Why are people bidding on this thing already? That just drives the price up. If they really wanted it, they would simply use a sniper service and get it for probably half of what the final bid will end up being.
Why are people bidding on this thing already? That just drives the price up. If they really wanted it, they would simply use a sniper service and get it for probably half of what the final bid will end up being.
i think the Tuesday morning sticker cries for fake.
Tuesday morning did not every carry cd's, movies, video games.
They have some toys but that is very limited.
I would have believed an Ames/Hills sticker though as I remember seeing big wire baskets full of Atari games in those stores for $1 each in probably 85-88 when i was a kid. All my parents bought me was Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, and a few other peices of crap
I doubt this is fake. If it is, since it's on eBay, he could get in MAJOR trouble for it. Why would that person risk that kind of attention and trouble for all of that?
That strategy doesn't work with big ticket, one-of-a-kind items where no one has any idea what the auction will end at. Regardless, you probably will see some major action near the end.Originally Posted by Zing
This item, if real, is going to maybe set a record for $$$
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They do carry CDs. Music CDs anyway. I got some Beethoven ones from there.
Videogames though, I'm having an equally hard time believing. I'm torn between that and the great-looking box and fact that it's on ebay.
I wasn't alive back then, but here's a thought:
He said he bought it at Tuesday Morning back in 1985. That was around the time that liquidators started selling off these unsold carts. Maybe realizing that people still bought these(after all they only went for $1-5), maybe the store bought a couple of boxes of liquidated games to sell for dirt cheap?
This is almost certainly fake. The ebay auction is meaningless. Notice how the account's name is "aa" plus a number, and also has no seller feedback. Considering the lengths to which they've gone to do these pranks in the past, a dummy ebay account is nothing.
Also a big tip off is how the seller "just happens" to live in the same city as the board owner, so the box could very quickly be authenticated.
The text on the box about it being Menavision's "debut" game is also a giveaway.
Seriously, what kind of idiot would unleash something like this around April Fool's day and risk having it called a prank, etc. Why not just wait a few more days when everyone will take it more seriously? No way this is real.
This is the best thread. I have always thought of Air Raid as a Latin American pirate cart (and I still do). I think the cart is a legit find and the box one of the best hoaxes ever. We'll see - seeing that box is like catching a glimpse of the Carolina Parakeet. Great topic, hoax, auction, find ?
I say bullshit too. Too many people in this hobby have access to excellent printing methods. Look at all the repro artwork you can get for arcade games. It's a fantastic job. There'll be a non-paying bidder on eBay or it'll be pulled at the last minute. The price sticker doesn't make it any more convincing. You could have pulled that label off any old product and reattached it to the box.
Thinking about the history of the game too, I'm pretty sure it's a hoax. I thought the game never had an "official" name, yet the name on the box mysteriously matches the given name?
Big Lots/Odd Lots have carried video games every now and then. they had a ton of 7800 games, and i recall them carrying PS1 games when stores were having trouble getting rid of them
that said, i am on record believing it is a fake
Big Lots used to carry a ton of 2600 games. An ex-girlfriend's parents had several hundred sealed atari games they bought from there, including Quadrun.
This is real. Albert from AA has confirmed this by visiting the seller.. He lives in the same city. That and a portion of the profits will go to AA.
Follow the thread here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...uction-update/
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Actually I have bought game wave games from them, they also sold the system. They also used to have the flashback 1 and 2. Hand held games systems, nintendo 8 bit knock offs, edutainment systems, etc.
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God, if that's a fake it's one hell of a good job. If it is fake, i'd have to believe that the cart is fake too and someone's making CIB repros.
So, a person who is going to get a cut of the final cash amount is "independently" verifying that it is legit? You should be more skeptic because of this, not less.
There was another april fools thread on Atari Age. Have there ever been two threads in the same year?
http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic...igslist-find-d
If it's not legit, nobody's getting any money.
Question: If nobody that knows where the game is from and everyone who owns it bought it second hand used... then, assuming there is a box anyway... who would be able to actually say it's genuine? Wouldn't you need a second known legit copy of the box?
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