Man Sells Old $5-$10 Atari 2600 Game for $31,600

[christopherknapp]

Why not just use an Emulator?

 

[mjpereira76]

Apparently people confuse Air Raider (rare) with Air Raiders (not so rare). Read more about it at the following, includes a picture of the cartridge which is pretty interesting:

http/www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=972

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]One day, I will find that landfill in New Mexico and I will dig myself some copies. If I'm lucky, Imight find some in playing conditions. Then I will advertise myself as the owner of the most copies of the crappiest game ever made. Ever.[/citation]

Even the new copies weren't in 'playing condition'. Seriously, I actually playing it for about 10 minutes a couple weeks ago and that game makes no sense.

 

[miloo]

31Gs, for sure he is taking the crack while he biding~
ROMs everywhere mate ~

 

[miloo]

31Gs, for sure he is taking crack while he biding~
Roms everywhere mate~

 

[HalJordan]

But was there MJ in the game packaging?

 

[cletus_slackjawd]

This is a great story but I have to disagree with the $5-$10 price for the cart. If he bought it new, it would have been $40-$50. Atari games sold for a premimum back in the day.

 

[sliem]

Did the seller test the game before selling? I bet not.
The buyer could swap the inside of the cartridge with a broken or something else and claim a dispute. Then gets his/her money back and resell it with different eBay userid. Quick cash.

 

[mavroxur]

[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]Most people won't get this and just laugh this off as some level of ignorance to stupidity but to a collector it doesn't have to be the best thing out there it is rarity and condition that counts. Congratulations to the lucky individual who bought this and even more so with intact packaging.[/citation]


You, sir, get a thumbs up from me. A lot of people dont seem to understand this. Just like with old collectable CPU's. A ceramic & gold Intel 4004 will bring thousands on eBay, yet people still go "ZOMGWTF it can't even play Crysis!!"

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]mavroxur[/nom]You, sir, get a thumbs up from me. A lot of people dont seem to understand this. Just like with old collectable CPU's. A ceramic & gold Intel 4004 will bring thousands on eBay, yet people still go "ZOMGWTF it can't even play Crysis!!"[/citation]

I will just never understand the whole idea of 'collectibles'. I actually worked in the auction industry for 6 years and saw the money people will spend on old comics, movie posters, etc. Sure, it would be kinda cool to have a Storm Trooper costume from New Hope, but spending tens of thousands of dollars on anything that is basically just a conversation piece doesn't make sense to me. Art is the same way.

 

[mavroxur]

[citation][nom]gm0n3y[/nom]I will just never understand the whole idea of 'collectibles'. I actually worked in the auction industry for 6 years and saw the money people will spend on old comics, movie posters, etc. Sure, it would be kinda cool to have a Storm Trooper costume from New Hope, but spending tens of thousands of dollars on anything that is basically just a conversation piece doesn't make sense to me. Art is the same way.[/citation]



I guess it's just how you are. I like nice, new, shiny things too, But it's hard to have a conversation piece that you can go buy at Best Buy tomorrow. Sure, you just bought a giant lcd tv..... and so did millions of other people in the world.


I do love giant lcd tv's though, don't get me wrong.

 

[Guest]

damn he got lucky. I wish I had anything from then. I know I had stadium events when I was younger. Sadly it was torched when our house caught fire...

 

[neokaer]

That said I'm holding on to MVC2 for a few more years.

 

[pftsantiago]

i have an atari and selling it as well but JESUS who wants to give me that amount. I have about 30 games And 4 joysticks