Sales of unearthed Atari games total more than $100,000

drlegendre . drlegendre at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 20:48:10 CDT 2015


Have the prices for 2600 E.T. carts climbed over the years, or is these
buyers paying a premium to own a "Genuine landfill ATARI E.T. game,
complete with certificate of authenticity" etc.?

Thing is, the article mentions only a few hundred carts. Rumor had it that
many thousands of carts were dumped, and realistically, such an operation
would never have been worth the while to dispose of only a few hundred, or
maybe a couple thousand carts.

Volumes like that could easily be crushed & ground-up. No need to drag
equipment out to the middle of the desert, just to dump a few hundred
pounds of junk.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
wrote:

> I was surprised to see the average cart price to be over $120!
>
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/29/sales-unearthed-atari-games-total-more-than-100000/?intcmp=hpbt4
>
> Lyle
> --
> Lyle Bickley
> Bickley Consulting West Inc.
> http://bickleywest.com
> "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
>


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