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[thegoldenband]

My girlfriend bid on, and won, a lot on Shopgoodwill.com that had a 7800 console, a pair of TAC-2 joysticks, and a bunch of Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges. Total cost with shipping was a bit over $80. I've posted elsewhere about the 7800 items, but here's what we got for the 2600:

Sealed games:
Cruise Missile, Sea Hunt

CIB/boxed games:
Combat, Demon Attack (no manual), Space Invaders

The Combat is the "01 Combat" label variation, but the box isn't gatefold.

Loose NTSC games:
Nothing too exciting: Activision Decathlon, Atlantis, California Games, Combat x 2, Cruise Missile, Defender x 2, Donkey Kong (red label), Eggomania (flat case), Freeway, Frogs and Flies, Jungle Hunt, Missile Command, Moon Patrol, Ms. Pac-Man x 2, Pac-Man, Sea Hawk, Sea Hunt, Sky Jinks, Swordquest: Earthworld x 2, Swordquest: Fireworld, Task Force, Tennis, Venture

Loose PAL games (!):
Pete Rose Baseball (HES), two 8-in-1 SuperVision multicarts (pictured here, and also attached to this post)

Kind of a strange lot, eh? The loose carts filled a few gaps for me (I didn't have any Froggo games), and also gave me 6-8 carts to give to my family. The other doubles I'll probably trade away, and since I don't collect boxed games for the VCS, I'll find a home for those too.

BTW, I get the impression that sealed Froggo games aren't that valuable, compared to other titles of similar rarity? Is that correct? It's hilarious to look at the succession of markdown stickers on Sea Hunt -- it goes all the way down to $0.99.

The real oddity, though, is those PAL games. I wonder what on earth they were doing in this lot? Maybe they were just arbitrarily added in by the Goodwill folks, but somehow my guess is that it all came from the same source. One of the PAL multicarts actually seems to have five NTSC games -- or at least the games in question don't roll, and the colors look right. Does anyone else have these same multicarts? They weren't on Atarimania before I mentioned them in Rom Hunter's thread.

I'm also given to understand that the PAL version of Pete Rose Baseball is undumped, though it's not clear to me how much of that is due to rarity and how much is due to some technical reason.

Anyway, a strange bunch of games, but when you factor in the 7800 stuff I think we did well for $80.

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Edited by thegoldenband, Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:30 PM.

[thegoldenband]

BTW the games on the multicarts are:

2 River Raid                         6 Superman
1 Kangaroo I (Quick Step)            5 Star Master

3 Pirate (Save Our Ship)             7 Z-Tack (Mission 3,000 A.D.)
4 Sky Diver (Parachute)              8 Wizard of Wor

2 Soccer (Championship Soccer)*      6 Flash Gordon
5 Missle 3000 (Mission 3,000 A.D.)   1 Five Eagle (Tac-Scan)

3 Carnival*                          7 Screaming (Earth Dies Screaming)*
8 Gorl (Gorf)*                       4 Super Pinball (Video Pinball)*

* = screen doesn't roll and colors appear normal

Edited by thegoldenband, Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:29 PM.

[SlowCoder]

Thumbs up for either your girlfriend being willing to look for and bid on your hobby, or for joining in your hobby herself.

[boxpressed]

Nice finds. I gave up on shopgoodwill.com recently. It seems as though prices for stuff went at least 25% over what you'd find on eBay. Good cause, though, which might explain what seem to me to be higher prices.

[Philflound]

It's not odd to find PAL games in a lot. If someone ever came across my collection in the wild, they'd freak out with the variety.

Phil

[0078265317]

SlowCoder, on Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:45 PM, said:

Thumbs up for either your girlfriend being willing to look for and bid on your hobby, or for joining in your hobby herself.

Or even finding someone in the first place who likes video games and doesn't call it junk. Or make you get rid of everything and or sell it off.

[thegoldenband]

SlowCoder, on Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:45 PM, said:

Thumbs up for either your girlfriend being willing to look for and bid on your hobby, or for joining in your hobby herself.

Thanks! We're both fond of going to yard sales and flea markets, so the "thrill of the hunt" is definitely something we share. She grew up with Atari, as did I, and our tastes in video games are fairly similar (mostly 8- and 16-bit).

Philflound, on Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:52 PM, said:

It's not odd to find PAL games in a lot. If someone ever came across my collection in the wild, they'd freak out with the variety.

True enough, but I still like to think that all of this came from one person's collection, which makes me wonder about the PAL games (what did he do with them?) and the sealed Froggo games. Maybe he thought that $0.99 was just too good to pass up, so he bought sealed copies even though he already had the loose carts. Would that all of us had had such foresight when everything was getting marked down like crazy!

0078265317, on Mon Aug 15, 2011 1:10 AM, said:

Or even finding someone in the first place who likes video games and doesn't call it junk. Or make you get rid of everything and or sell it off.

Believe me, that wouldn't happen.

Edited by thegoldenband, Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:53 AM.

[Philflound]

I can play my PAL games because I have an older tv that has vertical hold.

Phil