5200 Guy and DegasElite 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted March 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2023 Oh ... So the UFO is really a flying mushroom? Man, I had it wrong this whole time. Wait until you guys see the one I found tonight. RickR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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