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    Just a call for help if anyone can assist me here

    Firstly if anyone can take a picture of a spread of Activision 2600 game boxes out either neatly arranged or in a "card fan" that would be great. Plus a few direct frontal scans of 2600 boxes (as per AtariAge, but many of them are signed so not sure about asking to use them anyhow). Also some pictures singly or grouped of patches too.

    If anyone has got some box pics of games they published in the 90s that would be good too.

    FINALLY... if anyone can assist in finding me a list (complete or near complete) of everything they've released EVER, I'd be eternally thankful

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    The list below is all their 2600 releases, including Imagic reprints. If you want *all* their releases I can scan the Psychopedia pages for you, but that only goes up to 2003.

    I'm going to be working on my game room this weekend so if I get a chance I'll snap some pix (I have 20 or so boxed Activision games).

    Did they have releases in the 90s for the VCS? I have some of the late releases like Kung Fu Master and Commando if you want scans of those.

    Atlantis
    Barnstorming
    Beamrider
    Boxing
    Bridge
    Checkers
    Chopper Command
    Commando
    Cosmic Commuter
    Crackpots
    Decathlon
    Demon Attack
    Dolphin
    Double Dragon
    Dragster
    Enduro
    Fishing Derby
    Freeway
    Frostbite
    Ghostbusters
    Grand Prix
    HERO
    Ice Hockey
    Kaboom
    Keystone Kapers
    Kung Fu Master
    Laser Blast
    Megamania
    Moonsweeper
    Oink!
    Pitfall II
    Pitfall
    Plaque Attack
    Pressure Cooker
    Private Eye
    Rampage
    River Raid
    River Raid II
    Robot Tank
    Seaquest
    Skiing
    Sky Jinks
    Space Shuttle
    Spider Fighter
    Stampede
    Starmaster
    Tennis

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    You know, I'd completely forgotten about the Psychopedia, I have a copy in front of me heh.

    Anyhow, it's a good start, but as you say, missing anything from the last couple of years, plus only deals with cart/CD based games (so nothing tape and disk related for the home computers for example).

    Activision's website has anything current gen, so I can probably crib that, and I've got a list for all the stuff they did on C64. That might almost cover it (bar looking in the Online Rarity Guide here for anything obvious I've overlooked).

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    Also it depends if you want to include Gamestar, Infocom, Lucasarts etc...

    Anyway, here's some small Activision VCS scans from my ex-collection, sorry about the flash in some:

    http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...Picture003.jpg

    http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...Picture004.jpg

    http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...Picture029.jpg

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    Here's the XL range on carts, but i showed you last time already, so you obviously have this:

    Activision....CA-009...84 Beamrider
    Activision....CC-008...83 Decathlon
    Activision....CC-102...84 Designer's Pencil, The
    Activision....CZ-005...84 Dreadnought Factor, The
    Activision....CZ-007...84 H.E.R.O.
    Activision....CZ-002...83 Kaboom!
    Activision....CZ-006...84 Keystone Kapers
    Activision....CZ-003...83 MegaMania
    Activision....CC-104...84 Pastfinder
    Activision....CZ-004...84 Pitfall!
    Activision....CA-011...84 Pitfall II
    Activision....CZ-001...83 River Raid
    Activision....CA-012...83 Space Shuttle
    Activision....CZ-010...84 Zenji
    Activision....CC-101...84 Zone Ranger

    Don't know about a database for tape and disk games, sorry.

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    as for 90s games:
    i can scan IBM:
    Spycraft: The Great Game, Activision Anthology Remix Edition, Atari 2600 Action Pack for Windows, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries LE, Mechwarrior, The Zork Legacy Collection.

    Atari 2600 Action Pack 2 for MAC

    Probably more, if I could find all of my stuff

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    Yeah the Psychopedia covers the XL releases, but the release dates are probably gonna be useful that you put.

    I'll go look for an Amiga release list, most of them were probably good for the ST as well. Which might just able to complete most of what I need.

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    I'll bank the 2600 pics Tom, see if they get used heh.

    If anyone has a list of PC releases, that would be great.

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    Also have Hunter on Amiga, excellent game.

    Just read in Amiga Format Special No4 (1993) that Activision was purchased by the French 'The Disk Company', so you might want to include that too

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    I don't think Activision was that big on PC to start of with, they distributed a lot of other companies:
    Here's some MAC/PC from a Catalogue:
    Shanghai II
    Rodney's Color
    Sargon V
    Power Hits: Kids
    Manhole
    Rodney's Funscreen
    Power Hits: Movies: The Rocketeer, Hare Raising Havoc, Die Hard, Ghostbusters II
    Power Hits: Sci-Fi: Prophecy, Tounge of the Fatman, Deathtrack, Circuits Edge, Mines of Titan
    Power Hits: Battletech: Battletech I & II, Mechwarrior
    Power Hits: Sports: Face Off, Motorcross, Power Drift
    Activision Discovery Packs

    I also have Alter Ego Female on MS-DOS

    Best look at Moby Games for an (almost) complete rundown:

    http://www.mobygames.com/browse/game...0a/list-games/

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    Yeah was looking at the Moby list... part of the trouble is when one version was released in a different year to another. I haven't decided if I'll just lump them together under one heading (with the year that the game first came out on whatever format) or spread them out separately per year.

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    I can take some pics of what boxed Atari 2600 carts I have if you need it.
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    If you can take some good scans of a few (you choose) 2600 box fronts (just stick the box on the scanner) that would be good. A lot of the AA ones are signed for example heh.

    Looking through the Moby list though, I've already spotted two games not listed (Wu-Tang on the PS1 is one of them) so I'm gonna have to double check it anyhow...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mayhem
    If you can take some good scans of a few (you choose) 2600 box fronts (just stick the box on the scanner) that would be good. A lot of the AA ones are signed for example heh.

    Looking through the Moby list though, I've already spotted two games not listed (Wu-Tang on the PS1 is one of them) so I'm gonna have to double check it anyhow...
    Are there any in particular you need, or just scan the few that I've got and go from there?
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    Pitfall, River Raid, HERO would be nice. After that, pick a few others yourself

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mayhem
    Pitfall, River Raid, HERO would be nice. After that, pick a few others yourself
    I scanned what I had. Lemme know if you need the back also.
    http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...P0Z73EJB697M54
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