Philflound Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 (edited) It would be fun if this was one of the collectors who actually own these items screwing with people as a newbie. Sad no boxes were saved. Phil Edited March 8, 2011 by Philflound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchysuperman Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 What a fun thread! I love hidden treasure finds like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzman66 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I would love to see what these babies would fetch on Ebay! Would they/could they break the record of Air Raid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I would love to see what these babies would fetch on Ebay! Would they/could they break the record of Air Raid? Not likely, but they will surely fetch a nice price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Wonder007 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I would love to see what these babies would fetch on Ebay! Would they/could they break the record of Air Raid? Not likely, but they will surely fetch a nice price! Don't think so because a Video Life with manual is a lot more common than an Air Raid boxed. Looking at the condition of the Video Life and the manual, I estimate this will go for around $1,500 because all of the collectors that really wanted it already have it. If it was not for the crease on the end label, it would be closer to $2,000. If the owner had the box, it would go for double if not more. On Out Of Control....I beileve one just went for around $500 with instructions. Lastly, River Patrol with manual probably would go for a bit more like $600 to $700. Overall, if somebody would offer the owner a price of around $3,000 for all of the three above I would take it based on my experience and what I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjrocco Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 Well we ust spent the last 2 or 3 hours on the phone with my mother-in-law getting the complete list of games that she has, they are vaguely alphabetized. There are a few without instructions (~10), a few that don't work (Boing!, Cake Walk, Flag Capture, Fathom, River Raid, Starmaster) and maybe another 10 that are just the instructions. I believe that she will want to sell pretty much everything, and right now we are trying to figure out which games we should sell individually and which ones we should sell as bulk games. We can provide pictures for any game that people would want to see, but it may take a bit of time to get all of them. Thanks so much for you help so far. Asteroids Air Raiders Adventure (text only cover) Airlock Armor Ambush Amidar Atlantis Arcade Golf (text only cover) Astroblast Alien Adventures of Tron Artillery Duel/Chuck Norris Super Kicks Alpha Beam with Ernie Atari Video Cube 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (text only cover) Buck Rogers Bridge Bachelor Party Beat 'em and Eat 'em Boxing Bowling (text only cover) Boing! Blueprint Brain Games (text only cover) Breakout Barnstorming Baseball (text only cover) Bank Heist Backgammon (text only cover) Bugs Big Bird's Egg Catch Berzerk Bermuda Triangle Beany Bopper Battlezone Basketball (text only cover) Basic Programming Beam Rider Basic Math Bump 'n' Jump Burger Time Blackjack (text only cover) Crypts of Chaos Crystal Castles Carnival Canyon Bomber (text only cover) Condor Attack Cosmic Commander Crime Busters Communist Mutants from Space cassette Cake Walk Congo Bongo Centipede China Syndrome Chopper Command Circus (text only cover) Coconuts Code Breaker (text only cover) Combat Commando Raid Cookie Monster Munch Cosmic Ark Cosmic Commuter Comic Corridor Cosmic Creeps Cosmic Swarm Custer's Revenge Crackpots Crazy Climber Cross Force Cruise Missile Donkey Kong Dare Diver (text only cover) Dragon Stomper cassette Dragonfire Dragster Dishaster Dice Puzzle Demons to Diamonds Defender Demon Attack Demolition Herby Dig Dug Dodger Cars (text only cover) Dark Cavern Desert Falcon Decathlon Death Trap Donkey Kong Jr. Deadly Duck Dolphin Encounter at L-5 Enduro Entombed Escape from the Mindmaster E.T. Espial Exocet Eggomania Frankenstein's Monster Frogger II Freeway Football (text only cover) Front Line Fast Food with Cookbook Firefly Final Approach Frogger Frostbite Flag Capture Flash Gordon Fishing Derby Fire Fighter Fast Eddie Fireball cassette Fathom Fantastic Voyage Flight Commander Frogs and Flies Guardian Gunslinger (text only cover) Gyruss Gangster Alley Galaxian Glib Ghost Manor/Spike's Peak