Arcturus for TI-99/4a On eBay

[offthechartsvideogames]

I recently purchased a large collection of pre-NES games and systems from a person who cleaned out a large collection from an electronics collector. In that collection was the copy of Arcturus that I am auctioning in this auction:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151772941046?rmvSB=true


Unfortunately, I do not have a TI-99, and shockingly, there wasn't one in the collection. I was told that before the consoles and games I purchased were separated, a pile of Commodore 64 and other early computing hardware was put in the dumpster. It is my understanding that this game also requires the 32K expansion unit, but I'm also assuming that most interested parties would have that setup.

I was unable to find any pricing information on the cartridge other than a forum post from 2008 that said Arcturus would sell for $150 on its own, so I started it at $99.99 with no reserve. I put Priority as the lowest level shipping option. I will work with the buyer to use whatever shipping method they desire.

If you have any questions, please email me at otcvideogames@gmail.com.

[Steve W]

That looks more like a prototype than a general release. The typewriter-printed label rather than a production label and the cart port looking a bit askew makes me think that. And there's no other info stamped into the case like copyrights and parent companies. And it doesn't require the 32K expansion, it actually fits into the expansion port where the external expansion would plug into. Tigervision did that kind of thing too, to bypass the third-party copyright protection TI built into the beige plastic revision of the computer.

I've played Arcturus on floppy disk, and it's a decent little Zaxxon clone. In fact, I've never seen it in cartridge form before. You definitely have a rarity there, even if it's not a prototype.