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  1. Posted

    I just got a package I won on eBay and it turned out to be very nice!

     

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

     

    It had a heavy sixer system, original CX-10 joysticks, original paddles, and original driving controllers. The driving controllers did not work, but does anyone know how to clean these? I opened them up and it has the square grey plastic shell type inside. The paddles were jitter free and the joysticks worked great and gave me a place to put the hex I've had for a while.

     

    The serial number is fairly early too and I'll have to add it to that thread (20430F).

     

    :D

  3. Posted

    I was thinking that the CIB rarity guide would start from the loose cart rarity guide. Afterall, every CIB game does have the cart too. ;)

     

    So, any individual entry in the CIB guide would be at least the same rarity as found in the cart guide. For example COMBAT. This rarity 1 cart would stay rarity 1 in the CIB list and not change at all. Other titles may increase by one or more points. Fun with Numbers, listed as rarity 3, may be a rarity 6 CIB game because the box seems to be MUCH harder to find than the cart. As for 10's they have no where to go. Unless a scale is made that "goes to 11!" Wow, that would be cool. :D

  4. Posted

    Hi, sorry if this is a dumb question, but the rarity guide here at AA is for loose carts, right? Is there a separate guide for complete boxed games? I ask because I am elated to finally nab a boxed Fun with Numbers and see it has a rarity of 3 in the guide. I have looked for this boxed title for over a year and could not find it at any price, eBay or on-line stores. Whereas carts and manuals are readily available at low prices.

     

    Thank you.

  6. Posted

    Actually, the shipping for me was only $45 (must be based on destination). Not too bad for this much stuff and a boxed Fun with Numbers!! :)

     

    Thanks all. It really felt like a good deal. I have been looking for this title a while and have never seen it even offered boxed on eBay at any price. Basic Math was tough to get as well, but I eventually got that in both the gatefold and non-gatefold versions.

     

    The regular box was in a lot of 14 and was titled "Atari 2600 Games". In the auction no game names were actually typed, just a picture. So a search of Basic Math would not have come up with this listing. Also, there was no gallery view. It was just dumb luck to find it while I had nothing better to do than search through the hundreds of Atari listings. I got that lot for less than $20 including shipping. :cool:

     

    Admittedly, these games are not the most fun to play. I figure they are rare because sales were poor and therefore Atari didn't make many of them? But if this is true I wonder why they bothered with re-releasing it later in grey. :ponder:

  9. Posted

    I recently was watching an eBay auction that had a GREY Atari Joystick. I think I have seen a white one before too. Are these colored sticks rarer than the CX-10's (heavy sixer joysticks)?

     

    If so then I must have one! :D

  14. Posted

    Hi all, my Atari 2600 eBay auctions for this week are ending soon and most are still at only 99 cents! This week had all my 20th Century and Konami Extras.

     

    I will have more that are scheduled to all be up by 6:00 PM tonight (PST). This coming week will have my extra Parker Brothers and Data Age stuff. All boxed and complete. Thank you for looking.

     

    http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZtoymailmanQQhtZ-1

  16. Posted

    Hi all, thanks for looking. I am still relatively new to selling on eBay. I think this is my 3rd week/set of Atari stuff up for bid. I do discount for multiple items purchased but haven't figured out the automatic way to do it yet. So for now, I will wait to send out any invoices until all my auctions have finished just in case someone wins multiple auctions. Then I can send an invoice that has the discounted shipping price at $1.00 for each additional item won.

     

    Good luck and I am always happy to answer any questions.

  20. Posted

    Thank you! I have always had an exceptional experience buying from you. You have helped build my collection with some hard to find stuff too.

     

    I was very pleased about this find. I was expecting this to go for quite a bit more, but we all get lucky once and a while. :D

  21. Posted

    I currently have 3 Heavy Sixers. One is Atari and the other two are Sears. I plan to keep one of each version and sell the extra Sears.

     

    post-10944-1164306399_thumb.jpg

    Serial Numbers for these are:

    Atari: 28204F

    Sears 1: 84199T

    Sears 2: 54035V

     

    Atari Heavy Sixer pics

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    Sears #1 pics

    post-10944-1164306521_thumb.jpgpost-10944-1164306550_thumb.jpg

     

    Sears #2 pics

    post-10944-1164306577_thumb.jpgpost-10944-1164306608_thumb.jpg

  22. Posted

    I only go for the CIB stuff and my collection has a few rare ones. My 6's and up (according to AA) are listed below. :)

     

    10's

    Obelix

    Motorodeo

     

    9's

    Ikari Warriors

     

    8's

    Sir Lancealot/Robin Hood

     

    7's

    Motocross Racer

    Tomarc the Barbarian

    Polaris - Green

     

    6's

    Cosmic Swarm

    Espial

    James Bond 007

    Marauder

    Mines of Minos

    Racing Pak

    Raft Rider

    Road Runner

    Room of Doom

    Spacemaster X-7

    Tapper

    Threshold

  23. Posted

    Hi all, a friend was in town and so we played Super Challenge Football by M-Network and had tons of fun! I hadn't played this one before as it is two-player only and aquired it recently. As a kid, ~25 years ago now, I played Football and RealSports Football with my brother and remember having good times with them, but the M-Network game seems better. I will have to get my others out again now to compare.

     

    What do others think is the best from the following choices?

     

    Atari Football

    Atari RealSports Football

    Atari Super Football

    M-Network Super Challenge Football

     

    Any Football-type hacks / homebrews been made or others not on my list above?

  25. Posted

    I think you guys are right. I just plugged in my sprintmaster game and played it a bit. Hacking this game would be a lot closer to what I am after. Changes I would make would be the following.

     

    1) Modify the handling (like batari said). Personally, I liked the feel of INDY 500 a little better.

    2) Remove the power-ups, speed boosters and so forth on the track. (I don't remember things like this on the track for the last F1 race I watched :) )

    3) Add the pit stops / refueling idea

    4) If a 4-player game is impossible, then by using the joystick controllers a manual transmission could be implemented. Up/down could be shift-up/down. This could be selected with difficulty switches. The automatic transmission would be slower shifting (acceleration/deceleration), but of course easier to use.

     

    Sprintmaster does already have quite a few track designs and driving surfaces to choose from. The number of laps can be set at the start and it does have timing implemented (although not individual lap times only total race time). Also, no race results screen, but this is probably not needed for only a 2-player game. The ROM looks like it is 16K, 8 times the size of INDY 500.

     

    Hacking this game looks like the best option now. Thank you all very much.

     

    I guess I also could just play my TOCA Race Driver or GTR games on the PC, but why would anyone want to play PC games when they have a perfectly good Atari 2600! :D

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