Atari 8-Bit Collection For Sale

[Tempest]

I thought it would be easier to start a new topic as the old one has become muddled.

 

I've decided to sell off my entire Atari 8-bit collection. Everything is good shape except where noted. If there are multiple types of boxes (as with some of the Atari games) I've noted which one they are. Tapes and disks are untested as I no longer have a tape or disk drive to test them with but I'm fairly confident that everything should work. If you need a more detailed description of anything just ask. If the game is still on the list then it's still available.

 

Make me an offer for games or the whole collection.

 

 

At the moment I'm not looking for trades with the exception of:

Exidy Sorcerer games or hardware

Boxed Apple II/IIgs games

A super nice Tandy CoCo 3 setup (memory expansion, disk drive, etc.).

 

I'm using the usual CIB abbreviations to show what everything comes with. If the item is cartridge/tape/disk only there will be no code after it.

C= Cartridge/Cassette
D=Disk
I= Instructions
B=Box

 

Boxed Cartridges

3-D Tic-Tac-Toe (CIB)
Adventure Creator (CIB)
Airball (CIB)
Alien Ambush (CIB)
Alien Garden (CIB
Alpha Shield (CIB)
Archon (CIB)
Assembler Editor (CIB)
Asteroids (CIB
Astrochase (CIB)
Atarilab Light Module (CIB) - Box tab taped - Has all parts
Atariwriter (CIB)
Atlantis (CIB)
Ballblazer (CIB)
Barnyard Blaster (CIB)
Basketball (CIB)
Battle Zone (CIB)
Blue Max (CIB)
Buck Roger (CB) - no manual
Centipede (CIB)
Cloud Burst (CIB)
Computer War (CB) - no manual
Crime Buster (CIB)
Crossbow (CIB)
Dark Chambers (CIB)
Defender (CIB)
Delta Drawing (CIB)
Demon Attack (CIB)
Desert Falcon - CIB
Diamond Mine (CIB)
Donkey Kong (CIB) - XE Version
Donkey Kong (CIB) - Large Silver Box
Eastern Front (CB) - Large Silver Box, Cart has brown/black label
Eastern Front (CIB) - XE Box, Cart has brown case with XE label
Educational System Master Cartridge (CB) - Was there ever a manual with this?
ET Phone Home (CIB) - Small Silver Box, Cart has silver label
Fight Night (CIB)
Final Legacy (CIB) - Small Silver Box, Cart has silver label
Food Fight (CIB)
Fraction Fever (CIB) - Includes mini poster
Frogger (CIB)
GATO (CIB)
Hardball (CB) - No instructions. UPC torn off bottom of box
James Bond 007 (CB) - No manual
Journey to the Planets (CIB)
Joust (CIB) - Large Silver Box
Jumpman Junior (CIB) - Manual has tear
K-Razy Kritters (CIB)
K-Razy Shootout (CIB)
K-Star Patrol (CIB)
Kaboom (CB) - no manual
Kickback (CB) - no manual
Kids on Keys (CB) - no manual
Lode Runner (CIB) - Broderbund version
Mario Bros (CIB)
Math Encounter (CIB)
Midnight Magic (CB) - No manual. Box has ware
Millipede (CIB) - Large Silver Box
Missile command (CIB) - Box has wear on bottom
Monster Maze (CIB)
Mountain King (CIB)
Ms. Pac-Man (CIB) - Large Silver Box. Box has some crushing
Ms. Pac-Man (CIB) - Small Silver Box. Silver label with XE style case
Music Composer (CIB)
Necromancer (CIB)
One on One (CIB)
Orc Attack (CB) - No manual. Creative Sparks box
Pac-Man (CIB)
Pac-Man (CIB) - Small Silver Box. Cart has silver label.
Picnic Paranoia (CIB)
PILOT (CIB) - Oversized box, has some wear
Pitfall (CB) - No manual
Plattermania (CIB)
Pole Position (CIB) - Large Silver Box
Pole Position (CIB) - Small Silver Box. Cart has silver label and XE style case
Powerstar (CIB)
Q*Bert (CIB)
Qix (CIB) - Large Silver Box. Box has minor wear
Rescue on Fractalus (CIB)
River Raid (CB) - No manual
River Rescue (CB) - No manual
Robotron 2084 (CIB) - Large Silver Box with joystick holders
RS Football (CIB) - Large Silver Box
RS Tennis (CIB) - Small Silver Box. Cart has silver label.
Silicon Warrior (CIB)
Space Invaders (CIB) - Tab on bottom of box has rip
Space Journey (CIB)
Springer (CIB)
Star Raiders (CIB)
Star Raiders II (CIB)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (CIB)
Story Machine (CIB)
Submarine Commander (CIB)
Super Breakout (CIB)
Thunderfox CIB
Zaxxon (CIB) - Box hanger cut off
Zenji (CIB)