Gremlins G.I. Joe Golf (text only cover) Gopher Gorf Grand Prix Tour Gravitar Ghostbusters Human Cannonball (text only cover) Hunt & Score (text only cover) Harbor Escape Hangman H.E.R.O. Haunted House Infiltrate I Want My Mommy Ice Hockey International Soccer Junior Pac Man Jawbreaker James Bond 007 Journey Escape Joust Jungle Hunt Killer Satellites cassette King Kong Krull Kung-Fu Master Karate Kaboom Kangaroo Keystone Keepers Lost Luggage Laser Blast Laser Gates Lock 'n' Chase London Blitz Mr. Do! Mouse Trap Mountain King Motocross Racer Mr. Do's Castle Montezuma's Revenge Moon Patrol Mogul Maniac with Joyboard Missile Command Mines of Minos Miner 2049er Miner 2049er II Midnight Magic Millipede Megamania Mega Force Maze Craze Math Gran Prix Masters of the Universe- He Man Marine Wars Marauder M.A.D. MASH Ms. Pac Man Mario Brothers Night Rider (text only cover) No Escape! Name This Game The Challenge of Nexar Oink Omega Race Oscar's Trash Race Othello (textonly cover) Outer Space Out of Control Party Mix cassette Pole Position Pitfall with Harry's Diary Poker Plus (text only) Pigs in Space Pengo Pac Man Phaser Patrol cassette Phoenix Picnic Piece o' Cake Planet Patrol Plaque Attack Polaris Pong Sports (text only) Porky's Pooyan Popeye Pressure Cooker Pitfall II Private Eye Quest for Quintana Roo Q-Bert's Qubes Q-Bert Quickstep Roc'n Rope Room of Doom Real Sports Football Real Sports Baseball Real Sports Volleyball Rabbit Transit Race (text only) Racketball Raiders of the Lost Ark Ram It Reactor Robot Tank River Patrol River Raid Sir Lancelot/Robin Hood Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes Real Sports Soccer Riddle of the Sphinx Stronghold Swordquest Earthworld Swordquest Fireworld Swordquest Waterworld Shuttle Orbiter Sky Skipper Spiderman Superman (text only) Super Breakout (text only) Super Challenge Football Smurfs Rescue in Gargamel Castle Super Challenge Baseball Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Jedi Arena Strawberry Shortcake Star Wars Return of the Jedi Stargunner (color) Stampede Steeplechase (text only) Star Fox Snoopy and the Red Baron Sorcerer's Apprentice Star Wars The Arcade Game Submarine Commander Sub Scan Stunt Man Stellar Track (text only) Strategy X Summer Games Subterranea Suicide Mission Super Cobra Surround (text only) Squeeze Box Star Raiders Solaris Sorcerer Seahawk Scuba Diver Seaquest Shark Attack Shootin' Gallery Skateboardin' Skeet Shoot Sky Jinks Slots (text only) Slot Racers (text only) Sneak'n Peek Soccer (text only) Solar Fox Solar Storm Space Canyon Star Strike Star Voyager Stargate Star Trek Starmaster Space Attack Space Cavern Spacechase Space Invaders (text only) Space Jockey SpaceMaster X-7 Space War Speedway II (text only) Spiderdroid Spider Fighter Spider Maze Skiing Springer Spy Hunter Sssnake Space Shuttle Survival Run Spitfire Attack Star Ship (text only) Track & Field The Earth Dies Screaming Taz Tunnel Runner Tutankham Tanks But No Tanks Title Match Pro Wrestling Time Pilot Towering Inferno Trick Shot Tomarc the Barbarian Tron Deadly Discs Turmoil Thunderground Threshold Real Sports Tennis Tennis Tax Avoiders Task Force Target Fun (text only) Tapeworm Tank Brigade Tapper Tac-Scan Up 'n Down Vulture Attack Video Checkers (text only) Vanguard Venture Video Chess Video Pinball Video Life Worm War I Word Zapper Wizard of Wor Warlords (text only) Warplock Wabbit Wall Ball Winter Games Yars' Revenge Zaxxon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangest Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Your PM box is not going to be long for this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenski Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Great thread and a cool list - good luck with the sale - I can see the AA members forming a queue to re-mortgage from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Your mother-in-law has a better collection than I have. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philflound Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Here's a question, how did she get all these games? Were they your wife's? Did your mother in law play them? Like the adult titles? Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Beat 'em and Eat 'em Um...was your mother-in-law testing these games out herself, or relying on a pre-existing list to check which ones do and don't work? Because if it's the former... