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Sealed playaround gigolo finally completes my set. The rats at digital press in New Jersey are fast selling their sealed cases before they turn into a pumpkin ? in July on eBay.

No they went Pompeii ironically predicting their own demise. Still an intriguing company.

I think once Activision won its lawsuit against Atari there was a gaming “Gold Rush” and all these small companies popped up wanting a piece of the pie. Roper saw that Activision made over 20 million in it’s first year and went all in trying to replicate it. He should have started small and put an ad in the Sunnyvale newspaper instead of Texas to steal one of Atari’s better programmers. Apollo did contribute to the crash with bad games and all that inventory probably ended up in the dump like e.t. If they survived the crash I think their games would have greatly improved with time.

Apollo games founded by Pat Roper in October of 1981 and quickly went bankrupt in 1983 with the video game crash. Just bad timing I believe the company could have turned into a activision if it survived. Let’s just blame this on Howard the guy that wrote e.t. ? This is a letter from the company and I put a game next to it so you can compare the logos.

$3,000 cib Texas chainsaw massacre. Collectors I’m sure we can set up a group zoom with “Howard” for therapy. He understands where you’re coming from ?

A cib scuba diver “the bears” in close proximity to king crown jewel of gaming.

If you have any interest in any of these boxes let me know. Most are in fair condition some with manuals but I didn’t look inside most of them. Some are in good to very good.

Have you been making any progress finding titles?

You made me look at my two boxed versions both blue labels. Never heard of the ntsc white labels. Maybe these are Canadian releases with super rare box? Just be thankful you’re not a historian for the 8bit lol. Out of curiosity who is funding Atarimania?

Pal bomb assault

Sealed 2600 silver gravitar within a few feet of the unattainable holy grail for the 2600!

A couple boxed picnic paranoia both cartridge versions.

The return of Superman and his long lost wallet after a near death experience.

I’m wondering how much it would cost me to purchase this whole thread ??

Finally able to get box protectors for different size games thx to a thread in the 2600 section.

Periodically I have been looking for the magazine but no luck yet, I thought it might be neat to have them together. Thx for your help if it wasn’t for you I would have never inquired about it further and not bid. You noticed the crease in the end label was in a slightly different position than atarimania pictured one.

I’ll take small town quaint over crowded any day. That game store is tucked away and hidden next to railroad tracks and it’s hard to find. Nearly nil chance a rare game like this finds its way into a game store anywhere.

Red Sea crossing aka “Moses cart”. In 2018 this cart walked into at least 3 video game stores in northwest Ohio. The first two didn’t have a 2600 to test it. Some people here heard about it from those game stores before being listed on eBay which is pretty cool. There was some discussion about it here when it was listed and at first I thought the cart picture was copied from atarimania website and was a fraud listing . Stupus thought it was real and he was right, I contacted the seller midway through the auction and that changed my mind to bid on it thx stupis ?. I refused to pay the seller via eBay and wanted to pick it up in person to be sure . They wanted to meet me in a cop shop but I thought it would be weird bringing a 2600 to a ?‍♀️ station lol. So we met in a video game store called flotsam in perrysburg Ohio he had a 2600. We tested it and it works great. I met the husband and employee at the store and paid via phone. They released the game after the wife checked her PayPal account. I spoke with the wife on her husband’s phone and she told me how they found it. She was in Vegas with a guy friend that she goes with 4 times a year lmao I almost erupted laughing sometimes it takes a village. Before I left I gave Brad the owner of flotsam $100 for letting us use his store. Of course I asked why he didn’t buy it, he didn’t have enough operating capital to tie up the money. If you’re in the area and know the store Brad can tell you more.

Yeah that end label is super rare only a very few have survived. ?

Maybe 5 of bomb dc-2 accounted for in collections????????????????

#5 boys, catch me if you can! 3-Atari, 2- Sears. These hex discs are found in the weirdest places and up until a couple years ago I didn’t have any that I know about. These are mostly pure luck, you can be a long term collector with none or a newbie with a couple good luck!?

Nice info, it looks like Atari was cost cutting because Atari was a high growth juggernaut that required a lot of capital. Today these hex discs make collectors batty trying to find one and I put the blame on Nolan lol.

He was smart to scan his rare carts and boxes so he could identify them when/if they popped up on eBay, Facebook, etc. Showing his rare and valuable collection probably increased sales and foot traffic to his store. He’s the game grading ?.

My complete pirate game collection consists of these three.

Yeah you would not come back. I bought a kiosk at an estate sale and the base had water damage. I was taking the kiosk apart in the basement . I had my cell phone on a shelf down there and twice people picked it up trying to buy it when I was taking pieces up to my suv