PressureCooker2600 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 sometimes i get asked why i want another copy of Berzerk when i already have 15. sometimes i get asked why i have so many copies of space invaders, combat, etc. basically the answer is two-fold..... i do it for posterity's sake.....cause i know sometimes these carts will end up in a dumpster somewhere and thats just WRONG. I also know that someday....someone could appreciate some of these wonderful games and would take care of them like i have....and they would make wonderful starter sets.. its more of the first reason than the second.....especially with activision games people also tell me of the AA donating.....i already know of that and plenty of people are already donating so i dont think my small collection of commons would help as much.....cause i know other people have collections of combats and pac-mans into the 50s and 60s....so id rather keep mine well that was a weird topic.....maybe ive had too much mountain dew already today.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 I can understand why a Pac-Man inside a home is better than one in a dumpster, but where do you have the room to store all these commons? I hear about people having more than 300 2600 games. Where do you put a huge collection like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Actually, AA pays $0.50 per 2600 cart - if you have enough that'll pay for a homebrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Lay nine of your 2600 cartridges in a 3x3 grid. Most of my collection of 180 plus 2600 carts is stacked up in a 3x3 grid like that. It sits on the shelf in my closet. It is easily accessible, but out of the way. The ones that take the most space are the M Network games, since they don't stack worth anything, and the Starpath games which are tucked away inside an old skool cassette carrying case. Of course, I do have some of the games just lying around... Seriously, though, a complete collection of loose 2600 titles could probably fit into one of the largest U Haul boxes, or it could fit comfortably on a six foot shelf provided you stacked the carts two or three layers deep. My shelf has enough room for such a collection (although I don't own one). Your 3,000 Berzerk games also fit well in those big blue metal bins you find in the alley. Oops, did I say that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire!fire! Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 I don't want to get rid of commons, either. I would like to start a classic gaming group in my area some day and I would like to be able to have some commons to turn people on to them. I have 192 games. Just like you, I do have duplicate common carts that I have not culled. So that number includes 5 Pac-Mans and 4 Combats. I prob have 170 *different* carts. I have them on one bookshelf, stacked in sets of 12, sorted by company, 6 sit in my game-changer thing, and another 6 sit in a small box next to the console, close at hand. I could prob easily have 500 carts on this one small bookshelf and still have room to shuffle the stacks to look for games. I have a lot of shopping to do....now that I see how many cards I can store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decypher Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 I hoard all mine too. Mostly cause no one wants them and ebay fees dont make them worth putting on there to sell. If anyone needs pacman or combat let me know. heh Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercat Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 i do it for posterity's sake.....cause i know sometimes these carts will end up in a dumpster somewhere and thats just WRONG. Well, I'd certainly agree it would be better if the cases could be sent to Albert so he could turn them into Strat-O-Gems carts. Otherwise, while I in some sense agree with your general sentiment, the number of Combat carts manufactured exceeds by so much the number of people who will ever want one plus the number that will accidentally get damaged or destroyed, that even if 75% of the Combat carts that were manufactured were junked they would still be extremely plentiful. To be sure, such attitudes can be dangerous if not tempered by at least some caution. Many old British televison shows no longer exist because after the BBC copyied them to film and sent them to the BBC's international-sales office it had no further use for the tapes (actor's union rules restricted shows to being broadcast twice within the UK, so any further broadcasts would have to be overseas); the international-sales office junked many of the films since it thought that--if needed--they could simply be recopied off the original tapes. Either policy (recording over the tapes or junking the films) would have been fine absent the other, but since nobody made sure the material they were destroying wasn't the last copy, many of the shows are believed to be lost forever (occasionally some will show up here and there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmountainslim Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hold on to the carts! Everone keep common cartridges hostage until someone gives in and ports Fonz! Blackmail is the one thing that hasn't been tried yet! WP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_Username Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 If everybody donated their commons to AA or threw them away, they won't be common anymore, who knows, maybe in a few years we will have to rewrite the rarity list. -Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loccy Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 (edited) the number of Combat carts manufactured exceeds by so much the number of people who will ever want one What?! Combat is COMMON? You lie, sir! This bloke and this bloke on eBay say it's rare! And I believe them. Seriously. Edited January 7, 2007 by Loccy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercat Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Another thing to consider: imagine that you found a note: Greetings. We know you like Atari stuff. We have just discovered in our newly-acquired warehouse one hundred pallets each containing 1,000 loose-packed Atari 2600jr consoles. According to records attached to them, they should all have been tested and working in 1986, and there are no signs of environmental damage. We will need to use the space four weeks from now, and thus cannot store the units beyond that time, but we would be more than happy to have you take them away so we don't have to hire a trash hauler. Ten pallets should fit in a standard trailer, so ten trailers should be able to handle the entire lot. -- Your friends at (some local warehouse facility) Assuming you could tell the note was truthful, what would you do? Could you find a home for 100,000 2600jrs within a month? Storing them yourself for as long as it took to get rid of them wouldn't be totally impossible--you might even be able to find someplace to keep the whole lot for under $100/month if you didn't mind the transportation cost of getting them there. Even if all you wanted to do was give the units away free for the cost of shipping, do you think you could even manage that? I'm sure someplace like Best Electronics would jump at the chance to get a pallet or two for the cost of shipping; conceivably some vendors might even accept a truckload (the shipping cost for a truckload probably wouldn't be all that much greater than the cost for a couple pallets) but I don't think very many would be able to afford the space nor have any expectation of doing anything useful with thousands of 2600jrs. I would strongly suspect there are a lot more than 100,000 Combat cartridges out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercat Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 If everybody donated their commons to AA or threw them away, they won't be common anymore, who knows, maybe in a few years we will have to rewrite the rarity list. The number of common carts out there so overwhelmingly exceeds the number of homebrews that Albert sells that he would stop offering money for them long before they became scarce. As for junking them, I would expect everyone with a system would keep at least one of each common cart they have for it. While not everyone with a system will have all the common carts, nor is everyone with a system going to want all the common carts. Finally, if common carts were to somehow become scarce, it would be not be difficult to make more. The supply of 6507 and TIA chips is fundamentally limitted; the supply of carts is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.Whiz Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 the number of Combat carts manufactured exceeds by so much the number of people who will ever want one What?! Combat is COMMON? You lie, sir! This bloke and this bloke on eBay say it's rare! And I believe them. Seriously. Actually, the second guy says "very rare". Perhaps he means very rarely does *he* personally sell one... ~G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk2600 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 problem is ur not getting these carts 4 free, your spending your hard earned money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I take 'em to the game shop and get 25 to 50 cents credit for each one. So if I purchased 100 Combat carts for $25 shipped, I'd be breaking even by doing that. That would make it all worthwhile to dig through the lot of combats to find the lone Pac Man! I don't keep commons at all. I list 'em here once, and then I haul 'em in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamme Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Hoarding commons can be educational if u do so with the intention of learning about label variations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) Don't worry friends there are a few folks that might be able to one day help bring the rarity of Combat up from a R1 to a R2. It might take till the year 2075 but it *could* happen... one day... well maybe not... there is a damn lot of Combats out there but I will stand strong and do my part to help out the cause as I am sure the rest of those in the on going battle to raise the Combat rarity will also. Together we can make a difference. EDIT: Support your local Atari Combat Troops. Edited January 11, 2007 by Shawn Sr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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