What’s your best 2600 eBay find?

[What’s your best 2600 eBay find?]

Just did my banking and was reminded that I recently got Quick Step boxed for the 2600 for $34 ;it's not perfect,but it is mine!

Also about 3 years ago I got a boxed copy of Espial for .99 cents!, and it is in mint condition.

Got my copy of Boing! for about $40.

And via email, got Starpath/Arcadia Frogger for $40.

[Obsessive Compulsive Collecting?]

The only time I have doubles of games that I keep is when one is boxed, and the other is loose. Loose games I play, boxed ones get left alone.

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Ditto. I've got two or more of everything(for the 2600,sorry I know I'm on the wrong forum, but I do have 5200 stuff too)

 

Those pack-rat photos are hilarious.At least there are not any rats in the garage too.Or maybe they are, and they are very computer literate!

[Sold Please lock Thread]

I got my copy for $40 a few years back.

[How much did you pay for the last game you bought?]

$126 for C.I.B. Subterrania off of e(vil)bay.

I have been paying over $100 on each item I am missing for my 2600 collection.As you can tell, I am getting down to the nitty-gritty(i.e. expensive), that is, very few things left to get that do not cost something crazy like over 4 or 5 hundred dollars.In the last week, I have basically blown my tax return money.

[How would you run atari after buying it from Nolan]

I think I would have fired the idiot that said this about 2600 games,

"I could put s**t in those boxes and still charge $60"(PAC-MAN was crap)

This is why Atari got stagnant, too much greed by a few people;the usual BS.

[Atari 2600.com - broken?]

Looks like the site is up and running just in time for me to blow my tax refunds there!

[MB Cosmic Commander for the 2600]

Great, now try finding the Flight Commander unit--it took me three years.

[How many eBay searches do you have?]

I got 25.Not all Atari though.I've been setting up fav sellers list via ebay so that is sending some email my way everyday.

[Why is Glacier Patrol only a rarity 4?]

I actually own something that both CPUWIZ and MegaManFan need for their collection!  Holy shit I never thought that would happen.

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Ditto!

And, yeah I got mine from Telegames a few years back.

[could they be really rare?]

That's bizzare.I'm surprised ebay allows such auctions at all.

Pretty carry case for your 10 Combat cartridges!

[Any predictions on this one?...]

Since it is vidio jogger, maybe someone should go door to door signing up their neighbors to "sponsor" so much a mile for jogging.Just don't tell them that the 'cause' is to collect money to buy an expensive ebay item.

[How hard is it to find/obtain Elevator Action?]

Elevator Action is also on ebay every so often.

[Atari artists]

The artwork of yesteryear had to hype the game,and nowdays the artwork looks worse than the actual game.

[Question for the collectors]

For better or worse(and certainly for a lot of money) I discovered E-bay in the year 2000.But now days I buy a lot of stuff from independent sellers,because the prices are getting crazy on ebay(like the $200+ empty box mentioned here).

My advice to a new collector is to look at all the sellers links on AA here, and shop around.This is the only way I am plugging in the missing pieces of my collection.I mostly "watch" e-bay these days, just as a "sport" of sorts.

[Pictures of My Collection, Finally]

NICE!

 

I wish I had a MAME machine.

Must not use my $4k ,stashed away as an emergency fund, to buy MAME cabinet!!

[My name is Earl]

So what was the game playing on screen,in this new episode??

[How to Color Order Boxes? - Atari and Activision]

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...=gatefold+boxes

Hope this link works for the "upside-down box".Here it is

[How to Color Order Boxes? - Atari and Activision]

Wow! Too much time on your hands.But I can't say much either, since I have all my boxes in order of product number/order of release.

There is another post here where the guy had 'one' box upside-down,in a row of boxes, with the writing going the other way;it bothered a-lot of people.

[What was the worst 2600 arcade conversion?]

I voted for Pac-Man, because my father made a big deal out of buying it for my brother and I ,back in the day,and we both did not have the heart to tell him the game sucked ass.

At least there is an alternative to Amidar;

Demolition Herby

[Mega Force]

Luckly I already have my boxed copy of Megaforce.I agree that it is much harder to come by than MASH.I'm still on the look out for boxed copies of Spacemaster X-7, Crash Dive, Earth Dies Screaming.I've seen them on e(vil)bay, but have not bid agressively enough to win them.

[Parker Bros Shop Demo Unit]

Cool item.I have never seen it before.Picture #3 shows it is made in England,that must be why I've never seen it in the states.Not quite as big as the Imagic selector, but the same concept.

[flashback games on cart?]

It would be cool to have Save Mary on cartridge.

I guess we just got lucky getting Saboteur on cart before Atari Interactive took the rights away from everyone.

[writer needs Atari history help]

Random Terrain wrote;

 

I got my first Atari 2600 on March 27, 1982, so I didn't have too many games during the period you mentioned. By the summer I know for sure that I had Combat (came with the Atari), Pac-Man, Yars' Revenge, and Defender. If August is still summer, I know we got Berzerk when it was fairly new. I think we also bought a few cheap games, but I'd have to spend more time going over the list of games to remember.

 

I also got Berzerk when it was new,but pissed off the clerk at toys-r-us by paying for it with loose change!

[Born again atari fanatic!]

Welcome aboard!

Your story is heartbreaking.

At least you did not throw away boxes of stuff like I did, in my dumb 20 something years.

Enjoy the games--again.

[New Atari 2600 Homebrew Releases]

I'm going to wait until my backorder is sent,and also wait to see what else is released in December.The option to make multicarts is great.