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceDice2010 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Whatever you do - don't sell yourself short. Depending on condition some of these are $$$ and the manuals add $$$ as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangasinan Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I take back what I said. Even the great and all mighty Tempest can be wrong now and then. You are a lucky man indeed sir. Tempest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 "the mother in law" hhhmmm....could it really be the mother in law for real? 8 User(s) are reading this topic 6 members, 2 guests, 0 anonymous users revolutionika, The Mother-In-Law, allhallowseve2000, evg2000, lapetino, TwinChargers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranthulfr Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 It would be fun if this was one of the collectors who actually own these items screwing with people as a newbie. A collector who likes April Fool's humor, perhaps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDW Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Here's a question, how did she get all these games? Were they your wife's? Did your mother in law play them? Like the adult titles? Phil http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/178329-found-potential-rare-atari-games/page__view__findpost__p__2227825 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennybingo Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Well...now, while I still believe the carts exist and am willing to give the benefit of the doubt (see my previous posts), I am suspicious this may be some elaborate practical joke. Only thing that derailed my thinking is that the list of games is beautiful...just too beautiful. The thing that threw me off a bit is that, for someone who has no idea of the value of atari games, how would this "non-collector" who is looking for advice, be aware that certain common games have "text labels" vs "picture labels" (see list). I'm still not saying this isn't a true find, but that whole "text only" thing threw me for a loop. Maybe this information came from an existing list with the collection, but otherwise it sounds odd. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I really hope it is real. I would love everyone at AA to have an opportunity to own some of those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzman66 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Don't just assume the carts do not work anymore. Most you will find will probably work after using a q tip and alcohol on the game contacts for a good cleaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 cjrocco, Tell your mother-in-law that she won the lottery. Well, don't get her expectations TOO high though. The "lottery" to many conjures thoughts of early retirement, sports cars and mansions. We're probably talking more in the league of really nice vacation here. Good point. I'm very tempted to give her that vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Well we ust spent the last 2 or 3 hours on the phone with my mother-in-law getting the complete list of games that she has, they are vaguely alphabetized. There are a few without instructions (~10), a few that don't work (Boing!, Cake Walk, Flag Capture, Fathom, River Raid, Starmaster) and maybe another 10 that are just the instructions. I believe that she will want to sell pretty much everything, and right now we are trying to figure out which games we should sell individually and which ones we should sell as bulk games. We can provide pictures for any game that people would want to see, but it may take a bit of time to get all of them. Thanks so much for you help so far. Asteroids Air Raiders Adventure (text only cover) Airlock Armor Ambush Amidar Atlantis Arcade Golf (text only cover) Astroblast Alien Adventures of Tron Artillery Duel/Chuck Norris Super Kicks Alpha Beam with Ernie Atari Video Cube 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (text only cover) Buck Rogers Bridge Bachelor Party Beat 'em and Eat 'em Boxing Bowling (text only cover) Boing! Blueprint Brain Games (text only cover) Breakout Barnstorming Baseball (text only cover) Bank Heist Backgammon (text only cover) Bugs Big Bird's Egg Catch Berzerk Bermuda Triangle Beany Bopper Battlezone Basketball (text only cover) Basic Programming Beam Rider Basic Math Bump 'n' Jump Burger Time Blackjack (text only cover) Crypts of Chaos Crystal Castles Carnival Canyon Bomber (text only cover) Condor Attack Cosmic Commander Crime Busters Communist Mutants from Space cassette Cake Walk Congo Bongo Centipede China Syndrome Chopper Command Circus (text only cover) Coconuts Code