skeptix

Wow. That site is awesome, but very overwhelming. I learned more than I wanted. Thanks for the replies guys. You can only learn so much before asking questions, even if they seem silly to others. And actually, I've been around for a while now, I just never post, I just lurk. I'm afraid that if I get too into collecting video games, I'll spend ungodly amounts of money. But...I'm sure some of you on here have already run into that problem.

I'm sure this has been gone over before, but I must be pretty lousy with the search feature, so I'll just ask again. I was checking out Tempest's proto page (wow, awesome awesome site btw), and I went to Other Stuff/Atari Label Variations/The Label Variation Museum and found "Upper or Lower Case?" Even with my paltry collection, I keep a database with the games I own along with the rarities listed on this site (I use DP for my non-Atari games). It was a matter of frustration to have 2 label variations not listed in the rarity database. The proto page told me about these label variations, but I'm still clueless as to the relative rarity of them. I've got a copy of Video Pinball with the name in lower case on the front and end labels. I also have a copy of Missile Command with the name in upper case on the front label, but lower case on the end. Could someone clue me in as to the relative rarity of these? Thread title is a couple questions, but my second question I answered myself with a little dilligence and a few google searches. Who'd a thought I wouldn't know what a Commodore 64 cart looked like?

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I've never actually played Warlords, and when I looked at the screen shots, it just looked kind of ridiculous. But I'll be sure to test it out now with my roomate. As for Berzerk, I might include it, but my thinking was that any decent player could just go on forever. So it's a time issue.

I'm assuming this involves playing on Emulators, saving screen shots of high scores, and me not having any chance in hell against you all. A large part of this is trying to create a genuine Atari experience, including the intense/drunken competition/people factor.

Hey, I don't post here much, I'm sort of an amateurish collector (I don't buy games unless I find them in the wild). I mostly just use the site as a resource. I did however, want to tell you guys about something I'm setting up and get some ideas. I make a whole shit ton of money playing poker, which is nice, as I have money to do what I'd like and time to do the same. I like to spend my money creatively, and something I've decided to do is set up an Atari 2600 tournament, and seed it with $600 or so. It'll be a once weekly thing (likely Sunday afternoon/evening) and probably take a month or two to complete. I'm currently talking with friends and have 4 people lined up already (including myself). Considering it's free money, I doubt I'll have trouble picking up 4 more from the group of college kids I hang out with. The goal is to have 8 players. Most of the games included in the tournament will be played as single elimination tournaments, but a few will be double elimination. Those games that are strictly one player are played for high score. Points and small cash prizes are given for placing in the top spots or having one of the top scores/times for each game/single elimination tournament. None of the games will be played too heavily (with the possible exception of Combat and Video Olympics), so that we have time to cover a lot of ground. When all is said and done, points will be added up, and larger cash prizes will be paid out to the top 3. As far as structure is concerned for the single-elimination tournies, most of them will be played on the simplest mode 1st round, and then switch to more complicated/harder modes in later rounds. For games that have a lot of different games included (Video Olympics, Combat, Indy 500), there will be multiple single-elimination tournies. I live in Bellingham, Washington, USA. If any of you live real close, I'd consider involving you, but I wouldn't want anyone who would completely own the rest of us. Most likely I'll have plenty of people lined up within a week or two, but you never know (and it's pretty key to have exactly 8 people). What I'd really like to hear about is your thoughts on my game selection. A lot of these games I've only played once or twice (I only have so much video game time, and I've got consoles and emulators for just about every system up to XBox/PS2). Definite Games - Air-Sea Battle Donkey Kong Grand Prix River Raid Tennis Pole Position Frogger Space Invaders Pac-Man Night Driver Combat Asteroids Bowling Indy 500 Video Olympics Pitfall Kaboom! Maybe Games - Video Pinball Canyon Bomber Speedway II Barnstorming Spider Fighters Stampede Laser Blast Freeway Joust Phoenix Galaxian Battlezone RealSports Football Breakout RealSports Boxing Slot Racers Dodge 'Em Air Raiders Bump 'n' Jump Trick Shot Popeye Home Run Football Games not being played that I own - Flag Capture Mario Bros Desert Falcon Gyruss Video Chess Gorf Star Ship Q*Bert Tutankham Missile Command Basic Math E.T. Raiders Of The Lost Ark Casino Brain Games Star Raiders Demons To Diamonds Warlords Berzerk Yars' Revenge 3D Tic-Tac-Toe Hangman Defender Adventures Of Tron Kool Aid Man Demon Attack Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back Blackjack Codebreaker Yea, that's all the games I own. Like I said, I'm somewhat of an amateur. Let me know what you think should be added, dropped, etc. If there's a few must include games that I don't own, I might be willing to Ebay em or somethin. If my roomate ever wakes up, I'll use his digital camera to post the score I had yesterday. I was gleeful. At a Value Village I found a couple 3 and 4 games for $2 a piece. But the pure gold was finding a Sears picture Canyon Bomber for $2! Then I went a block away to a Pawn Xchange and found some more 3 and 4 games for $2 a piece. But the pure gold there was finding a wooden box designed to hold 24 Atari games (unfortunately, only standard carts fit well).

