Magazine #14.3 2/02

Classic Gaming Expo 2K2
Part III

Goodies At The Booths: Prototypes, Unreleased Items, Engineering Samples

Here is a selection of extra items that many of the booths displayed.

Original Atari Lynx video adapter - very nice picture quality!	Atari R&D spent thousands of Dollars on these	B&C Computers sold this one for $1K	Joe of PixelsPast showed his new Atari 2600 cartridge case engineering samples
Carl Forhan hat this 2 Megs Jaguar Alpine development board	Aircars prototype - binary is different from released version	Back of the Alpine board	Jaguar Cortina (Web-TV) prototype
Jaguar Team Tap test board	Jaguar MIDI development board, Jaguar server (first homebrew development system)	Jaguar audio board, unpopulated MPEG decoder(?) board (MPEG-1)	CD development board (hooked up to ST), Jaguar test board, 2 prototypes
Jaguar mouse adapter	Jaguar flash cart and prototype	At Dan Kramer's booth: Centipede mascot	Also this Dig Dug blow-up balloon - cool!
Dan Kramer had this clear Atari 7800 with clear Joystick and clear cartridge case (front half)	Dan Kramer showing an Atari 7800 with modified ROM: pressing the SELECT/RESET buttons during power-up displays messages	First was 'DAN+BJ', BJ = Barbara Joan = Dan's girlfriend at the time, second was 'HUDSON' = Dan's car at the time	Third was 'IVY JOAN' = Dan's daughter
DK booth: a book of matches?	Chewing gum?	Spelling?	I love Atari!
Matt's collection of Atari 5200 protos - many of them signed!	More 5200 protos	The proud owner	Sharp Game Television for sale
Close up of the Zektor demo	Different angle	Zektor booth: nice vector screen saver	The Intellivision guys had a Blowout proto
Blowout consists of three games	Blowout, Space Cadet and Hardhat	But only Blowout worked	Space Cadet didn't work
Neither did Hardhat	Paul and Rick's booth: Atari 2600 Synthcart in action	Atari 2600 test cart and others	Old hacker book at B&C - absolutely hillarious!
Original Computer Space sales flyer	Not a bad price that Chris paid for it!	Atari2600.com had a G7200 Videopac console with the very hard to find French sticker

One comment about the Atari condoms: somebody (DK?) told me about a conversation with Intel engineers. They wanted condoms too and suggested the 'Intel Inside' logo to be printed on them - heh, heh, heh! A comment about the Computer Space flyer: it's rumored that the model next to the arcade machine is Yvette Mimieux. Nope! According to Dan it's more likely that the model was a stripper from the bar 'Brass Rail', then popular with the engineers in the Sunnyvale area. Looks like there still is a Brass Rail bar in Sunnyvale these days, no idea if it has anything to do with the bar from 1971.

Continue with Part IV

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