 

 

Loose Cartridges

Abracadabra
Alf in thew Color Cave
Alphabet Zoo - Has manual
Atari Word Processor - Silver label with red letters
Atarigraphics - Has manual
Baseball (In Home Software)
Beamrider
Big Bird's Funhouse
Big Bird's Special Delivery
Captain Beeble
Caverns of Mars
Centipede - Silver label
Chess
Chicken
Claim Jumper
Coconotes
Congo bongo
Crossfire - Brown label
Crystal Castles
Dance Fantasy - Has manual
Decathlon
Deluxe Invaders- Has manual
Des Chiffres Et Des Letters (Atari)
Dig Dug - Newer '5200' version
Dig Dug - Original version
Donkey Kong Junior - XE style case
Droids
E.T. Phone Home
Educational System Master Cartridge - Dorsett label
Embargo
Ernie's Magic Shapes
Fantastic Voyage
Fast Eddie
Final Legacy - 1984 style label
Final Orbit
Fortune Hunter
Frogger II - Threedeep
Fun with Art
Galaxian - Has manual
Gorf (CI) - no box
Gridrunner
Gyruss
Halftime Battlin' Bands - Has manual
HERO
In-Store Demo Cartridge
Joust - Has manual. XE style case
Jumbo Jet Pilot - Has manual
Jungle Hunt - XE style case
K-Razy Antiks - Has manual
K-Razy Shootout - K*Byte Version. Has manual
Keystone Kapers
Kindercomp
Letter-Go-Round
Linking Logic
Logic Levels
Major League Hockey
Math Mileage
MegaMania
Memory Manor
Miner 2049er - Blue label
Miner 2049er - Silver label. Has manual
Movie Musical Madness
Mr. Cool
Mr. TNT
Nightstrike
Ozzy's Orchard
Peanut Butter Panic
Pitstop - Grip style case
Pitstop - Regular style case
Pool 400
Popeye - Has manual
Protector II
Rally Speedwwat
RealSportsTennis - Label has TENNIS in all caps
Serpentine (Broderbund)
Shamus
Slime
Soccer
Space Shuttle
Speedway Blaster
Spider City - Has manual
Spy Hunter
Squish Em
Star Raiders - Star Raider typo
Star Trek - Includes joystick overlay
Star Wars: The Arcade Game
Super Cobra
Telelink II
Track & Field - Minor label wear. Includes controller
Tumoil - Has manual
Up For Grabs
Up n Down
Wizard of Wor
Worm War I
XE Demo Cartridge
Zone Ranger

 

Disks

Archon II: Adept - Disk warped
Atari Planetarium (DIB)
Atari Word Processor (DIB)
Atariwriter 80 (DIB)
Atariwriter Plus (DIB) - Price sticker on front ($79.95!)
Basic XE Extension Disk
Bond Analysis (DIB)
Combat Leader
Crypts of Plumbous (DIB)
DOS 2.5
DOS 2.5 - Text Crossed out label
DOS XE Master Diskette
Family Finances (DB) - No Manual
Hellfire Warrior (DIB)
Home Filing Manager (DB) - Missing Manual
Lode Runner (DIB)
Macro Assembler (DIB)
Music Painter (DIB)
Paint (DIB)
Realm of Impossibility
Starcross
Stock Analysis (DIB)
Stock Charting (DIB)
SX Express (DIB)
The Bookkeeper (DIB)
The Seven Cities of Gold
Timewise (DIB)
Wargames (DIB)
Wishbringer (DIB) - missing stone
Zork I

