I want to improve my 2600 collection but I'm not sure what I'm buying

[ShinigamiKiba]

I have a decent enough Atari 2600 collection for a person not actively collecting for the system(if someone showed me a SNES collection like this and compared it to mine I would NOT consider it decent, so I'm sure to you guys this is nothing), my entire childhood collection is fully intact(even re-obtained my beloved 32in1 recently) however I never had THAT many games for the system and the ones I did have were clearly knock-offs/bootlegs in some cases. So because of this I'm not totally opposed to buying bootlegs. I'm not a collector just a guy who DOES have a huge retro and modern game colleciton but plays most of it and buys to play not just collect.

 

Here are my Atari 2600 games, I've posted pics before:

 

Some new Atari 2600 games I recently got:

 

However the Atari 2600 as you guys know is a never ending source of fun games, tons and tons of new games to discover or rediscover and while I'm by no means as Atari 2600 savvy as I am when it comes to the SNES for example I know what games I want plus I keep discovering new games all the time, it's just amazing to me despite it being my first console.

 

I've been thinking of perhaps buying some more affordable games as of late and while I don't mind bootlegs/repros in general, I want to KNOW what it is I'm buying, judging by the variations in my own collection I'd say some of those like Black Hole(Cosmic Ark) and Open Sesame are bootlegs, Yar's ...Attack too maybe they all are but that's what was avaliable here when I was little

 

I recently found a lot of Taiwan developed Atari 2600 games as well as a ton of cheap German versions, however I want to know if these are the equivalent of ali express bootlegs, which I've bought many of for SFC exclusive JRPGs and the like or if they're somethign a bit more...legit.

 

This is what these games usually look like

 

Bobby is going home is a game I've been wanting since I was a kid, ever since I first playe it on my friend's bootleg Atari 2600 with built in games, but we didn't know the name of it.

 

For slightly more however, I can get this:

 

which one is more legit?

 

Also the Taiwan copy is NTSC and the German one is of course PAL and I live in Europe, Macedonia where we have PAL systems tho I have no problem playing NTSC games on my CRT TVs since I always buy multi region CRTs.

 

I don't care about CiB or anything, loose carts are fine, just posting pics of the boxes to give you more info on what these variants are.

 

If it matters some of my games in the second pic, like the german Hole Hunter have an engraved SS in the back.

 

Another question, what's a decent price for a loose Beam Rider? It's a game I've been wanting for years but it's always expensive.

 

I have almost no chance of finding anything retro locally so ebay and the internet in general are my only options

Edited October 20, 2017 by ShinigamiKiba

[G-type]

Beamrider is about a $30 game these days... can't really speak about PAL/European markets though

[pacman000]

If I remember AtariAge's company listing correctly the 2nd box is the official version of Bobby. Check Manufacturers/Bit Corp.

[ShinigamiKiba]

Thanks

what of these Taiwan releases tho? Should I opt to buy some if the difference in price is too big, like if I find a Taiwan Beamrider for $5 or something?