Andre81

That would be shatnatic.

That would only make sense if you expect the price to go up again. I do not. Air Raid will be flipped until the price has come down to the point where it is actually worth that much to collectors, which will be in the $500 - $1,000 range. At that point collectors will keep them and the number of sales will go down. As long as there are multiple sales per year the price will go down.

The Wikipedia article of Air Raid still claims it is the rarest Atari 2600 game.

http://videogames.pricecharting.com/game/atari-2600/air-raid#completed-auctions

$33,433

I think those price tags sum up the crash pretty well.

Achmed will be there too and have a blast with you guys!

I'll do that after he told me where my press kit is.

That is if they actually pay.

Newbie bidding war. Game is not even in a decent condition to justify the price.

Something about this story can not be true. Here is the review of the CES 1982 from Atari: http://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-2600-ces-review-1982.pdf The CES was held in June 1982 and the document is dated 06/21/1982. On page 82 is the Vidtec dealer price list, dated 06/06/1982. Here is the May 1983 issue of Electronic Fun: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/electronic-fun/pdf/Electronic_Fun_Computer_and_Games_Vol_01_07_1983_May.zip On page 79 is the interview with Dubren. So how can a game that was presented to U.S. Games in July be on a price list from early June?

The vidtec price list from June 1982 lists "Guardians of Treasure" as VC1008 and "Untitled" as VC1007. "Name this game" is VC1007. I also got an US Games style Word Zapper and Commando Raid. Do you have any information if US games wanted to re-release the early vidtec titles in a US Games style box?

I paid $99 for my sealed copy of Mattel AD&D. Was the first one that showed up on eBay. Was my worst mispurchase so far. Also paid $99 for Intv Inc. He-Man which back then several thought was way too much, but looking back I don't regret the purchase.

Yeah, I remember really worn copies of Congo being sold for $1,000+ But you can't make a general statement about the Intellivision market from a few excesses. Tutankham also sold once for $1,200 which was crazy. A few excesses have been corrected. And that is a good thing.

Compared to Atari the Intellivision has a small library and not really any R9 or R10 games. Even Spiker isn't that rare. So a lot of money is being thrown at not so rare games. There are also a few hoarders in the Intellivision market.

At least in this day and age? It's not like Intellivision games are getting cheaper.

But we are good enough to buy your crap? Your can either PM a mod or post here to get your account deleted.

They are already a member of the Intellivision Outlaws. Their president is pikadouche.

Weird Bird is Eggomania and Maze Chase is Entombed.

I don't think that "Guardians of Treasure" was another name for "Name this Game". The vidtec price list from June 1982 lists "Guardians of Treasure" as VC1008 and "Untitled" as VC1007. "Name this game" is VC1007. So "Guardians of Treasure" was not "Name this Game"

You guys missed the white tray Nova Blast: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 221505783521 Sorry, maybe next time :P

Trebor, you are again making the same mistake. All 7800 games with the new banner are NTSC, but not all NTSC games have a new banner. In the case of Mean 18 all NTSC copies are "Printed in Hong Kong/Made in China" with a new banner. As you've noticed there are quite a lot of variations (Printed in Taiwan, Printed in Hong Kong, Made in China, ...) and also stickers (Atari advantage, New, Serie Oro). For all those variations it is possible to tell if it is an NTSC or PAL copy. There are only very few exceptions in 1989 and 1990 were Atari got lazy.

Trebor, my post was about Mean 18 only. The Made in China box is always PAL. The NTSC version also always has the "New" banner. So you can't swap the boxes. We can also discuss every other game if you want. Except very few games it is always possible to distinguish NTSC and PAL boxes.

No.

Yes, that 10+ years members here on the board don't know how to identify if a box is NTSC or PAL.