My Letter To Atari

[NoahsMyBro]

OK - I don't yet have a Gamecube, XBox, OR PS2, but I'm tempted to go buy a copy of The Matrix anyway, just to reward Infogrames' response!

 

It's so refreshing to come across a CSR allowed to exhibit a sense of humor, and not excessively and insanely defensive against possible litigation.

[Bryan]

It's so refreshing to come across a CSR allowed to exhibit a sense of humor, and not excessively and insanely defensive against possible litigation.

 

I think Lost Monkey may have been making a joke...maybe...

 

 

-Bry

[Lost Monkey]

It's so refreshing to come across a CSR allowed to exhibit a sense of humor, and not excessively and insanely defensive against possible litigation.

 

I think Lost Monkey may have been making a joke...maybe...

 

 

-Bry

 

LOL

[Lost Monkey]

OK - I don't yet have a Gamecube, XBox, OR PS2, but I'm tempted to go buy a copy of The Matrix anyway, just to reward Infogrames' response!

 

It's so refreshing to come across a CSR allowed to exhibit a sense of humor, and not excessively and insanely defensive against possible litigation.

 

I was kidding.. wasn't "The Matrix" (game) the "ET" of the current economic slump?

 

:wink:

[NoahsMyBro]

Well I certainly feel stooopid now!

 

Oh well, life goes on...

[Goochman]

My guess is that the reader of your message will have little or no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you'll get some Infogrames stuff out of it, though.

 

   -Bry

 

Im just hoping they send somthing;) even a form letter, but a 'go screw yourself' letter would be hillarious

 

Take one of the warranty cards for on old title, fill it out, put a new address label over the old Atari customer service address and send it to them, or put it in an envelope if it needs to be sent internationally.

 

I think we should all start doing that and see what they do (if anything). It'd be hilarious if all of a sudden, they started receiving tons of warranty cards for the original games.

 

Yup,

 

They would say 'Great, another person to add to the spam and mailist' - No Thanks!

[Bryan]

I was kidding.. wasn't "The Matrix" (game) the "ET" of the current economic slump?

 

:wink:

 

Yeah, the rule in NM is: When you strike ET carts, you're halfway to either water or oil.

 

-Bry

[candiru]

Wasn't it bought by ecoleco?  

 

Yeah, it was. Out of curiousity my nephew recently called the 1-800 number off the back of an old Colecovision box and talked to a woman that directed him to the ecoleco website.

[incog]

everytime I read ecoleco... I think of e-coli, the gut-rotting fatal parasite... maybe im just odd

[slapdash]

Maybe we should ask that Christian publisher if they have any old Music Machine bundles lying around . . .

 

I tried that a few years back. No such luck. :-(

[Lumpbucket]

Or write Amiga and ask how to make the Joyboard work on one of their workstations, or better yet, the A500.

 

The joyboard should work out of the box with an A500, AFAIK. As to getting it to work on their current machines, the Catweasel PCI card has 2 9-pin joystick ports to which you could connect one.

[iguana]

Last year I got a colecovision that had the cust service sticker on it and gave the number a call. I talked to the guy for a while. eColeco had bought it and a bunch of the old product. he was still selling it and had a website too. was a nice guy, but the prices were high, on the other hand it was all new.

[rockman_x_2002]

In regards to sending in the warranty cards...

 

... I just now thought of a problem that might create a rather large monkeywrench in the works. The address listed on the warranty card and the address of Atari's current whereabouts here are different, are they not?

 

In which case, if you sent the cards off, you'd likely just get them back with a "wrong address" notice.

 

... of course... if you take those warranty cards and put them in an enveloped addressed to Atari at their correct address... to their customer service department...

 

In addition... taking a sealed ET game back to Wal-Mart unfortunately would not fly either. They have that time limited return policy (as do most other gaming stores). It's a shame, really, as this would be a rather entertaining thing to see. One could still try, I suppose though...

[JB]

In addition... taking a sealed ET game back to Wal-Mart unfortunately would not fly either.  They have that time limited return policy (as do most other gaming stores).  It's a shame, really, as this would be a rather entertaining thing to see.    One could still try, I suppose though...

But did they THEN? That's the key.

[Tempest]

I actually went into a Sears store with a Tele-Games cartridge and asked if they had games like this any more (yes I was being funny). The guy behind the counter was pretty cool about it though, he laughed and told me that they had cleared out their old old OLD stock of stuff from the store rooms years ago so there would be nothing left.

