Antique Roadshow covering Atari Video Games

[glitchedgamer]

$5 to $10 for Pac Man and Asteroids? It's like $1-$3 for each of them if they are loose carts. Hell, they may even pay you to take Pac Man away from them.

[ejayerik]

Damn, I had Quadrun! Oh well, no idea where it's at now.

[kozmon0t]

My friend's father was a dentist and he had tooth protectors... do not pay more than a nickel for that piece of shit game

[delfmeek]

@kozmon0t Most of the "rare" games for the 2600 are crap.

[a2r1v1i2s]

"bombing the universe" it seems like people say that a lot when referring to video games. ie: jack taurence - the shining.

[Jono1874]

I call bullshit on 100-200 bucks. I got mine for 40 and it came with 20 games.Eat shit antiques roadshow

[chupathingy99]

lol $200... I got mine at Goodwill for $4.

[tranurse]

@TheOfficialLolGuy i'm not over 40. i've been watching it for years.

[tranurse]

my parents sold ours at a garage sale years ago.........

[unclearless]

If all the people here said " Yes! these are worth more than they are saying here!" We could all buy them super cheap and get rich selling them. ;-)

[jfuller247]

Thumbs up for the cool nerds...I got a 78 light six made in Sunnyvale... My collection is limited to 20th Century Fox games, with Earth Dies Screaming(boxed) being my rarest.. And a couple sealed limited edition 3D Rubik's Cube Proto's...

[Neard4ever]

have

Atari with almost 300 games...have Quadrum and yes its not one of the rarest...home Brew games have one...worth bigger dollars than that. and made by one of gamers that worked for Atari

[MickeyLWalker]

quadrun is the best



[kfsduffer]

i will send picture tomorrow thank you

[kfsduffer]

can tyou tell me what the game ricochet game with hockey,tennis, racket ball, ricochet, on the game control panel waht is it worth and is it a rare game thank you my name is kenny snyder

[delfmeek]

@kfsduffer I'm not exactly sure what game you are referring to. Is it Video Olympics or Pong Sports? If it is, it isn't worth that much. $5 maybe. Feel free to message me private if you would like more info or to discuss more in depth.

[WebVMan]

When the guy played Atari Pac-Man, I went "OHHHHHHH!!!" too.

[WebVMan]

E.T.... Collectible?  YEAH RIGHT!

[delfmeek]

@WebVMan It is! It's guaranteed to be in just about everybody's collection :)

[Designandrew]

of course these things are not worth hundreds of dollars, the consoles sold in the millions, and games sold in hundreds of millions. They are everywhere.

[runforitscooby]

This guy has to settle the fk down, stop lying about how much these are worth and just go and watch porn like we all do.

[kasteman1]

Growing up I had a original console and 70+ games. I agree with the general thought of the overpriced appraisal, but this is exciting to me that there already is a buzz starting up about them. I've said many times, even as a little kid with some foresight, that they will be valuable some day.

[kris198921]

i find it funny that people no nothing about video games think they now everything about what a system is worth

[CCrossfan]

That guy is stupid. I would NEVER pay 5-10 dollars for an Atari game, you can find them for a dollar each. The system is worth maybe 25 dollars. I was able to buy a working system + 2 controllers and 5 games for 30 bucks at a used game store and I thought that was a fair price.

[mdma111]

That antique 14" TV must be worth thousands.

[RetroGamerr1991]

$100 -$200? What an ass. The 2600 is one of the best selling consoles of all time. Also it's the longest running console in production from 1977 to 1991. There are millions out there. I have never seen one go, without games, for more than $50 and that was a Sunnyvale "heavy-sixer".

[jfeltes2]

I once bought 3 Turbo Grafx 16's for 20 bucks each at some video game store drove them down to another city and sold them for 60 bucks each and now they are selling for 200 dollars at my local video game store. What does that tell you on the price of video games stuff.

