It was 10x as dirty as shown in the picture on the eBay listing (which I saved and attached). About a month and half ago, I was searching for Atari 2600s. I just searched atari and no category so I could find the sellers in the world who don't know anything about what they are selling, and I found this one: The description was "atari game system works great" and the title was "atari game" The seller barely knew what it was and didn't have any cables, so how could he test it? I didn't have any money at the time and it didn;t seem like it was tested, but I took the risk and payed my mom back eventually. After I won, I constantly PMed him asking if he sent it yet, but he didn't respond. But 7 days after I payed, he wrote back that he was on vacation. It took another 5 days to arrive, and it came in a dirty re-used over and over again Flat Rate box at my doorstep. I opened it, and voila! My new Atari VCS!..... But I didn't have a power supply and the system was in rough shape. I stayed up all night cleaning it and polishing it, etc. And now it looks almost brand new except for the fact that a little bit of the bezel paint is worn off. I didn't know where to get a power supply because the ones on eBay are soo expensive, and I remembered I had an AA account, so I created a Wanted thread, and got PMs and got a lot of my favorites (I just had boring commons like Combat, Asteroids, etc so I got my favorites like Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, etc) and... A power supply! It was the moment of truth. Plugged her in, hooked her up popped in Ms. Pac... And... Nothing. Then I realized I was on channel 4 instead of 3. I set it to channel 3... And... She was perfect! No RF interferance! Now she's all wrapped up in luxury and a small shelf of games. She's my little Stella and she'll always be my favorite. The big bummer is, since the controller ports are on the back, I scratched up the back a bit from trying to plug in a controller. It used to have the Left Controller Right Controller sticker in like new shape, but now it's scratched. Nothing's perfect!
Listing Pic (it was 10x as dirty as this when I recieved it. ):
Present day (I took her out of her fancy television stand for this pic):
(Yes, that is a brand new original Rev. 1 CX-40)
The Manufactured date stamped on the inside was JUL 28, 1979. I had a blast playing her with my family for her birthday.