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Buyatari
10-11-2005, 10:33 PM
This cart is a fake.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8225080104

As stated on Atariage

The history is: this cart was made by Eduardo Luccas, moderator of a Brazilian Yahoo group named Canal3. This cart was, originally, a prize won by a guy nicknamed Dablio, in a Warlords tournament. Now, this "honest" seller, Ricardo Pontual, is trying to let it pass as legit. Well, I guess it's not!!!

Those very close discussion group moderators usually keep Atari stuff for themselves, it's not a community like AtariAge, which endorses collaboration and open discussion. Messages posted to the C3 group are moderated. When there's something of their interested, they hold and buy first. When there's something they don't want to publish, they simply delete.

Needless to say, they're friends with the same "manufacturer" of the multi-cart sold by Road_runner, mentioned here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=76841 . Not trustable sellers to deal with, stay away by all means!

Wanna proof? Check those links:

http://www.classicgaming.com.br/cgi-bin/ca...c3_08.asp?ne=18
Pictures of one of their meetings. Shows the fake cart.

http://www.classicgaming.com.br/Images/Can...contro18_20.jpg
This is the fake cart picture if you wanna jump directly.

http://bm2099.fotos.uol.com.br/16encontro/...?currentPage=76
The happy and honest winner shows his prize.

Digivision carts are very easy to fake, cause the name of the game appears only in the upper label, and it's usually typed on white paper.

Unfortunately, those kind of people stains the good Brazilian Atari community name. In Brazil there are very honest people, and I hope most of you stick to the good example of Bonaccorsi, which is a honest and very reliable seller to all videogame collectors in the World. I hope everyone was like him.
anagrama
10-12-2005, 04:33 AM
Quick! To the bomb shelters!
Griking
10-12-2005, 08:54 AM
It would be pretty hard to mistake this cart from the real Air Raid. The real one is blue with a handle like design. Even the company names are different Menavision & Digivision. If I ran into this auction on my own I would have just assumed that it was a pirate cart. But then again, many people believe that the real Air Raid was only a pirate cart as well.
Jumpman Jr.
10-12-2005, 09:36 AM
If anybody is dumb enough to think that cart is actually Air Raid, The ought to buy it to teach themselves a lesson.
Mayhem
10-12-2005, 11:49 AM
It would be pretty hard to mistake this cart from the real Air Raid. The real one is blue with a handle like design. Even the company names are different Menavision & Digivision. If I ran into this auction on my own I would have just assumed that it was a pirate cart. But then again, many people believe that the real Air Raid was only a pirate cart as well.

No, that's not what BuyAtari is saying. The game really was sold in Brazil by Digivision, but this is a FAKE Digivision cart, it wasn't made by them, it was made by someone else to look like the "real" thing.
NESaholic
10-13-2005, 06:36 AM
I'm not much of an Atari expert but seeing that label it's clear for me that it's homebrewn.It looks like another one is under it or it's copied paper.
sisko
10-13-2005, 11:11 AM
It would be pretty hard to mistake this cart from the real Air Raid. The real one is blue with a handle like design. Even the company names are different Menavision & Digivision. If I ran into this auction on my own I would have just assumed that it was a pirate cart. But then again, many people believe that the real Air Raid was only a pirate cart as well.

What about the fact that the picture on the label is a classic Star Wars TIE something (Interceptor?)
tynstar
10-13-2005, 12:33 PM
Yeah that looks nothing like the one I had in my hands!!
captain nintendo
10-13-2005, 12:42 PM
Yeah that looks nothing like the one I had in my hands!!


Ditto !

On a side note , man oh man was Jerry G's 2600 collection amazing. @_@ :-P
slapdash
10-13-2005, 06:55 PM
I'm not much of an Atari expert but seeing that label it's clear for me that it's homebrewn.It looks like another one is under it or it's copied paper.

A lot of Brazilian games look pretty cheap, so that's not necessarily too weird.



What about the fact that the picture on the label is a classic Star Wars TIE something (Interceptor?)

That's normal for Digivision carts actually.