[WarshipAngelus]

@jfeltes2

The SNK Neo Geo if You can find them are really rare now these days for a high in old system like that. Most of them go for atleast about 100 dollars used.

But if You find one in mint and in the box not open it's worth atleast two thousand dollars. Just some of the games if they were also in the box and still mint can go for 500 hundreth dollars each.

[akumacornflakes]

$5-10 for 2600 Pac Man? As if! You could get a whole box of them for that much!

[ComparativeAnatomy1]

Ha, Quadrun is the holy grail? I mean, good game when you figure it out, but it's definitely not as rare as some other ones. I mean, in terms of actual numbers I'd say Mangia (NTSC) is probably the rarest. I think currently only four or five copies are known to exist, at least one of which is a prototype.

[communistrecords]

A heavy sixer atari is worth around 80 dollars, maybe if it was boxed it would be 100 dollars. That one would only sell for about 70 bucks. Your average atari games will sell for around a dollar. Good video though.

[atombat]

So glad the UK version ignores computer games, Nothing like so called experts who talk shit about so called "rare" and "collectable" compute gear, to start pushing up prices, 'cause people believe these "experts".

[TheDutchGame]

I got my Atari for 30 euros!!!

[HerecomestheCalavera]

Quadrun is on ebay now for $329.29, quite a bit off from $1000

[tom11zz884]

Of coursethese games are collectible...go on ebay, and look at some of the prices of some old Sega Saturn Games, Neo Geo games, etc.

Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn goes for like $200 now..imagine what it will go for in like 20 years from now

Video games are big business

[Shun101010]

that guy was a N00B

[hotdog2020]

100- 200 for the system? This guy on fucking drugs? I can go to either of the 2 huge flea markets we have here and get these for 5 bucks all day, in great shape too not junked up.

[guboy1]

I have a regular nintendo and about 150 games and its all crap. I found a web sight were you can play any vintage game ever made for free and the full version. Any one who spends $1000 on a vintage game cartridge is a moron.

[kevinward831]

I would like to know that web sight.

[MisterVidicus]

I can play PACMAN online. *Eyeroll

[TheAdamStudios]

If these prices were even remotely accurate, I would be a rich man.

[haroof]

Please...99.9% of those games are not hard to find & are worth about 10 cents.

[Y0uEnj0yMyself]

@haroof as long as you have a flux capacitor and a Delorean

[gamesforall129o]

Pretty much any Atari 2600 games released after 1983 sucked monkey balls, but before that there was tons of great games. As for $100-$200? Bullshit.

[Antiquesofportage]

Appraising items is quite difficult. People become very angry when you tell them the truth especially when they normally have a set price in their head.

I tell people every day "just because it's old, that doesn't automatically make it valuable."

In this case it's not that old nor valuable. The appraiser smoking something.

[dogeymon83]

The Atari 2600 didn't invade homes until Atari got better management and they started releasing good games for it.

[johnnytastetest]

$100 - $200?! Bullshit.

I sold my original Atari in a yard sale for some quick cash when I was little (after I got an NES), but when I wanted to buy it and the games again a few years back, I got the console for 5 bucks and a huge box full of cartridges for around 50 cents each!

There are millions of those systems and games out there. They're not rare enough to command that price.

[loudstone]

This clip was a repost of a show that probably ran in the mid 90s. I'm sure values of Atari games have changed by now.

Although, I only had PONG in my day.

[johnnytastetest]

I don't think this episode would have been as early as the mid-nineties, since he mentions the "popularity of the internet" and while a lot of us were certainly online at that time, the web had yet to become the marketplace we see today. The prices I mentioned in my other post were from 1999, when I found the games and console at a video game store. So yeah, they've probably gone up a bit in price since then.

[kasteman1]

@johnnytastetest I agree for the meantime but they are faintly starting to get rare. People are sorting their garage clutter and throwing them away, Especially the older generations.

[ioport]

His inflated pricing is the biggest load of shit ever. No wonder idiots on eBay try to sell their shit for way too much.

