Love my Starpath Supercharger, and the extra technical capability it adds to the system. You can also use Makewav software on your PC to convert ROMs of games over to a format it recognizes to play "backups" if a Harmony cart proves elusive/costly!

I love when john smiles and his eyes disappear lol

I used to have a SUPERCHARGER, and DragonStomper was one of my most favorite games of all time. Never forget.

Escape from the Mindmaster is actually a pretty fun game. As for Dragonstomper, it is forever the title that I think of when someone mentions the Starpath Supercharger. An early RPG well ahead of its time.

John has the passion I really like to see from collectors,you can tell John and mjr really love gaming and all that comes with it.

The 2600 Ram part mentioned here is mistaken as the 2600's 128 bytes of Ram is work ram, and the rest of the game was stored on Rom in the cart. Here no cart rom is available to store the game, so the game is loaded into the 6KB Ram. This does not suddenly make more physical Ram available for the system.

Nice presentation. Good to know that I'm not the only one fascinated by those pioneering days of 8-bit computing and gaming.

Wow! just met one of the STARPATH founders at a garage sale this weekend! I bought an jacket with an EPYX logo!!!

There's still a lot of charm with these old retro games. It's becoming my new obsession.

Thumb ups for the Snake Plissken shirt alone but the rest of the video was great too.

I love this obscure gaming stuff. Awesome vid MJR!

I've had a super charger for many years. But, only saw one or 2 games for it, thanks for showing all the games I didn't know about. I do know they are very hard to find as it was such a odd ball item...

I learned something new today. Love your guest you have on show and it's just plain fun to watch your videos

This was a really great video this week - thanks John for sharing your stuff, MJR keep up the good work! More of this obscure stuff please!

Maybe some one can make a GOOD version of Pac man for the 2600 with this adapter.

The fact that is runs from an audio headphone jack, MetalJesusRocks, how AWESOME would it be to have the Starpath SuperCharger games collection on VINYL!

I love these kind of videos from you Metal Jesus! You always look like you're having a ton of fun with these wacky obscure games :D

Awesome video MJ. I've been a collector for a long time and haven't seen half of these games.

Always informative and a pleasure to watch. Thank you Metal Jesus!

7 years later and MJR content is still being recommended and rightfully so.

Great Video! Awesome to see vintage collections like this.

MJR you rock! I thought I knew almost everything about atari too, but never heard about this. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. Keep up the good work.

Great episode! The only thing I can remember for crazy add-ons was the Sega Channel which you got through your cable company and it had an adapter to put in your Genesis and there were about 50 games available and they switched up the games every month.

I happened to see a picture of one of these things on tumblr recently and was astounded I had never heard of this as I grew up with the 2600 as a kid. This was a very cool concept and great video.

Killing it as always Metal Jesus! I might stop paying my cable bill I love your channel so much. Devil Horn Salute Dude!!!!

Wow! Thanks for the memories. I have the Atari 2600 console, the supercharger, and I think most of the original games on cassette. Haven't played them since the early 1980's. Maybe someday I'll get them out and see if I can clean up the console and games and see if they work.

I had, still have, and love my Supercharger. I also have all the games but never knew about the two extra games that were released non boxed. Very cool. Thanks!

Great video. Love videos that show us a whole new sphere to collect in. And love me some obscura!

John is frickin cool. Dig that Snake Plissken shirt. Great vid. I loved the Super Charger back in the day. Glad you guys reminded me of the wild times. Phaser Patrol was so amazing to me.

Great collection John!, I noticed you have a Atari Age Harmony Cart - Pre-production Special Edition #7 thats cool!!, i have #34 - there were only 50 of these pre-prod ones avail from Fred Quimby, the developer, on atariage - i was very excited about the project and got one of these early ones too. It doesn't play every single 2600 game but the later Harmony carts did get 100% compliance. I've been a member of atariage.com since about 2005 and have the same avatar and username there. I am a big Jaguar fan tho and spend much of my time in the Jaguar forum of the site. Albert Yarusso, Owner of AtariAge really has a great Atari site with AA and its the definitive Atari fan site on the internet. Hope to see some of your posts there.

I know I say it every time John Hancock appears, but he is really a terrific guest. Thanks for inviting him on the channel as often as you do.

Great video, what a cool add on - I had never heard of it or any the games!

Another interesting video, MJR! And your guests are always awesome

I love when you and John do videos together!

