FireTiger #1 Posted July 26, 2004 Ever wonder how if you get a game lot with ... 23 unique titles 4-6 of them are diffrent labels of combat and/or beserk? I've wondered... Why I've never come across a non-working (first boot) combat cart... Why in a lot the games I don't have in invintory or duplicate already are the ones that are DOA or need lotsa of TLC... Why all mystery carts are very common (ones without any labels)... Why my 4 switch black "Atari 2600" plays Midnight Magic with the kids controler or keypad as well as the joysticks... Why all racing games (excluding 2 player's only like slot car/race) the player car is so supirior to the other cars... Why in racing games (example PPI or especially PPII (7800) ) when you are the lead car because you are sooo fast there are suddely other cars on the track that can't be lap cars... Why nobody at a flea market knows what an Atari cartride is without showing them... Why if two diffrent people ask for something at a flea market that its instently collectable... Why you can find the same rarity 2s over andd over and are still missing rarity 1s... Why some people think that charging $5 a cart is a steal to the customer... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keilbaca #2 Posted July 26, 2004 Why you can find the same rarity 2s over andd over and are still missing rarity 1s... YES!!!!!!! I still don't have some 1 rarity games, but i have swordquest waterworld... hmm... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FireTiger #3 Posted July 26, 2004 Same here, I have a lot of high ririty things and not so meny of the low rarity things...guess everyone is using them as coasters. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dolt #4 Posted July 26, 2004 Permit me to add a few. Ever wonder... ...how come if the flea market vendor had "a huge box of Atari stuff" sitting untouched for years, someone managed to buy the whole thing THAT MORNING before you got there? ...why we all call Pac-Man and Space Invaders "commons" if it's hard to find ANY carts in the wild any more? ...why a game box is--at most--only worth as much as the game it once contained, yet game boxes are much harder to come by than games? ...what Atari was smoking when they released ET? ...how your friends can say that collecting Atari is a dumb hobby while they're running off to their rotisserie baseball draft? ...if George Plympton actually knew what an Intellivision was? ...if any 8-year-old kids actually knew who George Plympton was? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nester #5 Posted July 26, 2004 I knew who George Plimpton was when I was 8! He hosted Mousterpiece theater on the Disney Channel. I was always a big fan. Of course, I was a strange little kid. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FireTiger #6 Posted July 27, 2004 Ever wonder why games work the second day after you have them but not always te first? (maybe the FL heat *shrug*) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Susuwatari #7 Posted July 27, 2004 Why nobody at a flea market knows what an Atari cartride is without showing them... Probably because "cartride" is not in the dictionary. ...why is it that when I do find a large lot of classic stuff, the dealer won't break up the set and won't offer more reasonable price than $500? ...why is it that I can never find any rare cart, only common cart in the wild? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FireTiger #8 Posted July 27, 2004 yeah well, at least I find atari stuff! Neat stuff to yeah! I'm rubber and you're glue! cart... so I can't spell..... (thank-goodness for preview, I had a "fin(g)" up there) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bedrock #9 Posted July 28, 2004 Why nobody at a flea market knows what an Atari cartride is without showing them... Probably because "cartride" is not in the dictionary. ...why is it that when I do find a large lot of classic stuff, the dealer won't break up the set and won't offer more reasonable price than $500? ...why is it that I can never find any rare cart, only common cart in the wild? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlackAtarian #10 Posted July 28, 2004 Why when you ask a store owner if they have any Atari games, they say, "yes" but really they dont; they just have Nintendo or sega games Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weezle #11 Posted July 28, 2004 Never a truer word was spoken! you guys are all so right!! I just had to laugh out loud at everyone's comments. You's are great!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy #12 Posted July 29, 2004 Most of this sounds like cases of Murphy's Law.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bjk7382 #13 Posted July 29, 2004 Why all mystery carts are very common (ones without any labels)... Well, this has been proved wrong by me before. (I am sure some of you already know) but I found an "Off Your Rocker" in a $30 lot of games from ebay It was a lot of 30 cartriges and one with no label on it, and who would have thought it would be a super rare game Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mindfield #14 Posted July 29, 2004 Or, why... ...do the same sellers that claim Pac Man is ultra rare have absolutely no clue what their Malagai two auctions down is worth? ...do sellers who rip off a good description of a heavy sixer (usually from Dustin) try and use it on a four-switch that clearly bears absolutely no resemblance to the description they nicked? ...do sellers always list Pac Man as "a classic!" when the entire world knows what a cleaveland steamer it was? ...are there so many damn loose systems without any accessories whatsoever out there? Where'd the rest of the stuff go? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snoopy #15 Posted July 29, 2004 Why you can find the same rarity 2s over andd over and are still missing rarity 1s... I think this one is more propabality than anything else. The way I think of it is that it works the same way as baseball cards. You get a pack, and with some luck get some rare ones, but out of pure chance, no matter how many packs you get, you always seem to be missing several or more very common cards. Same goes for Atari games, you find a bunch somewhere, on ebay or flea markets or where ever, and end up getting a bunch of duplicates and maybe even some more rare games, but out of pure chance, you're missing something very very common. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vic George 2K3 #16 Posted July 29, 2004 Or, why... ...do sellers always list Pac Man as "a classic!" when the entire world knows what a cleaveland steamer it was? Does the world even know what a "Cleveland steamer" is? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whisper #17 Posted July 29, 2004 Permit me to add a few. Ever wonder......why a game box is--at most--only worth as much as the game it once contained, yet game boxes are much harder to come by than games? Simple: You can't play an empty box. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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