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

i saw star master!!!!!! i love that game...

he got the prices badly mixed up though, i got my Atari (same condition same model) at play-n-trade for $28... and he diddnt say a thing about the fact that swordquest water world is very VERY rare... also most games i get go from 1 to 2 us dollars not 5 to 10... however i got my best games from one of the last official commodore retailers (the computer bargain store) for 6 to 9 us dollars... the guy who was talking was not much of an expert

[JTX5]

This guy was as far off as possible on everything.The systems are not $100-$200, but more like $15-$40. Also games like pac man and space invaders are less than $1. His biggest mistake was when he said quadrun was at the end of the atari's life span. Quadrun was released in 1983, games were still in production all the way to 1992 with ghost busters 2.

[JerryTerrifying]

Well he did say it came out at the end of its popularity era, I'm sure he meant before the Video Game crash. Also prices of games go up and down in value so what is $40 now may have been worth that much in his region at that time, although I doubt it. But there's always deals out there when you look hard enough.

[diamondmoney007]

LOL,,,, Roadshow idiots,, they always give these ridiculous prices,,, never gonna get it

[WARPUDDY666]

dumb ass forgot the very rare smurfs save the day game he had it close to the Atari

and yes the system prices he said are absurd $100 - $200 lol only on ebay

I got my 4 switch woody for $55 at a game store also in damn good shape to

[jvswerbo]

Agreed. Got a Vader and light sixer at a second hand store with 35 games for $30. I might buy a mint in box heavy sixer for $200....maybe.

[rep0eagle]

Texas chainsaw massacre is another rare and pricey atari game.

[rep0eagle]

this guy doesn't know a damn thing about values

[gaminkalv]

I think he was talking about the actual retail price in stores of those games and the system.

[bradleymxz]

Just sold a 7800 and 2600+39 games and 4 controllers for 50 bucks +25 shipping. Most games go for pennys. Quadrun is not even close to the holy grail. And why bother with this heavy plastic junk when you can download the ROMS in a matter of minutes? This junk barely even works with today's TV sets. Agree 100% with Elcarteroesmi and Aaron71

[delfmeek]

I keep all of my Atari's hooked up to my HDTV. Nothing like playing Video Olympics or Combat on the big screen! Besides, it makes a great conversation piece! Thanks for watching!

[joekenorer]

Seriously, tooth Defenders was rare?? I used to have that game. I hadn't even thought of it in 20+ years until just now. Wow, wish I knew where THAT was,

[mirabilis]

why drive a car when you can take the bus?

[bradleymxz]

This guy just comes across as misleading.....that's all. 99% of the atari junk on Ebay is used, in poor to fair condition and with no original box,manual, etc. Would an atari game fetch $5-$10 in the original box with the original manual in pristine condition? Probably. I just saw a mint-complete Frogger go for about $14. Would a mint in box-complete atari system go for $100-200? Probably. How about used in OK condition?not much.

[delfmeek]

I agree. I think he should have said something along the lines of "These items brand new in the box would bring a premium price of $100-$200". Thanks for watching!

[TheNintendovssega]

pitfall!!

that game rules

my favorite is Centepide

[aaron71]

$100-200 for a system? $5-10 for a game? This guy is HIGH!

Systems are $10-20 at the flea market or ebay... games are 50c-$1 likewise.

[notlukemertes]

Not for atari.

[TheNintendovssega]

ebay is slightly more expensive then £20 when it comes to atari consoles. get your fats straight mate.

[hz49k7]

You can download an emulator for free with all games ever made and play them all on your computer. I did it with an old Odyssey system. It was fun for about an hour. These guys will have everyone's Grandmas giving them a thirty year old Atari for Christmas.

[rl95020]

I bought a system with 20 games and one of them was Quadrun for $12 back in '94. Shit. I threw it all in the dumpster after 5 months. FML.

