killah5000 Posted September 29, 2001 Share Posted September 29, 2001 I recently bought a box of Atari stuff at my local Salvation Army. Pretty good deal I got a Sears Video Arcade II with both controllers and connectors, about 14 games including one with a rarity rating of 6, and two cartrige holders. All for $4.50. While I was going throught the manuals and cutouts from the cartrige boxes I found two letters from Activision to the previous owner of the games. One was regarding a question that he had sent them about taking a picture of the screen to send a score in to get a patch, the other was a congratulation letter that must have accompanied a patch for high score on Pitfall. Just though that it was kind of interesting that the letters survived. Is this a fairly common thing to find with Atari lots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 30, 2001 Share Posted September 30, 2001 I never heard of Letters before but that would be very interesting to see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atari70s Posted September 30, 2001 Share Posted September 30, 2001 same here i would like that letter too ( could go nicely with my David Crane auto Pitfall. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 30, 2001 Share Posted September 30, 2001 Heh, this reminded me of something. I had 'designed' some new 2600 games and queried Atari in Sunnyvale if they ever accepted ideas. They wrote back that sure they did, mail the demo or packet to them. So I did -- several pages of poorly drawn sketches! ugh, what an embarassing memory, but I was only about 12 or 13. One of the games (there were 2) I called "Poacher" (this unfortunately reflects the Pennsylvanian redneck practices of the area I grew up in) where you had to go pull vines and shoot the squirrels that came out, and run thru bushes and shoot the rabbits that came out. Can you image what they thought of that? Bwuahaha! (groan). I wish I still had that letter for laughs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killah5000 Posted September 30, 2001 Author Share Posted September 30, 2001 I haven't really though about selling or trading the letters. I usually just pick up new Atari stuff when it becomes available locally, or maybe an occasional ebay auction just for stuff that I don't see locally, like game cases. I really wouldn't know what I'd want in trade for them, or if I would even want to get rid of them. I'd have to think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted September 30, 2001 Share Posted September 30, 2001 hi, just a question, why don't you scan the letters so we all can take a look at them, Am I asking too much? thanks! OsBo [ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: osbo ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain King Posted September 30, 2001 Share Posted September 30, 2001 I had gotten one of those letters when I was young. I got a perfect score on Pitfall 2. I sent the picture and they sent back a letter and the patch for the first Pitfall. I guess they were out of patches for Pitfall 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killah5000 Posted October 1, 2001 Author Share Posted October 1, 2001 I would gladly scan it for the records at this site but I am having trouble getting my scanner to work. Everything I scan comes out in only yellow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killah5000 Posted October 1, 2001 Author Share Posted October 1, 2001 Yep the patch letter looks just like your Explorer's club letter. As does the picture tips letter. Guess I don't have to scan them after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted October 1, 2001 Share Posted October 1, 2001 Ben: once again, you are DA MAN! OsBo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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