Cassettes

Apple Panic (CB) - No manual
APX - Calculus Demon
APX - Eastern Front 1941
Atari Educational System: Basic Algebra (CIB)
Atari Educational System: Principles of Economics (CIB)
Atari Educational System: U.S. History (CIB)
Atari Speed Reading (CIB)
Aztec Challenge - Box only
Big Math Attack (CI) - No box
Biorhythm
Blackjack (CIB)
Canyon Bomber (CIB)
Conversational French (CIB)
Conversational German (CIB)
Conversational Italian (CIB)
Conversational Spanish (CIB)
Crush, Crumble, and Chomp! (CIB)
Curse of Ra (CIB) - Box not in the best shape
Danger in Drindisti (CIB)
Darts (CIB)
Datestones of Ryn (CIB)
Energy Czar
European Countries & Capitals (CIB)
Graph It
Hangman (CIB)
Home Financial Management (CIB)
Invitation to Programming 2
Invitation to Programming 2 - Second tape only. Has later silver style label.
Invitation to Programming 3 (CIB)
Invitation to Programming I (CIB)
Invitation to Programming I - Box only. Name of program is on a sticker instead of printed on box (see picture)
Juggles Rainbow (CIB) - box has major tear on back, missing bottom tab
Jumpman (CIB)
King Arthur's Heir (CIB) - Box is in mint condition. Cassette version previously thought not to have been released.
Kingdom (CIB)
Mailing List (CIB)
Mortgage & Loan Analysis
PILOT Programs for Children
Pool (CIB)
Rescue at Rigel (CIB)
SCRAM (CI) - No box
Space Invaders (CIB)
States and Capitals (CIB)
Statistics I (CIB) - Box has some wear
Temple of Aphsai (CIB)
The Keys of Acheron (CIB) - Box is in mint shape
Touch Typing (CIB)
Upper Reaches of Apshai (CIB) - Box not in the best shape
Zaxxon (CIB) - Datasoft version

 

Box/Manual Only

Eastern Front (B) - Box only. Medium sized silver box. Box has minor crushing
Forbidden Forest - Box only
Frogger (IB) - Sierra version. Missing cassette. Bottom box flap unglued.
Home Filing Manager - Box Only
Juice (IB) - Missing disk
Master Diskette II (IB) - Missing disk
MULE - Box only
Pac-Man (B) - Box only. Original 'humanoid pac-man' Style Box (top has tape)
Pharaoh's Curse - Box only
Pinball Construction Set - Box only
Race in Space (IB) - Missing cassette
Rainbow Walker - Box only
RS Football (B) - Box only. Small Silver Box with no top and scratches (bad shape)
Shadow World (IB) – Box and Manual only. Top box flap has some damage
Summer Games - Box only
Worms (box only)

 

Other

Atari 800 16K Memory (CIB)
Atari 810 Box of 5 Diskettes (CIB)

 

 

 

Atari Boxed Games

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tempest]

Parker Brothers Games

 

 

 

 

Activision Games

 

 

 

CBS Games

 

 

 

 

Epyx Games

 

 

 

 

 

Roklan and Others

 

 

 

 

Sega, Imagic, and Dana Games

 

 

 

Sirius Games

 

 

 

Spinnaker Games

 

 

 

Synapse Games

 

 

 

Thorn EMI Games

 

 

 

Loose Cartridges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tapes

 

 

 

 

[rgrocha]

I'm interestested, pending individual prices, in:

 

Boxed Cartridges

• Telelink I (CIB) - Small box. Manuals are larger than box.
• Atarilab Light Module (CIB) - Box tab taped - Has all parts

Disk

• My First Alphabet (DIB) - Box crashed. Bottom flap has tear
• Atari Word Processor Demonstration Kit (DIB)

Cassettes

• Atari Educational System: Physics (CIB) - Box has water damage
• Atari Educational System: Spelling (CIB)
• Invitation to Programming I - Box only. Name of program is on a sticker instead of printed on box (see picture0
• Juggles House (CIB)
• Juggles Rainbow (CIB) - box has major tear on back, missing bottom tab

Thank you

[Tempest]

Sorry everyone, I'm going to have to put splitting up the collection on hold for a bit due to some medical issues (my wife, not me). I just don't have the time to price everything out at the moment. The collection as a whole is still up for grabs though.

