crunchysuperman

Jeez, I'm fairly ashamed to say after reading the rest of these posts. That picture label Superman was around $700 IIRC.

Both formats are doomed IMO. Sure, it's a jump in image quality, but nothing even remotely close to the jump from VHS to DVD. Besides, only a tiny percent of consumers have a display to take advantage of it anyway, and even then, the response I always hear is "yeah, it's better, but so what?" It's not worth the cost by any stretch of the imagination. Equipment will have to get close to the price point of current generation technology (including the display) for the public at large to even consider it. By the time it does, movie downloading services will be taking too large a chunk of the market for anybody to bother with these new formats. To me, it all just smells like more of the "double-dipping" marketing that the industry has made the norm over the past few years. What made DVD popular in the first place has been replaced by the same 'ol "feed-the-lemmings" corporate greed mentality that has come to dominate virtually every aspect of existence in the western world anymore.

I remember back around '93 or so, Big Lots had just TONS of sealed 7800 games for about $.50 each. I wasn't into collecting at the time, so I didn't think anything of it. I'd never played a 7800 before, so I bought a whole bunch to play (including a sealed Basketbrawl). Years go by, and I have no idea what became of them. Of course, I could kick myself now!

I actually see Night Driver & Missile Command quite often. But I agree, after Superman, Gunslinger & Basketball are probably the rarest of the Sears picture labels. (That is, unless the Tank Plus & Target Fun picture labels really do exist somewhere. )

I have some duplicate Activision patches from several lots I bought a while back. Also, there are a few others in there that, for the life of me, I can't recall how I ended up with. Prices include postage in the US. I'll ship elsewhere, but it'll be extra. Paypal is best, but if you want to send me a check/MO, that'll be fine too. Activision patches Chopper Comand $12 Dragster $15 (2 available) Laser Blast 1,000,000 $20 Megamania (5200) $15 Plaque Attack $20 Skiing $15 Sky Jinks $15 (2 available) Space Shuttle Pilot $15 Spider Fighter $15 (2 available) Starmaster - Leader chevron $15 Starmaster - Starmaster chevron $20 (2 available) Other patches Pac-Man $5 Space Invaders (large patch) $5 Space Invaders (small set of 3) $3

Space Invaders was first re-issued in a derivative of it's original box, the same as this Pac-Man. Only difference was, it had a silver label inside. One sorta gets the impression that during this era, Atari was a madhouse of people running around & cutting/pasting whatever they could find just to get a product out the door

It's already there. http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html...areLabelID=1385

Either my Sears picture label Superman or this.

I'm gonna bug the winner for some label variations.

I have actually heard comments like that before. Perhaps I will reconsider my color scheme. Thanks for your feedback. Green is certainly my favorite color, and I like the way it looks in my listings, but yes, it definately does make it harder to read sometimes. In fact, I have you blocked out of my searches for this very reason. Auctions that really goof around with the standard ebay colors & fonts or pack in a ton of flash objects just get on my last nerve.

Interesting idea, I'll give it some thought. I also have several duplicate patches from buying in lots that I'll put up on the marketplace this week.

But that's what makes it fun.

Secret society of Dolphins was the last one. The most expensive would be close between Super Sleuth and Decathlon Gold, I don't remember which one was more (both were costly) Right! I got a few honest from Activision back in the day, but I'm too terrible at some of those games to have ever had a prayer earning them. It's taken several years and several hundred dollars. I had a few when I was a kid & lost them over the years, but I started buying them around '99 or so. It would have taken longer if that guy who was selling many lots of them on ebay recently hadn't come along. I've got letters for about half of them.

Acquired the last one a little while ago, but just now got them mounted & framed the way I want. Just gotta find a good place to hang this now.

Besides, nobody who has an Atlantis 2 is going to just throw it in a heap alongside a night scene Atlantis 1. Geat real - you're gonna have it in a marked bag, or some other similar method of protection/identification. BS 2nd'ed.

Picked up both ntsc Puzzy games - Space Tunnel & Seamonster.

Gray Surround box: http://crunchysuperman.freeservers.com/lab...%20box%20s1.jpg http://crunchysuperman.freeservers.com/lab...%20box%20s2.jpg

I have a gray surround. I'll scan it tonight when I get home.

I'm betting the box to silver Asteroids is not the typical silver, but a colored box with later copyright date. Indeed it is. It's pretty much the same red box as the old ones, but with the '86 or '87 "atari corp" date on the back. The easiest way to spot it from the front is to look under the fuji - the warner communications line is missing.

Nice! You got it for a killer price too! I won the '86 label last year and thought I got off cheap at over twice that. Still, it kinda pisses me off that there's an '87 omitted version, because I'm pretty sure I'll never see that one again. It's irritating that I can't get all the Atari re-releases. Treasure that one - I don't think anybody knew there was an '87 label.

Kinda artsy really - they have this "500 year-old oil painting" look to them.

Got my first 2600 back around '81, but I've only been really collecting for about 8 or nine years now.

I think I have an Atari chainsaw somewhere.

I'm usually scanning the blov or gpd lists and never thought to look at this one.

1987 Indy 500 with missing controller text! I thought there was only the '86 with the taped error until I found this one. . . . . . . and, a previously unknown re-release (it's not in any list I can find):