How cold Atari collecting is

[number six]

Thanks for the tip on the lynx II.  That's probably the one I'll get.  I don't have the Atari 800 either.  But finding room for the consoles is now a bit of a concern.  haha.  I have a couple duplicate 2600 carts that I was going to list on eBay, but when they only sell for a buck or two, it's just not worth the effort.

Yeah I think everyone has a box full of COMBAT, SPACE INVADERS and ETs propping up a door somewhere. Atari overproduced like no other company. You can still find even Lynx games by the score NIB for almost nothing.

[number six]

Mike scored a Pepsi Invaders cart here in Tallahassee from a local game store bin about two years ago. There's still good Atari stuff out there if you look.

I still can't believe he found that at a video game store in a post-ebay world. But that just shows you, most of these people running these shops are not familiar with the pre-NES era stuff.

[k7]

I still can't believe he found that at a video game store in a post-ebay world. But that just shows you, most of these people running these shops are not familiar with the pre-NES era stuff.

key is, I'm sure they checked eBay. no current or completed auctions.

3 bucks, in the bargain bin it went.



I go to auto auctions, and I'm the only person there looking for engine swaps.

when someone spent the $$$ to swap an engine, 98% that engine will be built up and nice.

[Mike McCarthy]

"Coke vs pepsi" probably didn't return any results on ebay

Sold it to a gent from the UK for $1050.00 shipped

In the last 6 months i've started buying up 2600/7800 carts. I'm up to about 200. now I need a battlezone cab to flesh out the gameroom 

[HammysHangout ( Hammy )]

I am more of an atari 8-bit+ type guy, i think the 2600/7800 games are just so horrible they are not worth trying to even play.

[number six]

"Coke vs pepsi" probably didn't return any results on ebay

Sold it to a gent from the UK for $1050.00 shipped

In the last 6 months i've started buying up 2600/7800 carts. I'm up to about 200. now I need a battlezone cab to flesh out the gameroom 

There's a few 2600 carts worth money.. but just think.. that Coke vs. Pepsi is a lot more rare than Stadium Events which is worth about $7k because its a NES game..

That was still an awesome pick up

[zenbone]

I love the 2600 and have a few systems and tons of games. I think the main reason they are so cold in the collecting market is the games are really primitive compared to the gens that followed. I am not saying every NES game out there is awesome but there was a big jump in game play and how games told stories as they played. Even drunk me gets quickly bored with the 2600 games of my youth.

[number six]

I love the 2600 and have a few systems and tons of games. I think the main reason they are so cold in the collecting market is the games are really primitive compared to the gens that followed. I am not saying every NES game out there is awesome but there was a big jump in game play and how games told stories as they played. Even drunk me gets quickly bored with the 2600 games of my youth.

Well that and people collect what they remember.. a lot of collectors are younger than the 2600 so there's no nostalgia there for them.

I like them all as I played everything from 2600 up, but i'll always have a soft spot for the pre-NES systems.

[Baiter]

I think the main reason they are so cold in the collecting market is the games are really primitive compared to the gens that followed.

Excellent description... I can't think of a single 2600 game that I would like to play today, the graphics and sound are a tad too primitive to be enjoyable.

[number six]

Excellent description... I can't think of a single 2600 game that I would like to play today, the graphics and sound are a tad too primitive to be enjoyable.

C'mon now.. even though they are simple there's still a lot of great 2600 games still worth playing.

[Marshall]

C'mon now.. even though they are simple there's still a lot of great 2600 games still worth playing.

Yar's Revenge
Activision's catalog
Combat is even fun. Best part about many of the games were the timers, which kept you coming back for one more round.

[zenbone]

oh, for sure there are lots of very fun Atari games! I didn't mean to sound so derogatory toward the system. I love the older stuff. The programmers for the Atari, intellivision and Coleco (and the likes) had to work with very constraining parameters and were actually creating a lot of the back end stuff themselves that never existed before. They pioneered what we call video games. It is only natural for the games and systems to get more and more robust as the media matured.