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Post by Rapetou33 on Dec 12, 2015 16:12:08 GMT -5
Some "new old stock" video games for intellivision and atari are often appearing on ebay. They're like new, sometimes sealed and coming from countries like Italy or Venezuelia. I suppose these are not original ; but as I find no info or claim about them, I would like to get your opinion.
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Post by gliptitude on Dec 12, 2015 17:29:43 GMT -5
I bought a new old stock and sealed Secret Quest for 2600 from a US seller a year or two ago. It was not very expensive and he had a few others for sale including Gravitar for 2600, multiple copies of each game I think with reasonable "buy it now" prices. It seemed legit and i think they were regular US releases.
.. I'm not sure if these are exactly what you are refering to though. Secret Quest was a very late publication, 1988 i think, which is TWO YEARS AFTER THE FIRST ZELDA GAME (i think)! So I imagine there were a lot of unsold stock of that game and whatever others they were selling towards the end of the Atari 2600's retail life. .. I think a lot of the games issued or reissued towards the end came in a red or maroon colored box. The Secret Quest i bought was in the red box, as well as Gravitar and others the guy was selling. I have a Pole Position in that type of box.
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Post by Mayhem on Dec 12, 2015 19:12:07 GMT -5
Some "new old stock" video games for intellivision and atari are often appearing on ebay. They're like new, sometimes sealed and coming from countries like Italy or Venezuelia. I suppose these are not original ; but as I find no info or claim about them, I would like to get your opinion. They are original. I've ordered some titles from Venezuela, and they've been genuine. The long story cut short version here is that towards the end of the first videogame era in the US, when "the great videogame crash" was occurring in 83-84, distributors were dumping stock into South America to get rid of it fairly cheaply, and the consoles didn't really have the same lifespan as transpired in North America. People are still turning up dumped stock to this day as warehouses are cleared out and sold off.
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Post by Rapetou33 on Dec 13, 2015 9:05:18 GMT -5
Thank you to both of you for these explanation
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Post by Mayhem on Dec 13, 2015 9:37:17 GMT -5
No worries. A number of supposedly harder to find late Atari titles such as Motor Rodeo and BMX Airmaster have had their rarities slashed due to the stock coming out of South America for example. I think both of them used to be an 8 out of 10, now they are down to 4 or 5.
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Post by VectorX on Dec 13, 2015 12:50:16 GMT -5
^On a slightly different note, I've wondered if that would eventually happen with Mr. Boston, as I doubt only like 10 of those were made ever. It seems like more than that were made and they could be sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
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Post by Mayhem on Dec 13, 2015 16:06:30 GMT -5
Or quite possibly like Coke Wins for the 2600, and many of them ended up in the hands of employees, just sitting somewhere in a box at home.
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Post by VectorX on Dec 13, 2015 17:53:02 GMT -5
Yep. That was an odd one!
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