View Full Version : Foam in my 2600 cart?
aaron7
07-26-2009, 10:16 AM
I hadn't see this before in any of my other carts... why is it there?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/aaron7/DSC03130.jpg
Atarileaf
07-26-2009, 10:38 AM
I think the activision games originally game that way. I think I remember chopper command and stampede coming this way when I was a kid and they were sold brand new. I don't think they were necessary, just to keep the chip from rattling around during shipping perhaps?
Bratwurst
07-26-2009, 10:53 AM
Wow, there can't be too many of those pieces still around now. Foam deteriorates like crazy, especially something that old.
Atarileaf
07-26-2009, 11:50 AM
Wow, there can't be too many of those pieces still around now. Foam deteriorates like crazy, especially something that old.
I got a used Activision Checkers in a lot once that had it in there too. It was in pretty good shape, yellowed though. I think I tossed it.
thunderkid
07-26-2009, 04:14 PM
Low-cost alternative way (compared to Atari's method) to protect the edge connector contacts.
Wait! If this is to protect the contacts, then isn't the foam on the wrong end of the cart? Or am I seeing the image backwards??
I remember the foam. My first 2600 game was Grand Prix. I am pretty sure I took the foam out.
Leo_A
07-26-2009, 10:40 PM
Wait! If this is to protect the contacts, then isn't the foam on the wrong end of the cart? Or am I seeing the image backwards??
The image is correct, your looking at the end of the cartridge that is inserted into the console.
Its a cheap protection scheme as has been mentioned, rather than the plastic dust cover mechanism Atari used. I wouldn't keep it in there, the few times I've seen the foam mentioned at AtariAge in recent years, conversations have came out about deterioration and how its just crumbled to pieces on people. Certainly not something you want to happen when inserting it into your console.