One hundred, ninety eight...
Well, who knew?
With all of the games I've been getting through AtariAge, plus a few used ones I was given by a friend of mine, my collection of Atari 2600 games has reached nearly 200 unique titles (from the 131 I originally had, back-in-the-day).
This is my 2600 Game List (36k PDF file - you'll need to zoom in to read it). It's sorted based on when I bought the games - as part of my original collection, or as a recent acquisition, with duplicates listed at the bottom.
Actually, I don't have all of them yet. I've got another batch coming from AtariAge (indicated in the list with *) when Albert gets the chance to build and send them, but with those, I'll be at 198.
Now, with even more homebrews planned for this year, that number will exceed 200 at some point. In the meantime, I've got a couple of purchases I'm looking to make...
Boxes for Adventures of Tron and Tron Deadly Discs. I bought these originally in the package with the Tron joystick, but they didn't have individual boxes for the games, and I threw out (yeah... I'm an idiot) the original box for the joystick. But, I still have the 'stick, the games and the manuals, so I figured the next best thing would be to just get boxes for those two games. (I'm not really interested in hunting down the original box for the joystick.) Now... Atari2600.com has boxed copies of both Adventures of and Deadly Discs, either as complete-in-box, or shrink-wrapped new-in-box. Not sure which way to go there, nor even if that's a good price. The thing is though, I don't get out to the game expos, so that's likely my best bet for acquiring them (unless I can find them through the marketplace forums).
I don't really consider myself a collector by any stretch of the imagination. But this is something that's bugged me since I bought those games almost 25 years ago. So I consider it tying up a loose end more than anything.
Of course, that doesn't get me to 200, since I'm just adding duplicates to my collection, for the sake of the boxes.
One game that would get me closer though, is Threshold. I'd like to get a complete-in-box version of that. I meant to, back-in-the-day, but bought Marauder instead (which I think is a pretty bad game). So that's another loose-end, but I'm not sure how I'd go about finding one of those. I managed to dig up various pieces for sale, but would rather just get the whole thing from one source. Getting a nice box will be tough, since the foil printing on Tigervision boxes wears out pretty badly.
The 200th would be Crazy Climber (again, complete-in-box), but I'm not going to pay that kind of money. But this is another loose-end, since I had the AtariAge magazine, with the form all filled out, to buy Crazy Climber back-in-the-day. Not sure why I didn't. Probably didn't have the $26.95.
If only I'd known...
Although, it has occurred to me to possibly swap this thing for it.
Anyway, the next thing I should probably do is put together a list of the games I have for other systems. Exactly why I should do this, is beyond me, but it seems to be the thing to do around here.
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