Help identify this cartidge

[Mr.Platypus]

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/9112/targetsw.jpg
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3522/topmla.jpg

It looks like some atari bootleg, right? But it isn't.
here is a pic of the game sandwiched between a 7800 and a 2600 cart.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1034/ataris.jpg

Actually, the size and number of pins almost suggest this is a Coleco cart, but because of the shape of the housing, it will not fit into a Colecovision. I've tried.
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2517/colecot.jpg

Any ideas? What is this thing?

[Steve W]

For those who might know better than I, could this be a Sega SG-1000 cartridge? I know that they're roughly the same size as a Colecovision/Atari cartridge (from the slot size on my Telegames DINA system). Since it's in English it could mean that this might have come from Australia, where they did get the SG-1000 if I recall correctly.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

For those who might know better than I, could this be a Sega SG-1000 cartridge?
Simply put, no.

[y-bot]

I think this is the same company:

http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_eaca.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EACA

Maybe one of those Pong systems that takes carts?

[Ryaan1234]

I think this is the same company:

http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_eaca.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EACA

Maybe one of those Pong systems that takes carts?

Hmmm.... EACA made computers. They made the Colour Genie EG-2000 computer. Notice that the cartridge is model "EG-C111". I'm thinking it's some sort of game for one of their "EG-whatever" computers, all of which are from the Genie series.

[Torx]

not a c64 cart?

[j_factor]

The Wikipedia article says that some of EACA's computers were TRS-80 Model 1 compatible, so maybe that's what it's for?

[icbrkr]

Model 1's didn't have cartridge ports, only their CoCo line.

[Aswald]

It's from an old programmable ("Cartridge System"): I think it was called the Optim (or Optimus, or something like that) Majestic EG1001.

It had joysticks like an Atari VCS, and played some simple games from that era- some simple maze games, puzzle games, racing games, that sort of thing. But it's been so long, I don't remember the exact details.

[Steve W]

not a c64 cart?
No, Commodore 64 carts are smaller than Atari cartridges, which this cart is the size of.

I don't see any information about the Color Genie having a cartridge port, or the earlier Video Genie machines. EACA's little advertisements only mention the cassette drive for loading software. Hmmmmm.

[slapdash]

Just judging by the games on the cart, I'm sure Aswald is correct, though there were just SO MANY of those semi-programmable systems (I say semi because the carts didn't have ROM and the system a CPU, but rather the carts had chips that acted as CPU and ROM; General Instruments made the most commonly adapted set of chips).

[Mr.Platypus]

Aswald is almost certainly correct here.
http://www.pong-picture-page.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2036&osCsid=54a1c78d4
here they mention the Optim Majestic EG-1001, and they list 12 games that were available, and the first one they mentioned was 'Targets'

I don't know how to feel about it. I mean, it's fun to have something more exotic than just another odd 2600 cart, but chances are I will never own the machine, so i will not likely ever get to play it =[

Thanks for the help though. I had been very perplexed about it for a long time.

[Steve W]

What an interesting machine. It looks like an Atari VCS mixed with the shape of a Mattel Aquarius. Looks like it came out in Germany. I wonder if EACA was a licensing manufacturer like the mystery company that created the Emerson Arcadia 2001 and similar machines, or did they just put the console out in Germany, and that's all the countries the hardware was deployed in?