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Starpath Supercharger

Atari 2600 cart. published 42 years ago by Starpath Corp.

Listed in MAME

Starpath Supercharger © 1982 Starpath Corp.

The Starpath Superchargeris an expansion peripheral cartridge for playing cassette-based proprietary games on the Atari 2600 video game console.

TECHNICAL

The device consists of a long cartridge with a handle on the end, and an audio cassette cable. It adds 6 KB to the Atari 2600's 128 bytes of RAM (increasing it 49-fold to 6,272 bytes of RAM), allowing for the creation of specially compatible games which are larger and have higher resolution graphics than normal cartridges. A cable coming out of the side of the cartridge plugs into the earphone jack of any standard cassette player, for loading all Supercharger games from standard audio cassettes.

The Supercharger is compatible with Atari 2600, Atari 2600 Jr., and the Sears Video Arcade consoles.

TRIVIA

Originally called the Arcadia Supercharger.

The Supercharger does not work on many Atari 7800 systems (which is typically backward compatible with the Atari 2600), although it does with some early models of the system. After Atari installed a circuit to fix a compatibility issue with the 2600 version of Dark Chambers, it subsequently caused incompatibility with the Supercharger and some other games that use the FE bank switching method.

SOURCES

Game's ROM.