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Game ID: 23856
Console / System: Atari 2600
Title: Color Bar Generator Cart
Scarcity (loose): 9
Value in USD (loose): 999
Scarcity (complete): 0
Value in USD (complete): 0
Publisher: Video Soft
Section: 8
Designer: Jerry Lawson
Designer 2: Michael K. Glass
Developer: Video Soft
Style: Technical
Exceptional: -
Description: This is not a game but rather a tool for TV service technicians. It was advertised in an electronics journal/magazine and sold as a kit. This cartridge produces the NTSC color bars used in repairing VCR's, TV's, and laser disc players. Though the cart label states the title as Color Bar Generator Cart, the title screen says Test Pattern. The manual refers to it as the Color Bar And TV Test Pattern Cartridge. The manual states the copyright date on the title screen should be 1983 but both the manual and title screen are dated 1984. No boxed was produced for this, although the shipping box has "CB-1" either printed or stamped on it in blue. Originally sold for $29.95. A cart with the original shipping box sold on Ebay in 2010 for $4,500.
Release date (MM/DD/YYYY): 1984
Country / region: USA
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