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Sequel to an Unreleased Want New INTV Games?
Vectrex Game to
Hit Your PC As many of you are probably aware,
there have been several new releases
lately for various classic consoles, such
Do you own a Vectrex? Do you as Vectrex, Atari 2600, Colecovision,
own the game "Dark Tower"? Odds Odyssey2, Lynx, and the Jaguar. Can
are you don't. Unfortunately, even you spot the missing console? We
though it should have been among our haven't seen any new games released
favorite classic games, Dark Tower for for the Intellivision in a long time.
the Vectrex was never released. But Some would say that we are due some
all is not lost.....you shall go to the ball! new Intellivision games. One such
Salsa Shark Productions has an- person has made it his mission to con-
nounced the release of their first PC vince software houses that there is a
game, Shadow of the Lost Citadel, demand for new Intellivision games,
which is a modern homage to Dark and you can help make his dream a
Tower. reality.
The game, a 3D fantasy/adventure Valter Prette, the founder of
type, has you travel through a series of makeINTVgame! and an avid Intellivi-
dark forests in search of special items sion fan, is in the beginning stages of
(while avoiding dangers). The goal is persuading companies to resume their
to find several keys, locate the Citadel, Intellivision development. Currently, he
solve its riddle, and lift the dreadful needs to obtain signatures from inter-
curse over the realm of Broodweed! ested gamers to prove to the software
It is a game for the entire family that houses that people are interested.
captures the sword and sorcery mood To add your signature go to:
of Dark Tower, while offering a fresh
look for the PC. http://digilander.iol.it/
AlternativeThought/makeINTVgame.
www.salsagames.com htm
“One Million Cartridges!”
Trade Those Carts!
Are you looking to trade in your Ever wonder what a million Atari cartridges
games for different ones? Want to look like? Well, thanks to Bill Houlehan of
trade a Pac-Man for an Astroblast? O'Shea, you can not only SEE what a million-
Perhaps your usual method isn’t cutting cartridge empire looks like, but you can BUY
it anymore? Enter a new player into the games, too! Having snatched up Atari's
the disposal and acquisition game - entire inventory, Bill claims to "have the largest
Switchouse.com. Claiming to be the inventory of Atari cartridges in the world, and
largest swapping site on the Internet, they are all new, never opened, with all the
Switchouse appears to model them- manuals -- in mint condition." He sells 46 dif-
selves after eBay and has the drive to ferent titles for the 2600 and 7800, including
become the eBay/Amazon of swap- (for the 2600) Space Invaders, Phoenix, Gal-
ping. In addition to being able to trade axian, Jungle Hunt, and Dark Chambers; and
CDs, movies, and books, the site has a (for the 7800) Centipede, Joust, Ballblazer, Tower Toppler, and Robotron. The
large section for game trades (both best part is that the games cost only .80 plus shipping.
new and classic). Once your trade is
completed, Switchouse will charge a www.atariclassic.com
small fee for each item being traded.
The site appears to be clearly or-
ganized, and as it continues to grow,
we assume that the pool of items to be
traded will grow exponentially.
www.switchouse.com
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