Thursday, February 3, 2011

Atari 'Woody' 2600 & Games

This Atari 2600 auction is, one must admit, a truly brilliant way to grab a classic, boxed, woody Atari 2600 console, complete with 30 beautifully boxed games, 2 joysticks, 2 paddle controllers and a lovely Atari Catalogue. The games -they do come with their box and manual, mind- include such classics as Super Breakout, Berzerk, Phoenix, Asteroids, Combat, Defender and Brain Games. A couple of these have never been opened either. Oh, and the seller only ships within the UK.
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13 comments:

  1. MadPlanetFebruary 3, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    Nice set. Box looks to be in great condition. I still have my original one but my brother and I played on it so much as kids the reset switch eventually just snapped off. So from then on for games that required you to pull reset we had to spin & push the switch around like we were picking a lock until it finally clicked and we could play!

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  2. BlakeFebruary 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM

    A classic beauty indeed. I was never one to keep things in boxes, still not to this day even.

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  3. MikFebruary 3, 2011 at 11:39 PM

    Very nice, and with a good set of cartridges! Oddly enough I have 8 Atari classic but none of them is listed here. Weird.

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  4. gnomeFebruary 4, 2011 at 7:14 AM

    @ MadPLanet: Not much of a collector's sensibilities back then eh? What matters though has always been the games I suppose.

    @ Blake: Well, I've started keeping them but unless you have ample space, it's quite a problem.

    @ Mik: Weird indeed my friend.

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  5. MikFebruary 4, 2011 at 10:45 AM

    Actually, I see Phoenix is in the lot: I didn't notice it because it's in a grey box on a grey carpet, and isn't listed in the second pic. Sorry, I had a terrible flu until yesterday.
    Rests weird I can't see titles like Pole Position, Ms. Pacman, Dig Dug, Joust, Kangaroo, Moon Patrol, Crystal Castles... Ok, I'll post them as soon as possible.

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  6. gnomeFebruary 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM

    Just make sure you get well very soon dear Mik.

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  7. BobFebruary 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM

    I love the way Atari just named their 2600 games definitively. Combat, Air-Sea Battle, Video Chess - it's like they never envisaged a situation where anyone else would ever make videogames.*


    *And that, dear reader, is exactly why Atari went tits up and we had the video game crash.

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  8. MadPlanetFebruary 5, 2011 at 2:36 AM

    I never cared much about the boxes back when I was a kid. But now I love them and almost insist that an old system or game come with the box and manuals for me to buy them these days. Not sure when I made that transition, but as "recently" as about 10 years ago I threw away a big batch of about a dozen old PC game boxes that I had stored in my closet. I would never do that now.

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  9. RetroKingSimonFebruary 5, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    What an awesome collection, I'd love to get that if I could :)

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  10. gnomeFebruary 5, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    @ MadPlanet: You did what? Oh dear... A grave mistake, but at least you discovered the errors of your way :) I must admit I'm very fond of boxes myself, but space is a huge problem.

    @ RetroKingSimon: I'd have given it a bid if it shipped outside the UK. Then again, I'm trying to discover where my girlfriends 2600 is buried.

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  11. gnomeFebruary 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    @ Bob: A most wise remark. Never really thought about this before. Thanks for the insightful comment my friend.

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  12. BobFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM

    Thank you Gnome!

    You can read more about it here:

    http://www.retrothing.com/2007/09/ataris-biggest-.html

    and here:

    http://www.retrothing.com/2007/09/the-poultry-tha.html

    Course, there's all sorts of other contributing factors - like making more E.T. carts than the total number of 2600's in existence. Minor stuff like that ;D

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  13. gnomeFebruary 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM

    Lovely stuff indeed. Mind you, always loved the Retro Thing content. Cheers!

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