Atari_Bill

I feel the same way. My first Atari unit was a Sears 6 switch. I still have it CIB today (I was a weird kid that kept everything boxed and in nice shape). Below is a thread that I recall providing some insight into the Sears pic labels. Check it out.

Watching these auctions purely out of curiosity. Checkers already at $355 with days left. I’m so glad I got mine a few years ago before this insanity began. No box but cart and instructions for around 100.

Several of the Sears picture labels are fairly hard to find. I’m not sure which ones are tougher now, but there are threads here discussing this. I think Gunslinger and canyon bomber took me quite a while to find. Race isn’t the easiest either. As as far as the Superman goes, I don’t know for sure that it’s ever been decided that it was an official release. I don’t know specific numbers but I’ve heard of only maybe under 10 people that has one. That seems very odd that they would have made such a rare variation for production.

You mean this one? 😝 Yeah this might be the rarest piece I got.

The Sears picture labels are among my favorites for the Atari. I just love the artwork on them. I have a full set of them but some of them are not easy to come by.

The cartridge in itself not really rare. The box would bring up the price but even the box isn’t really that rare. Lately the price has been inflated however.

That is an extremely nice Backgammon!

Gotcha. How can you not a sealed Checkers though. C’mon! 😛

Impressive. Seems pretty covered across the board. Did you miss any pics in the Sears section? I didn’t see Checkers.

Yeah, for whatever reason boxed items have made a huge increase the last several months. I’ve especially noticed Sears items. Nobody used to want them, but now it’s tough to find anything more than complete common listed under $100.

None of these failed to disappoint. Generous sums of $$$ shelled out for each. Especially the Waterworld promo box.

I show it ended at $652!! Unreal. If this is going for that, a similar condition Checkers could easy top $1200. I have a bad feeling we’re going to start seeing these back up for sale after being “graded”. 🤬

Blasphemy! Let ye be cast out!! 😛

I was thinking the same thing!

Yeah, the rarer Channel F Games have just gone nuts the last year or so. I’m surprised there are that many people in the market for a fairly obscure system. Maybe it’s just the rarity that drives collectors to buy anything whether they collect for it or not.

I noticed that some time ago as well. I’ve always wondered what the link was there. Provided from the same supplier ?

True that they go for more than you would think, but I got my Intellivision case in the last year. Full auction for 7 days with system and games. The case is much nicer than this one with all foam and keys included. I paid under 175. That’s just a bit less than 1200. Right on par with this seller though. You can usually take an average price, multiply it by 7-8x and come up with their list price.

I think we can guarantee it’s going to go for a silly price. Bargains seem to be non existent lately.

Look at the seller. That’s all you need to know.

Are you kidding me??!? Another set of variations I have to track down? Aaarrrrgghh. 🤬

Wow, I didn’t see some of those. He took a bath on a few of those auction. They went waaaaay under value.

There are several things out on eBay right now that will be fun to watch. The big boys are going to be dishing out buckets of cash this month. Chase the Chuckwagon box Halloween box mint Swordquest Waterworld box prototype maybe 1 of a kind Waterworld box i made my laughable bids to play along, but I can’t wait to see final $$$ on each of these.

Pathetic. Account should be removed.

Finally gave this a try to check the scoring. My cart scores normally. No variation. I would guess this is a manual error, but you never know. There might be a cart variation with the different scoring out there somewhere.

I noticed that. I’ve always wondered if the R models reused serial numbers at some point in production with the R prefix.