HelloAtariJason

I recently purchased this retail standee display and accompanying items. The Batsignal lights up when you press the button and it still works. It runs off of a 9V battery. I'd never know of Grey Matters magazine before finding this and attempting to find copies of other volumes doesn't look easy. Hope you all enjoy and if anyone knows of other Lynx displays I'd like to see them. http://imgur.com/gallery/AFodP

I had a good find at Goodwill yesterday in Great Lakes Atari Digest newsletters from the late 80's and early 90's. This was a cool piece of history as an Atari fan. I've messaged some people on Facebook who share the names with the authors of some of the articles in hopes of finding some of them. Atari STs seem to get talked about a lot in these. Did anyone ever write or subscribe to one of these?

My spreadsheet says 629 but i'd bet I have 50 doubles sitting around too.

I checked the cover and it does give a photo credit to Atari Inc. That makes it cool in my book, no pun intended. I figured the value would be low given the Amazon prices but its an interesting addition to the collection.

I saw this for sale at a local used bookstore and snapped it up for $2. That artwork looked pretty familiar. The book is pretty cool and all but one of the games run in 8K. It even has instructions for conversions to TRS 80 computers. So my question to you guys is have you ever seen this before? EDIT: Sorry for the double post, mod can you remove?

That's pretty cray. Is that an NTSC release?

I love collecting 2600 stuff but the shark has definitely been jumped and finding great things in the wild is rare. I'm also starting to pick up the older game guides. Love looking at the fatalities in the MK series ones and the level designs of sonic. I figure for a buck i'll buy them all day.

Here's my newest garage sale find. Spent $20 for the lot. I wish I had a pic of it but I also picked up the Sears Superman Pic Label. It's a nice piece to have but it's no Red Sea Crossing.

I only have 30 to 40 dupes right now. Luckily I have a guy that loves to hoarde games in town so I can send them off to him in batches and get games for other systems I'm missing. Its a win win thing.

So what do you guys think about the ending price of $13K? High / low?

It's not a big Atari score or anything but that little joystick that plugs in the TV can be tough to find cheap. I should have gotten them in the picture but I got a standard Atari 2600 joysticks and 2 sets of paddle controllers, one was Sears which was my first of that kind. All told I got 16 games, the 4 controllers, the VHS tapes, and a Sega Genesis without cords for $10.50. This was from a flea market in Michigan.

This isn't exactly Atari but I grabbed all 4 this weekend for $22. Looks like I made out pretty well. These will definitely stay in my collection though. Great fun factor. Just need a friend that would be dorky enough to play with me.

Here is what I found at a garage sale this weekend. Not really Atari necessarily but they're in the museum now.

I think these types of things are usually a result of people not understnading that things that are old do not necessarily mean that they are valuable.

That Bitcorp cart is amazing!

I actually just updated my renter's insurance to include my collection and I have to say it definitely make me feel better. It didn't add very much to my yearly premium. The cool part is they made it an expemption so if the house burns I get a cool $40K. Just make sure to keep pics and records of what you own.

I see a few R's myself any idea what location R means?

I just bought an E.T. cart that had the end label stamp "462 D". I have heard that the digits are the week and year of production but what is the "D"? I have a ton of "R" stamped end labels and some with no letters at all. So my question is does anyone know what these letters mean? I did a search of the forum but it didn't turn anything up so sorry if this is somewhere else. If needed I can send a pic. Thanks, Jason

The T-Handles are Smurf! Vulture Attack and Spider Maze (Both the K-Tel versions). Those are probably among my favs. I did pick up a set of the Mystique games CIB those would be the other favs. I don't have any doubles of pirate carts and very few to speak of any way. That fact I don't have any V-cases is a shame

Hi All, So I recently got a new bookcase that seemed to fit the collection a little better. For the most part I'm trying to collect a copy of the most reasonable 2600 games. I've completed the Activision collection with a considerable amounts of the variants as well, that's my biggest achievement as I love the look and play of those games. With the Atari picutre and silver labels I am trying to get as many date stamps and picture movements as possible. Luckily right next to where I work they sell a lot of Atari games for 50 cents per. If anyone else is in this quest let me know, I definitely have a few doubles I can get to ya. Once I counted it looks like 774 carts are in the pic but there's always room for one more. Oh and sitting up top are a Gemini and a 7800. Not seen are a Jr. and a Vader. Thanks, Jason

I have a little over 500 2600 games with variations and without including things like date stamps... so maybe 600 to 700 total. I'm guessing i've maybe played 200 of them. So I'd say I overpayed for 4 to 5 hundred games.

I love the idea on increasing the rarity of those common carts, well at least theoretically, what's infinity minus 1,000 again?

See American seller under $20 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 110820765110

I agree I bought my Ikari Warriors and MotoRodeo from SA and had no problems. Also saved a ton. Got them for like 30 total NIB.

Good luck getting more money from a brick and mortat store. There is a place locally where I shop where they sell me the Atari stuff they get in under what the eBay price due to the demand. Considering I am the only person that frequents their store that would buy these items and if they went above eBay I would just buy it there they are stuck. No consider that you are trying to sell six copies. Which means you would have to find six interested parties... seems like more of an incentive to lower the price. I have to say despite what you think I've certainly stopped visting stores that over price in general. It's not worth the occasional stop in to see if there is a deal. Price to sell and make money on the volume. Then again this is a buyer's perspective so take it any way you want.