Just came across this video, Wow I still have my Starpath and the Atari 2600 will have to dig it out again sometime

Atari 2600 was my first console....but I never knew about the super charger! Thanks for the video! Keep it up!

Wow, that's so bizarre! Sweet video, love learning about these crazy things!!

This was great to discover! I had a TRS-80 (after getting an Atari VCS), and I had game carts, but I also had games on cassette they sold for it. Someone also gave me some too. But I didn't know about the cassette games for Atari. Pretty cool.

Ingenuity back in the 80's was off the charts

The Atari 2600 was my first console and loved it! I still have it. I had no idea something like this was even made. Thanks for sharing this. So cool!!!

Atari was just before my time and I had something pretty similar known as an msx. Still very cool to see these old games play.

NICE video, guys...As much of an Atari collecting nerd that Ive been the past 17 years or so.... I've known of the Supercharger & it's games' existence but this is my 1st time seeing it & all the games in action! You gotta love that artwork! haha..I always thought it sounded cool, but kinda neglected to look into it more because as far as I remember, it's pretty much one of the few things out there that isn't compatible with the 7800 I use. Several times I've thought of getting a seperate 2600 just for that reason one day & this video is more reason to...Big thanks for the upload & keep em coming.... you guys are awesome!

Had a Supercharger back in the day circa mid 80s. Played Mindmaster for hours.

I had a SUPER CHARGER back in the day ... my favorite game was Dragon Stomper ... you were right on ... I played it A LOT! Best Atari 2600 game, easily! Eventually sold everything to buy my first computer! It was amazing what they came up with for so little money!

Awesome didn't know this existed, always good to see the immortal John Hancok

Never knew about SuperCharger till today awesome video.

hey Metal Jesus... you want to know why i love to see your videos?.. because you're a humble man... keep it that way man!..

Super interesting like always. Thanks a bunch for the video!

I always wanted one of these as a kid after seeing adverts for it in my comics. Never got one.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, John!

Such an awesome video, never knew this existed or that the 2600 was capable of such smooth animations lol

My neighbor across the street had a SuperCharger and the game he showed me was DragonStomper. So I did play it back in the day. I was amazed, of course.

That was an awesome video, john has an amazing collection

I have one of these that came with my 2600 when I did a trade with a friend. I knew what it did but that was it. Great informational video.

I played Dragonstomper back in the day. It was amazing at the time.

Another awesome video. I like the guest, his sound effects are sweet.

Thanks for introducing me to this obscure 2600 device!

Me and my buddy each had one of these. Super cool add on that really gave new life to the Atari VCS.

Great to revisit this review. Wanna test the Supercharger games on my NT Mini Noir!

Go want John Hancock's hat! Great video I had no idea this existed. I have a cassette tape drive for my Atari 400

Loved all the art work on those games. John is awesome, yet another add on I hadn't heard about.

Don't think I've ever commented on a video, only had my channel a few days, but just wanted to say I love your videos man. Been watching for a couple years, and love your content The Atari was my first console in the early 80's, still have fantastic memories. I remember getting addicted to Frostbite lol.

There was a version of this device sold in Brazil that had nearly all available cartridge games. I had one of these with around 60 cassettes. The make was a company called Canal 3 and I remember visiting their store quite often, as the cassettes were way cheaper than the cartridges. Awesome stuff...

it's 2014 and I'm still amazed that this exist and works through the headphone jack xD

Good video, but it's impressive how much you've improved in the last couple years.

John Hancock is always a great guest.

Awesome again Mr. Jesus. Always look forward to your videos and this is why. Never the same old drab. #1 favorite youtuber by far. Don't work Lazy Game Reviews. You come in a very close second.

Blows my mind how many peripherals/games/consoles during the years I lived through and yet never heard of. How is this possible for a gamer?!

Obscurities are my favorite! I learned something new today. Thank guys.

Not too long ago, I bought an Intellivision 2 in box at a collectibles convention. When I opened it, there was an complete in box Atari Supercharger stuffed in with the Intellivision. I ended up using the Supercharger way more than the Intellivision and actually had all of the program audio files cut onto 10" vinyl so could load the games using a record player.

I love my StarPath, Survival Island is not given enough screen time here, they never even showed what happens when you get to the island & everything you have to go through to finally escape the island. It is one of my favorite games from back in the 80s.

