Atari 2600 Air Raid box found

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http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...st__p__1976342

Amazement and April Fool's speculation ahead.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

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That looks too real for April Fools, considering the age of the stickers and everything matching his previous story. That box is epic.

[Snappaccino]

[Snapple]

I remember a couple years ago there was this hoax where a guy said he found like ten Air Raid carts then posted a picture of them all lined up next to each other. I think it was shopped.

This looks real to me, even though there are typos on the box ("loan" command post). Probably just poor production values by Men-A-Vision.

I like how he included the dated lottery ticket. Reminds me of how they use daily newspapers to prove hostages are alive.

In any case, this is a huge find, considering how legendary Air Raid has already become without the box.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

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That looks too real for April Fools, considering the age of the stickers and everything matching his previous story. That box is epic.

Indeed.

It takes quite a bit of time and effort to come up with an original design like that. It could be a fake, but if so, it's a pretty elaborate hoax. With Air Raid, the market is very small for someone like CPUWIZ, Marc Oberhauser, etc. to make a repro box of some kind, so it seems like an awful lot of effort just for a hoax. And as you said, that box certainly does not look fake...it's aged and has what appears to be an original price sticker.

[ShinobiMan]

Looks to be legit. Can someone provide a little history on this game? Is it a prototype or just an EXTREMELY rare game where no one has seen the box before?

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Is it a prototype or just an EXTREMELY rare game where no one has seen the box before?

The latter.

[Steve W]

It's a rarely seen game that's essentially a partial hack of Space Jockey (it shares something like 60% of Space Jockey's code someone once said) and there's a handful of copies out there. But so far, with those few copies, nobody has seen a box for it. Until now, if it's real. It was speculated for the longest time that it might be a Mexican pirate game, and that there were supposed to be EPROMS inside rather than real ROMs. I haven't kept up with the saga of this game's history, so I don't know much more about it.