@pongman: I'm upset cause you never posted on my CreatiVEmu forum, while you post a lot here!

@AtariBuff: creatiVision was sold in Austria through Hartlauer shops, and I know it was quite popular there. Not very popular here in Italy, but was a "top-wanted" system since then.

I'm currently re-designing the CreatiVEmu website, and I need infos on a few released items. Would you help by listing the items you own? Maybe you have precious infos for the cV releases database.

Dieter said:

Yes, Creativision was sold in the Hartlauer shops. I still exactly remember seeing the Creativision consoles and games in their window display at their store here in Kapfenberg. But I already had a Videopac system back then so I wasn't able to buy another system. But I found the system very interesting, I guess I already loved those “underdog” systems back then <img decoding="async" class="wp-smiley" src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt="" />

However, the system came very late here in Austria, home computers were rocketing, so the Creativision didn't get much focus. In the late 90s I contacted Hartlauer and asked if they had any stuff left in some warehouse, but unfortunately they didn't <img decoding="async" class="wp-smiley" src="/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt="" />

hmm... from my latest researches, I think cV was sold in Austria in late 1982/early 1983, at the same as in Germany - maybe even earlier than in Germany.

@Dieter: sorry for me disappearing and not contacting you about trades, but I've been super-busy recently. I'm soon updating the website with a ton of news, and there's plenty of high-quality scans and images which you can also use on your site. And of course there's a whole lot of new items to add to "our" DP database!

Fact is that the Austrian creatiVision flyer (printed by Spiel-Sport Stadlbauer) shows early cV games only. The most recent one is Deep Sea Adventure, that's dated october/december 1982.

So at the time of the console launch in Austria, it couldn't be later than Christmas 1982/January 1983.

I found Austrian creativisions released with the “first edition” box: that's the one with artwork from Crazy Pucker.

Later release box is the one with BASIC artwork, and no Crazy Pucker anymore.

Well, I found Austrian releases in both 1st and 2nd box, and German releases in 2nd box only. For this reason I think that:

- creativision was available in Austria around the time when BASIC was not released yet (september 1982), so maybe christmas 1982/january 1983

- creativision was available in Germany sometimes later, around march/april 1983.

- at the same time, creativision was presented in Italy (Videogiochi magazine, april 1983)

ps: spiel-sport stadlbauer flyer shows picture of games from 1982 (astro pinball, etc), not the ones from 1983 (music maker, etc.). this also makes me suppose that cv was sold before mid 1983.

oh my god... i'm impressed by the videopac stand but... well i prefer the beer advertisement below that post!! hahaahahha! :-D