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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!

We all paid $65 for brand new boxed games back in the day. So $20 seems reasonable to me for a rom. Remember the companies owned the rights to those roms and very few people had the computer set up to copy or even display the roms, so it is very neat that we all have our own computers that can do that now. So I see the roms being $20 for a set number of years, then $10, then $5, then free. This has already happened with all the old AA game releases starting from the year 2000.(really ,it has been that long!) It is still amazing to me, that the new boxed games we get today are $45 to $60 ,considering it is 40 years later.

That list is insane! It took me two days, about four hours to slowly go through it all! I couldn't read it in one sitting.

It looks like the auto-pay for the buyer comes up when e(vil)-Pay is down for maintenance.(I considered this a safety issue and logged off of ebay) The notice of maintenance was conveniently located way at the bottom of the page...typical. Just don't pay for stuff until the scheduled maintenance is done.

Nice job on the Activision games. I am waiting for my last CIB Activision game from EvilPay; a copy of Skiing with the blue cartridge.

Wow, $15,000! Who needs two kidneys anyway...

After seeing a few more listed in the forums here, or pictures online, I can add these; Malagia/Confrontation,saw picture of it online Halloween/TCM, Xonox style label,picture right in this thread. Malagai/Gauntlet ,from a game list in the forum here.

Hey, I found your excellent website just yesterday while looking around for Odyssey 2 stuff.

Awesome! Asteroids really takes me back to the local 7-11 store where I fed my allowance into that game. I couldn't fit either of those games in my house. An updated photo of the games working would be nice...

A copy of Ebivision Pac-Man for $22! And it does not have the franken-Hozer head on the label. So is it the one cart that was awarded to someone for finding the secret room in Alfred Challenge? Or just an extra cart with this label that Hozer Games sold before changing the label? For $22 it better not be the only copy! The rest of the items from the same seller were- ZBlocks- two player tetris River Run- This copy works! Moxie Wins- Yet another soda space invaders hack. Atari Pong, the original arcade game- a real simple program of pong, the label is VERY 70's. Asteroids,the vector edition-Hozer games 1999. This one was free due to late shipment of order.

That one is different & made to look like the Xonox game labels. Pretty cool looking.... Also (to avoid another quote) I found my copy of Game Panik 3/BLT Blast in a different box that I got via E(vil)Pay.

I got a copy of Ataricorp Surround 1986 version with the black tape covering the wrong controller info. I refuse to reveal just how much I had to shell out to get this one... I do not expect to get the CIB copy of this, so I am happy with getting the cartridge. I also bought two auctions to get everything for a complete copy of Sears Chase # 49-75105, picture label, then I realized I had a text cart that was # 49-75105, which is not listed in the book Classic 80's Home Video Games. There are several mistakes and omissions in that book, but it has helped me for the last five years. So collecting all the Sears variants continues to be a pain.

Peter at Repentless is waiting for the larger ROM chip to make some more copies. I am currently on his impatiently waiting list...

Seems like the crash and the resultant Atari Corp created a lot of variations due to just stuffing whatever was on hand in the warehouses in Asia into the boxes.(at least for the older released games)I assume this excludes the silver and red releases? So we would have to get info from people that bought these items when they were originally released from 1977 to 1983? Seems to get weird after that. Or I am completely wrong? Too many question marks...

There is also a note about phosphor burn into the CRT tv screen in all nine of the first releases? The Indy 500 also has a correction note that says "left jack for one player (time-trial)" Also, isn't the log book insert in boxes up to at least 1980? Great topic. I have a whole 19 quart box full of just Atari catalogs to distribute into boxes; and another box full of the rest of the companies. If the boxed game is cheap enough, I buy it just for the paperwork. So now I have three 31 quart boxes full of just boxed items for the 2600.

Nope it is the evil empire that is AT&T.(see Bloom County comics for full details) Our land line is gone because a wire box at the end of our private road has been smashed for three years; service spotty, then dead. AT&T would fix it within 18 months and wanted us to continue to pay! They were dropped like a stink log. Congrats to neotokeo2001. A hack of an accomplishment.

Wow. I printed out about 12 magnets on a magnetic sheet about nine years ago...cost maybe $15. Of course, Albert just gave them away...

I read the kindle version of volume 5 before the books even got here. Of course, the book with color photos is much better than the kindle version. I like the section that covers all the pac-man versions, and the reasons why they were made. The ultimate reason was that a 4K version could indeed be made! Incredible work by all those who programmed them. P.S. This is version one of this comment.

LOL, just watched Gross Point Blank the other week. I like when he goes to the reunion and tells several people ,when asked what he does for a living, "I am a contract killer." Of course everyone thinks it's a joke... His childhood home being a quick mart is hilarious. He keeps asking the poor teenage kid,"What are you doing here?"

Played standard version of Mappy. I try to at least play through to level 15.(only got to 12 this time) Star Castle, just to knock some of the champ game high scores out of the way.(this is one of the few games that tracks the high scores right in the game itself) Gorf for the same reason with save-key keeping track of scores for me. I play Beef Drop almost daily on the 7800 on expert version.(the regular version is just to slow) If my brain cooperates I can get thru the game levels three times.

Wow, a lot of new games. I haven't even played all of last years releases yet.

I use to sit cross-legged on the floor and play the Atari for hours too. I would be in traction if I tried that now days...

That set up by Akator is excellent. My game systems are in an old stereo cabinet. I am too old school to deal with emulation. Got the same rev 12 VCS from 1981 and and old CRT from 1978; and they both still work. With that written, I still want to invest in a recapped VCS/2600 with the circuitry that really outputs a good signal to (an older) HDMI (pre-smart) tv. And yes there is a major nostalgia effect every time I sit down to play the old systems that are all pre-nintendo entertainment system.(I gave my NES away a few years back to a relative that thought it was 'old' & cool)

I will go postal if I do not get a copy! So obviously you have to add me to the list.