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Topic: I have to disagree with a rarity here...
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Buyatari
Atari Fan
Member # 672
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posted 03-21-2002 09:10 PM
Sound Machine?You mean Music Machine,maybee? Or are you talking about something else? I don't think Music Machine is a 10 is it? Masic Machine is on eBay about 1 per year. There have been other 10s for sale on ebay. Atlantis 2 was sold on eBay. I also saw Eli's Ladder up there once but the auction was pulled and the seller sold early. Adam
Posts: 25 | From: Cleveland | Registered: Nov 2001 | IP: Logged
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Buyatari
Atari Fan
Member # 672
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posted 03-22-2002 03:48 PM
If Waterworld and Crazy Climber are 8 and Eli's and Air Raid are 10Then Music Machine should be a 9. Others rarer? These are all NTSC I don't count Beagle Bros or Xante Malagai,Cake Walk,Atlantis 2, Quadrun,Lockjaw,River Raid,Color bar, All NTSC Bomb carts,Spike's Peak single ender. I also think Music Machine is about as rare as Condor Attack. Both are available for sale 1-4 times a year. Looking at the list I don't think Obelix is a ten either. Whats up with BMX and Motorodeo btw? Is there an NTSC version for sure? Is so both are rarer than Music Machine. But that doesn't matter anyway. The rarity number is based on the description not in reference to other carts. In my mind a 10 is a cart you can't find looking day after day for years. Looking in the wild,in newsgroups and on ebay. Even if you have thousands to spend. A few 2600 carts fit this description but Music Machine isn't one of them However, find a boxed Music Machine. Now thats a 10. Adam
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CincYnoTi
Jr. Atari Fan
Member # 1335
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posted 04-15-2002 01:03 PM
I like the idea of having a "top 10" or "top 20" rarest games rating list. That would spark a lot of debate among the relative ratings, but even the debate should bring to light information that would be valuable. My opinion on rating them would be based on the number of "confirmed to exist" for each game. So if there is only one NTSC Motorodeo confirmed to exist and say ten Magicard, well then Motorodeo would be closer to the top of the list than Magicard. My guess is that many of those games rated a 10 have fewer than ten confirmed owners, at least among the readers of these boards. And some rated a 10 will be in over twenty collectors' hands. Even from watching ebay you can see frequency of appearance as an indicator of how many exist. In the last two months, more Music Machine and Quadrun's have appeared than either Malagai and Color Bar Generator have in the last two years. The vulture attack/condor attack label is cool. IF you KNEW vulture attack averaged $100 on ebay and condor attack averaged $200, would you try to remove the vulture attack label and sell it as condor attack instead? That also makes me wonder about the Halloween "no label" being rated more rare than the one with a label. Would you pay more for one without a label on ebay? How would you know if it started out with a label and the owner removed the label, cleaned off the glue and wrote "Haloween" with a marker on it. Or maybe even slap a white sticker on it and call it a prototype. Did any one else think calling this Halloween a prototype was misleading? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1342874330 It looks like one of those Halloween carts that was manufactured without a label that Jerry Greiner got from Renny Mitchell and stuck his "guaranteed genuine" signature on it. One last note...add one more Xante title to the list. I have a Trick Shot made by Xante.
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