I love stories like this. I used to be active on atariage forums back in the day. I even created my own 2600 rom dumper which supports the vast majority of bankswitching schemes that is compatible with both Raspberry Pi and Arduino [1]<p>NGL I'm kinda bummed I missed out on this one. Makes me want to get back into game preservation game again.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/drzaiusx11/WiringVCS">https://github.com/drzaiusx11/WiringVCS</a>
Just in case you went down the rabbit hole and looked up the Atari Shock mentioned in this article...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983</a><p>and just in case you looked up some of the bad video games...<p>and just in case you read more about "Lost Luggage":<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Luggage_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Luggage_(video_game)</a><p>... and just in case you wanted to know if the --4 minute jingle-- mentioned was ever found. yes it has:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcC_am2I8W8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcC_am2I8W8</a>
Growing up reading the Tarzan books as well as living in Africa convinced me as a kid that his story was most likely real, with just some fantasy elements perhaps scattered in to make it more interesting.<p>He was basically my Santa Claus until somewhere around 10 or so.