Comments on: Secret Cartridge Messages

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Benj Edwards

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:21:55 +0000

Awesome job, Taylor. Now if everyone would open their copy of Mario Kart, someone might find it.

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Taylor

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:07:27 +0000

I quickly rushed to my copy of Mario Kart, bought in Raleigh years ago, and unscrewed it. No note, but I added one just in case I ever sell it.

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Marcelo

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:59:09 +0000

Hey Zoyous, I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in the early 80′s we also called the cartridges 'tapes'. Everyone did that, even when we knew they weren't really tapes. We even used to ask each other "how many atari tapes do you have?", referring to the titles of the games (the word in portuguese is 'fita', "Quantas fitas de atari você tem?"). Of course with the years people forgot about that and called cartridges by its proper name.
But the other day, talking to my 9 year old neighbour, he surprised me when he called his Wii discs by the word 'tape' again. Maybe kids are using that terminology today. I'll ask around.

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Ethan

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:14:24 +0000

Whoaa…thats so cool :O

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Win WOods

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:21:23 +0000

Oh wow, no way dude, I had no idea!

Jess
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Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Chris

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:14:45 +0000

I did something similar, but with a movie that I rented from my local Major Video about twenty years ago. At the end of a typical commercially recorded VHS tape, after the credits and Interpol warnings and such were over, there was usually between 10 seconds and two minutes of blank, unrecorded tape left on the spool. Seeing an opportunity to do something cool, I connected my C=64 to the video input of my old VCR, covered over the write-protect tab, and added a small text message at the end of "This Is Spinal Tap". I recall writing something to the effect of "Hey, this was a great movie."

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: kyle

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:37:41 +0000

I rented a sesame street game for nes and super mario bros 3 one time and swapped out the boards when i was 10. I wonder how somebody else felt when they popped in smb3 and got big bird teaching them how to spell. lmao good times

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Zoyous

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:57:48 +0000

…I think I also started opening them in order to confirm that there was a real difference between Mega Cartridges, Two-Mega Cartridges and Four-Mega Cartridges (there was), and to see the batteries used in saving RPGs like Miracle Warriors and Phantasy Star.

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Zoyous

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:55:06 +0000

I remember opening up my Master System cartridges to show my mom, who insisted on referring to them as "tapes," that they were in fact cartridges. My mom was pretty computer savvy but for some reason had convinced herself that they were tapes. They were kind of a similar size and shape to cassettes, and she had probably dealt with cassette drives at her work in previous years.

Comment on Secret Cartridge Messages by: Dale

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:34:46 +0000

This is the coolest thing I've seen all week. I used to do something similar, rolling up pieces of paper with notes on them and jaming them into the crevices of walls, under floor tiles and other hidden spaces, but I never thought of hiding them inside game cartridges. I've pulled more than a few apart, though! Great post.