[rgrocha]

Don't need to apologize, family&health first!

 

Best wishes for your wife

[dakidski]

I've got two nice Apple iMac G5's. Any interest?

[Tempest]

I've got two nice Apple iMac G5's. Any interest?

No, only because OS 10.5 is as far as PowerPC Macs can go.

[Place Logo Here]

Very, very sorry to hear about the health issues. Wishing you and your wife the best.

 

Also wanted to say those early Atari boxes have some beautiful artwork on them. I still remember back when I was a kid and those monstrous boxes with great art always drew me in and then I was baffled every time by how small the cartridge was. Definitely not the era of environmentally-conscious packaging!

[Tempest]

Very, very sorry to hear about the health issues. Wishing you and your wife the best.

 

Also wanted to say those early Atari boxes have some beautiful artwork on them. I still remember back when I was a kid and those monstrous boxes with great art always drew me in and then I was baffled every time by how small the cartridge was. Definitely not the era of environmentally-conscious packaging!

 

Thanks. She's on the mend so it shouldn't be much longer.

 

I always assumed it was for security as those 8-bit carts are small enough to shove in a pocket. But then again it could have been to make them look more professional since they were for the computer rather than a game system like the 2600.

[eightbit]

That is quite a collection. Good luck with everything my friend.

Edited August 2, 2016 by eightbit

[Tempest]

Update: My wife is doing better, but some other life related stuff has come up. Hopefully I'll be able to get to pricing stuff out by the end of the month, but not promises. For the time being the BIN price is still valid though.

[Tempest]

I haven't forgotten about this. My wife is just about back to normal, so I've been doing some price research. I'm running into problems though since I can't find a good source for prices. Most of the time I either find loose games (boxes and manuals tend to add a bunch to the value) or BIN prices which don't represent the actual value (a $50 game selling for $5 on a BIN doesn't make it a $5 game or vice versa).

 

Other than ebay, what is a good place to get some price info? I want to be fair and not rip anyone off, but I also don't want to be ripped off myself.

[Retro STrife]

First off, very nice collection. I just got an Atari XEGS a few months back, so I'm in the market for games like these. Archon, for example, is a game I've been looking for.

 

As for your question about pricing....it's tough, because most pricing guides are either outdated (like the Digital Press guides) or don't adequately cover the 8-bit Atari stuff. Ebay is still the best bet, but how about Pricecharting.com? If you haven't used it, it's a great site for estimating game prices, because it aggregates the sales history on Ebay and Amazon to come up with an estimated price. It's generally very accurate, except for rare games that don't pop up often enough to get an aggregate price. One other problem is that it focuses mostly on the NES and later video game systems, so it's coverage of older games is more limited (especially older computers). But it does cover some Atari 400/800 stuff, so worth checking out at least. And usually much faster than using ebay to come up with prices.

[Tempest]

I'll check that out, but just glancing at it there are issues. Check out Mario Bros for example:

 

https://www.pricecharting.com/game/atari-400/mario-bros

 

We all know this is hard one to find. $51 loose sounds about right, but $7.50 complete? Sounds like there was a mismarked BIN or something. It's more like $140 complete.

[Goochman]

Tempest - instead of dragging this out another year I would suggest pricing each object for what you'd be happy to let it go for. That will give a starting point to negotiate. Someone will snap it up for that price or after a week someone will offer less.

 

My $0.02

[Tempest]

Tempest - instead of dragging this out another year I would suggest pricing each object for what you'd be happy to let it go for. That will give a starting point to negotiate. Someone will snap it up for that price or after a week someone will offer less.

 

My $0.02

 

That was my plan, but I need to figure out a base price first. I don't know what my 'happy price' is quite honestly. I just know some games are rarer than others.

