View Full Version : 5200 engraved #'s..
yuppicide
05-16-2005, 10:08 AM
Do all Atari 5200 carts have numbers carved/engraved into the labels and do they have a meaning?! Does the same game (say Qix for example) have the same number 163 carved in all of it's labels?!
AlanD
05-16-2005, 04:53 PM
I had always assumed that they were week/year codes as in 16th week of '83. I looked at my Qix and I believe it was 243. However my theory is pretty well shot since after you mentioning it I looked at all my carts and they all work that way except my cart of Soccer has 532 on it :)
anagrama
05-16-2005, 05:02 PM
It's possible to have a 53rd week though (or at least a couple of days of one) since 52 weeks = 364 days. Perhaps your Soccer was made on the last day of 1982?
rbudrick
05-16-2005, 05:56 PM
On new year's eve? Damn, that worker was pissed.
-ROb
yuppicide
05-17-2005, 04:19 PM
I have the same discussion over at AA and nobody there knows what the #'s are.. someone suspects aliens. I have 163, but one of the guys at AA has 263R. Now that baffles me even more that they have letters too.
video_game_addict
05-17-2005, 07:28 PM
Yeah make that two votes for the alien conspiracy.
Spartacus
05-17-2005, 08:02 PM
I never noticed the numbers before and have no idea what it means. My Qix has 25 3 R.
mikeetler
05-18-2005, 08:37 AM
If they are date codes (which is very probable), the letters could indicate specific manufacturing plants.