Has anyone ever paid alot for a 2600 game only to

[kyle]

Has anyone ever paid alot for a rare 2600 game only to find it in the wild later??? When i say alot i mean $40+.

Edited January 10, 2006 by kyle

[Trade-N-Games]

The funny thing about this comment for me is 9 out of 10 times within a short time If I spend some money on a rareish game it gets brought into my store or I find it in the wild. Sometimes it happens so often that I will buy a game knowing that real soon I will find it again and be able to trade or sell the extra.

[Sayton]

Thankfully no with the Atari. Sadly, I have done this with other systems. Oh well....I'm happy with what I have right now (cause all I'm playing is Space Invaders).

[SteveW]

I did that, not with a game, but with a system. I bought a Vectrex console for $80 from a member here, and right afterward, I found one in a thrift store for $5. Ah well, at least the one I ordered came with a controller, the $5 one didn't.

[NovaXpress]

Look at the deal as "two Vectrexes for $85" and smile.

[crunchysuperman]

I guess that could be an advantage to living in the boonies - there is no finding stuff like that in the wild here! All I've ever seen locally are some flea markets selling 2600 commons in the $5-$10 range. It's online or nothing for me.

[MegaManFan]

I was so hard up to play Pitfall II that I actually paid an eBay seller between $10-$20 for it (can't remember the exact amount) and then found two in a bargain bin a week later for 50 cents each. Ah well, shit happens.

[SteveW]

I've heard that Pitfall II is supposed to be rare, but i've bought three in the wild. Don't seem too rare to me.

 

Incidentally, I could never get my copies of Pitfall II to work. The first time I played the game was on the Activision Anthology on the PS2. I guess Pitfall II doesn't like my 7800.

[Lord Helmet]

Someone will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think Pitfall 2 works on the 7800.

[AtariAger]

Nope.

[+FujiSkunk]

Not with an Atari game, no.

 

However, I did part with $50 for something else once, only to find it in the wild that same week.

 

After getting a brand spankin' new 17" LCD monitor, I wanted to take advantage of the DBI connector my video card has for digital video. Unfortunately, the monitor didn't come with one, so I went out and handed over the fifty bucks for a decent quality DBI cable. I was happy... at least until the following Saturday when I found a DBI cable at a thrift store for fifty cents.

 

Oh well, I bought it anyway. It's good to have spares.

Edited January 11, 2006 by skunkworx

[jbanes]

I've heard that Pitfall II is supposed to be rare

 

Someone will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think Pitfall 2 works on the 7800.

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Nope.

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Wait, I'm confused. I have a brand-spanking old 7800 at home. Last weekend I picked up Pitfall II from Sean Kelly's shop for $7.99. I took it home and popped it into my 7800 with no problems to speak of. Are we talking about some special version of Pitfall 2, because I found it neither rare nor incompatible?

[A.J. Franzman]

I don't know if all versions of the 7800 are incompatible with Pitfall II. There is a compatibility analysis here: http://www.emucamp.com/vgee/2600/2600faq.htm#78incom

 

Unfortunately, Pitfall II is not mentioned. However, they do describe how to identify the oldest, most compatible version of the 7800 console. If any 7800 can play Pitfall II, it's probably that one.

[+FujiSkunk]

I've heard that Pitfall II is supposed to be rare

 

Someone will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think Pitfall 2 works on the 7800.

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Nope.

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Wait, I'm confused. I have a brand-spanking old 7800 at home. Last weekend I picked up Pitfall II from Sean Kelly's shop for $7.99. I took it home and popped it into my 7800 with no problems to speak of. Are we talking about some special version of Pitfall 2, because I found it neither rare nor incompatible?

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AtariAger was possibly answering the original post's question.

 

While some cartridges do have compatibility problems with different hardware revisions of the 7800, I do not recall Pitfall II being one of those. At any rate, my Pitfall II works in my 7800.

[jsoper]

AtariAger was possibly answering the original post's question.

 

While some cartridges do have compatibility problems with different hardware revisions of the 7800, I do not recall Pitfall II being one of those.  At any rate, my Pitfall II works in my 7800.

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I never heard of any Pitfall II probs before but it does draw about 50ma more current than other 2600 carts so maybe that causes a difference. And all Activision cart can be a tight fit, so maybe there's contact issues.

 

As for overpaying, I payed dearly for a 5200 Meteorites on ebay than found one at a flea market a couple years later. Of course, another ebay auction helped correct that.

