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    Default Possible Keystone Kapers Atari 5200 Prototype Found? Help?

    Ok I found this in an odd lot, in a suburban garage sale a few months ago. It came in a lot of games, a few nintendo games were in the lot, 5 virtual boy games (super jack bros among them, woo) and a pair of atari games. Anyways, this was the LONE 5200 cartridge in teh lot, and it was quite odd to me. The front has no normal label, only what looks like a small square mailing type label with the following text...

    Keystone Kapers (TM) above it in sort of a square root style..
    under that, FZ-006
    and under that the (C) 1983, 1984 Activision, Inc.

    all in text. the cartridge is solid along the backside, no holders for overlays or whatnot, just solid black. I checked out my original keystone kapers and the cartridge modling doesnt look anything like the one I have here. Is this a prototype, or a reviewer copy or what? how do I get a picture to the board, and what should I look for, inside OR outside to let me know exactly what it is I have here? I found it strange that the owners parents had this single lonely 5200 game amongst a bunch of other crap. She said her son always kept this game even tho he sold all the other 5200 stuff. But she was sick of it taking up space so she got rid of a handful of the stuff. That's why I'm thinking it might be something somewhat special.

    Any assistance? How do I get a picture up?

    And, it's certainly available to anybody who wants it. I have no idea what it's worth or what I could get for it. But I'm open to a bunch of stuff. And I'm mostly a NES collector at this point.

    Frank

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    Take a picture of the front, open it up if you can without damaging it, and take pictures of the chips inside. Then e-mail them to Joe, if you don't have somewhere to host them. If it is a legit proto of a game noone else has seen, you're usually talking anywhere from $300-$2000 depending on a million other things.
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    That should be really interesting to see.
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    I'm going to open it up now and take pictures for you guys to check out, we'll see what happens with it. I'll get them out in the next hour to Joe.

    Frank

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    I don't know much about the 5200 but I love prototypes. I can't wait to see what this thing looks like.
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    You know what, I dont' have a "working" atari 5200 to try it on right now I have been long looking for an extra power supply (the crazy ones with the RF's) to test a bunch of 5200 stuff on.

    Anyways, I've been holding on to this thing for about 2-3 months now just sitting there. I saw it tonight and figured what the hell, lemmi get the lowdown on this guy. I havent actually tested it yet, but games are pretty resilient, and the circuit board looked to be in fine shape. A good cleaning of the contacts should bring it into working order. I'll see if I can get hold of a 5200 system this weekend to get it up and running and see whats up with it. I'll of course keep the community informed. So far a few people told me it's the real deal, but I'll see what the rest of the group says. Maybe some people with more experience. I still havent decided exactly what to do with it yet, but I'm open to idea's if it turns out to be the real deal.

    Owell! I still don't want to get my hopes up too high. Been dissapointed before

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    Well, it's definitely an EPROM, I can tell you that.

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    Yup, its an EProm, and most likely it is the real deal. Hopefully you can get that sucker up and running to see if there are any differences.

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    On this page ...

    http://www.angelfire.com/id/ianoid/Atari8Web.html

    ... he has several Activision carts described as "lab loaner white label."

    Maybe?

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