I don't post here very often, nor is my collection very large, but I'm a bit psyched about my VV find today. Nothing incredibly rare, but as it's very hard to find games in the wild here, I'm happy with it. I had gone to VV 4 days ago and they had Space Invaders and Stampede, both for $2. I could have picked up Stampede, as I don't have it, but decided to pass. I went back today and there were 4 more games (all Parker Brothers) along with some commodore 64 games. Each game was $2, but I already had Frogger, so I passed on that. I picked up: Rarity 2 : Stampede (not PB of course, but I figured I'd pick it up this time), Q*Bert, Popeye Rarity 4 : Gyruss I decided to pass on the commodore 64 stuff.

http://intvfunhouse.com/games/burg.php Found the label for BurgerTime here. Maybe this will help in revealing the rarity/worth. http://intvfunhouse.com/games/sstk.php And here is Star Strike, these are all intellivision games and I feel silly. Still, any suggestions on rarity/worth would be appreciated. http://intvfunhouse.com/games/auto.php Auto racing page.

Hey everybody, this is my first post. I've been scouring the site for the past few days. I'm not a hardcore collector, but I would eventually like to be. I went home from college for a few days and I thought I'd look up my games in the rarity guide. Nothing special really, a couple 4's and a 5, but then, I don't have very many games. However, I ran across a few games that were not in the rarity guide. A while back I ran into a group of 4 games, all of a smaller size compared to other 2600 games, all made by Mattel. They do not bear front labels, only end labels. I am embarassed to say I don't know if these are actually 2600 games, but I was able to find one of these games (Lock 'N' Chase) in the guide. It looked like there was some sort of adapter attached to it to play as a 2600 game, again, I don't really know. 2 of these 4 games could not be found when I searched for them: -Auto Racing (Blue b/g with white text, Hong Kong appears in small text in the top right, the copyright is listed on the back as Mattel Inc. 1979) -Star Strike (Red b/g with white text, USA appears in small text in the top right, the copyright is listed on the back as Mattel Inc. 1979 USA) I have no idea why I would find Lock 'N' Chase but these games would not show up in the guide. But here's the juicy bit: The 4th game DID show up in the guide, but none of the cartridge pics showed the correct label. The game in question is BurgerTime. It shows up with two entries in the guide. The INTV game is a 4 with a white b/g and black text. The M Network game is a 3 with a black b/g and blue text. I, however, have this version: Yellow b/g with Red text, the text is in the same design as the M Network text. Below the title, text reads in small print as follows, (C: is used for the copyright symbol) "C: M.I 1982 SINGAPORE C: 1982 DATA EAST U.S.A., INC." Even more intruiging is that the three games besides burgertime were all priced at $.99, while burgertime was $4. This is quite a mystery to me. I would very, very much appreciate someone with a bit more knowledge than me shining some light on these games. Are they actually 2600 games? Are they rare? Why don't they show up in the rarity guide? Etc etc. If need be, I can post some pictures of these games, but I need my dig. camera to do that. Thank you all in advance, this site is awesome.[/code]