help me identify a type of cartridge

[c0ldb33r]

I was at the local Value Village about half an hour ago and saw an odd cartidge.

It was a Parker Bros. Frogger cart. It was black and was roughly the same dimensions as an Atari 2600 cart, but half as wide. The cart opening wasn't the right size for an intellivision, and it was too narrow to be a colecovision (which wouldn't jive with the 1981 copyright notice).

I tried to figure out what console this was for, and all I could find was a 1981/82 Sega copyright notice.

I've been trying to find pictures of what this could be on google, but I'm stumped.

Any ideas from this incredibly vague description I'm giving you? ;)

[Cantaloup]

Sounds like maybe a Colecovision cart? Check out the picture here:

http://www.thegameconsole.com/

[Cantaloup]

Sorry, should have read the OP more closely. Anyway, check out the link above for pictures of various game consoles and carts released around that time.

[c0ldb33r]

Sounds like maybe a Colecovision cart? Check out the picture here:

http://www.thegameconsole.com/
That's a great link, but I don't see it there.

I'll have to go back and snap a picture of it.

[Damaniel]

Is it the Commodore 64 cartridge version? I have one at home that I can check for you (it's boxed and I've never actually played it, so I don't know what it looks like), but I won't be able to look until this evening.

[Ze_ro]

I was thinking C64 as well. Here's a picture of the C64 version of Frogger:

http://www.vidgame.net/COMMODOR/Commodore/Commodore_64/c64_parker.jpg

It's a little difficult to judge scale from that picture, but the C64's cartridge port is about 2.5" wide, and 0.75" tall... One tell-tale feature of most C64 cartridges is that the connector-end of the cartridge has a wider plastic lip on the front than it does on the back, although I don't know if Parker Bros did this with their cartridges.

--Zero

[Kid Ice]

I'm getting a serious sense of deja vu from this thread. Someone months ago mentioned, with almost that exact description, a Frogger cart which I guessed to be a Colecovision cart (it turned out it wasn't but I don't remember what the final outcome was).

[c0ldb33r]

those dimensions look about right.

But this actually had an image of Frogger on it. The frog I mean, it wasn't just text. And the back had Parker Brothers inscribed in it.

[evg2000]

The Atari 800 carts where smaller, but it has the frogger picture on it:
http://www.evg2000.com/graphics/atari800/software/frogger.jpg

sorry for the biig picture, I took it directly from my site and was to lazy to make it smaller.

later,
Charles
www.evg2000.com

[boatofcar]

I bet it was the Atari 800 version. http://i16.ebayimg.com/06/i/08/c0/a3/eb_12.JPG

[Kid Ice]

I'm getting a serious sense of deja vu from this thread. Someone months ago mentioned, with almost that exact description, a Frogger cart which I guessed to be a Colecovision cart (it turned out it wasn't but I don't remember what the final outcome was).

I found the thread. It was a Frogger II cart.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86559&highlight=frogger

[Videogamerdaryll]

I was at the local Value Village about half an hour ago and saw an odd cartidge.

How Much was it?

[c0ldb33r]

The Atari 800 carts where smaller, but it has the frogger picture on it:
http://www.evg2000.com/graphics/atari800/software/frogger.jpg

Ahha! That's it!

Thanks! :D :D :D

I remember it had that little notch off the back/top part of the cartridge! :)



I was at the local Value Village about half an hour ago and saw an odd cartidge.

How Much was it?

Can't remember exactly, but it was like ... a buck. Is it worth anything? I checked the rarity guide, but there's nothing for the Atari 800.

[InsaneDavid]

Is it worth anything? I checked the rarity guide, but there's nothing for the Atari 800.

Rarity Guide entry here (http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=8575). Is it worth anything? It's worth a solid port of a great game. ;)