We're
proud to announce the results of the Star
Wars Autographed Cartridge Contest! The winner of the contest is Russ
Perry Jr. for submitting a wide variety of high-quality, unique images.
Russ has been an avid Atari fan for many years, as evidenced by correspondence
he made with Atari and Answer Software as far back as 1982. Russ also
provided us with scans of t-shirts offered by the Atari Club as well as
images of rare brochures and advertisements for products that never saw
the light of day. We have included all of his submissions below so you
can view them. Ultimately these images will be used to create new Archives
sections for AtariAge. For instance, we'll be creating a T-shirts
page, a Correspondence page, and so forth. We asked Russ how he
got started as a collector and here's what he had to say,
"In all honesty, I've always been an Atari fan and collector.
I'm not one of those guys who got rid of all his stuff when he outgrew
it and is now trying to recapture his youth. Rather, everything I ever
got, I kept. And of course I wasn't content to just play the few games
I had -- I wrote to all the companies to ask what they had. I read all
the magazines that I could. And I kept all of it. It was slow at first,
but accelerated once I got an allowance, and more so when the crash hit
and caused a lot of cheap games to become available. My interests expanded
well beyond Atari, but it's always been a soft spot in my heart. I love
Atari. My first videogame ever was Atari Breakout. My first home experience
was with Atari Pong. My first system was the Atari VCS.
My collection isn't the biggest, or the best -- I've got boxes that
I cut down to fit in my closet, and I've still got many games with cruddy
labels just because that's how I found them -- but I'm happy with the
sheer amount of it. I kept my game lists for years, and have talked with
a bunch of people who used to work for Atari and other 2600 game manufacturers.
It's always interesting.
I'm also happy to have done a couple things for the hobby -- helping
put together the Stella Gets A New Brain CD and helping Tim start the
2600 Connection, which I've since taken over.
Sadly, I haven't much of a web page, but you can check out what IS
there, including a (badly done and out of date) list of what's in my collection
at http://www.enteract.com/~slapdash
(or http://drink.to/slapdash if
that's easier to remember)."
We wish to thank everyone who took the time to submit entries for this
contest! We have saved all the submissions and plan to use the images
on AtariAge as we have time to process the images and add them to the
appropriate areas of the site. As we use these images, we'll give appropriate
credit to the people who submitted them. We're presently working on ideas
for a new contest and will make an announcement in upcoming weeks about
it. The original Star Wars Contest details can be found here.
Without further ado, here are the winning images (click
on any image for a larger view):

Answer Software:
Atari:

Atari:
Third-Party:

Video Fitness System
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