I found a great little game store!

[I found a great little game store!]

congrats!

 

any contact info for the store? maybe they would ship to boston.

[cleaned cartridge won't work...bum E-bay purchase!]

did the listing say "cartridge tested and working" on the auction?

 

contact the seller. he or she may have tested it before selling it. in any case, good sellers will offer refunds for non-working items.

 

try not to jump to conclusions and leave negative feedback before contacting the seller to resolve the issue.

 

hope everything works out for you.

[where'd you get Atari?]

i don't remember when exactly i got my 2600, but i do remember losing it in a 1983 garage sale. we were moving to a new house and cleaning house. damn.

[It pays to ask...]

congrats on the find!

 

i recently found a bunch of atari carts at a salvation army for $.99 each. nothing too special but the bunch did include towering inferno and, one of my favorites, river raid.

[$5 shipping Activision patch?]

How much postage would it take to mail an Activision patch? My guess is 37 cents.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1381730357

[Hi, I'm new and need help! Just got a 2600 in the mail....]

sometimes the rf switches don't work or provide a real fuzzy picture. you could buy a new one at radio shack or here

http://www.atariage.com/store/Hardware.html

(nice plug for atariage store, eh?)

 

the atari 2600 itself might not work, but without another system to test you can't really easily determine that.

[Scammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!]

Yes, at least this guy posted his HIGH shipping up front and clearly displayed. Bid on the item with the shipping in mind.

 

If he would have NOT posted shipping on the 3 pack stylus, for example, and then emailed the $9.99 shipping, that would be very LAME.

[(shameless self-promotion) boxed atari games for sale]

thanks for the shipping info.

 

perhaps some atariage people will bid (hint, hint).

[(shameless self-promotion) boxed atari games for sale]

This is shameless self-promotion... but I have some boxed Atari 2600 games for sale on ebay. Starting bid $1.50. End tomorrow. Not very many bids yet.

 

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?...&sort=3&rows=25

 

Also, is my shipping cost driving off buyers? I have never sold individual boxed games before so I just slightly increased the cost of individual cartridge shipping.

 

Oh, and by the way, the red atari background was from an auction on ebay germany. I emailed the seller (in German) and got permission to use it on ebay usa.

[Reverse Yard Sale Pays off AGAIN!!]

I find that the rural population is an atari gold mine!!!      

 

I grew up in a city but my cousin grew up on a farm. He had way more Atari 2600 cartridges than I. I think you're right StanJr.

[lock n chase is such a pac-man rip off...]

yeah, i shouldn't be too hard on lock n' chase. once the succesful pac-man game was out. everyone followed.

 

of course lots of games are similar. defender is a horizontal scrolling game and on atari you have chopper command etc.

 

and there are gazillons of vertical shooting games with aliens coming down at you, based on space invaders. megamania, phoenix, etc etc

[Triumph and Frustration at the Thrifts...]

i went to a flea market on labor day weekend and totally scored: two complete atari 2600 systems with consoles, joysticks paddles, etc. one system had 50 games and the other had 20 games. i also picked up a 5200 with box, although it was missing some cables and joysticks. i also picked up a vic 20 with box and cables for $3. the lady threw in a trs-80 trash-80 console too! what else? oh yeah, my favority score of that weekend... a coleco telstar ranger console. it was part of one of the atari lots.

 

this weekend i went there and zip, nada, zilch. half of the vendor slots were empty. i think flea market season must be coming to a close.

[lock n chase is such a pac-man rip off...]

i just played lock n chase for the first time and it is such a pac-man rip-off. it even has the "bonus fruits" at the center of the screen.

 

[This auction is a joke, right?]

yeah. the seller really doesn't understand ebay pricing if he set both the opening bid at $120 and the buy-it-now price at $120. that doesn't make much sense.

[ColecoAge???]

see this recent thread...

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12257

[Which Odyssey console is this?]

wow! i looked at the pong history sites. there really are dozens of different games for each manufacturer. that is quite a goal to collect them. i think collecting them will make a nice addition to collecting atari!

[Rare prototypes? My a$$ they are]

He should change the description to read:

 

Atari 2600 prototype ET ( The Extra -Terrestial.) .Eprom prototype for the Atari 2600 and 7800 game systems.Eprom has been tested and works great, see pictures. for a display. I will ship each one in a protective cartridge for protection against damage, and as a free bonus the cart will be clearly identified with a replica label.

 

lol, that's so funny. plus he will add a cardboard box around the protective cartridge with "ET" and ET image clearly labeled. an extra sheet or two of with "ET instructions" will be included to ultimately protect the RARE ET PROTOTYPE EPROM. lol.

[Which Odyssey console is this?]

christian, do you know any good sites for early coleco, intellivision, odyssey, etc. stuff? in another post i described a coleco telstar ranger that i picked up with some 2600 stuff. i think i want to start collecting these types of consoles.

[Guess what what i found out is only a drive away!]

their homepage graphic has a screenshot of the atari 2600 game pacman. lol. 2600 pacman was such a bad port. they should have used adventure or combat or riverraid...

[Intellivision madness!]

I ended up selling it for $200... hello? I was thinking the same thing, don't you know what you are buying? Trust me, it's worth 20$.

 

send those bidders to my auctions please...

[Check this out... but do it SOON]

that is so, so, so funny!

 

I know AtariAge has the same problem, not that I am trying to give you guys any ideas...

of course you aren't trying to give atariage any ideas....

[way too detailed, but.... variations in simulated woodgrain?]

WOOHOO!!

 

I just discovered a new variation of Atari 2600s to collect!!!!

 

[strange place for a find]

i saw this exact same puzzle at a flea market today. i was tempted to buy it for $5 i think. it had all the puzzle pieces and the box but it was missing the "eyeball stickers".

 

the same seller had a pacman bubble gum dispenser and a rubber bounce ball with a pacman on it.

[how to fix jittery paddles and stuck joysticks?]

okay, this is a dumb question.... but what is a pot? will it be obvious when i open up a paddle? can someone describe it or upload a photo? thanks

[way too detailed, but.... variations in simulated woodgrain?]

i haven't really checked, but does the simulated woodgrain on the 2600 have variations? if so, does anyone collect the variations?