Jettgogaming

Yeah very cool find!

Absolutely a great deal! I'd go for that in a heartbeat. Is the retro shop selling the Vader willing to pull it out of the box and hook it up for you to prove it works? Atari 2600's are pretty resilient machines. In my experience they usually always work if they were well taken care of and not left in a humid shed or somewhere where the mice can chew the cables up. I'd buy it regardless and take the chance at that price.

So this topic is something that I do share a bit of contention about. I just read an article published in the most recent Game Informer (Issue 318 Oct 2019) and there is a story about Frank Cifaldi and what his non-profit, Video Game History Foundation is up to and what they hope to accomplish. There are a few things he says that really angered him to the point where he woke up and realized why he wanted to focus on video game preservation. To quote a few passages in the story. There was always friction between video game collectors and the people who wanted to share games online, and eventually things bubbled over for Cifaldi. "The next evolution for me was anger. Being angry at the gall of people having these like, goblin hoards of games that don't belong to them that they are controlling." He says. "Like the biggest collector back then was at a video game magazine that had been around back then was basically pilfering their archives. But you know, I was angry at the though of a person being a gatekeeper for work that they have nothing to do with." While I do understand what he is trying to say, I'm presuming Cifaldi is referring to unreleased and protos of games. Basically versions that were never released to the public. Here is where I disagree. Collectors are not bad people, and I sort of got angered by his comment that collectors are just hoarding games and not sharing them with the world. Second, the version of a game released to the public is the version that the programmer, developer, etc. WANTED to share with the world. The perfected version. If I rescue a proto of a game from a trash can, and lets say it's a one of a kind version that has never been shared with the world, if I decide NOT to dump the ROM and keep it in my collection does that make me selfish? Is proto and unreleased game ROM dumping something every collector of these sorts of things should feel obligated to do? And my next question is, if Cifaldi intends on making the history of gaming completely transparent to scholars, academics and journalists, is he going to charge a premium for this information? Because it sure looks like to me he would hope that "selfish collectors" would at least share their protos and unreleased games with the rest of the world. So if he is going to charge people for that information then I don't support what he's doing because it's hypocritical.

I couldn't agree with you more. Hoarding to me is slightly different however. For instance. I already own every model Atari 2600 from the Sears brand to the heavy sixer, light sixer, 4- switch, etc. but if I am out and about and I see a nice Atari in really good condition for a great price I will buy it. My thought process behind this the fact that I don't need another one, but down the road I could possibly use this one as a trade for something else I need, sell it, or replace it with one I have that is in less stellar condition. I also collect parts because I repair Ataris too. So "hording" to me is the inability to let go of anything you collect.

I own Q*Berts Qubes as well but for Colecovision. Isn’t the Atari version rarer?

My advice to you is to type in the Ebay search bar something similar to what you bought, such as "Tele-Games 4 Switch bundle" and then hit search. Once you've hit the search and you see all the active listings that come then up go back up to the right and to the right of the blue search bar you will see "advanced" click that. In the top section of advanced search you should see your search criteria you typed in but if you look down the list of advanced search options look for the following two options and check the boxes 1. Completed listings 2. Sold listings (it usually only lets you select one, but either one is fine) Once those two boxes are checked then scroll to the bottom and click the blue search box again. This time you will see a lot of prices in green, this means this is the actual price the item sold for. This should give you a good indication and ballpark of what people are willing to pay for your item.

Yeah, I would have scooped it up for that price as well. Loose it goes for around $25 USD bucks. So I'm assuming you got it for around $7 USD, nice find!

Anyone out there have a Crypts of Chaos CIB for the 2600 in good-to very good condition they want to part with?

Well looks like my unit is an MX-80! Not an FX-80. Here are some pics of it.

Gavin, I just might have one in my storage loft. I remember picking up a Apple II Plus last winter from a guy and it came with an Epson printer in really nice condition, and when I googled the FX-80 it looks just like the one I picked up, but I will double check and get back to you.

Thanks! Interesting, I'd be down to try what you said. I've programmed many Arduinos and I do own several Ataris so I believe I have the right gear to dump the ROMs! I'll look into this for sure and see what I can do.

I just found a Real Sports Baseball with the Promotional insert in it today! Was going to post it here but you beat me to it! ?

Rom Hunter, I actually have never dumped a ROM before....I'm very tech savvy so I'm pretty sure I could easily learn. However, do you have any links to reputable forum posts in AtariAge or elsewhere that shows me a rundown of what equipment/programs etc. I'd need to do so? Thanks.

There was also a Atari Loaner Cart in the box too!!

Today I bought a box of Atari odds and ends off a kid for $50. This was inside of a manila envelope stuffed in the box. Is this a legit Gravitar Prototype? I haven't been able to test yet, but I will and post pictures later today.

Thank you for the info!

Sorry for late reply! I don’t care about rips. I’d be interested. Do you have a pic?

How many junk carts are you needing? I can donate like ten if that helps. Let me know.

Very cool box variant. I have some boxed joysticks, but they are the more common silver boxes. I know some of the white boxes were used for Atari console "pack-ins" however they typically did not have pictures of the joysticks on the box, just text. Do you know if there is a CX40 or CX10 joystick in that box by chance?

Also found this thread....

I actually found this to be super helpful if anyone else is interested... https://lykos.net/majesco.html

Interesting, it would be highly doubtful you have three Lynx that all don't work. So it definitely has to be a battery issue. Have you checked out this thread....

I do know that you must have a game in the Lynx in order for it to work.....the first time I tried to fire up my Lynx I thought it was broken and not working but as soon as I put a game in it, it worked fine.