Went on a 350 mile Thrift Store search today

[gamerz]

I found this, and I have never seen this label variation before today. Is this a rare release? It says copyright 1986 on it. I looked in the rarity guide and did not find it in there.

[Adrian M]

350 mile thrift store road trip? Today?

Vacation week I take it?

[gamerz]

Income tax return day!!!

[Adrian M]

Income tax return day!!!      

 

Ah! Congrats!

[ATARI TROLL]

The label itself appears to be an uncommon label/end label odity. As Atari continued some sales in the late 80s, some of the label odities did hit the market. The label itself would probably be considered borderline uncommon/rare. Thumbs up on the TREK! Atleast you came back with a keeper. I would have grabbed that one myself. The combo of yellow and orange illustrates quantity not quality. Looks to be in superb condition.

Still thumbs up dude!

 

Cheers

[Brad2600]

Heh.

 

I ran across that same label type in a resale shop a few months ago. Didn't pick it up but I should have.

[Trade-N-Games]

Good find! I have a couple of them around my store. I have sold a few to collectors for a few dollars more. Its about as rare in my book as the Red label yars revenge. I have found all of mine in INDIANA and OHIO and no where els and i used to travel for a living.

[sku_u]

That's a very HTF label variation. I've been looking for that for a while. Nice grab

[gamerz]

This was found in Elmira NY. I overpaid for it though. $0.49

[ATARI TROLL]

No you didn't price can't be beat!!!! I have seen that particular one go as high as $5.00. Nice price for a hell of a find!

[Brad2600]

This was found in Elmira NY.  I overpaid for it though.  $0.49    

 

The one I could have had was priced at $1.99 so you got a good deal.

 

[gamerz]

I also got an Atari 2600 and 35 games for $20 and a super nintendo with 4 games for $15. Plus a few other things, I think it was a nice trip.

[ATARI TROLL]

We need to hear more stories like these. Accept we need to post them here! (<--------yea same goes for you and another one popped up in the wild thread)

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18190

 

[adams_ale]

I've wondered about different dates than the norm for some time now. For instance I've seen a picture label circus atari with the date 1986 instead of 1978. I didn't pick it up in time though. I don't know if that was that abnormal or not.

[Susuwatari]

I wish I could do a 350 miles thrift hunt. Around my area, there are a few in Saginaw, a few more in Flint, and a couple here and there. Too few and too far apart. Plus I regularly hit those stores when I'm in that cities and I often don't find anything.

 

I did learn something from my years of thrifting: some of the best time is often within the last 2 weeks before January as people try for some last minute tax breaks, the first few weeks of warm spring days as the people does spring cleaning, and in the fall when cool weather settles in and most people get rid of their unsold garage/yard sales stuff.

[Duke 4ever]

Great find!!

[bond007pr]

The label itself appears to be an uncommon label/end label odity. As Atari  continued some sales in the late 80s, some of the label odities did hit the market. The label itself would probably be considered borderline uncommon/rare. Thumbs up on the TREK! Atleast you came back with a keeper. I would have grabbed that one myself. The combo of yellow and orange illustrates quantity not quality. Looks to be in superb condition.

Still thumbs up dude!      

 

Cheers

I picked up some weeks ago a "12 street racer" text label with an orange border on the end label(same color as the text) instead of the normal silver one.It's on my sale/trade list though

[jsoper]

How much gas money did you spend on those 350 miles? And how dumb was Atari in those years (joystick Breakout?)

[gamerz]

Money was not the point. It was a nice day, nice ride, been to towns Ive never seen. As for Atari, they were quite dumb.

[Bruce Tomlin]

There are quite a few post-crash releases, but that's the only one I know where they broke so obviously from the usual typography specs. I have one of those somewhere. (I've also found a couple of conductive-label Combats in my time.)

 

As for long thrifting drives, I head off to Houston every few months. One time I found a Channel F in the box with a few games, stacked on top of a bunch of board games. But one guy was the king of thrift drives, because he lived in the extremely overshopped DFW area. He'd go a couple of hundred miles and hit every small town thrift he knew of.

[jsoper]

As for long thrifting drives, I head off to Houston every few months.  One time I found a Channel F in the box with a few games, stacked on top of a bunch of board games.  But one guy was the king of thrift drives, because he lived in the extremely overshopped DFW area.  He'd go a couple of hundred miles and hit every small town thrift he knew of.

Yeah, I've tried a few long drives myself but it wasn't really worth it with

high gas prices and scarce supply. But sure wish I could go back in

time to to early 90s and hit a bunch of thrifts and flea markets, they were

loaded back then. Even in 1997 when I started collecting, supply was fairly

decent.

[AtariDude]

Sounds like you had an enjoyable trip and found an interesting cartridge to boot. My friends and I when I used to live in NJ would do that sometimes. We would plan to go to different cities and visit different thrifts shops to see what we find. It was fun just being with friends and seeing different places than what I would see from day to day.

 

Nice find and you got a great price!