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Title: A good day Post by: Rejinx on April 12, 2006, 09:26:32 PM I haven't been collecting long, but today was my best day so far. It started with me winning a VBoy on Ebay for 16 bucks, then I went check the mail and my WonderSwan had come in. Cool little portable, I wish it was released in america. After that I had to make a run to the store so I stopped in at my local Goodwill, I try to stop in every two or three days, and there it was a box full of Atari 2600 games for 59 cents a piece and about 6 or 7 manuals. SCORE. I grabed the box and took it to the counter.
I picked up: 3D Tic-Tac-Toe Asteroids Backgammon BASIC Programming Basketball Blackjack Bowling Casino Championship Soccer and manual Circus Atari Combat and manual Dodge 'Em Flag Capture and manual Hangman Home Run and manual Indy 500 and manual Maze Craze: A Game of Cops ‘n Robbers Miniature Golf Sky Diver and manual Video Chess Nothing rare but I guess manuals for the 2600 are hard to come by and they are in perfect shape. All in all, a great collecting day. Title: Re: A good day Post by: wrldstrman on April 12, 2006, 10:29:19 PM good score on the atari games especially at goodwill
Title: Re: A good day Post by: atari_wizard on April 13, 2006, 04:07:00 AM Nice! Atari scores are getting less and less common in thrifts. The manuals are indeed hard as hell to find, but still very affordable for most. Is the flag capture the atari picture label? If so, that is very tuff to find.....if its just the text version, it's a rarity 4.
Title: Re: A good day Post by: Izret101 on April 13, 2006, 04:43:09 AM Cograts!
At .59$ you can't beat a find like that. Especially i you end up having that picture label variant. Title: Re: A good day Post by: den68 on April 13, 2006, 05:05:31 AM nice score! and be careful with that Virtual Boy. if you play that too much you'll go blind.
Title: Re: A good day Post by: Rejinx on April 13, 2006, 07:10:00 AM Its the text Flag Capture and DP shows it as aR2. If the DP values are trustworthy then the pick of the lot is Miniature Golf, a R4 worth $10.
Title: Re: A good day Post by: Izret101 on April 13, 2006, 07:26:10 AM DP is hit or miss.
It is my experience that they are usually miss. Since they are approximate values and they cannot update all of the games nearly as fast as prices may fluxuate up or down. It is possibly the best source on the web though in terms of rarity guides as it stands now though. Though for Atari stuff i would go more with AA seeing as that IS there specialty and they have more variations and such listed more accurately. Title: Re: A good day Post by: Speedy_NES on April 13, 2006, 10:41:44 AM Great finds man!
Title: Re: A good day Post by: JWKobayashi on April 13, 2006, 10:58:36 AM Hell yeah, good find!
I've never really hit up any thrifts around here. I've been wanting to, and I think this'll be the thing that makes me just go start it. Title: Re: A good day Post by: shaggy on April 13, 2006, 12:05:21 PM Very nice find. Congrads!!
Title: Re: A good day Post by: Rejinx on April 13, 2006, 09:10:03 PM I went back today and talked to the guy in the back of the store. He found the manuals to the rest of the games in the back plus A Atari 2600 manual and 2 small Atari catalogs. He gave them all to me for free. I must say that ruled.
Title: Re: A good day Post by: Ackman on April 14, 2006, 03:56:04 AM Great found.
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