A wedding gift bonanza

[bcostin]

I tied the knot with my lovely new wife last month. A friend of mine at work gathered up a couple boxes of unsorted Atari and Colecovision cartridges, consoles, and accessories as a sort of grab-bag wedding gift.

 

Excluding some duplicates, it came to about 50 individual titles. Out of those there were 30 carts that I didn't yet have in my collection, mostly 3's and 4's. Awesome!

 

Some of the highlights:

 

- Not rare, but lots of fun: Wizard of Wor, GI Joe, and Mouse Trap

- Imagic Solar Storm, Trick Shot, and Firefighter

- Kung Fu Master. Ok, maybe not a highlight, exactly. But it is scarce.

- The Summer Games, Winter Games and California Games trilogy

- Sega Thunderground and Sub Scan

- Fox Deadly Duck, Porky's, Alien and Mega Force

- Spikes Peak / Ghost Manor. My first Xonox cart!

 

And, saving one of the best for last...

 

- Pete Rose Baseball

 

All in all, a great gift.

[Blackjack]

Congrats on the games!!

 

oh yeah....... and the marriage

[Chickybaby]

Congratulations on the nuptuals from the two of us! May the only fighting you guys have be over what games to play first.

[Shaggy the Atarian]

Now those are some cool wedding gifts! Congrats on tieing the knot So does your wife enjoy playing Atari games as much as you do?

[Stella'sGhost]

That's a cool wedding gift you can actually use!!

 

I gave a friend of mine - who really is not into vintage games - an asteroids cartridge just for fun. He hadn't seen one since he was 14. He was so happy he put it on his shelf along with other things like pictures and

knick knacks, as if it was a piece of art. Now he shows everyone - "hey check this out" like its worth something.

 

See, it was the first video game I ever owned, so it means alot to me.

 

It's ok though I have like 5 more now

[joeybastard]

Congrats! That is indeed a cool wedding gift.

[Lord Helmet]

That's a cool wedding gift you can actually use!!  

 

 

Yea, better than the 2 dozen picture frames that I got!

[Philflound]

Hehe, I got married last month too, on the 19th. My wife would probably have killed me if we got video games as gifts.

 

Phil

[Big Player]

Whenever I get married, I'm registering at the Atari Age store.

[bcostin]

Thanks, guys! My wife loves online puzzle and platform games, but she had an videogame-deprived childhood, poor thing. I'm now slowly introducing her to the many joys of Atari. I have high hopes that's she'll come around.

[elviticus]

I WISH I got anything that cool for a wedding gift! Your friend came up with some pretty good finds.

 

I DID, however, get a Donkey Kong machine for my 30th B-day from my wife! Some things are just meant to be.

[AtariChild840]

wow congratulations! .... I can only hope that in the future, my wife enjoys atari.

[King]

That's a cool wedding gift you can actually use!!  

 

 

Yea, better than the 2 dozen picture frames that I got!

 

Your name is awesome, man.

 

But congrats on the games and the marriage!