what is an aladdin NES game?

[POrkcOw]

i was looking at the online rarity guide and i noticed some of the games, manufactured by the company camerica, have the word aladdin in parentheses next to them. so i was wondering what that means and junk. also, how can you tell the difference between games with aladdin and those without?

[Mattiekrome]

Link pretty much tells the story... (http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/odd/aladdin/aladdin.html)


Basically, it was a cart-shaped piece of hardware that had a small cart port on the back of it to accept smaller cartridges. It was going to have an extra 64k of memory, a built-in battery to let you save games like you can on the TG16, and some kind of graphics SuperChip like Color Dreams announced earlier. All this was going to sell for $30, with "Compact Cartridges" to go with it to be priced for around $15-20.

A good picture of one in this eBay auction (http://cgi.ebay.com/Aladdin-Deck-Enhancer-Factory-Sealed-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ290003965335QQihZ019QQcategoryZ62053 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Back when I got mine a few years ago on eBay, they were selling the enhancer as well as all 6 games factory sealed for around 120$... I have seen them fall for as cheap as 80$ within the past 6 months or so

And one of the differences between the "aladdin" games and the regular ones is that the "aladdin" games had to be used with the deck enhancer, while the regular ones looked similar in size/shape to all other NES games, and you did not have to have the enhancer to play them. There are probably more differences regarding gameplay/graphics/etc., but I dont know the specifics

[POrkcOw]

heh, i thought they looked exactly the same as regular carts. knowing that they don't will help a lot when it comes to finding them. thanks for your help!

[Mattiekrome]

http://premium1.uploadit.org/mattiekrome//CAM.jpg

Heres a pic of both Quattro Sports releases. The "regular" release on the left, and "Aladdin" on the right.