A youngies 2600 Collection

[rheffera]

This is my 2600 collection. For those who dont know im only 17, have no offical job( i fix computers on the side occasionally for cash), and have been collecting for 2600 for about 5 months and somehow have netted me all this.

 

(Everything is PAL unless otherwise listed)

 

Games

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H.E.R.O(HES)(CIB)

Tomcat f-14(HES)((CIB)

Space Invaders(Picture label) (CIB)

Air Sea Battle (Picture Label)(CIB)

Defender II(CIB)(Red label)

Double Dunk(CIB)

Pole Position(CIB)

Raiders Of the lost ark ( CIB)

Q*bert(Paker Bros) (CIB)

Robot Tank(Activision)(CIB)

Off the wall(CIB)

Pick ' n Pile(Salu)(CIB)

Enduro (HES)(CIB)

Reactor(CIB)

Spider Fighter(CIB)

My golf(CIB)

Demon Attack(HES)(CIB)

Pete rose baseball(HES)(CIB)

Xonox double ender(ghost manor/ spikes peak)

Strategy X

Pooyan

Marine Wars + Manual

Frogger(Parker bros)

Star wars empire strikes back

Airlock(Silver label Gameworld)

Gangster alley

gas hog

jawbreaker

polaris

Space attack(NTSC)

dark cavern(NTSC)

Air Raiders(NTSC)

Commando Raid(U.S Games)(NTSC)

Cosmic ark

32-in-1

fun with numbers(Text label)

Space cavern(apollo)

Pac-Kong(Rainbow Vision)

Curtiss(Rainbow Vision)

Challenge of nexar

Exoset missile(John sands)

Seahawk(John sands)

Space raid(Rainbow Vision)

F18 vs aliens(Action hi tec)

Condor Attack(Action hi tec)

Panda rescue(Action hi tec)

surround 'em(Action hi tec)

dragon attack(Action hi tec)

adventure

defender

berzerk + manual

indy 500+ manual

crystal castles

mario bros.

kangeroo+ manual

moon patrol

pac-man+ manual

E.T+ manual

Vanguard

Space War

Yar's Revenge

Star Raiders + manual

Superman( Atari)

Millipede

asteroids

night driver+ manual

missile command + manual

dodge 'em

phoenix

jungle hunt

super breakout + manual

ms. pacman + manual

centipede

solaris

desert falcon

midnight magic

realsports boxing

sprintmaster

slot racers

maze craze

basic programming

backgammon + manual

bowling + manual

golf

hangman

outlaw

othello+ manual

basketball+ manual

swordquest earthworld

combat + manual

Breakout

Concentration

Smash hit pak

super jit pak

Fire Fighter(HES)

no escape!

star voyager

atlantis

kaboom+ manual

tennis

barnstorming+ manual

oink!

stampede

keystone kapers

decathalon

starmaster

kung-fu master

pitfall

chopper command

river raid + manual

BMX airmaster(TNT)

laser blast

bridge+ manual

titlematch pro wrestling

dragster

winter games

rad action pack

freeway

hot action pak

venture

mega funpack

space shuttle+ manual

california games

wall defender(HES)

sports action pack

 

Hardware

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1x 2600 Jr

2x Light sixers

1x vader

3x paddles ( only one set functioning)

2x atari joysticks(both defunct, way too brittle)

1x TAC-2 controller( NOw this is a controller built like a tank)

 

 

Not bad huh and ove only been at it for 5 months..must have spent about $250AU on it all. Dunno where i pulled that kind of cash from

 

Just out of curiosity what game would you say is the rarest in my collection?

Edited November 3, 2006 by rheffera

[BassGuitari]

You've only been collecting for five months? Good Lord, that's a lot of games! I didn't have that many for at least a year or two of collecting. Very nice!

[jpfalcon2003]

awesome for 5 months. My 5 month starting point wasn't anywhere near that.

[Uzumaki]

Wow I'd be lucky if I saw that many different titles in a year, let alone in a few months like you did.

