30 Aug
2015
30 Aug
'15
10:50 a.m.
what do you think the JOLT that the original Atari 2600 prototype was made
from would sell for?
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Jason Scott <jason at textfiles.com> wrote:
There are some really, really, really pedantic Atari
people who may correct
you on some of the details. Regardless, this is an extraordinarily silly
situation, akin to selling cut up squares of blankets from hotel rooms The
Beatles stayed in. I don't think it's wise to derive any conclusion or
insight into the whole situation.
As for authenticity, assume every single one is fake unless you
particularly dug it out of the earth.
On Aug 30, 2015 5:13 AM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:
was
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Bill
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On 2015-08-30 03:48, drlegendre . wrote:
> 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.
They (Atari) dumped/crushed approximately 700.000 games in the landfill.
They (interested people) recently excavated a small part, and recovered a
few hundred games. This is not related to how many were in there. Much rubble, and most was not excavated.
It was decided to auction off some of the games recovered to benefit the
local town in Mexico, if I remember right.
Johnny
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/29/sales-unearthed-atari-games-total-more…
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!
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> Lyle
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