Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 21, 2008 @08:01PM from the once-in-a-lifetime dept.

VonGuard writes "I was at the flea market in Oakland yesterday when a pile of EPROMs caught my eye. When I got them home I found that they were prototypes for Colecovision games. A few were unpublished or saw limited runs, like Video Hustler (billiards). Others were fully released, like WarGames. But the crown jewel is what look to be a number of chips with various revisions of Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park for Atari 2600. This game was never released and has never been seen. It was a port of the version for Colecovision, and this lot of chips also included the Coleco version. So now I have to find someone who can dump EPROMs gently onto a PC so we can play this never-before seen game, which is almost certainly awful."

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Re:Games Better Left Buried... by DrXym · 2008-04-21 23:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Who says games have got to be good to be released. Look at the Wii's lineup and it's virtually 80-90% shovelware - either PS2 ports, TV / cartoon franchises, or budget trash comparable to "White Van Racer" (an infamously crap PS2 game).
Studios know they can push out shit like this because people keep buying it. The problem is compounded on the Wii because the console supposedly appeals to non-gamers who have even less of a clue about quality titles than is usual for some consoles.
I expect that if a Cabbage Patch Kids game had released which consisted of moving a dot from one side of the screen to the other, it would still have sold in measurable quantities. Maybe it just never appeared because the studio ran out of money or the Cabbage Patch Kids fad faded before they could cash in.