View Full Version : Bally/Astrocade rarities
In cleaning up the attic, I ran across my old Bally game stuff I had long forgotten about. I was a bit "connected" back then and have a few things that I think are pretty rare, e.g. Treasure Cove still in the original shrink wrap, Soccer, Bowling, Sea Devil, Sneaky Snake, Maze Man & Ms. PacMan. A number of standard games and 3 consoles as well.
I was wondering how to figure out what this stuff might be worth today. The DP reference guide doesn't have prices on some of these and not sure how current the list is anyway.
Thanks for any help.
DreamTR
11-25-2009, 03:25 PM
Some of those can be hard to find, but the value is not like it used to be. You might get aroudn 90-110 each on some of those whereas before $200-320 was the norm
gokugohandave
11-25-2009, 04:23 PM
Id be interested in a system.
So what would be the most valuable one? I'm guessing Bowling maybe because it was never officially released. eBay the best place to sell these?
ianoid
11-26-2009, 08:57 PM
Pretty sure Bally Pin was released. And I would guess that you have Ms. Candyman rather than Ms. Pac-man. I'm interested in Maze-man, "Ms. Pac-man" and Sneaky Snake. PM me if you want to arrange a private sale.
swlovinist
11-28-2009, 11:56 AM
In cleaning up the attic, I ran across my old Bally game stuff I had long forgotten about. I was a bit "connected" back then and have a few things that I think are pretty rare, e.g. Treasure Cove still in the original shrink wrap, Soccer, Bowling, Sea Devil, Sneaky Snake, Maze Man & Ms. PacMan. A number of standard games and 3 consoles as well.
I was wondering how to figure out what this stuff might be worth today. The DP reference guide doesn't have prices on some of these and not sure how current the list is anyway.
Thanks for any help.
The version of console(and it if it works or not) will determine prices. Bally Home Library Computer(rarest) Bally Arcade(white version) can fetch alot more than a standard console. The titles you listed are some of the rare third party titles, and would probably fetch like others have said for about on average $50 to a couple hundred(pending on title).
Gameguy
11-28-2009, 11:32 PM
Is it true that there's only between 40 and 50 copies of Bowling out there? It's listed at an R10.
http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=1710
swlovinist
11-29-2009, 11:59 PM
Is it true that there's only between 40 and 50 copies of Bowling out there? It's listed at an R10.
http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=1710
I dont know how many were released back in the day, but bowling was a game that has been reproduced and there are some copies floating around. The orginal is probably worth some decent coin.
The version of console(and it if it works or not) will determine prices. Bally Home Library Computer(rarest) Bally Arcade(white version) can fetch alot more than a standard console. The titles you listed are some of the rare third party titles, and would probably fetch like others have said for about on average $50 to a couple hundred(pending on title).
One of my consoles has a sticker on the back with "Bally Arcade", ser#30952, the other 2 are marked Astrocade, so I assume none are amongst the rare breed.
Bowling was never released on a ROM (official realease with a Bally or Astrocade label), so there is no "original". EPROMS were burned from a copy that found its way out of the lab. All of the 3rd party games were EPROMS as well. I know this because I was part of the group that burned almost all of the 3rd party games for the authors.