I've been collecting Atari for a long long time. After hitting 600 loose carts you sort of hit the wall. Unless you make a silly amount of money, getting any more games you don't have becomes near impossible, or at least impossibly expensive.
So what do you do? The horrible sickness of making the Atari collection grow is still there. So I collected boxes for my games... and then that got to the same impossible / impossibly expensive wall. So I collected home brews which are fantastic and fun to play and new. Those fun releases of Charlie Brown and Red Sea Crossing and the like are also fun ways to feed the Atari Collector monster in me.
But what else is there friends? WHAT ELSE? Taco Bell Atari CD's? Atar Hot Wheels? Retro Atari shirts and cups from Target? Is this really all there is left for me? I have even collected all the Atari Age Magazines and Atari Baseball Bats... but these things start to feel like cheating. They are bonus items.
Then I find it. A full blown NTSC version of Bobby is Going Home. A great game that I have on a dactar 4 game cart that's NTSC, but this is a full cart with label and everything withan NTSC conversion sticker on it.
Then another... Parachute... another great game, but I have never seen the NTSC version. I just got #26 of what must have been a limited run with NTSC thrown on the label...
They aren't Hozer (because that's not how I roll... fully believe each Hozer cart lowers the value of your collection by $1,000) so I don't know where they came from. I have been 'round these parts for over a decade or so and don't remember these being released.
So...
Where did these come from and who made them?
And are there any more great PAL only games with NTSC conversions?
So what do you do? The horrible sickness of making the Atari collection grow is still there. So I collected boxes for my games... and then that got to the same impossible / impossibly expensive wall. So I collected home brews which are fantastic and fun to play and new. Those fun releases of Charlie Brown and Red Sea Crossing and the like are also fun ways to feed the Atari Collector monster in me.
But what else is there friends? WHAT ELSE? Taco Bell Atari CD's? Atar Hot Wheels? Retro Atari shirts and cups from Target? Is this really all there is left for me? I have even collected all the Atari Age Magazines and Atari Baseball Bats... but these things start to feel like cheating. They are bonus items.
Then I find it. A full blown NTSC version of Bobby is Going Home. A great game that I have on a dactar 4 game cart that's NTSC, but this is a full cart with label and everything withan NTSC conversion sticker on it.
Then another... Parachute... another great game, but I have never seen the NTSC version. I just got #26 of what must have been a limited run with NTSC thrown on the label...
They aren't Hozer (because that's not how I roll... fully believe each Hozer cart lowers the value of your collection by $1,000) so I don't know where they came from. I have been 'round these parts for over a decade or so and don't remember these being released.
So...
Where did these come from and who made them?
And are there any more great PAL only games with NTSC conversions?