Glitches in 2600 carts

[boatofcar]

I was playing Pac Man on my VCS today and for no reason it would hand out either 40 or 60,000 point bonuses. Is this a glitch in all carts or is it due to to the age of the cart, does it need to be cleaned, etc?

[CrazyImpmon]

I've had my share of unexplained and unreproduceable glitches as well. The few that I can remember the most:

Yars Revenge: after I hit the Qotle and I got the explosion screen, the explosion stoppd shrinking half way yet the color continued to cycle and I was able to move Yars around. I had to use the reset switch to get out of that.

Maze Craze: Once I found a larger than normal square "stuck" near the maze's exit. It wasn't moving and it was white. And I couldn't get past it

Math Grand Prix: I was selecting the number for answer but instead of number rolling over, the number started into gibberish and kept going. Couldn't do anything until I turned off the system.

[GENESISNES]

is the cart a proto?

did this glitch happen more than once?

[boatofcar]

is the cart a proto?

did this glitch happen more than once?


No and yes, it happens almost every time I play.

[gamingguy]

Here's a glitch I discovered today. On a Commodore 64 with Mayhem in Monsterland if you finish the game and start over, the sprites look like crap. Instead of monsters, you see random dot patterns.

[CrazyImpmon]

Oh we're on C64 now? I once crashed Test Drive 2 by accident. I was hitting 'w' key repeatedly, forgetting I'm using C64 and not PC version. After a while a strange black box kept popping up in the upper right corner and then the whole game died with only half the screen visible.