Atari cartridge sells for $31,000

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:18 pm

Holy crap!

Take a look at this auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0514343174

A copy of Air Raid for the Atari 2600 sold for $31,000!

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:27 pm

Still, at least there was free shipping.

Zeela · Post by **Zeela** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:48 am

Apparently the hard-core Atari-collectors really wanted it.

I think that it was a collector from AtariAge who won. In a thread over there they explain why it is so desirable. None of the collectors had even seen the box for it before this auction. That said, it still went for a ridiculous amount of money me thinks...

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:26 am

And it's only one of the most expensive games... Compared to these, Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash is cheap

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Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:37 am

In the end it came down to a fight between two collectors, and Jose won as usual

Mind you, I COULD have beaten him, given I have my redundancy payment forthcoming, but that wouldn't have been fair... and I would have needed a new job fairly quickly to cover the shortfall

Regards the Mount Drash article on Wiki, I note that whoever did it has reworded essentially parts of my Retro Gamer article heh...

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:13 pm

Which Jose?

Gag! I hate that I can only read one message at a time on AtariAge.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:21 pm

I forget his surname... Wonder007 on AA.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:27 pm

His AboutMe Profile says:

Got my EXTRA Air Raid, Atlantis 2 and Music Machine with instructions for SALE. Please PM for more information. Thanks!!