 

Tempest

[rockman_x_2002]

Here's another idea...

 

Gather a whole bunch of Activision games. Mostly commons. And take them to a store like GameStop or EB Games that offers trade-in services for older titles. Ask them if you can trade your old Atari 2600 Activision games in for a copy of Activision Anthology for the GBA or the PS2.

 

Or for that matter, just ask if they'll trade your old Atari games, period.

[Cootster]

Gamestops around here don't carry anything older than N64/DC anymore . . .

[rockman_x_2002]

Gamestops around here don't carry anything older than N64/DC anymore . . .

 

Same for me here. But EB Games carries stuff all the way back to the NES. Heh... they've got a boxed copy of "Trick Shooting" there. If I had a working NES I'd probably check into it. But alas, I do not.

 

I'm hoping that I will be able to drop by there and pick up a copy of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. While I'm there, I might try to take along my spare Pac-Man cart and see what happens...

[shining slade]

I actually know of an EB store that has atari carts!! Not on display though. I asked the guy just for the hell of it and he told me they had some boxed up in the back somewhere. He then told me to come back when the store manager was there and he'd probably sell them to me. But since I was in that certain town for work, I have not had a chance to go back yet Lord knows what they may have! I think I may give them a call & find out if they still have them. It's been quite a few months since I was there but who knows, I might get lucky!

[povlok1]

dude get your ars back ther.. hehh

Really, I'd of been ther the next day if it was me.. could be a gould mind? Good chance at least to pic up several copies of unopened Secret Quest's??

[Mord]

Here's another idea...

 

Gather a whole bunch of Activision games.  Mostly commons.  And take them to a store like GameStop or EB Games that offers trade-in services for older titles.  Ask them if you can trade your old Atari 2600 Activision games in for a copy of Activision Anthology for the GBA or the PS2.

 

Or for that matter, just ask if they'll trade your old Atari games, period.

 

Fun thing is, I've seen people try to trade in their old atari 2600 things at the EB Games here a couple times over the last year.

 

--

Mord

"Well... we could take them, but they have a trade-in value of $0.00..."

[+kheller2]

My local game stores (EB, etc..) have had on occasion 2600 loose carts for $3-$5 each.

 

Granted, these are also the same stores that took on as many trade in hardware systems as possible.. so you'll see stacks of SNES, NES, Genesis, etc.. all over the place in plastic wrap.

 

Almost reminded me of 1984....

[Joel D. Park]

You can actually still order old-new stock stuff from Radio Shack or at least it's still in their catalogs. Most radio shacks, I haven't been to one for a year or so though, have these big binders of everything they can order, in the back there are all kind of Atari and Coleco games. They are still the old prices though.

 

Might be worth checking out for interest sake. If I remember correctly the binders were just out next to the counter where you could look at them, there were like 4 or 5 different binders, Oarnge, Red, Blue etc.

[+Mitch]

You can actually still order old-new stock stuff from Radio Shack or at least it's still in their catalogs.  Most radio shacks, I haven't been to one for a year or so though, have these big binders of everything they can order, in the back there are all kind of Atari and Coleco games.  They are still the old prices though.  

 

Might be worth checking out for interest sake.  If I remember correctly the binders were just out next to the counter where you could look at them, there were like 4 or 5 different binders,  Oarnge, Red, Blue etc.

 

Not anymore, they discontinued it.

 

Mitch

[JB]

Here's another idea...

 

Gather a whole bunch of Activision games.  Mostly commons.  And take them to a store like GameStop or EB Games that offers trade-in services for older titles.  Ask them if you can trade your old Atari 2600 Activision games in for a copy of Activision Anthology for the GBA or the PS2.

 

Or for that matter, just ask if they'll trade your old Atari games, period.

 

Fun thing is, I've seen people try to trade in their old atari 2600 things at the EB Games here a couple times over the last year.

 

--

Mord

"Well... we could take them, but they have a trade-in value of $0.00..."

I picked up a 7800 stick at GameStop the other day. Manager said someone had come in earlier and just left it there when they packed up. Seems to be broken, though. No working directionals on my 2600(the sticks ARE backwards-compatible, right?).

...

Had I been there earlier, I might could've made the guy an offer.