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Yes, that is the box I was talking about. I has Atari all over the thing, if it is indeed a pirate system, they did a mighty fine job Cheers, Marco

I have a box from Canada that says it contains an Atari 2400. I only got the box, not the unit and the seller didn't remember if the unit actually said "2400". Cheers, Marco

Hi Jerry, Please don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong or anything. I was just pointing Adam towards two more models I had stumbled upon, as I thought he'd be interested in them. He's a collector, you see Cheers, Marco

According to the Atari Historical Society there are also CX2200 prototype consoles. Cheers, Marco

That label was made by Roloff de Jeu, better known as Deleto. He made it as an April 1st joke. It was a big hit on #rgvc, as almost everybody fell for it at first. The excitement of this "find" was just so big that people wanted to believe it was true. Also, there hadn't been too much fraud back then so people weren't as suspicious as they are today. Ah, those good ole days of fun... Cheers, Marco

Okay guys, final day, get your bids in!!! http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...&userid=marco_k Cheers, Marco

There is no box for this rare puppy... ... unfortunately :wink: Cheers, Marco

Cheers, Marco

Okay, let's assume you expected a serious answer from me I never say that originals are rarer, I say they shouldn't be in the same league or category as homebrews. Some of the homebrews are artficially created rarities, that's kind of 'cheating', I think. Others are artifically created valuables. Sometimes that's the same, sometimes it's not. In this case, I cannot but admire the work sniderman put into this. I know some of you programmers think "what, it's only a hack!", but I think "to each his own" couldn't be more suitable in this situation. Cheers, Marco PS: WIZ, why are you such an angry man? :wink:

Second highest bid was only $160.... they will go down in price! Cheers, Marco

Yep, it is the Men-A-Vision game. It's not likely we will know how many games of Air Raid were produced or released. But perhaps that goes for Video Life as well? I have a letter from CommaVid that states that they intended to produce 1200 games combined of Magicard and Video Life. They may have ended up with only 20 Video Lifes, like the CommaVid guys told John and Sean. What amazes me is that we can account for about half of the Video Lifes in existence then. I don't think any other game, besides Cubicolor and homebrews, has that high of a "hit rate". If there were hundreds or even thousands of Air Raids, I think it would be likely that we should have seen some more. I personally know of only two popping up in the past ten years, but perhaps others know dozens more owners. Who knows, Men-A-Vision may have been some kind of homebrew company - are there any ads known to exist? Cheers, Marco

I'm not sure about the timeline, but I thought he moved after his exhibition. I know he was looking for storage space for his collection at that time, perhaps he had already moved prior to the exhibition and just needed the storage space. Hm, my memory fails me here. Perhaps Matty can help? Cheers, Marco

Only that weird one that I have - there should be good ole NTSC versions out there as well Cheers, Marco

Good idea, though I think fish has moved in the meantime. Do we know where he works? Cheers, Marco

I think Air Raid is even rarer, less than five have been accounted for, I think, none of them boxed... Cheers, Marco

Thomas, Is there nothing we can do?? I know you've tried everything, but there should be *some* way. Should we try to phone or visit him and see if we can help him out of whatever trouble he is in?? Cheers, Marco

no homebrew should ever fall into the same category as the originals Cheers, Marco PS: no dissing of anything implied in this post :wink:

Why not? Maybe when NES fans have realized that what Nintendo did was easy compared to what Atari had established, then the time will be right for a mature NES community that knows its place in videogame history, with cool sites like AtariAge Cheers, Marco PS:

There you go I indeed bought a box of Mexican games and kept all the titles that I didn't have yet in PAL format. And I indeed want to collect as many games as possible, but I'm not really into collecting both PAL and NTSC releases, nor label variations. Thus they ended up on eBay Cheers, Marco

Stay away! You don't want any pirate stuff! If you do, go bid on my auctions instead! http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...&userid=marco_k Cheers, Marco

Let's face it, the NES doesn't deserve a site like AtariAge Cheers, Marco

I see the CPU wizzard now also is a message board wizzard!! Cheers, Marco

Hi Wiz, Some of it is spare, some is not. I will sell lots of stuff from my collection in the next couple of months, but I'll still be around for the good stuff Cheers, Marco

Let's keep the bashing to a minimum, PERIOD! We're talking friggin' GAMES here people, supposedly the favorite waste of time for ALL of us... Cheers, Marco

Today I listed another nice lot of unusal Atari 2600 games. They are pirate games with well-known titles like S.O.S., See Saw, Mole Hunter, Normandy Landing and many others, but the cool thing is that they are in NTSC format! If you always wanted some of these cool Taiwanese pirates, but didn't want to bother with the PAL format, here's your chance to get a big batch of pirate games that you can play on your NTSC console/tv: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=3002236007 Good luck! Cheers, Marco