milk crate of atari 2600 games

[kisrael]

Bleh. I'm trying to declutter. I have a milk crate's worth of atari 2600 games that I"m trying to get rid of:

 

Unfortunately, a fair amount of actiplague. WHen I made this list, I think * means there's a manual, and ^ means I couldn't actually get it to work.

 

At this point I'm basically willing to say free to a good home. I wouldn't mind cash but right now this stuff just isn't paying its rent-- I cherry picked the games I really dig, and the multiplayer ones, out. Still some great gaming in there.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

ACTIVISION

Crackpots

Decathalon

Dolphin

Dragster

Enduro

Frostbite

Grand Prix

H.E.R.O.

Kung-Fu Master

Laser Blast*

Megamania

Pitfall!

Pitfall II

Pressure Cooker

River Raid II*

Seaquest

Seaquest

Sky Jinks

Spider Fighter*

 

ATARI

Air Sea Battle

Asteroids*

Blackjack

Breakout

Casino

Centipede

Circus Atari

Crystal Castles*

Defender*

Demons to Diamonds

Dig Dug

Dodge 'Em

E.T.

Football

Galaxian*

Galaxian

Golf

Hangman

Haunted House

Home Run

Hunt & Score

Jr. Pac-Man*

Kangaroo*

Krull

Midnight Magic*

Millipede

Missile Command*

Night Driver

Othello

Pac-Man

Phoenix

Raiders of the Lost Ark*

RealSports Baseball*

RealSports Boxing

RealSports Soccer

Solaris*

Space Invaders*

Star Raiders

Star Ship

Super Breakout*

Super Football*

Superman

Swordquest Earthworld

Target Fun

Vanguard

Venture*

Video Chess

Video Pinball

Yar's Revenge

 

SEGA

Buck Rogers ^

Star Trek

Tac-Scan

Thunderground

 

COLECO

Carnival

Donkey Kong

Mouse Trap

Mr. Do!

 

CBS

Blue Print

Gorf

Omega Race

 

EPYX

California Games*

Winter Games*

 

GAMES BY APOLLO

Lost Luggage

Raquetball

Space Cavern*

 

IMAGIC

Atlantic

Demon Attack*

Dragonfire

Fire Fighter

Solar Storm

Star Voyager*

 

FROGGO

Sea Hunt

 

XONOX

Artillery Duel ^/ Chuck Norris

 

M NETWORK

Adventures of Tron

Astroblast

Bump'N'Jump

Dark Cavern

He-Man

International Soccer

Lock'N'Chase

 

20TH CENTURY FOX

Deadly Duck

Flash Gordon

M*A*S*H

Porky's

Turmoil

Worm War I

 

ABSOLUTE

Title Match Pro-Wrestling

 

MYTHICON

Fire Fly

 

US GAMES

Commando Raid*

Name This Game

Piece O' Cake

Sneak'n Peek

Space Jockey

Squeeze Box

Towering Inferno

 

PARKER BROTHERS

Amidar

Frogger

Popeye

Q*bert*

Return of the Jedi

Spider-Man

Super Cobra*

[ninermaniac]

PM sent.

[kisrael]

I didn't quite mean for this to be a "bidding" thing, but a few people have done that by PM.

 

Possibly I underestimated the value of this.

 

Part of my reason for aiming local was after talking to UPS (I'm kind of a shipping n00b) it seemed like costs were going to be high, like in the $30-50 range.

 

So my thinking is this: I'm willing not to take this to Ebay or the marketplace forum here. It will be an accidental "hidden gem" of peopel who pay attention to the NECG forum

 

Currently I guess I have a "high bid" of $50 + shipping. I need people to be happy w/ the honor system on shipping; it's still a bit of a question mark, and I'm willing to do whatever the buyer wants me to do.

 

Let me re-iterate, the condition of these carts is a bit mediocre, I tested 'em though (w/ alcohol on cotton swabs) and only the ones marked with the ^ don't work at all. But some are missing labels, there's a fair amount of actiplague, and only the ones w/ * have manuals.

