Klax is very common in the UK. People were trying to sell boxes full of sealed copies on ebay. The game box/manual is always for a US release without different languages and with an FBI badge on the box The game in the box is supposed to be PAL according to the internet
that is interesting. I am from the states so have a bit of a US bias I am afraid. would love to know what Atari collecting is like in the UK. I know that micro computers were more prevalent than console games in the 80s over there. you almost never hear about the atari scene in ol blighty.
2600 was fairly popular up to 1983. There was not the glut of 3rd party games so fewer rarities. Most Atari 2600 games fairly cheap to buy these days. They tried later with the jr so alot of NOS red box games used to be available. The games for home computers like the Spectrum were sold mainly on tape. Much cheaper than cartridges and far easier to copy.
Not enough sales to make the list. if this was “rarest” games it would be on here. but i need at least two CIB sales to track a sales trajectory and there are only two copies of Red Sad known to exist. thing does not sell CIB. there is no data for it on price charting other than a loose cart sale in 2012.
sword quest was a series of games that atari was planning to release that had a contest associated with it. you would win real life replicas of in game items and a huge cash prize. a comic book that came with each game held clues to solve a puzzle, which when solved would enter players into the contest. unfortunately the game crash of 83 happened and the series and contest were canceled. the forth game (air world) was never released and water world had a very limited release due to the game crash. hence its rarity and value.
@@saltysaltytears pretty much, yeah. The first 2 or 3 items were awarded as promised, but the contest was never completed and the ultimate award was never given out. Rumors are all over the place about what happened to the remaining items, but in all likelihood they were smelted down, unfortunately.
@@superretrogamerbros.8492 Well, they eventually found all those ET carts in the mythical landfill. Is this missing treasure the last great unsolved Atari mystery?
Boy are you wayyyy off on the wizard video games. Pricecharting includes all repo sales. The carts alone for Halloween and tcm go for 500. That that sink in
Thanks for the feedback. I will likely go back and do corrections. I needed a source of truth and chose price charting, if you have a better place to look i would appreciate it. thanks for watching.
@@eunhwastevens i see. well this video is not comparing graded as i have no way of looking at that on 2002, so to keep this apples to apples this is for CIB only. But I will take a look at ebay and see if i can find some data for CIB Halloween / Chainsaw Masacre sales. I am sure you are right, I just chose to use price charting and maybe that was not the best source of info.
Great video! I have a CIB copy of Swordquest Waterworld for sale. It is my collection centerpiece due to its actual rarity.
Cool video. How about doing a top 25 games of 2022 and see how much they were worth in 2002?
Like Elden Ring? That wasn't worth much at all in 2002: there were no systems capable of playing it. ;)
I could do that. sort of a reverse of this video. my guess is that the list would be relatively similar, but i would be curious.
Klax is very common in the UK. People were trying to sell boxes full of sealed copies on ebay. The game box/manual is always for a US release without different languages and with an FBI badge on the box The game in the box is supposed to be PAL according to the internet
that is interesting. I am from the states so have a bit of a US bias I am afraid. would love to know what Atari collecting is like in the UK. I know that micro computers were more prevalent than console games in the 80s over there. you almost never hear about the atari scene in ol blighty.
2600 was fairly popular up to 1983. There was not the glut of 3rd party games so fewer rarities. Most Atari 2600 games fairly cheap to buy these days. They tried later with the jr so alot of NOS red box games used to be available. The games for home computers like the Spectrum were sold mainly on tape. Much cheaper than cartridges and far easier to copy.
How much for an untested copy of Pitfall without the box or instructions and the label partially torn off? I'm looking to retire.
If you only need about 10 more bucks to retire, then you are in luck.
@@teknohed Cha-ching!
@@teknohed 10 bucks? Is he selling 20 of them?
No Red Sea Crossing?
Not enough sales to make the list. if this was “rarest” games it would be on here. but i need at least two CIB sales to track a sales trajectory and there are only two copies of Red Sad known to exist. thing does not sell CIB. there is no data for it on price charting other than a loose cart sale in 2012.
💜RIVER PATROL by Tigervision 1984. Would love to have it CIB.
Any offers❓💜
I have never even seen a river patrol box, do they exist?
Why is Atari's 3rd Swordquest game so much rarer and more valuable than the earlier 2?
sword quest was a series of games that atari was planning to release that had a contest associated with it. you would win real life replicas of in game items and a huge cash prize. a comic book that came with each game held clues to solve a puzzle, which when solved would enter players into the contest. unfortunately the game crash of 83 happened and the series and contest were canceled. the forth game (air world) was never released and water world had a very limited release due to the game crash. hence its rarity and value.
@@teknohed Real life versions of in-game items? Like chalices and swords?? Atari-branded chalices and swords?... that nobody ever got to claim?!?
@@saltysaltytears pretty much, yeah. The first 2 or 3 items were awarded as promised, but the contest was never completed and the ultimate award was never given out. Rumors are all over the place about what happened to the remaining items, but in all likelihood they were smelted down, unfortunately.
@@superretrogamerbros.8492 Well, they eventually found all those ET carts in the mythical landfill. Is this missing treasure the last great unsolved Atari mystery?
@@saltysaltytears could be! Angry Video Game Nerd did a great video about it.
These gotta be cib prices.
yup, that is what i said in the video.
Sorry. Missed that.@@teknohed
@@legendodinson7082 no worries mate.
Out of curiosity i looked up gameplay of the x-rated games, and now I'm addicted to pornography 😕
certainly not the first time that a copy of Cathouse Blues led a young man down the road to perdition.
Boy are you wayyyy off on the wizard video games. Pricecharting includes all repo sales. The carts alone for Halloween and tcm go for 500. That that sink in
Thanks for the feedback. I will likely go back and do corrections. I needed a source of truth and chose price charting, if you have a better place to look i would appreciate it. thanks for watching.
@@teknohed there are less than 10 cib of each title. They sell for about 6k raw and 10 to 15k graded. The first graded 1 just hit Heritage auctions.
@@eunhwastevens i see. well this video is not comparing graded as i have no way of looking at that on 2002, so to keep this apples to apples this is for CIB only. But I will take a look at ebay and see if i can find some data for CIB Halloween / Chainsaw Masacre sales. I am sure you are right, I just chose to use price charting and maybe that was not the best source of info.
I played Atari as a kid in the 80’s and had no clue about some of these games. Particularly the porn games.
same here, i had no idea about any of those games until I started doing research for these videos. So weird.