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Hey stupus! I am only looking for the Atari ones at the moment, but thank you for offering.

Just thought I'd reply back on this thread to see if anyone might have any good boxed copies of the following? 03 Star Ship 11 Indy 500 12 Street Racer 41 Surround 61 Basic Math Feel free to message here or PM me. Thanks.

Not sure if it's consider unpopular, but Circus Atari. Me and a friend would play this pretty regularly but only on Sundays, and would check up with each other getting together for 'Circus Atari Sunday'. We'd almost always get some box of cereal we hadn't tried beforehand, and then play two player until we got sick of it. We even had a couple ridiculous songs we came up with about Circus Atari and red row completion! Also loved Kool Aid Man way back when. I do remember I wrote down the last high score I had (which was probably circa 2002) at 48,800. I really liked Raiders of the Lost Ark too, it's not one of those pick up and get immediate action kind of games which I think lent to it being unpopular. Maybe.

Deluxe Edition? I must have missed that, is there a link?

By chance are there any Launchbox / BigBox users here that have video previews and image media already setup for 2600 Homebrews and Prototypes etc? The standard games all populate images and video previews just fine, and a few non standard ones do, but the majority of the non standard games do not. I do have a paid subscription to EmuMovies. I have done the work manually for several to grab screens and video clips from online sources, but thought I might as well post to see if anyone else might have done this work as well and would be willing to share. If this needs to be moved to another sub form or something please feel free. Thanks!

This is awesome, thanks for sharing

Thanks for the update on this @AndrewHyperkin! I'm personally looking forward to getting one, this sounds like a pretty cool system.

Hey up2knowgood, I attached a picture of the other side of that ad.

These are awesome, thanks for sharing!

Thanks, I sent you a pm.

Oh definitely wouldn't, I was just thinking of the area code to try to get an idea of which state it was in. Not sure if there were Illinois specific retailers in the 80's possibly...

Area code 815 is Illinois, might be some kind of clue anyways.

I was wondering this same thing. On the flip side there's an ad for some silverware, but I couldn't seem to find any indication of which catalog or department store this might have been. The bottom left has a *TRADEMARK on both front and back, I'm guessing that's just to cover any trademark symbols? I should probably peruse some Penney's or Wards catalogs online from that general year.

I've got two of these, and they work great with my emulation PC. Just wanted to second this suggestion!

I just received a boxed copy of 01 combat this morning, there was a magazine ad folded up inside that made me smile. Just thought I'd share, looks like they had their games picked out and circled there, and a phone number hand written at the bottom (I haven't tried calling it )

Thank you both! I just purchased two boxed ones from stupus. Still looking for the following: 02 air-sea battle 03 star ship 11 indy 500 12 street racer 41 surround 61 basic math I already messaged Supergun (thank you) about the loose carts, I think I am changing my plan and just looking for the full boxed versions, rather than boxed games plus loose carts. I really only collect loose carts, but for some reason want these first nine boxed. Thanks!

Curious if anyone has any boxed copies of the original 9 gatefold # games? https://atariage.com/label_page.html?LabelID=3&SystemID=2600 Also looking for anyone who might have all of them as loose carts as well, feel free to PM if so. Thanks!

Am I right in calculating that $49.99 in 1980 would be equal to $152.16 today?

Holy cats! That's impressive! If by any chance you have a double of any specific title that you might want to sell, I would be interested in buying a chip off you Yeah I think it's pretty cool that people found a way to DIY carts using eproms before the tech involved in carts like Harmony and Everdrive etc came out. I wonder how old some of these eprom pirate carts are? I would guess that's documented somewhere, I haven't looked it up. Kind of interesting to have a piece of that older history I guess.

I picked this up on a whim recently, I couldn't see any better photos of it to see if it had a chip already inserted when I bought it, but it did not. From what little bit of searching I've done it looks like this accepts an E-Prom for custom chips? Wasn't quite sure and thought I'd check with the AtariAge community about it. I haven't opened the shell since it looked like it had been glued on at one end.

