My parents' secret stash!

[My parents' secret stash!]

You're into gaming, but selling this collection, you collect comics, you're about to graduate from college, and you're busy with your SORORITY?

 

If these were each an individual lined up in a row, all it would be missing is the song, "One of these kids is doing their own thing" playing in the background.

 

Excuse me while I raise my eyebrow and wonder what the real backstory is here.

 

May I ask what doesn't add up? I'm into some gaming, the Ataris are not what I'm into. I'm community service chair for my sorority, so I'm planning about 40 events for a gaggle of girls this semester, while trying to get into grad school, which isn't really that hard compared to some sorority things and considering the programs I'm looking into. Backstory? The only backstory you may be missing is that I'm not getting enough hours at my job, and my boyfriend/roommate's job keeps cutting his hours back, so we're poor.

 

And missioncontrol, I got this from my parents 3 years ago. I've had some restpectful fun, but it adds to the bulk I move when I move every year, and I haven't played it in about a calendar year anyway. My parents don't want it back, and have told me if they can get money for it then all the better.

 

May I ask what is so fishy?

[My parents' secret stash!]

You have version e in the Pole Position variations.

 

Pole Position labels

 

Phil

 

 

Thanks, Phil! Do you have any idea as to how this affects its worth? Also, does that site have alternate box printings? I have a game, I forget which one now, that the box printing doesn't match what I've been able to find on AtariAge. I'll go check for it after work. Thanks again!

[My parents' secret stash!]

Dude, that stuff was your parents' stuff, not just a lot you find at a garage sale or some thrift shop. The ones they had from back in the day. I wouldn't get rid of it, not at all. No kids of my own, but if my kids ever sold my old gaming stuff I'd probably want to kick their asses (if it was sold for no good reason that is).

 

Well, if it had meant a lot to them, I'm sure they wouldn't want me to sell it, but they think video games are dumb and evil. Also, if it meant a lot to them, they wouldn't have given it to me. My dad's a hardcore pack rat, and keeps everything 'just in case it'll ever be needed or wanted' and I'm sure this fit his only way of getting rid of stuff. And I'm gonna be moving, via car, across the US. This stuff takes up 2 "medium" UHaul boxes. I have no room for that much stuff. I am seriously contemplating cutting my comic books by 3 long boxes for this, which will be sad, but will be worth it, in the long run, for grad school. *shrug*

[My parents' secret stash!]

Man, I know I would love that TRON Joystick and those Deadly Discs and Adventures of Tron carts. That would be awesome if you want to let it go. I'm up for anything TRON related.

 

Name a fair price!

[My parents' secret stash!]

What do you feel comfortable paying? A pricing guide says complete set in box gets ~$20, but I'm open to suggestion, and if you honestly think it's worth more, lemme know.

 

I just re read the list. If you're not going to play that Omega Race, let's negotiate a price for it. I've been looking high and low for the controller and the manual.

[My parents' secret stash!]

When my parents were in college, or just out of it, they both had 2600s, and between the two of em, had a little over 60 games, and a buncha extra stuff. They put it in boxes before they had me (because video games are bad for kids, obviously). When I went to college and mentioned that I was getting into games, they gave me their stash of near- perfect quality Ataris and games. I don't know what to do with it. I don't have time to play games often, cuz I'm starting my senior year, in a sorority, working, taking too many classes, etc. I've been contemplating selling them for a while, and since I'm planning on a huge move in a year, sooner is the time to start figuring this out rather than later.

 

So here's what I got:

 

HARDWARE

2 2600s

4 original joysticks- 2 with red dashes painted on the embossed bumps circle on the base, 2 without

1 set of paddles

1 Star Raiders paddle

1 Tron joystick

1 Wico Command Control joystick

1 Trak Ball Controller- CX22 (in box. Box is open, damaged, but still there. Still has warranty paperwork and instructional manual)

 

GAMES OUT OF BOXES

(This one is interesting) Pole Position with this front label, but this end sticker

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Warlords

Pitfall

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star Voyager

Adventures of Tron

Tron Deadly Discs

Star Raiders

Blackjack

Super Breakout

Yars' Revenge

Golf

Adventure

Berzerk

Space War

Video Olympics

Air Sea Battle

Combat

Swordquest: EarthWorld

Starmaster

Missile Command

Space Invaders

Donkey Kong

Pac-Man

 

PAPERS OUT OF BOXES

Swordquest Comic

Swordquest Poster

Manuals for Swordquest, Adventures of Tron, Tron Deadly Discs, Star Raiders, Starmaster ("Basic Instructions" and another blue pamphlet entitled "The Power of Starmaster") Golf, Warlords, Berzerk, Donkey Kong, Space War, Pac-Man, Adventure, Space Invaders, Video Olympics, Blackjack, Super Breakout, Air-Sea Battle, Missile Command, Combat, and Yars' Revenge

Atari Force 3 Comic

Tron Joystick offer

Tron the Movie mail order thing

M Network catalog from 1982

2 Atari Video Computer System Catalogs from 1981 (they're green in the background of the cover illustration of cartoony wizard, spaceman, cop, cowboy, and players)

1 Atari Video Computer System Catalog from 1981 (red in the background of the cover illustration of cartoony wizard, spaceman, cop, cowboy, and players)

4 Atari Catalogs that are red with just text and some fancy frames on the cover

 

GAMES IN BOXES

Bump'n'Jump

Gyruss

Freeway

Omega Race (with controller and most of the original plastic in place. Open.)

Phaser Patrol (with supercharger)

Suicide Mission

Communist Mutants From Space

Circus Atari

Frogger (with plastic, but open)

Casino (with plastic, but open)

Golf

Superman

Venture

Space War

Joust

Indy 500

Battlezone (with plastic, but open)

River Raid

Combat

Video Pinball

Warlords

Carnival

Vanguard (with plastic, but open)

Super Breakout

Laser Blast

Gorf (with plastic, but open)

Q*Bert

Missile Command

Maze Craze

Super Cobra

Surround

Midnight Magic

Centipede

Kangaroo

Dodge Em

Ms. Pac-Man

 

I also have this neat little cartridge holder box that holds 16 cartridges- in 2 rows of 8- and all the loose papers along one side of the cartridges.

 

I'm pretty sure it all works- both systems do, and at least two of the original joysticks do, as do a bunch of the games that I've tried. No real dust, no marks, no wear and tear, the only game that isn't in pristine condition is Pitfall, whose label is darkened with some speckling.

 

What should I do with this? I was going to Ebay it, but I've seen the prices there, and they were discouraging. Also, I kinda wanted to make sure someone who really enjoys this stuff gets it. There's a store that specializes in buying and selling old game systems not too far from me, which was another option.

 

I can post pics if you want, my camera's just temporarily outta battery.

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That sounds an awful lot like what I got outta my parents' basement! Few different, few less games though. Good find!