What is a Quadrun worth?

[Cassidy Nolen]

Hi all,

 

What is the normal going price for a Quadrun. Cart only. Thanks for replying.

 

Cassidy

[Tempest]

Depending on condition it could go for $150 to $250. It's really hard to say since they come up for auction so rarely. My price range might be low since I got mine for a song and not off of ebay ($100 with the manual!). With ebay and rare items the prices tend to skyrocket.

 

Tempest

[Joel D. Park]

I would definately give 150.00 for it. Posibly 200.00 or more. I'd have to see it first.

 

I don't really know the going price though.

[atari70s]

id go 150 if i could locate the cart maybe 200 .if you find me one you never know

[Scooterb23]

It's only worth $150-200 if you aren't selling it to me. If you sell it to me I'll tell you it's worth $10 tops

[Cassidy Nolen]

Well,

 

I really did not think I should pass a shot to buy it. Paid the top of the pricing you have all suggested, but I will have one. Sometimes one in the collection is worth searching to save 50 bucks. Thanks for your input everyone.

 

Cassidy

[Tempest]

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I really did not think I should pass a shot to buy it.

 

Definetly not. If you can afford it I'd definetly pick one up if the oppertunity arised. You don't see them up for auction or sale much, and with only 10,000 made you know it's a rare one. Besides, it's actually quite a good game (hard, but good).

 

Tempest

[Tempest]

I got that number from the man himself Steve Woita (got him to sign my cart too!).

 

Tempest

[Cassidy Nolen]

Thats also the number Digital Press found.

 

Wonder what that means in the way of actual "in the hands" copies people actually have? Considering the debacle of ET carts, I can imagine not all made it to the consumers?

 

Cassidy

[Marco(2)]

a bit off topic, but what the heck:

 

does anyone have a Quadrun manual that they'd be willing to part with? I have the cart and box screaming for one

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

[Albert]

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Originally posted by Marco:

does anyone have a Quadrun manual that they'd be willing to part with? I have the cart and box screaming for one

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You can always print out the scan we have on AtariAge.

 

I have a big hole in my collection screaming for a Quadrun cart, box, and manual. Anyone have any of these laying around? Just don't make me bid against Marco for the manual. Fortunately he already has the box and cart.

 

..Al

[Marco(2)]

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Originally posted by Albert:

I have a big hole in my collection screaming for a Quadrun cart, box, and manual. Anyone have any of these laying around? Just don't make me bid against Marco for the manual. Fortunately he already has the box and cart.

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Cheers,

 

Marco

[Marco(2)]

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Originally posted by Albert:

Just don't make me bid against Marco for the manual. Fortunately he already has the box and cart.

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I actually have two Quadrun boxes, one of them is holding the cart, the other one is still unfolded, fresh from the Atari printshop

 

Cheers,

 

Marco

[Albert]

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Originally posted by Marco:

I actually have two Quadrun boxes, one of them is holding the cart, the other one is still unfolded, fresh from the Atari printshop

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Tease.

 

..Al

[Tempest]

Geeze Ben, lay off the pesimisim already! Do you always have to disagree with me when I quote a number? Yes I suppose Steve could be:

 

A. Misinformed

B. Remembering it wrong

C. Lying

 

But I highly doubt it. If the programmer himself told me, I believe him. Besides, he had alot of memories of the pre-testing and final decision Atari made with his game so I don't think his memory is faulty. One thing I don't know is if all 10,000 of those carts got out to people or just sitting in a warehouse (Best had to have gotten the chips from somewhere).

 

I have the Quadrun manual, but I'd never part with it. It's in mint condition (as was the cart). Now if only Macro would let me have his unfolded box...

 

As long as we're on the subject of rare instructions, anyone have a SQ: Waterworld manual they want to part with? Can you believe I have the comic and the poster, but not the manual?

 

Tempest

[Tempest]

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The reason I ask is because a collector friend of mine, every time I talk to him, rants endlessly about how he remembers seeing a giant discount bin overflowing with boxed Quadruns at Kaybee Toy stores, circa 1992.