Breaker (text only cover) Combat Commando Raid Cookie Monster Munch Cosmic Ark Cosmic Commuter Comic Corridor Cosmic Creeps Cosmic Swarm Custer's Revenge Crackpots Crazy Climber Cross Force Cruise Missile Donkey Kong Dare Diver (text only cover) Dragon Stomper cassette Dragonfire Dragster Dishaster Dice Puzzle Demons to Diamonds Defender Demon Attack Demolition Herby Dig Dug Dodger Cars (text only cover) Dark Cavern Desert Falcon Decathlon Death Trap Donkey Kong Jr. Deadly Duck Dolphin Encounter at L-5 Enduro Entombed Escape from the Mindmaster E.T. Espial Exocet Eggomania Frankenstein's Monster Frogger II Freeway Football (text only cover) Front Line Fast Food with Cookbook Firefly Final Approach Frogger Frostbite Flag Capture Flash Gordon Fishing Derby Fire Fighter Fast Eddie Fireball cassette Fathom Fantastic Voyage Flight Commander Frogs and Flies Guardian Gunslinger (text only cover) Gyruss Gangster Alley Galaxian Glib Ghost Manor/Spike's Peak Gremlins G.I. Joe Golf (text only cover) Gopher Gorf Grand Prix Tour Gravitar Ghostbusters Human Cannonball (text only cover) Hunt & Score (text only cover) Harbor Escape Hangman H.E.R.O. Haunted House Infiltrate I Want My Mommy Ice Hockey International Soccer Junior Pac Man Jawbreaker James Bond 007 Journey Escape Joust Jungle Hunt Killer Satellites cassette King Kong Krull Kung-Fu Master Karate Kaboom Kangaroo Keystone Keepers Lost Luggage Laser Blast Laser Gates Lock 'n' Chase London Blitz Mr. Do! Mouse Trap Mountain King Motocross Racer Mr. Do's Castle Montezuma's Revenge Moon Patrol Mogul Maniac with Joyboard Missile Command Mines of Minos Miner 2049er Miner 2049er II Midnight Magic Millipede Megamania Mega Force Maze Craze Math Gran Prix Masters of the Universe- He Man Marine Wars Marauder M.A.D. MASH Ms. Pac Man Mario Brothers Night Rider (text only cover) No Escape! Name This Game The Challenge of Nexar Oink Omega Race Oscar's Trash Race Othello (textonly cover) Outer Space Out of Control Party Mix cassette Pole Position Pitfall with Harry's Diary Poker Plus (text only) Pigs in Space Pengo Pac Man Phaser Patrol cassette Phoenix Picnic Piece o' Cake Planet Patrol Plaque Attack Polaris Pong Sports (text only) Porky's Pooyan Popeye Pressure Cooker Pitfall II Private Eye Quest for Quintana Roo Q-Bert's Qubes Q-Bert Quickstep Roc'n Rope Room of Doom Real Sports Football Real Sports Baseball Real Sports Volleyball Rabbit Transit Race (text only) Racketball Raiders of the Lost Ark Ram It Reactor Robot Tank River Patrol River Raid Sir Lancelot/Robin Hood Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes Real Sports Soccer Riddle of the Sphinx Stronghold Swordquest Earthworld Swordquest Fireworld Swordquest Waterworld Shuttle Orbiter Sky Skipper Spiderman Superman (text only) Super Breakout (text only) Super Challenge Football Smurfs Rescue in Gargamel Castle Super Challenge Baseball Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Jedi Arena Strawberry Shortcake Star Wars Return of the Jedi Stargunner (color) Stampede Steeplechase (text only) Star Fox Snoopy and the Red Baron Sorcerer's Apprentice Star Wars The Arcade Game Submarine Commander Sub Scan Stunt Man Stellar Track (text only) Strategy X Summer Games Subterranea Suicide Mission Super Cobra Surround (text only) Squeeze Box Star Raiders Solaris Sorcerer Seahawk Scuba Diver Seaquest Shark Attack Shootin' Gallery Skateboardin' Skeet Shoot Sky Jinks Slots (text only) Slot Racers (text only) Sneak'n Peek Soccer (text only) Solar Fox Solar Storm Space Canyon Star Strike Star Voyager Stargate Star Trek Starmaster Space Attack Space Cavern Spacechase Space Invaders (text only) Space Jockey SpaceMaster X-7 Space War Speedway II (text only) Spiderdroid Spider Fighter Spider Maze Skiing Springer Spy Hunter Sssnake Space Shuttle Survival Run Spitfire Attack Star Ship (text only) Track & Field The Earth Dies Screaming Taz Tunnel Runner Tutankham Tanks But No Tanks Title Match Pro Wrestling Time Pilot Towering Inferno Trick Shot Tomarc the Barbarian Tron Deadly Discs Turmoil Thunderground Threshold Real Sports Tennis Tennis Tax Avoiders Task Force Target Fun (text only) Tapeworm Tank Brigade Tapper Tac-Scan Up 'n Down Vulture Attack Video Checkers (text only) Vanguard Venture Video Chess Video Pinball Video Life Worm War I Word Zapper Wizard of Wor Warlords (text only) Warplock Wabbit Wall Ball Winter Games Yars' Revenge Zaxxon If I were her I would either sell them all in bulk on Ebay or maybe sell everything lower than rarity 5 in bulk and everything above rarity 4 individually. I take that back. If I were her