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Hi there
About 12 years ago I picked up Indy 500 at a local electronics surplus store. But on the box (which was otherwise normal) it said "for use with joystick controllers". I thought it was odd cause I knew that the game was a paddle game and used to come with a pair of paddles. Anyways after I got the game home I noticed it had the original label on it but had a small sticker over the "for use with paddle controllers" which stated joysticks were needed. When I tried it out of course it did run on the joystick controllers. But heres where it gets weird, the game had a major bug, that was you could only steer 45 degrees in either direction but not turn corners on the race track. As a consolation you could drive through walls. Needless to say the game in that form was unplayable. I tried the paddles anyway only to find the 2600 produced the same electric rasberry noise that it would if you tried using the paddles on many of the other joystick games.
Does anyone know what on earth posessed atari to release this game in this unplayable form? or how common it might be?
All I do know is when it was released, 1986, it was marked on the lable although I remember that game had originally came out in 1978 or '79. The other oddity in the label is that the date was on the original label which was the style used from 1980 or so to early '82 (glossy black with picture) but had the "for use with paddle" phrase covered by another small sticker that claimed joysticks were required.
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