why are 7800 games so common and cheap?

[Kid Ice]

Has anyone else ever wondered this? I just spotted a sealed lot of 15 on ebay, going for like 10 bucks. It is not uncommon to see these games not even fetch a dollar brand new. Are they THAT common? If they are, why? Why are there all these sealed boxes just kind of laying around for almost 20 years now?

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Well, look at when the 7800 came out: it was up against the by-then almighty NES. Under those circumstances, it's not entirely unlikely that a lot of new original stock carts, still in the shrinkwrap, managed to stay on the store pegs long enough to reach collectors today still in pristine condition.

I've wound up with quite a few dirt-cheap, shrinkwrapped 7800 games myself - and I've opened and played every one of 'em, because there's plenty more out there.

[swlovinist]

The beauty of collecting video game systems is that there will always be more games than demand. The Atari 7800 was not wanted back in 1987, and it has only a small loyal following today. When the supply of something is saturated and the demand is not there you have a liquidation process. I bet that Atari made WAY more then what was sold and wanted, as we can still get 7800 dirt cheap! Long live Retrogaming!

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Well guys, you´re lucky to find 7800 games, because here it´s impossible...so here there aren´t common...

Matías

[swlovinist]

When I say that it is still available for cheap, I mean online that is

[Dr. Morbis]

I don't know why no one has mentioned O'Shea's website, but I think that it has a lot to do with it. There are about 20 games that are dirt cheap because they are (or were recently) part of O'Shea's massive warehouse of old new stock. Take a look at the pics on their website; they've got some 7800 titles stacked to the roof.

The problem is finding the other games after you get these 15-20 ultra commons. You'll see 50 auctions on eBay for Dig Dug before you see one for a game like Mat Mania Challenge complete which isn't even a rare game.

How many people stocked up on these O'Shea games when they were 80 cents just waiting for the day that there would be enough demand to sell these on eBay?

[Darth Sensei]

I don't know why no one has mentioned O'Shea's website, but I think that it has a lot to do with it. There are about 20 games that are dirt cheap because they are (or were recently) part of O'Shea's massive warehouse of old new stock. Take a look at the pics on their website; they've got some 7800 titles stacked to the roof.



Care to give the link? I've never been to that site.

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[furor]

Care to give the link? I've never been to that site.

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http://www.oshealtd.com/