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8/13/2017

Atari 2600 video game collection

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Atari 2600 game collectionMy Atari 2600 game collection display (needs work)
Most people know me and my site for vintage motorcycles, but I have another closet hobby, retro video games.

​Specifically the Atari 2600.  My collection stemmed, like a lot of peoples collections, from things from my childhood.  The one difference here is I was collecting for this particular system while they were still making some games for it.  To give you a time frame, the Nintendo Entertainment System was out in full force, Atari (as people knew it) was spiraling down with failed system after failed system.  I bought brand new games in the clearance bins for little more than a dollar.  Then the Super Nintendo came out, and Atari 2600 games found their second life at garage sales and flea markets.

I remember seeing boxes and boxes of Atari 2600 games littered across many flea market stands.  I would comb for hours sometimes through hundreds of cartridges and accessories that I didn't have.  The going rate for games in the early 90's... $0.25 to $1.00, yep.  I would pass on a stand if they were selling them for over $2, they just weren't worth it.  And this is well before even knowledgeable Atari 2600 players or the Atari Age website even started.  

I shudder to think the rare, or even prototype games I might have passed on because they were asking $3 or more for a game.  Hell loose NES games were going for $10 and that system was still relevant at the time. I don't have too many boxes for the games as the games I bought new off the shelf, well at the time when the system was still relevant, why would you keep the boxes?  It was the game and the manual that had any sort of value.  Boxes just took up room.  Hind sight is always 20/20.

​ I doubt I saw a T-handle Air Raid cartridge in those years, but it could be possible that I passed it over thinking it was for another system, doh!
Since the "internet age" began my collecting became more casual.  I only buy or collect a game or peripheral that I really intend to play with.  I never had the intention (even back then) to be a completionist or collect a "super rare" game just because it is "super rare".
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I also own a Panasonic 3DO, now there is a flop.

80s Atari VCS 2600 living room
Typical Atari 2600 gaming setup
More close ups from my Atari collection.  Below are some "Kids Stuff" 33 1/3 rpm 12in vinyl records that have a story and some songs centered around the Atari games Asteroids and Missile Command, not pictured but there is also a Yar's Revenge record as well.  I bought these on clearance in the late 80's brand new for $0.99 one still has the price tag on it.
Kids stuff Atari Vinyl records
Kids stuff Atari Missile Command vinyl record
Kids stuff Atari Asteroids vinyl record
Kids stuff Atari vinyl records
Below is some paper work I saved for a reason.  Atari customer order forms, game lists, and contact numbers for parts and service.  My have times changed.  Check it out Nintendo of America, Coleco?  Yes I called these numbers for either game help or ordering information.
Atari customer order form 1987
Atari customer order form
Atari customer service game list 1987
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