 

I know of one place that have about 100 2600 carts but who needs 20 Space Invaders, 20 Missle COmmands, 20 Pac Mans, etc when they won't go below a fiver each. There is another place I need to check out that *may* have many games but no idea yet.

 

Good job on your collection.

[+atari2600land]

I've been collecting for a year and I don't have nearly as many games as you do! Great job! (Where I live, Atari 2600 games are *very* hard to come by.)

[jboypacman]

Very nice collection for only 5 months much better than mine.Nice to see that the young kids our out there collecting.

[Ghost Soldier]

Nice collection completely blew by my collection.

[rheffera]

Thanks all. i also have a Crossbow, battlezone ( Red label), skatebordin, bomb wall defender, zaxxon, tutankham, 2 pack special, donkey kong, river raid 2 and Joust pending arrival in the mail A significantly large portion of my collection was found locally---one game store alone had somethingl ike 30 games which he sold to me at $2.50(AU) each, then when it all ran dry locally i used ebay.

Edited November 4, 2006 by rheffera

[madhatter667]

Damn, you've been busy. I only had about 20 atari games for about....16 years or so... then I decided that there was a lot more out there, and there really was no excuse for not collecting more. It would take me time to seriously post my collection (I have so far catalogued the games, and snapped some pics of them, but not hardware).

 

Looks like you're having fun. That's what matters the most.

[PressureCooker2600]

nice to have some of the younger generation appreciate the classics instead of bowing down to every new system that comes down the crapshoot

[JacobZu7zu7]

nice to have some of the younger generation appreciate the classics instead of bowing down to every new system that comes down the crapshoot

 

Yeah I agree. Well done reheffra.

I must admit I was very drawn to Atari 2600 back in 1991, when it was at

its least cool, and least valueable (so it seemed) there was no vintage then,

just old and new. New NES, was very popular and Atari was 50cents at a yard sale.

Too bad, these are mostly on eBay now.

But I REALLY like eBay, just not the shipping cost.

Keep on with the 80's gems!

[Foxsolo2000]

Hell of an achievement my friend, all that in just 5 months. Very nice

[rheffera]

Yeah i thought i did good..and i dont know where i pulled the cash from to get it all either but im glad i have em

[Foxsolo2000]

$250 AU dollars is still a ridicously cheap price for all that. I am almost envious of you

[Shroo-man]

Nice over 120 carts! Im 21 and have just bought 47 carts for $55 including shipping and there is around 5 or 6 doubles at least in there. I also live in Adelaide I'd jsut like to know what stores you go to find carts? I havent seen any in second hand shops Im planning on going to the Gepps Cross Market at one point if i can wake up early enough. I have some faded memories of being in year 1 or 2 and going to David Jones in the city and seeing Atari, NES and SNES games all on the shelves - those were the days!

[jpfalcon2003]

Up to 192 carts now. That's mostly for the 2600 and 7800 though. Only a few 5200 ones. My 7800 collection is completely boxed, and almost all of my 2600 collection is boxed as well.

[rheffera]

I got 90% of em from Gametraders stores and Cash converters... i got lots of stuff from interstate gametraders by using thier site to list all the 2600 stuff they got and then just e-mail the stores from there... i managed to find one store that had heaps and was selling at $5 each and had tons of rarities ( gameworld airlock) and only charged $5 for postage no matter what and the postage was express! great guy and he gave me a free gift with every purchase. only just recently have i begun pulling stuff off ebay( accounts for 10% of my collection)

[starwardude]

I've been collecting for a year and I don't have nearly as many games as you do! Great job! (Where I live, Atari 2600 games are *very* hard to come by.)

Sounds VERY familiar. Only one place that I know of that sells any old games. Everywhere else has at best N64 games agewise. Their collection is mostly very common games. Some fun ones, but they've got plenty of dead games (i think the previous owners purposely broke some of them- a Kool-Aid Man doesn't magically get a bunch of cuts at the connection edge through the plastic). Unfortunate really- some otherwise fun games wrecked.

 

 

EDIT: 11/15/06:

Well I just found out about an hour ago that that one place is no longer existant...Woo-hoo...

Edited November 15, 2006 by starwardude