This is great, and thank you for the first few sentences. I really agree too, I need to keep myself in check during this phase of getting interested in Atari again. All great points. I realized that I had multiple carts of certain games, and each cart had a different year on it. Some had a better condition label from later years, but thought to myself, wait I kind of want the cart from the first year it was released. Then I couldn't recall which carts I had that were from when I was a kid, and when my parents might have bought them. To be honest I also thought it doesn't matter at all and just chose the cart with the best condition label! Honestly not all that crazy about keeping multiple copies of something around, though I've had trouble getting certain carts to play and some of my ultimate favorites I do keep another around in case. Yeah I also don't care too much about the Telegames carts and am not including those in my collection, though I do have a bunch I'm planning to sell or trade. It's interesting to me though how many weird variations there are for carts, like I have two copies of Fast Food, one in a shell that has a lip protruding from the front and one without. A couple copies of Carnival, one that has 'The Official Carnival by Sega' and one without on the spine. Other weird like Grand Prix 'International Edition' cart and one without, two versions of Space Cavern with completely different artwork but both by Apollo, the list goes on. Oh also I totally agree about Tapper, I have it too and one of my favorite Atari games to play! It would be nice to have boxes too, I've always been drawn to the Starpath artwork. So cool. Also @redstreakraw, you had a dentist that had an Atari 2600 at his office!?!? That's seriously cool.

Thank you cvga! I will check out that app, and will reach out to you once I add the rest to my list.

I found the photo! Christmas 77? Maybe 78.... I can't seem to see the date, but remember I lost my mind opening the wrapping.

Hi @fiddlepaddle, thank you for the suggestions! I'll be sure to go through the forums more to find answers to these questions. @flojomojo - that's a great point! Thank you for the input on this. I'm a gamer at heart and grew up with the 2600 from a gameplay standpoint, I definitely still love playing a bunch of the games I own. I'm quite into retro gaming, real consoles and emulation, and new games. I recently opened my crypts of Atari 2600 games and it kind of rekindled this desire to find more unique titles. I think for me it's also a physical item thing, I really appreciate the label design and varied cart shapes between manufacturers. So much of the experience for me is around just handling and looking at a cart, even if the gameplay is not great. There are so many cool carts out there, it's part of the driving force. But the same kind of thing doesn't really extend to music for me, I don't seem to buy vinyl LP's just for the lovely cover, more just for the music. Not sure why it's currently different for Atari 2600 carts for me, but trying to follow my instincts currently (which have often led me to trouble).

Hi All, long time Atari 2600 fan here, and looking to get connected with the community at AtariAge. Hello! My parents bought my brother and I an Atari 2600 once it hit, and spent countless hours with it over the years (mostly Adventure, Montezuma's Revenge, H.E.R.O. and a handful of other favorites). I actually have a pretty awesome photo of my brother and I opening our xmas presents and the new Atari 2600 box, complete with crappy 70's polaroid fading. I got a little more serious about collecting in the late 90's / early 2000's but stopped for financial reasons, and am for some reason a little obsessed with filling missing carts in my collection today in 2018. So my current collection is a little over 400 carts, with about 260 unique titles (not counting cart and label variations). I guess, or think I'm only focused on and interested in the NTSC releases from back in the day at the moment, and completing some of the more accessible manufacturer sets. Not sure I'll get too crazy about the real rare ones as I just will not ever make that much money to support pursuing them. Also not too crazy about getting carts in box, or even with a manual for that matter. It just makes me (for unexplained ridiculous reasons unknown to myself) happy completing some sets. Right now I'm more or less kinda sorta going off this list as a reference for collecting: http://atariage.com/forums/blog/279/entry-5704-how-many-atari-2600-games-are-there-answer-470/ (I know that's an older post but looked legit enough for me to use as a beginning). I've completed a few sets and getting close to completing on a number of others, which is fun! But it's getting to be expensive, obviously. I used the above post by ihatethebears to export to excel and have been ticking off ones I have. I have a list of carts I'm looking for and want to get, and wanted to get some input from the community here on any tips on filling these in. Are there any members here who do trading often privately that might be interested in anything I have and might want to trade/swap? I can put together a list, I haven't done much homework on my collection in regards to rarity but know I have a number that are fairly rare, and multiple versions of some that I believe are not all that common. Just looking for some 'outside the box' options to avoid ebay. Some other questions I have that I'm hoping someone might be able to help answer for me: Is there a good list anyone might recommend that shows how to determine the 1st version / revision of carts? Is there any consensus on a 'preferred' version of individual releases as it relates to collecting? Does anyone have an iPhone app to recommend for managing my collection? I'm currently using Google Sheets on my phone which is a little cumbersome. Should I just stop this madness now while I have my sanity? Anyone have any recommendations on storage options to display my carts? I built a custom wall mount thing that holds 150 carts with individual slots for each cart, but have exceeded this and trying to come up with some new solution Tips on gluing labels that have fallen off? I recently used a can of Elmers spray adhesive on one that worked well, but thought I'd ask. Appreciate any input, and hope to have something to contribute to the community here!