Atari 2600 Prototype Collection For Sale

[Marco]

Hi all,

I never thougt I'd do this, but I'm actually considering selling my Atari 2600 prototype collection. As many of you know, I've bought a new house. It's an old house from 1935 which needs lots of work. All wiring and plumbing and stuff needs to be renewed. I want to preserve the style of the house and that costs a lot of extra money. Then I started thinking "what's worth to me more: a great new/old house or my Atari prototype collection?", and at this moment I'm leaning towards the house.

So, here it is, a probably once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an incredible Atari 2600 prototype collection. Right now, I am NOT going to sell individual items. I know this will make it less likely that I will find a buyer, but I don't want to go through the hassle of individual sales and being stuck in the end with the less desireable protos. But then again, I bet you guys are resourceful enough to team up and buy this with a couple of collectors.

In case you're wondering, I am keeping my regular Atari collection. My new house will have a gameroom where all my boxed games will be on display. I'm also keeping my prototype boxes and hardware prototypes, o don't bother asking me to sell my PGP-1 ;)

Now, on to the list of goodies. This has taken me a decade to collect. It contains real gems that have never been on sale before, like the 2in1 experimental Atari carts (yes, you've seen them on the rumor list, and they exist!). All in all, the collection contains 57 prototypes, 54 of them are NTSC, 3 are in PAL format.

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Alligator People 20th Century
Planet of the Apes 20th Century
Kabobber Activision
Thwocker Activision
Unknown prototype Activision
Off your Rocker Amiga
Squoosh Apollo
2 in 1 Atari Experimental cart with switch
2 in 1 Atari Experimental cart with switch
2600 Diagnostics Atari Lab loaner
Aquaventure Atari Lab loaner
Bionic Breakthrough Atari Generic prototype, transparent
Bugs Bunny Atari Generic prototype
Centipede Atari Lab loaner with blue label
Coke Wins! Atari Lab loaner
Computer Chess Atari Pcb (not like released version)
Crack'Ed Atari Pcb
Donald Duck's Speedboat Atari Lab loaner
Dukes of Hazzard Atari Generic prototype
Dumbo's Flying Circus Atari Lab loaner
Elevator Action Atari Pcb
Freeway Atari Lab loaner
Frog Pond Atari Lab loaner
Grover's Music Maker Atari Lab loaner
Hot Rox Atari Lab loaner
Miss Piggy's Wedding Atari Lab loaner
Monstercise Atari Generic prototype
Oscar's Trash Race Atari Lab loaner, PAL
Peek-A-Boo Atari Generic prototype
Pengo Atari Lab loaner, PAL
Polo Atari Lab loaner
Rabbit Transit Atari Lab loaner
RealSports Basketball Atari Lab loaner
Saboteur Atari Lab loaner
Save Mary Atari Pcb
Shooting Arcade Atari Pcb
Sinistar Atari Lab loaner
Steeple Chase Atari Lab loaner
Stuntcycle Atari Lab loaner
Submarine Commander Atari Lab loaner
Tempest Atari Lab loaner
The A-Team Atari Lab loaner
The Last Starfighter Atari Lab loaner
Xevious Atari Lab loaner
Secret Agent Data Age
A Mysterious Thief Emag
Immies & Aggies Emag
Pizza Chef Emag
Spinning Fireball Emag
McDonald's Parker
Star Wars: Ewok Adventure Parker PAL
Bobby is Going Home Puzzy NTSC sample
Dragon Defender Puzzy NTSC sample
Farmyard Fun Puzzy NTSC sample
Hole Hunter Puzzy NTSC sample
Mission 3,000 A.D. Puzzy NTSC sample
Mr. Postman Puzzy NTSC sample</pre>
And then, the price. It's always difficult to establish the right price for collections like these. Many items have never been on sale before. Other items on the list may appear to be common, but most items in this collection are the 'good' and rarer lab loaner versions, and not the cheap Best Electronics knock-offs. If you are seriously interested in purchasing this lot, please contact me and we'll talk about the price.

That's it, I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,
Marco

[ianoid]

Totally unbelievable this. Such a great collection. There are more droolers over at atariage posting, but I know some of the folks here must have noticed...

I'd love to contribute to a mass purchase (a group could purchase the lot and divy it up), but I'd really want to recover that Rabbit Transit cart that I found and traded to John Earney who sold it to Marco. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie! Ah, well. We'll see.

ian

[stonic]

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[MarioAllStar2600]

How muych for Save Mary. i love that game, and its an extremly hard to find proto.

[rbudrick]

Nice collection. I gotta tell ya, you'll probably make more $ if you divvy it up. On top of that, you are limiting your market to a very, very, very small group of people that would even think of getting the whole kit and kaboodle (Way too much dinero). Plenty of forum goers here would gladly buy individuals or groups off of you, myself included....but all of it..damn.

-Rob

[Marco]

I know it's a long, long shot, but for now I would really like to try to sell this as a lot. Taking individual offers or even auctioning them (eBay is out for protos, so I would need to do this the old fashioned way) is a bit too much for me at the moment. If it doesn't sell in one go, I may just keep the collection after all. I've had many inquiries so far, both groups and individual people, and some of them appear to be really serious about it, so we'll see what happens!

Cheers,
Marco