[Retro STrife]

I'll check that out, but just glancing at it there are issues. Check out Mario Bros for example:

 

https://www.pricecharting.com/game/atari-400/mario-bros

 

We all know this is hard one to find. $51 loose sounds about right, but $7.50 complete? Sounds like there was a mismarked BIN or something. It's more like $140 complete.

 

 

Yes, that one would fall into the exception... games that don't show up enough to get a true aggregate price. If you click to look at the individual sales, you can see that the game bringing it down is a 7800 version of Mario Bros that is missplaced with the computer version...it sold for $7.50. So you have to account for that and try to "manually" correct the price based on the other sales data available.

 

But one of the cool things about PriceCharting is it goes back much further than ebay. So while you can only see the past few months of sold items on ebay, you can see the final sale price for the last few years on PriceCharting. For a common game, going that far back is unnecessary, but it's great for super rare games that only pop up once every few months on ebay. To your point, though, the site has its flaws, but it's definitely a great resource to keep handy in the right spots. I like to use it at flea markets, yard sales, etc. too, because it's much faster than ebay for looking up a stack of games that I'm unfamiliar with.

[Tempest]

Ok I'll play around with that and see what it says. At least I can get a rough idea and go from there.

[Tempest]

Updated the first thread to remove the Mac Mini from my want list. I got my Hackintosh up and running so I no longer need it.

[MegaManFan]

Brother if I had both the money to buy it and the SPACE (which is even more difficult to come by) I'd take the lot in one swoop. Alas there's no room in the inn or in the manger. It's a beautiful collection though! BTW it was your post on FB that tipped me off to come read the thread.

[Deadman]

Wow, fantastic collection. 15 year old me is going NUTS right now just looking back over all of this goodness. I have a pretty decent Atari 400/800 collection but am drooling at the thought of being able to have all of this at one time. But my guess is that the asking price will be well beyond what my wife thinks is a good deal. I also was directed here from Facebook.

[Tempest]

Brother if I had both the money to buy it and the SPACE (which is even more difficult to come by) I'd take the lot in one swoop. Alas there's no room in the inn or in the manger. It's a beautiful collection though! BTW it was your post on FB that tipped me off to come read the thread.

 

Lack of space is one of the main reasons I'm selling it. I just don't have the room for it anymore and I'd rather use that space to set up more systems (my poor Coleco Adam is just sitting on the floor at the moment).

 

This is a great collection if you want to jump into 8-bit stuff. This will get you pretty close to a complete game cartridge collection with many boxes.

 

 

Wow, fantastic collection. 15 year old me is going NUTS right now just looking back over all of this goodness. I have a pretty decent Atari 400/800 collection but am drooling at the thought of being able to have all of this at one time. But my guess is that the asking price will be well beyond what my wife thinks is a good deal. I also was directed here from Facebook.

 

Feel free to make an offer if you want. Worst I can do is say no (you can't hear me derisively laugh at you through a PM)

[Atari8bitCarts]

 

This is a great collection if you want to jump into 8-bit stuff. This will get you pretty close to a complete game cartridge collection with many boxes.

 

 

"Close to a complete game cartridge collection" meaning?

There are more than 452 production Atari 8-bit cartridges.

I think you list ~100-150.

[Tempest]

Does that include utility and productivity carts? I was only talking about games. NTSC games.

 

I might be wrong but last I checked (and that was some time ago), I wasn't missing many game carts. Of course I've sold some since then and a few may have been discovered since then.

[Atari8bitCarts]

Does that include utility and productivity carts? I was only talking about games. NTSC games.

 

I might be wrong but last I checked (and that was some time ago), I wasn't missing many game carts. Of course I've sold some since then and a few may have been discovered since then.

 

Here's the list I maintain, though there have been a couple more found since this version.

It includes all production cartridges, available for sale by a company.

It does not include the homebrews, distributor releases, and utility project carts.

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/210745-cartridge-list-for-the-atari-8-bit-computers-400800xlxe-computers/page-1

 

In the last 8 years many have come out, mostly due to the cartridge market bubble in 2009-2010.

 

For games, I put cart type into categories, some of those might not be correct but should be close.