[jbanes]

I don't know if all versions of the 7800 are incompatible with Pitfall II. There is a compatibility analysis here: http://www.emucamp.com/vgee/2600/2600faq.htm#78incom

 

Unfortunately, Pitfall II is not mentioned. However, they do describe how to identify the oldest, most compatible version of the 7800 console. If any 7800 can play Pitfall II, it's probably that one.

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If I understand that link right, the way to tell if you have a first release or not is to check for the expansion port. Since I do have the "Expansion Port" sticker and the port itself, I assume that I have the first revision. Those are reasonably rare, aren't they?

[kyle]

Pittfall 2 works just fine on my 7800

[A.J. Franzman]

I don't know if all versions of the 7800 are incompatible with Pitfall II. There is a compatibility analysis here: http://www.emucamp.com/vgee/2600/2600faq.htm#78incom

 

Unfortunately, Pitfall II is not mentioned. However, they do describe how to identify the oldest, most compatible version of the 7800 console. If any 7800 can play Pitfall II, it's probably that one.

998496[/snapback]

If I understand that link right, the way to tell if you have a first release or not is to check for the expansion port. Since I do have the "Expansion Port" sticker and the port itself, I assume that I have the first revision. Those are reasonably rare, aren't they?

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No, you need to work on your reading comprehension. It specifically says, "Presence or absence of the port is not a reliable indicator of compatibility with all 2600 carts." Here's the list from the very end of that FAQ answer, that spells out how to identify the earliest ones, with maximum compatibility (in addition to having the expansion port; their "deck #1"):

- The labels on the undersides of decks 2-5 have a box drawn around

the serial number. Deck #1 has no box drawn.

- The serial number itself on deck #1 is different from the others.

The "72R4BR" prefix is very much smaller than the rest of the number.

"AT85037836" is one continuous string of black characters with no

spaces, while on deck #2 (#3-5 are similar), "A1 76 5904610" does have

the spaces, and the "76" is stamped in blue.

- The cart contacts of deck #1 have a definite copper color, while the

contacts of the others have a silvery appearance.

Edited January 12, 2006 by A.J. Franzman

[shadow460]

I've got the third generation 7800, and it plays Pitfall II just fine. I've cut the sleeve in the cart port so that my Imagic titles fit easier.

Both Activision and Imagic games fit into the slot as easy as they did my old 2600.

 

Activision cart should fit fine anyway--their 7800 carts look like they were made in the same mold.

 

I've not come across any title (yet) that won't play in my 7800. My SuperCharger works, as does Robot Tank. I do not own the 2600 version of Dark Chambers.

[SteveW]

Oddly enough, 2600 Dark Chambers worked fine in my 7800.

[Stella'sGhost]

No, and I've never paid more than $25 Canadian for any of my 250 Atari games. I suppose I will eventually but I always find stuff for cheap.. just gotta wait... wait... wait....

[jodieann23]

The most i ever paid was $12AUD for Centerpeide i found in a weird game shop. I see heaps in cashies for like $2, but i have most of em anyway. Not a huge range of games were released in australia.

 

I bought a copy of Activision Anthology for ps2 to play pitfall II simply cause i couldnt find it any where local to me. And incase my atari ever actually did die id always have my fav games on hand!

Edited January 18, 2006 by jodieann23

[Foxsolo2000]

I paid a lot of money for Chase the Chuckwagon in a seperate auction and won it. It arrived the same day as I recieved a bundle of what I believed was common carts which I paid £20 for a collection of 20 games and to my surprise their was not one, but two extra Chase the Chuck Wagon games in the box with games such as Pac Man, Defender and Combat. I was pretty hacked off by this discovery especially when selling the two spare Chuck Wagons only covered half the original cost I had incurred to get the first one

[IBP]

A few years ago a lot came up on ebay UK for an Asterix and Obelix lot.

 

I bid on it, but it went for silly money: the equivalent of about $200. Both carts were PAL (i.e. not rare at all), and all the bidders were newbies.

 

The week after, another lot of the two carts came up from the same seller and the same people bid it up to the same level.

 

Then a couple of weeks after that it happened again.

 

Noboy ever said they were NTSC carts or anything, but people assumed. That seller cleared $600 for six fairly common carts. Not one of them seemed to realise that if the carts were rare, one person wouldn't have six to sell.

 

Not related to the o/p but a salutory lesson nonetheless.

[jodieann23]

Noboy ever said they were NTSC carts or anything, but people assumed. That seller cleared $600 for six fairly common carts. Not one of them seemed to realise that if the carts were rare, one person wouldn't have six to sell.

 

lol i can't beleive that! Theres one on ebay atm (rarety factor of 10) mangia i think it is, only one person has bid and its $300AUD! I really don't think i could part with that much money for an atari game, as much as i love it