Author Topic: Atari 5200 Retail, Custom Covers and Overlays (Read 2363 times)

These are awesome Lumberjack42! There are several in the actual 5200 section that need your customization though so that the spines are alike and so forth. Will you be doing any of those in the future?

Lumberjack42 · November 02, 2012, 10:51:23 PM

Quote from: jal4u2c70 on November 02, 2012, 10:17:36 PM

These are awesome Lumberjack42! There are several in the actual 5200 section that need your customization though so that the spines are alike and so forth. Will you be doing any of those in the future?

I plan on doing all of them, in fact, the only covers I am missing scans for are Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Choplifter!, Frogger II: Threeedeep!, H.E.R.O., James Bond 007, Meteorites, Montezuma's Revenge, Quest for Quintano Roo, Star Wars: Death Star Battle and Zenji. The odds of getting a box scan for Bounty Bob are going to be nigh on impossible as just the cart alone goes for almost $400 these days.

I may be able to fake Robotron and Quest with their 7800 and 2600 counterparts.

The question i have is that both River Raid and Space Shuttle were re-released by Activision in the same boxes that their 2600 counterparts came in and I was wondering if it would cause confusion to create retail versions to match or not.

Lumberjack42

jal4u2c70 · November 02, 2012, 11:42:18 PM

Well the ones i was hoping you would do is the custom versions with the atari logo on the spine. I made a list of what still needs to be done to complete the custom versions with the silver and blue atari template. Let's see if it matches what you show as still missing.
Archon
Atlantis
Beef Drop
Berzerk
Bounty Bob Strikes Back
Choplifter
Clowns and Balloons
Crystal Castles
Demon Attack
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr
Frogger II: Threedeep
H.E.R.O.
James Bond 007
Keystone Kapers
Mario Bros
Meteorites
Montezuma's Revenge
Moon Patrol
Mr Do's Castle
Ms Pac Man
Multicart
Pengo
Quest for Quintana Roo
Robotron 2084
Spy Hunter
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: Death Star Battle
Vanguard
Zenji
Zone Ranger
You could probably take some of these that are finished in their retail versions and just turn them into the custom versions. Listen to me...trying to tell you how to do what you do. LOL I'll let you be the judge of what is transferrable. Anyways, two thirds of all 5200 games are done and they look awesome. The work you guys have put into these is phenomenal!! It is much appreciated!

jal4u2c70 · November 02, 2012, 11:47:28 PM

I got a bunch from Christopher Pruitt's Box account as well. He did several that use the silver and blue atari template with the logo on the spine. That's how i came up with the list of remaining ones to be done.

Lumberjack42 · November 02, 2012, 11:56:03 PM

Quote from: jal4u2c70 on November 02, 2012, 11:47:28 PM

I got a bunch from Christopher Pruitt's Box account as well. He did several that use the silver and blue atari template with the logo on the spine. That's how i came up with the list of remaining ones to be done.

I'm only making officially released (aside from the Last Starfighter and that's only because I got a great deal on a repo cart and there is enough high rez art available) games. Any of the conversions, new games and prototypes are not on my radar, mainly because most of them have no high-rez art available. BTW, I'm Christopher Pruitt, in case you were wondering.

jal4u2c70 · November 03, 2012, 12:06:00 AM

Well then you know who i'm talking about then!

LOL So which ones from the list are you planning to do? I'm not really familiar in which games were conversions. I know Beef Drop was a new game but that's about the extent of my knowledge of new games and conversions. And are you just doing the retail covers or will you be doing retail and custom like you have been doing so far?

Lumberjack42 · November 03, 2012, 12:18:35 AM

Here are all the CBS Electronics covers

Blueprint

Retail

Custom

Gorf

Retail

Custom

K-Razy Shootout

Retail

Custom

Mountain King

Retail

Custom

Wizard of Wor

Retail

Custom

Lumberjack42

Lumberjack42 · November 03, 2012, 12:21:28 AM

Quote from: jal4u2c70 on November 03, 2012, 12:06:00 AM

Well then you know who i'm talking about then! LOL So which ones from the list are you planning to do? I'm not really familiar in which games were conversions. I know Beef Drop was a new game but that's about the extent of my knowledge of new games and conversions. And are you just doing the retail covers or will you be doing retail and custom like you have been doing so far?

The official list is in the Atari 5200 scans thread here