Parrothead

This thread flew under my radar until someone listed on on GameGavel - http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000699605. I had to jump in it. Can't wait to get it. Now just need to fine me an EA2001 console Thanks for making this!

Just scored this sweet multicart on GameGavel - http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000699605 Now I need an Arcadia console. Anyone have one to sell? LMK. Thanks

Just noticed this listing this morning: http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000695968

It's great! We are getting so many calls and new registrations. People asking what's my game worth, and digging through their basements, attics and storage units.

Congrats to all involved. I am just glad GameGavel was apart of such a great auction. The coolest thing about this is I will probably see Jose at SC3 in a next weekend (and yes, you better bring this Air Raid to the party to show everyone) and Tricia and I are going to have dinner with Harve and Alana in a couple weeks and toast the sale. This was a tense couple of weeks but it's just as much about the people you meet in this crazy hobby as the item's themselves. I hope we can all find out the true history behind this game in the mean time. Aweome! Just awesome!

The Air Raid auction ends at 10PM EST or 7PM PST TONIGHT. Will it continue to rise or stall out at $17K? Watch and find out

Ill take it . Shipping to 92679. Let me know.

Here is another higher profile auction on GG. SNES Campus Challenge Cart and Console http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000690873 http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000690881

Woke up to see a new high bidder. Now back over $17K.

eBay doesn't even show user names of bidders anymore. It's all kept private so you don't know who wins an item. I guess you could see it through the feedback page, though.

That is my guess as well.

We did remove all the highest bidders bids above the 2nd and 3rd place bidders. Rick63's high bid at the time was $15,750 so we are just $300 over that with the current bids in place.

I wanted to give you all a heads up that I received an email from the highest bidder asking to have his bids retracted citing financial issues. We've made the adjustments and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place bidders were notified of this situation.

The press continues. I just saw another huge traffic spike on GameGavel tonight and discovered where everyone was coming from. So far over 21,000 views for the Air Raid auction on GG. Lots more to come now that IGN has picked it up. http://www.ign.com/a...yes-big-profits Keep on the look out for a couple more very rare and desirable items, one of them for Atari collectors and one for Nintendo collectors, hitting GameGavel later this week!

Some good press starting to hit: Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/10/26/watch-someone-find-a-rare-video-game-that-could-be-worth-30000/ Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/25/3555866/the-atari-2600-air-raid-cartridge-a-story-of-serendipity Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5955196/old-video-game-in-familys-attic-turns-out-to-be-extremely-rare-possibly-worth-30000 MentalFloss: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/148509 Mashable: http://mashable.com/2012/10/24/auction-for-only-known-complete-copy-of-atari-2600%E2%80%B2s-air-raid-hits-11000/ Technabob: http://technabob.com/blog/2012/10/25/atari-2600-air-raid-for-sale/ Geekosystem: http://www.geekosystem.com/air-raid-complete/ VGUtopia: http://vgutopia.com/air-raid-and-4-other-impossibly-rare-video-games/

The current top two bidders have both been members since 2008/2009 even though they have had no transactions. They didn't just sign up to bid on this auction. And we have verified them. A few of the others are members here. We are watching the bidding and bidders closely, I can assure you all

It looks kind of like the TRON arcade building

We are verifying all bidders at this point. All without any feedback and also new members bidding on this must have accurate contact information for their GameGavel account and good phone #'s (which we are calling to verify) so we don't expect any of this happening. If bidders cannot be verified and confirmed than their bids will be removed and the auction will revert to the next highest legitimate bidder. So far, no issues though. Good luck to all bidders

We love the photo of her dad working in the store where he received this game. I love seeing the Mattel Electronics Basketball sitting behind him too! It is a really great back story. And the confirmation of the manual and where Men-A-Vision was from, here in Los Angeles is cool as well. It is suprising how nice the box job really was for Air Raid with the inner box with plastic insert ala Imagic and Intellivision. And with the instruction manual hidden underneath the plastic cartridge tray. Priceless

Hey all, For the first time, a complete in box Air Raid is up for auction on GameGavel. Per the seller, there is a conservative, but not a crazy reserve on this so you can expect the reserve to be reached and passed hopefully before the end of the auction so we can see some exciting post reserve bidding. I am guessing this is the most prized manual in all of Atari collecting at the moment. Here's your chance to nab it The ONE THE ONLY Complete Air Raid Ever Found - CIB http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000687017 Now At $1000.00 Ends: November 4, 2012 10:00:00 PM EDT

On GameGavel http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000684638

Ha, I was just going to post this: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 290783025822

Hey all, We have a pretty large collection of up for sale on GameGavel. The seller is a friend of a friend and all his items are in great condition! Here is a link to the auction: http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000676631 And a link to a comprehensive list of items included in this auction - 44 Pages of gaming goodness! http://www.chasingthechuckwagon.com/Media/Collection%20Descr... And, here is another 158 Game NES Lot up for auction: http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000674185

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/10/holy-grail-of-atari-games-sells-for-10000 http://kotaku.com/red-sea-crossing/