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We have a winner, if the labels stay on...

Got this shrink-wrapped copy of Desert Bus from ebay. The seller was the programmer of the atari 2600 version ,and as a bonus, he also sent a prototype copy in case I wanted to spend eight hours "playing" the game.

Warning, getting all the Sears variants will drive most people insane and into poverty. The worst part is getting the number on the box, cartridge and manual to match, and a few games have four numbers. I have been looking for a baseball manual 49-75108 for over two years now...and will probably have to rob a few banks to get a copy of the Superman picture label in the box.

Thanks. I will post more pictures of what is in the boxes as time permits. I have slowly been getting the Tigervision boxes complete with the cartridge tray and the catalogs, but it is all so expensive now. My copy of Espial CIB was bought about 20 years ago for 99 cents! The ebay seller was not happy, but I bought a lot more from him, so it all evened out.

Here is everything in boxes... ^There are twelve 19 quart boxes with AA CIB games and Loose carts on the right side. ^Here are items that are CIB but do not fit on plastic boxes; except for the Gemini unit and the Kid-Vid unit which are in boxes. My old stereo cabinet holds all the game systems that are all plugged into a multi-plex that hooks up to the old TV. ^More items in their boxes. The old CRT is in the cabinet. ^And even more items in their boxes, all the Flashback systems, Atari 7800 boxed homebrew games are in the right hand tower of boxes. The left hand tower of boxes are the independently released games that are rare and numbered and/or signed; three boxes are not there so you can see what is behind it all. It took years to get the M Network special Tron pack with a top flap and the internal divider. ^Some independently released CIB games ^Independant release cartridges Another box of independently released CIB games. Had to sign up onto yet another online marketplace to get Spider Web. Another box of CIB games from Brazil. NEO Games cartridges. NEO Games CIB and cartridges. Yes, there is a plastic rat in there!

Just a few things from Bitnamic of Brazil Here is one I never thought I would get a copy of...

Ditto for the +1 after the expos.

This copy is the one made by Robert, not the AA re-release, that is why I bid really high on it and still lost the auction...

Great little game, but it will not be a true Atari game until you make 88 various ways it can be played! Make the variations so convolved that you have to print a graph on the back of the instructions to map them all out!

E.T's lost luggage--it doesn't matter how advanced your civilization is, travel will always be FUBAR.

Thanks for the link. I was looking for this a few nights ago. Unfortunately, I am missing most of those videopac games. I am sure most are limited and sold out. Maybe I should not have looked at that site...

I just bought the cartridges Elevator Agent and Turbo & two t-shirts from Champ Games.

It took me a while, but I found this and got one ordered too. Thanks AA member Kirkland. I paid the max shipping. I am getting more impatient as I have more birthdays...

I have real nice reproductions of all the answer software games, basically saving thousands of dollars.... Too bad I was busy with my life, in 1984-85, and did not even know about the $1 bargain bin sell offs.

Thanks for putting that catalog out there for us to see. I like how Pirates Chase promotes underage drinking!

I got mine at Costco, it was cheaper than ebay.S/H and the multiple taxes are killing online sales. The internet is killing the world's economy, but that is a whole other rant....

I was just offered a copy of Gauntlet for $425, I passed. If it was from 1983, yes, but this is just a repro.

So, was that box in the attic or the basement? Mine is slightly better.

The Quadrun box looks so cheap, I often think it is a repro when I see them on ebay. Of course, I did not buy one back in the day... A lot of the Atari club released games ,even in shrink-wrap, are dinged, but that is the way I got one direct from Atari.

Those Xonox boxes are nice! Usually, they are so beat up. I only have one Xonox in a crappy box.

I am impatiently waiting for Arcade Golf to be on ebay again. It seems to be getting rare. A lot of the rare items of yours are starting to be $500+, so it is buy this one thing or 15 other things....

I know it isn't even Thanksgiving yet, but I want a copy of 'a very galactopus christmas' cartridge. And where are all the Thanksgiving games? "Turkey Shoot" is an obvious name for a thanksgiving themed game. I am just thankful that our founding fathers did not make the turkey our national bird. They are very dumb; I actually saw one drown in a pond a few years back.

I like this one. Maybe the city council of Alamogordo, New Mexico can close the land fill for good and convert it to a cemetery. "Game over" is also very much to the point.

I keep everything in IRIS USA 19 quart plastic airtight bins that have 4 point click shut lids with a plastic foam in the lid that makes them "airtight", and are stackable, up to nine high in one spot. I put the boxed games in the boxes to keep the old dust from hundreds of different people's homes contained (thanks ebay!), and the new dust out, and the cat hair out. I also put loose games in the boxes, so I do not have to open the boxed games at all.(yes, all the boxed games have a separate loose game too) I just counted the boxes, and the total boxes with Atari 2600,5200,7800, Odyssey 2 games is....190. 2 have extra boxes and carts, 1 just has Atari catalogs that need to go into boxes someday, and there are two not used yet. There are also 5 larger boxes for the Atari LP and 45 records, Atari merch, Instruction manuals, video game magazines/newsletters, Coleco Gemini system. About half of the boxes have a handwritten list in them, that is copied and put in a folder, so I do not have to move boxes around too much while looking for stuff. The average price for all the boxes that I got from Amazon for years is $2533.33+$500 for larger boxes=$3033 or so.(I thought it was higher)

Ha, 22 years later, thanks for the video clip from a show that is 40+ years old!