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Found several more boxes. How do I get rid of these. lol

A box of qty 24 units = $48 plus shipping. That is only $2 a pop. Get em outta here. Pickup also available if you live near Cleveland.

Outback Joey isn't common either

A cart with box also did not command a high price recently. Something like $1,100. I have received higher offers for what I have recently. The paperwork in this instance is actually better. The box is just the same Atlantis box with a sticker. If the box was different you would be right. Just get a regular Atlantis box, and you're set. Sides it is easy to fake a regular Atlantis II cart. Heck it is not that hard to fake an Atlantis II with box, but in order to fake the docs, you are going to need a lot more. The paper is not normal. You can't just use a printer, and print this. It is not made out of regular paper. Also the embossed logo is kind of tricky to duplicate as well. I am sure CPUWIZ could do a great job at it, but your average Joe is going to have a hard time duplicating this. Well an Atlantis II box is a bad example as it is a normal Atlantis box with a sticker on it. Not very exciting. If you have one great but if not no big deal just put it in a normal Atlantis box for now. I can see someone owning the Atlantis II cart and being ok with not owning the box. What I was talking about was if I had the only Eli's Ladder box I would think most people would care a great deal about that. I believe something like that has only been seen with the boxed Air Raid auction that happened awhile back. You won't find that level of excitement over one of a kind paperwork unless it is signed by George Washington! Most don't care nearly as much about a piece of the paperwork that they don't have. By care in this context I mean spending their own money to own it themselves. They may be interested in knowing about paperwork and seeing it online but they don't pay for it the same way they do boxes and carts. Not just Atari even on the Nintendo side you have this. Rare released titles like Stadium Events and competition carts like the NWC or even the Star Fox competition all follow suit. The games are what people are most excited about and boxes I guess because they look out of place in a collection without them.

Nope, not even close - PAL games take the cake for being underrated/valued. I bet if the BIN was $2.5k it wouldn't last long. If you look at rare PAL games, there are MANY that make a loose Air Raid look common and are as rare as the Air Raid box (i.e. only 1 is known to exist) and none have even remotely sold for $2.5k. I'm not suprised you didnt get any offers. Since this is the 5th or 6th time you have listed it on Ebay, people have had the chance to make offers in the past, so its unlikely taht you would be getting any new offers this time. Maybe its time to decide what price you are really willing to let it go for and offer it in the marketplace at that price. Otherwise just hold onto it for the long term and wait until there is more demand. He might be better off breaking up the cart and paperwork. People who would want the paperwork have a cart. Perhaps the sale price of the cart alone is enough to get what he needs done. Should he ever desire the cart again it will be easier to find one for sale than the paperwork.

Documents have just never had the level of demand as the carts and boxes with collectors. To understand why is to understand a collector. It doesn't fill the gap the same way a missing cart or a missing box does. Paperwork while interesting to read isn't as exciting to look at and doesn't look good displayed. For these reasons paperwork just isn't as desirable as a new cart or box is to a collection. I have some paperwork/overlays for Eli's Ladder that I am pretty sure no one else has but there is little interest. If it was a box then it would be different and if you had the only box for a game you could name your price. The only boxed Air Raid sold for big bucks. That doesn't mean people don't want to see the letter or read it online. They may even want to print copies of it for themselves. They just don't want to pay thousands for paperwork to say they own it.

Except for that sealed Stadium Events that sold for $4Xk. The seller admitted to never having received his money The seller was a non collector ,claiming hardship and they never relisted it. The seller refused to reply to collectors who later asked about it......Hmm. I think this was done to back out of paying ending fees OR someone paid more than the highest bidder after the auction ended. Either way the seller has reason not to talk about it.

Wow, that is funny! I didn't let my employees kmow I was doing this trade. Next thing you know they are trading pizza for who know what! I hope this never happens: Man sell Pizza shop for Migicard and Air Raid. I get crazy sometimes... Ehh you laugh but if you post a list of games you are looking for I'd bet you could get some $25-$100 game carts from customers. You might not get Magicard and Video Life but there are plenty of titles worth trading 1:1 for a pizza. Take a picture of a stack of 2600 games with the words HELP! above and under it state you will trade for any title listed below for a large pizza. Off the top of my head I listed a few and I'm sure you can think of others to add. Then add that you will give 25 cents credit for any game not listed so long as the labels are intact and not damaged limit the credit to $10 or whatever per pizza so you still recoup your costs. You will get a great turn out. I think I've had every game listed below traded in to my store at one time or another. Crazy Climber Waterworld Lochjaw Malagai Qberts Cubes River Patrol Music Machine Chase the Chuckwagon Tooth Protectors Out of Control Texas Chainsaw Massacre Halloween Boing

complete? shouldn't it be 12 issues? He tried make it work but shipping just wouldn't be enough cover the 12th issue so you just get 11.