 

Sure he did. Just like everyone swears they remember seeing the Luke/Biggs scene in the original Star Wars movie. I think the reports of all those bins just "overflowing" with UR games are just memories remembered the way we wanted them to be, not the way it actually happened.

 

Most likely there was a Quadrun or two in a Kay-Bee somewhere and then the story went from "Yeah I saw a Quadrun at Kay-Bee when Atari was closing out, I should I have got it" to "You should have seen it! Hundereds of Quadruns stacked floor to ceiling! If only I had known!"

 

 

Here's a snipet of my conversation with Steve:

 

 

>One thing that always puzzled me is why was Quadrun such a rare game? Why

>was it only distributed through the Atari Fan Club? It's a shame more

>people didn't get a chance to play it. It's such a cool game.

 

Thanks for saying that! What happend was we playtested it with a bunch of 10

year old girls instead of the core playeres (teenagers) & all the kids said

was "this isn't like Mrs Pacman". So the game was thought of as too hard &

got put with two other games that were too hard & used for a contest. Atari

only made about 10,000 QuadRun games.

 

 

Tempest

[Tempest]

Still, I doubt there were bins overflowing with Quadruns. He may actually remember it that way, but if that were the case you'd see alot more boxed Quadruns out there (or Quadruns in general). By 1992 collecting had already started, someone would have scarfed them up and be retiring a rich man by now.

 

 

BTW, the other two games he was talking about were Gravitar and Battlezone. I don't see anything hard about Battlezone, so it may have been a different version he was talking about (especially since GCC did the released version). I know a few people took a stab at it.

 

Tempest

[Albert]

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Originally posted by Tempest:

But I highly doubt it. If the programmer himself told me, I believe him. Besides, he had alot of memories of the pre-testing and final decision Atari made with his game so I don't think his memory is faulty. One thing I don't know is if all 10,000 of those carts got out to people or just sitting in a warehouse (Best had to have gotten the chips from somewhere).

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While Steve may honestly believe that 10,000 copies were produced, that doesn't necessarily mean that number is by any means accurate. Unless he was involved with the actual production and distribution of the carts, there's no way to really know for sure. I worked on Deus Ex for three years and am working on the PS2 port now, but I have no idea how many copies of the game were actually shipped worldwide. Many more than 10,000, though..

 

The fact that these carts were being dumped at Kay Bee doesn't necessarily mean that more than 10,000 were produced. Atari could have just sold their existing Quadrun inventory for Kay Bee for some ridiculously low amount (that would make all of us cry) and then dumped 'em in the bargain bins at their stores. Now, if I heard stories of Quadrun appearing in many different chains (Toys R Us, K-Mart, Sears, etc.) then I might be more skeptical of the 10,000 number.

 

To me, that number seems a bit high, since Quadrun seems to come up for auction so infrequently. There are many other carts with lower production runs that seem to come up more often than Quadrun. Maybe half of those 10,000 carts were ultimately destroyed.

 

..Al

[moycon]

I know this about the overflowing amounts of quadruns in Kay-Bees. I used to hit all the bargin bins in the toy stores and buy up the cheap games,Kay-Bees in particular because the mall was within walking distance of my house in Ohio. This spanned 3 states Ohio (where I lived), Georgia (where my dad lived ) and Wisconsin (where my grandmother lived) I saw and bought alot of "great" games cheap. I can honestly say in all my searching. I can't remember ever even coming across Quadrun. In Kay-Bees or anywhere else. But thats just my experience. I did once dream my grandmother gave me huge box of atari carts on a boat dock once. Funny I still remember that. God I loved Atari as a kid.

[moycon]

Oh yeah I still do love Atari.

 

BTW I checked and even tho its pretty rare the game now sells for 5 bucks. Lemmie know the address and I'll get a check right out to you. Thanks

[Cassidy Nolen]

Uh, ho, yeah, yo, hu ho.

 

Thats the "I just got Quadrun in the mail" dance.

 

Uh, ho, yeah, oh

 

Have to do it now, because when the lady finds out what I spent..... Luckily it does not look like its worth more than a Vectrex...!

 

Cassidy

[israelg]

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