What is, generally speaking, more valuable: Atari 2600 games or NES games?

[tom]

Here's the US ebay auction NES games $1 or even less or approx $2 - 3

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Games-/13997...14.l1514&_vc=1

Here's the Atari VCS section on ebay US:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/Games-/13997...Atari%25202600

Basically the same, lots of carts only for $1 or less, or $2 - 3.

Of course there's plenty more cheap NES carts on ebay than VCS, due to the amount of NES carts in the USA, so in the end there's also more dearer NES carts on ebay than VCSs.

[Buyatari]

If you found a random batch of atari and a random batch with the same number of NES the NES will bring more money and be easier to sell. Of course you could get lucky and hit a really expensive Atari game but generally speaking NES will trump 2600. There are some really expensive Atari games but man you will never find those. They are very rare. Lots of common or semi common NES have a decent value and this is not so for Atari.

[BydoEmpire]

Around here, I see 2600 (and other pre-crash stuff) being blown out for $1 pretty frequently - even mildly rare titles; whereas NES games are usually $3 and up, mostly $5 and up. I'm seeing that - on average - NES games are bringing in more. That said, I see a lot fewer 2600 games out there than I used to, so there just aren't as many around.

[The 1 2 P]

In my area the 2600 has a very small, almost non-existant market. But the Nes is so popular that people are sometimes willing to pay insane prices for commons. This isn't really a fair comparison. You'd have to pick another popular system with many indemand games. In terms of this thread you could take half of the Nes games ever made and they'd still be more valuable than the entire 2600 library.