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aminerva

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If this belongs in the EBay Auction Forum just let me know & I'll post there...

 

I have a couple of Atari 8 bit software packages whose value (roughly) I was curious about. All are 5.25 floppies, with box & instructions

 

Gauntlet & Gauntlet the Deeper Dungeons

 

The Halley Project: A Mission in our Solar System

 

Lords of Conquest

 

7 Cities of Gold

 

 

Any help appreciate. I also have a lot of educational software (again box & instructions) as well as many office type software programs (time keeping, word processing, check book programs). I'm guessing that for collectors, the games are more valuable than the office products.

 

I plan on listing the items on EBay if they tend to be worth more than $10 each, if not I'll keep them for my own small Atari collection. I ran searches on EBay for current or past auctions, but didn't see any listings for what I have to sell.

 

Thanks very much

 

Tony

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I'd watch for similiar auctions to get an idea, and check out the Atari dealer lists throught the links here at AtariAge. Then decide what you think they are worth given their current condition&completeness and whether the disks even work still, they should if kept dry and temperate.

They aren't neccessarily rarities, but a lot of E-bayers pay a lot considering dealer pricing (which varies widely). I may be interested myself, but I'd check out dealers prices first too, and see if $10 is a reasonable deal for used originals.

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I collect Commodore 64 floppies so I am not 100% sure about pricing on

Atari disks but if those same games were sold as a C=64 lot you might

get around $15 for the bunch depending on who's bidding that week. Old

computer games are generally only worth around 2-5 bucks. But some

games can fetch over $50.

 

Of the games you have I think Seven Cities of Gold would be the most

collectable because that was one of the first EA games produced. And EA

chose the Atari 8-bit as its main audience but when the Atari computer

bombed in the face of C=64 sales they swictched over to C=. For that

reason Atari EA games are more collectable. They sold less and are the

original version of those classic games. Most of the ports of those original

EA games had to compromise a few bits of gameplay in their conversion.

 

The EA flatbox games are more collectable than the average 80s

computer game. Since you have several you could easily sell what you

have as a auction lot but I don't think you are going to get close to the

price you were hoping for.

 

The word processing software I don't know much about. I'd be surprised

if was worth more than a couple bucks. If its it good shape with all

manuals there is probably someone on ebay that collects old word

processors.

 

John

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Just in case any of you were interested in the software I mentioned earlier, I've put the games up for sale. I realize that by selling them seperately you may or may not be interested. Please disregard this message if you're not interested.

 

Thanks!

 

Tony

 

Gauntlet:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...1393917650&rd=1

 

 

7 Cities of Gold:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...1393921467&rd=1

 

Lords of Conquest:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...1393922764&rd=1

 

Halley Project:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...1393925255&rd=1

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