I used to have one of these SuperChargers back in the day. I had forgotten all about it until now. I had Dragonstomper and Escape from the Mind Master. As I recall, a pet rabbit chewed the cable shortly after I got it, and that was the end of that.

i love john what a legend this was really interesting wasn't aware of this add on

I used to live at KB Toy's and Toy 'R US growing up and I never saw one of these. They must have had horrible marketing :D

Hey MetalJesus, here in Brazil we had the SuperCharger but it had a twist: it was a pirate cart, and it didn't play starpath games. Instead, it played regular games that have been pirated onto cassette tapes ! I have HERO, Enduro, PacMan, Ms PacMan, all on cassette tapes !

had no idea about this addon, cool stuff

My favorite peripheral for a console was the Gameboy Camera. It was really impressive to see live images on the monochrome screen, and further more be able to print them on sticker paper.

"Dragon Stomper" is considered by many to be the first RPG video game, and I have very fond memories of it. Getting to the dragon at the end of that cave was incredibly satisfying (because it was so darn hard to do!) "Escape From the Mind Master" has just the right amount of problem solving and anxiety over being found by the "mind master" (that changing sound depending on how close he was to you used to have me and my friends on pins and needles!) Great fun, even with crappy graphics (but amazing for the system because of the extra RAM and storage capacity compared to cartridges). Do a search for "Stella Gets a New Brain" by CyberPunks for the CD with all of the games on it, including an unreleased game, "Sweat". [edit: Oops! Guess I should watch the whole video before posting...] Cyberpunks is a great friend to the retro computing crowd because they also produced a series of VHS (remember those?) and DVDs of "Stella At 20", which was a collection of Atari 2600 videos with the guys and gals that designed the system and software. You might be able to find "Stella at 20" somewhere here on KZfaq... For example... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebR6aJSg0LSvoX0.html

Awesome video!

Wow! The fact that that version of Frogger exists to play on the 2600 is pretty darn cool! I'm definitely looking to upload that onto my harmony cart!

I had a cassette player for my Atari 800. I remember loading Preppie and it took forever. But I stored my first BASIC programs on it, and had cassettes everywhere.

This was very cool to watch especially since I took the day off I guess it's time to play some retro games

Very cool add-on for the 2600, and some quite good games released as well.

Immortal John is pretty awesome, I've got to say. Probably my second favorite guest.

I love the 2600 how could i not love something that makes it even sweeter. Excellent Video, once again.

I bought this when it came out...loved it. Then at some point, college maybe, I gave to my sister for her kids to play and he sold it later. MUCH better graphics...for the time. I would like to go back in time to play this but done. Thanks for sharing. You took me back.

I have Phaser Patrol and believe me when I tell you this, turning it on for the first time was like that same sensation I got when I walked out of the jail in Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. It was...wow.

Very cool, I had never heard of it before and now need to fight the urge to go pick one up.

My Texas Insturment computer growing up also had a cassette loader. I remember it taking 15 - 20 minutes to just load up gold digger.

so awesome and cool never heard of it. just now starting to collect atari stuff=-]

Awesome! I’ve see the Frogger game on eBay up to $600, with box, etc. Amazing.

so sick... that is awesome!! i didnt even know that was a thing?!?

I had a Supercharger and the first 7 games (up to Killer Satellites). I found them in a dump bin at Toys R Us and I think I got everything for less than $30. I also had the two mail in games. I loved Dragon Stomper and Escape From The Mindmaster (it was more fun than it looks). I finally sold everything on Ebay and I had the boxes and manuals, including the ones for the mail-in games. It was a great little device and so much fun back in the early days of gaming!

This was awesome. Would love to play these games.

I had one of these in the 80's and most of the games. Great times.

Oh MAN!!!! This brings back memories....! I had this when I was a kid - it was my Dad's actually- but I spent most of the time on it!

I used to have one of these, though I sold it off since I rarely used it and it was pain in the butt to use on a ColecoVision since I don't have a 2600. It's cool to see more coverage on it!

Some 80's goodness!

yeah on my spectrum which was with cassettes you also had to just go watch some tv or something while the game was loading, and then later after all that waiting it happened many times that you just got loading error, then tweak the volume, treble and so on and then had to start all over again. Oh the joy when it finally loaded and you could play the game :D

Had no clue that there was a device to load games via audio, very cool! All those different way's to push the Atari 2600 to the limit, only passion and creativity can bring this and i love it! It started with Pitfall II, if you take the cartridge and take another one for example space invaders, you notice that Pitfall II weights al least twice. That is because there is an extra circuitboard just for the sound. That's why the game had so many levels and amazing graphics for that time. I still feel the pain in my left thumb when i think of this game. 🤣😂