I'm all for sellers doing what they want as long as you get exactly what was listed but man this seems really excessive for "parcel post". eBay Auction -- Item Number: 320644089754

I bought a huge bag of tokens from an arcade machine dealer and take my daughter there all the time. The food there is horrible so we do try to eat before we go. If you can get a deal on tokens I'd recomend it to anyone with kids.

The coming of age helps explain the now part but not the why Nintendo part. There is no coming of age Sega genesis party going on right now. The anniversary DSi/Wii system and All Stars Mario game are sold out around here. Many new Nintendo collectors are just starting out as we speak. Some fizzle out as you said but how many of the 1st generation Atari collectors did the same?

I believe it is because Nintendo has a connection to the present and owns some of the hottest products and licenses year after year. Atari is a dead company that lives on today in name only available to the highest bidder. What if Nintendo bought all available name and character rights and revived them? I wonder how that would affect the secondary market on 2600 games.

The seller was a non-collector in dire need of the money. The game was never relisted or publicly offered afterwards. Collectors who contacted the seller after the sale were all ignored. By stating the transaction was not completed one could wipe out a large bill from eBay for the ending fee on a 40k item. Details are hard to nail down but it is very likely that a sale was hammered out close to the ending price if not with the high bidder than another collector.

There are many people that would say the same things about art that is thought to be priceless by the rest of the world. There are people that spend millions and millions on sports cars that serve the same basic function my 1997 Toyota does. There are actually people in the world that pay for used and unwashed underwear. Money doesn't matter anyway. The way you use it matters. Some people have enough money to spend on stuff others would think is stupid. Sure, they could help others with the money and instead of filling their life with extra stuff they could dramatically imporve the lives of countless families. At the end of the day no one is dragging Jay Leno through the mud for owning more cars then any man could ever need. It might seem dumb to some to buy at $41,000 video game, but its also rude to come to a community of collectors and enjoy these things and say soemthing is wrong with them for enjoying it. I'm just saying. People sometimes say that buying this or that is a waste but the money isn't destroyed. You just gave it to someone else. That person can now spend your money where he likes and on and on. The more often we spend money the richer we all become. If you disagree think of this...When a house is built the money you spend has changed hands but now a house exists. We have created wealth that was not there before.

Well, I'm an NES collector looking for a full collection. Since I'm an American, for me, that means all commercially-released US games. I don't think I'm using warped logic by excluding Japanese, European, or Canadian games. The NES was a VERY different system in different geographic regions. I also think it's reasonable to exclude repros of unreleased games, since they're made on demand and have no meaningful rarity. So, that leaves me with ~740 NES games that I must buy to reach my goal. The true challenges will be Caltron/Myriad 6-in-1 Bubble Bath Babes Peek a Boo Poker Hot Slots Action 52 Cheetahmen II Stadium Events Would you say this is a fair assessment of how to get a "complete" NES collection? You list seems to mimic the DP and Elter lists which were the standard for years. Well CMII wasn't ever sold. Mike Etler bought out the inventory from a dead company and even put the boxes together. He then sold them directly to collectors. Based on your criteria it really shouldn't count but most collectors count it because it is on the Etler rarity list. A few Sachen games WERE sold in the US back in the day but the majority were bought by collectors directly from Sachen after the NES life cycle. The exception being Huge Insect as it is a more complicated history. Huge Insect was never put into 72 pin form until a group of collectors convinced the company to make a run of them just for them. The purple box was the 1st release and the second time they did this the box was green I think? Not sure if there was a third run. Does it count? The other Sachens should but most don't count them for the same reason as above. Sachen games were NOT on the Etler rarity list which was then copied by all the others at the time. The Color Dreams Sharedata Chiller is rarer than any game on your list. What of the bootleg multicarts sold here in the US? Sure they are unlicensed but so were others like all the Wisdom Tree games.

