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Probably just hedging his bets that he'll win one and not the other. His response sounds sarcastic to me more than anything else.

C'Mon, support my Atari habit; I haven't bought anything on ebay in a week and I'm going through withdrawl. My auctions end tomorrow, so do me and yourself a favor, and BID. To clarify, I have original movie posters that I'm selling of: The Last Starfighter Starman Robocop 2 Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Goonies 2010 The Jewel of the Nile The War of the Roses Singles King Kong Lives Children of a Lesser God Batman I Bugs Bunny on Broadway Total Recall Glory Educating Rita Ladyhawke Adventures of Baron Munchausen ...and I have 4 Atari cart organizers as well for auction. Take a look

Absolutely--it just depends on luck, like usual. In September, I spent one Saturday morning going to Garage Sales. I found one where I got 6 N64 games for $5. About 8 sales later, I found a kid who was selling his N64 games for $10 each... He actually had one I wanted and when I tried to buy it, he realized he wasn't ready to part with his games just yet. Frankly, I hope he keeps that attitude and holds on to his games for 20 years so that he's a collector like us! Anyway, the point is, Funcoland will always be there for people to sell their games to, but there will also always be uneducated moms who will sell you half a dozen of their kids' games for $5!

Yes, it's mine. C'mon, you know you have room on your wall for this one... Bunches of 1980s Science Fiction movie posters Oh, and this IS Atari related for two reasons: A--In the poster photos, I used Rarity 1s to hold down the corners of my posters. B--I need new PayPal money to fund my Atari habit! Bid early, bid often- Clive

I'm sure you just made them feel much better, Sku.

Magazines have their own rate, which is something akin to second class mail. Publishers actually have to qualify for it with a specific ratio of editorial to ads; otherwise, you'd get MacWarehouse and LL Bean's claiming that their catalogs were magazines and deserved the lower rate. The ratio is a VERY SERIOUS thing with publishers, because the difference between the rates adds up to thousands of bucks. On a different note, I'd suspect you could get away with claiming that a cart is software; technically, it is, right?

I imagine it would have to come packed up, because how else do you teach consumers to recognize an Atari cart box? If they don't know what they look like, they won't buy more of them from behind the counter at Child World. It's basic consumer education, and lets face it--it worked. I am so imprinted, I can spot an Atari box at 50 feet just by the shape and size of lettering on the front. I'm sure the rest of you can too.

I think it's either a CV or perhaps Snoopy and the Red Baron. I'll have to check my carts later

Yeah, that Raiders and the Thunderground that's half-covered are the only items of interest.

Does anyone have a photo of one all set up with a 2600 in it, etc.? I always see these ones looking forlorn and empty in photos from the auction block. If someone has one with a bunch of Imagic games jammed in it and a TV percolating next to it, let us see what it looks like when it's happily up and runnng!

Yeah, I BINed a bunch of stuff from him last night--nothing as cool as that, so you must have spotted his auctions before I did--but I'm still pretty happy Road Runner Tape Worm Beamrider Commando Sea Hawk all for $42 including shipping. Not all of them are that high on the rarity scales, but that's a matter of location--in 10 years, I've never seen any of these in the wild, so it's money well spent to me.

You DID get a good deal. I've sold individual issues on eBay for $8 a piece, so you did well. I lucked out, however; I got an entire set except for one issue, plus a few doubles and a slew of other early 80s videogame mags for $40 about 2 years ago. I did eventually complete my Atari Age set by posting in the publications forum here on AA; someone helped me out getting the last one I needed (which I think I paid $10 for--but to me it was worth it). Clive

I saw that opening bid price and that on En Vogue song ran through my head: 'never gonna get it.'

As for the comment about whether a bank will take a check with a nickname in the middle, I'd imagine they would. I used to run a band's fan club, and we'd get checks made out to the club instead of me all the time. (I didn't want to have a DBA set up, so all dues were made out to me). A little altering and they wouldn't think twice about it. I also got a few checks made out for "Twelve big ones" instead of "Twelve-----" like you're supposed to do. Didn't matter--banks took 'em anyway. When it's an iffy check like that, deposit using the ATM!

Oh, I don't want to do it at all--that's why I labeled this topic INSANE Catalog Question. It's one of those ideas that cross your mind and you know it'd be feasible but it'd also be totally not worth the time.

Before you start scanning for days on end, try grabbing a few photos from the AA archives.

Must be a west coast thing--wish we had one around New York City; it sounds cool.

Check out the packaging for the new DVD based on DJ Qbert's Wave Twisters--just slightly reminiscent of a certain Activision game...

Has anyone ever kept track of what catalogs came with what boxes? I've been reconstructing stuff to try and make my boxes CIB, with the manual, pack-ins, etc., but I have no idea which catalogs would go in to which boxes. Some, I'm sure, could have a variety of catalogs--long-running games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man surely carried a number of different catalogs through out their long runs. But does anyone actually KNOW this kind of info?

I keep all my games together, and have the boxes separated. I keep the manuals inside the boxes, and have the boxes wrapped up in magazine bags (just like comic book bags, but bigger). Basically, I like to have them set up so that all I'd have to do to make 'em CIB is to put the game back in there. That said, I don't keep catalogs in my boxes, so it's not stricktly accurate. I have my manuals wrapped up in bags for 45s (you know, vinyl records), but I like your photo sheet idea better--I'll have to look into that this weekend. The bags work great but accessing the manuals is a drag; it would be easier if they were all in a binder.

When and if you do, I hope it will only cost you a small fortune. Tell me about it; I've just moved into collecting boxes a few months ago, and while 60 boxes is a drop in the bucket compared to most folks around here, it's taking up a lot of space for me, which I don't have to spare in my tiny home office (as a writer, I need room for, you know, books...and did I mention my wife is a librarian? ) It's a double-edged sword. I can't bear to buy boxes that will wind up in storage, because then what's the point of having them? On the other hand, I can't stand the thought of loads of shelfspace devoted to, um, empty boxes. Oh, and the boxes ain't cheap either....

What is 'Weird Stuff?'

I've never paid more than $20 for a game, crummy or not, and I hope I never do. I've been lucky enough to find games like Glib and Quadrun and Waterworld for next to nothing, and that in itself has shown me that for this hobby, what you need most of is not cash but PATIENCE. If you go out and look for stuff in the wild, sooner or later you'll find something cool and rare. I was starting to give up on this point of view earlier this year because it's been a few years since I found something cool in the wild. Then I came across a nice Z-Tack by Bomb...for $12. The point is, if you're willing to beat the bushes and look around for stuff, it WILL turn up.

It's all a matter of what you're willing to pay and how much research you do beforehand. I BIN'd Quick Step yesterday for $9, which to me was fair because I never see it anywhere around here. Then I did research and discovered that $5 seems to be the going rate...that's what I get for being too hasty and hoping I don't lose out on a BIN--like last week. Someone put up an auction for an Atari Storage holder with 15 games--including Bounty Bob Strikes Back--for $45. By the time I researched it (one or two minutes), the BIN had been killed by some SOB with the name "Ataribinkiller." Man, was I miffed....

I have a hard time believing they're all originals. I wish you guys luck but even if I had the money to jump in on this, I wouldn't. If it's too good to be true.... FWIW, his stating, "I found them in a box in the back room" reminds me of an article that Film Threat ran a long time ago reviewing a 6-hour bootleg edition of Apocalypse Now. In it, they wrote something like, "so, where did we get it? We found it over there, behind the couch. It was the darndest thing!"