 

So I guess PM me by end of day (Tuesday the 4th) if you want to bid higher, or for the person who put in the bid, if they don't feel like they know what they're getting themselves into :-) I'll post higher bids here.

 

Sorry to NECGers for highjacking the forum a bit, my intentions were good I swear.

[TheDentist]

I commend you. I wish I could de-clutter, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of any of my games. I really hate myslef.

[kisrael]

I commend you. I wish I could de-clutter, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of any of my games. I really hate myslef.

Well, the stuff was going unplayed for years. Most of it is around via emulator. And my main concern was preserving the multiplayer stuff, and the standout "cool" stuff like Battlezone and Gyruss.

[homerwannabee]

I commend you. I wish I could de-clutter, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of any of my games. I really hate myslef.

Well, the stuff was going unplayed for years. Most of it is around via emulator. And my main concern was preserving the multiplayer stuff, and the standout "cool" stuff like Battlezone and Gyruss.

You do have over 117 different games. This as a lot on Ebay would go anywhere from $100 to $150 plus shipping. You also have a couple of rarer games that might push this lot nearer to the $150 side of things.

Edited December 5, 2007 by homerwannabee

[kisrael]

I commend you. I wish I could de-clutter, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of any of my games. I really hate myslef.

Well, the stuff was going unplayed for years. Most of it is around via emulator. And my main concern was preserving the multiplayer stuff, and the standout "cool" stuff like Battlezone and Gyruss.

You do have over 117 different games. This as a lot on Ebay would go anywhere from $100 to $150 plus shipping. You also have a couple of rarer games that might push this lot nearer to the $150 side of things.

Well, NECG has a tradition of incredible bargains for people who bother to show up, and are still in collecting mode. I don't mind carrying that tradition forward.

[phaxda]

Wish I was still in the Boston area!

 

Best of luck with the sale--there are some great games in there!

 

I commend you. I wish I could de-clutter, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of any of my games. I really hate myslef.

Well, the stuff was going unplayed for years. Most of it is around via emulator. And my main concern was preserving the multiplayer stuff, and the standout "cool" stuff like Battlezone and Gyruss.

You do have over 117 different games. This as a lot on Ebay would go anywhere from $100 to $150 plus shipping. You also have a couple of rarer games that might push this lot nearer to the $150 side of things.

Well, NECG has a tradition of incredible bargains for people who bother to show up, and are still in collecting mode. I don't mind carrying that tradition forward.

[zeitshabba]

I commend you. I wish I could de-clutter, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of any of my games. I really hate myslef.

Well, the stuff was going unplayed for years. Most of it is around via emulator. And my main concern was preserving the multiplayer stuff, and the standout "cool" stuff like Battlezone and Gyruss.

You do have over 117 different games. This as a lot on Ebay would go anywhere from $100 to $150 plus shipping. You also have a couple of rarer games that might push this lot nearer to the $150 side of things.

Well, NECG has a tradition of incredible bargains for people who bother to show up, and are still in collecting mode. I don't mind carrying that tradition forward.

I would make a reasonable offer for the whole lot, but I'd rather see it going to someone who is building a personal collection - that is a great lot you have. My purposes for making an offer would result in the destruction of the finest label Atari games and the resale of the poor label and third party games - this collection/offer deserves a better ending than the one I would provide.

[kisrael]

Well, NECG has a tradition of incredible bargains for people who bother to show up, and are still in collecting mode. I don't mind carrying that tradition forward.

I would make a reasonable offer for the whole lot, but I'd rather see it going to someone who is building a personal collection - that is a great lot you have. My purposes for making an offer would result in the destruction of the finest label Atari games and the resale of the poor label and third party games - this collection/offer deserves a better ending than the one I would provide.

At this point it's a fait accompli. I think they ended up about as you suggested, as the base of a collection.

 

It's kind of a farewell to childhood, about 2/3 of those I had growing up.

 

It's also a bit of a farewell to a certain type of collecting. I've never been much of a collector for its own sake, though, just out for games to play. And I've already been through stuff like 2600 Spy Hunter, Pengo, and even a Vectrex. The Vectrex I regret, a little, sometimes, just because it was such a neat idea.