People can finish off a 2600 collection if they only count what they want to and the majority of collectors do place limitations. Many don't collect PAL or hacks or label variations and others go so far as to use the line item VETO system. Color Bar Generator, etc... If the color bar generator was a common $5 game like Basic Programming there would be no question but $500 for some utility cart and people start coming up with excuses. Several 2600 collectors don't count many of the ultra rare for one reason or another. Often the logic is warped by the fact that they know they won't find one or it is more expensive than they feel it is worth. I was told by one collector who was considering one of the recent rares to pop up within the last month that he needs 3 games. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have Birthday Mania and I'm also pretty sure he doesn't count it. I do believe he will get these last 3 games he feels he needs. With NES it is much worse. There is a much greater resistance to count rare games because building a complete collection is very possible with a few exceptions. If one were to count the 2 NES carts I mentioned in the set no one could claim to own a complete NES collection. That's the type of logic I find silly. i agree with CPUWIZ, no one will ever have a complete collection - so dont try to claim you have one or that you are trying to "complete" your collection. You have only collected as many games as you are prepared to or are collecting those games taht you are prepared to. If you want a "complete NTSC collection", then you must include birthday mania, gamma attack, Air Raid etc. [For clarification, I dont mean you Buyatari when i refer to "you" above]. Like anything else (religion,politics,you name it) people do what they want and fit in the logic later. Well that cart was a contest cart never sold in stores. Well that cart was not sold in the USA. There is no proof etc etc There is only one or two so it is a prototype.

that sounds off. Not even thrift stores sell games that cheap. Maybe she wants people to believe shes trustworthy or legit or something this story sounds far fetched. Anything is possible but yes people do tend to extend the truth. I think she said it was 50 cents each and it was a bulk buy of 500 games. So $250.00 for a lot of games is a bit more plausible.

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People can finish off a 2600 collection if they only count what they want to and the majority of collectors do place limitations. Many don't collect PAL or hacks or label variations and others go so far as to use the line item VETO system. Color Bar Generator, etc... If the color bar generator was a common $5 game like Basic Programming there would be no question but $500 for some utility cart and people start coming up with excuses. Several 2600 collectors don't count many of the ultra rare for one reason or another. Often the logic is warped by the fact that they know they won't find one or it is more expensive than they feel it is worth. I was told by one collector who was considering one of the recent rares to pop up within the last month that he needs 3 games. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have Birthday Mania and I'm also pretty sure he doesn't count it. I do believe he will get these last 3 games he feels he needs. With NES it is much worse. There is a much greater resistance to count rare games because building a complete collection is very possible with a few exceptions. If one were to count the 2 NES carts I mentioned in the set no one could claim to own a complete NES collection.

I find it interesting that some atari collectors choose to discredit/dismiss games on the basis that they are THAT rare that they will never find/afford the particular title. Why does Ax consider taht Air Raid is not necessary for a complete collection? Is it because its a hack? If that's the case, then label variations should be out first. Companies such as Froggo, and Panda should also be out, along with Atlantis 2, Pepsi invaders and almost half the current games in the ntsc database. Is it because it was never releassed in the US? The picture of the box makes it pretty clear that it was sold in US retail stores. He said Air Raid and Stadium Events he would exclude for the same reason, so not because it is a hack only link between the 2 would be rarity. This isn't an uncommon thought process. In comics there is a Gerber rating in which Golden Age books are rated on rarity. While the higher Gerber rated books are valuable they are far from the most valuable.

Stadium Events might not be an R10 compared with Atari 2600 games but it is compared with NES games. It is also by far the rarest game licensed by Nintendo. When looking at it as a sealed game there are what 5? Unlike Atari collectors there are several who JUST collect sealed and they carry a larger premium over complete than Atari games do. You don't want a game to be too rare or people will discredit and dismiss it. Just as Ax has done above with Stadium Events. Even on the Atari side the 1 of a kinds and rarest of the rare are often dismissed because people are trying to finish collections off not admit that it just isn't possible. I consider the Color Dreams Chiller and AGCI Wally Bear carts to be the rarest of all the NES games. They are so rare in fact that most collectors do not count them and many have never heard of them. The most common statement for them not counting towards a complete collection is that there aren't more of them. I'll gladly pay $1000 or trade 1:1 for a Stadium Events cart if anyone here has either one.

Except the Game Boy is region free... So if you put an overseas gameboy cart into a Supergameboy it will play just as the US cart on an NTSC TV?

Wow, how could she MISS that? I usually have great luck with buying off of ebay. Perhaps she got a higher offer? Real buyer might have even sent the replacement cart. If she sent nothing she gets a neg. If she sends the wrong cart chances are the bidder will believe it was an accident and let it slide. All 3 are happy. Bidder get a game for free. Seller gets more than the final auction price. Buyer gets the game he wants.

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