Starpath Supercharger
The Supercharger and a few game boxes | |
| Design firm | Starpath |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Starpath |
| Introduced | August 1982 |
| Discontinued | 1984 |
| Cost | 69.95 US$ (included one game: Phaser Patrol) |
| Type | Expansion peripheral cartridge |
| Memory | 6 KB RAM |
| Connection | Cable earphone jack for cassette |
The Starpath Supercharger (originally called the Arcadia Supercharger) is an expansion peripheral cartridge created by Starpath, for playing cassette-based proprietary games on the Atari 2600 video game console.
The device consists of a long cartridge with a handle on the end, and an audio cassette cable. It multiplies the Atari 2600's 128 bytes of RAM by 49 for a total of 6,272 bytes of RAM, allowing for the creation of specially compatible games which are larger and have higher resolution graphics than normal cartridges. A cable coming out of the side of the cartridge plugs into the earphone jack of any standard cassette player, for loading all Supercharger games from standard audio cassettes.