I would keep them. If I had about a month to save up I would bid $2000 on all of it and maybe more. If it was this very moment maybe about $1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DickNixonArisen Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 OMG JUSTIN BIEBER i mean games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceDice2010 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I would love to see what these babies would fetch on Ebay! Would they/could they break the record of Air Raid? Not likely, but they will surely fetch a nice price! Don't think so because a Video Life with manual is a lot more common than an Air Raid boxed. Looking at the condition of the Video Life and the manual, I estimate this will go for around $1,500 because all of the collectors that really wanted it already have it. If it was not for the crease on the end label, it would be closer to $2,000. If the owner had the box, it would go for double if not more. On Out Of Control....I beileve one just went for around $500 with instructions. Lastly, River Patrol with manual probably would go for a bit more like $600 to $700. Overall, if somebody would offer the owner a price of around $3,000 for all of the three above I would take it based on my experience and what I have seen. Probably more than that. I would pay a better price than you gave for Video Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.J. Franzman Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 (edited) One thing that strikes me as odd... three non-Atari-collectors allegedly dictated and typed the list in post #81 over a telephone connection, in a span of "2 or 3 hours". Yet there are almost no spelling or punctuation errors in the list. Even "Sneak'n Peek", one of the titles least likely to be typed correctly, is perfect. This is evocative of scenes in Bartleby, the Scrivener! (How's that for an esoteric reference?) Bartleby, the Scrivener is a novella (and has also been made into a film) by Herman Melville, best known for writing Moby Dick. Bartleby is a legal clerk, whose job is to copy documents and write from dictation, very dry legal text sometimes spoken aloud during committee-type meetings, including every space and punctuation mark, and often with words spelled out. It drives him insane. Edited March 8, 2011 by A.J. Franzman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rom Hunter Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 (edited) Well we ust spent the last 2 or 3 hours on the phone with my mother-in-law getting the complete list of games that she has, they are vaguely alphabetized. There are a few without instructions (~10), a few that don't work (Boing!, Cake Walk, Flag Capture, Fathom, River Raid, Starmaster) and maybe another 10 that are just the instructions. I believe that she will want to sell pretty much everything, and right now we are trying to figure out which games we should sell individually and which ones we should sell as bulk games. We can provide pictures for any game that people would want to see, but it may take a bit of time to get all of them. Thanks so much for you help so far. At first glance, these are the most interesting titles: Bachelor Party Beat 'em and Eat 'em Boing! Condor Attack Cosmic Commander Crime Busters (?) Cake Walk Cosmic Commuter Cosmic Corridor Custer's Revenge Crazy Climber Dishaster Dice Puzzle Death Trap Espial Exocet Frankenstein's Monster Frogger II Front Line Firefly Final Approach Flight Commander Guardian Glib Gremlins Gravitar Ghostbusters Harbor Escape I Want My Mommy Karate London Blitz Mr. Do! Motocross Racer Mr. Do's Castle Montezuma's Revenge Mogul Maniac with Joyboard Miner 2049er II Marine Wars Marauder Out of Control Pengo Pooyan Q-Bert's Qubes Quickstep Roc'n Rope River Patrol River Raid Stronghold Shuttle Orbiter Strawberry Shortcake Strategy X Subterranea Seahawk Scuba Diver Shootin' Gallery Spider Maze Springer Survival Run Spitfire Attack Track & Field Tanks But No Tanks Tomarc the Barbarian Threshold Tax Avoiders Tank Brigade Tapper Vulture Attack Video Life An unbelievable amount of rare titles, I must say. Vacation? Yes, on a cruiseship for sure. Edited March 8, 2011 by Rom Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceDice2010 Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Also, there is a Condor Attack and Karate. Those are two very valuable carts as well. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 280610627541 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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