one grand for river patrol

[orangest]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Atari-2600-RIVER-PATRO...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

kenny might have been the first seller i bought from on ebay, if i remember correctly.

[MegaManFan]

I probably shouldn't tell any of you how much I paid for my River Patrol. It's a bit of a hack job, but it's in an authentic Tigervision case and it's the real River Patrol chip inside, with a reproduction label you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference on.

[AtariAger]

[holygrailvideogames.com]

Atari2600.com has four River Patrol's on their site including one that they grade as a 10 out of 10. All four are a lot less than this one.

[Dusk2600]

wafj ik its rare but common 1,000.00?

[bowser724]

Some ppl are stupid enough I guess.

[maibock]

FYI - I would not recommend putting a valuable cartridge into a PAS (Pink Anti-Stat) polyethylene bag. They have a shelf life of about 6-9 months before the properties deteriorate. Also, some cheap film extruders use a pig fat(or sometimes vegetable fat) substance which can blossom out of the bag, making the bag "sticky", which could easily ruin the label or any manuals in contact with it.

 

Use a static shielding bag, preferably ziplocked.. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive, but if you're looking to protect your investment, it's more than worth it..

[txsizzler]

Where's Trench at... he usually goes for these overpriced games....

[diggs130]

Where's Trench at... he usually goes for these overpriced games.... 

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Now Im guessing here,but if it was a $1000 opening bid not bin he'd probably drop a bid on it

[MegaManFan]

FYI - I would not recommend putting a valuable cartridge into a PAS (Pink Anti-Stat) polyethylene bag. They have a shelf life of about 6-9 months before the properties deteriorate. Also, some cheap film extruders use a pig fat(or sometimes vegetable fat) substance which can blossom out of the bag, making the bag "sticky", which could easily ruin the label or any manuals in contact with it.

 

Use a static shielding bag, preferably ziplocked.. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive, but if you're looking to protect your investment, it's more than worth it..

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I thought the bags Al sold through AA were the non-acidic, cart safe kind. That's what I use. I also don't keep manuals in the bags or with the games, I store them in seperate sheets - again, which I got from Al through AA.

[Gregory DG]

For that much money, I'd expect a box, manuals, and a never played, never opened game.

[maibock]

FYI - I would not recommend putting a valuable cartridge into a PAS (Pink Anti-Stat) polyethylene bag. They have a shelf life of about 6-9 months before the properties deteriorate. Also, some cheap film extruders use a pig fat(or sometimes vegetable fat) substance which can blossom out of the bag, making the bag "sticky", which could easily ruin the label or any manuals in contact with it.

 

Use a static shielding bag, preferably ziplocked.. Yeah, it's a bit more expensive, but if you're looking to protect your investment, it's more than worth it..

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I thought the bags Al sold through AA were the non-acidic, cart safe kind. That's what I use. I also don't keep manuals in the bags or with the games, I store them in seperate sheets - again, which I got from Al through AA.

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The only bags I see in the store are these which look like general polyethylene bags, which are better than the PAS bags the guy in the auction has. I think the guy is using a PAS bag to protect the eprom from static charges, which I'm not aware has ever damage cartridges. If you want my expert opinion, I think it's more of a gimmick that would do more harm to the cartridge than good.

 

The premise of anti stat bags are to keep static charges away from electrical devices. Like I mentioned before, if that's your objective I'd go with a static shielding bag, which has layers of aluminum, polyester and coated polyethylene in between the layers of poly. Could be over kill I know, but for a grand, I guess you can't be too cautious.