[ThePieIsFalse]

ugg....atari pac-man. SOOOOOOOOO bad

[KotLeopold]

Yeah, when you know something about a collectible, you find out real quick this show tends to inflate value to make things look more exciting. And Quadrun is definitely NOT the 'grail' of Atari collecting. More like Mangia or something similar.

[djswirve1]

100 to 200 dollars!!! thats worth more than most of the old baseball cards that i did hang onto

[delfmeek]

I think their prices are a wee bit inflated on here... But, 100-200 dollars is true if the system is complete in box, and in mint condition.

[goingwithzed]

@delfmeek funny too that 30+ years still hasn't capped original price as a collectible... the inflation is at least 5-6x on top of that, as well. Funny to consider the first decent game system out there would be like buying one new for $600 today. We got it pretty rough I guess /politics

[RetroGamerr1991]

@delfmeek Maybe if it's sealed. Other than that I've never seen a boxed 2600 go for more than $100.

[falkerhard]

Every piece of shit has its value, the price a buyer will pay.

[psovegeta]

I bought an Atari for 5 bucks, it never worked but at least now I can say I had one. lol

[EpicImports]

I wouldnt even pay a dime for all that shit.

[falkerhard]

LOL I can relate to that. Watch the thumbs down rain! idiots.

[durden2001]

I miss my Atari ~ the memory drips with youthful nostalgia. I can see these going up, up & up in value. Often in life the simple things are the best..

[figment1988]

you're right TCM and Halloween were quite violent for their time and because of that, it is rare to find these. the other rarities include the porno games such as Beat 'em and Eat 'em, X-Man (Yes, it was a porno game and has NOTHING to do with the marvel superhero team), and of course: Custer's Revenge

[cutmullets]

The guy on the left reminds me of Stiffler.

[lartrak]

Yeah, I'd agree. A mint boxed Atari can certainly reach $100-$200.

I do remember Chase the Chuck Wagon going for $1000 on eBay once, for some reason.

[Rbattam]

sweet i got 100's of 70's atari games.. and decent condition console ill have to wait another 50 years then cash it

[crushedguy]

i really regret selling all my atari gear...i had both consoles and close to 80 games including tooth protectors...grrrrrrr

[crapy7888]

that was the first ever pac-man game!!!

[hellblazer116]

on the home console it was but not the first

[qroytpo78]

The Guy's really not that off pricing. It depends on the condition of the Atari 2600. If its broke=10-15 Works okay= 30 near mint=50-75 Mint condition= 100 to 200 also you gotta look at the games it comes with

[jessi1971]

Hey now dont dis ET.....

[jessi1971]

GEEZ about 10 years ago I bought an Atari with about 40 games for 50 bucks, ana acouple of years ago I gave them all away! BUMMED

[dogfart1313]

The 2600 came in many different forms. A four switch woody like in the video can be had for way under $100 or almost zero if the moron selling it doesn't know what they have. On the other hand a working original "heavy sixer" which is the holy grail of Atari will go for many hundreds. If all you want to do is play Atari it's fairly cheap. But in the collectors market rare stuff is very pricey. That guy in the video didn't know shit other than those three rare games.

[delfmeek]

agreed!

[REsensee]

I agree 100%...this guy is an idiot. Quadrun is not the rarest atari 2600 game. Its rare, but there are others that command more than what he said.

[SlappyIndigo]

Yeah, probably the rarest are Air Raid, Swordquest Waterworld, the ones that weren't sold in stores, and Homebrews and Prototypes. And people will also probably pay alot for sealed or mint condition games, or games with the boxes.

[daro2096]

Yeah, nowhere would I pay $1000(£700) for Quadrun. Atari games are great but not that great.

And they are wrong on the prices on the consoles. You can pick a console up for about £20 or so. Not $200.

[onlysovereigngrace]

Wasn't there a game that Atari came out with where you flew a plane threw a barn? I don't remember the name though.

[delfmeek]

Yep! There sure was. Activision's "Barnstorming"... great game!

[flipponzin24]

@onlysovereigngrace 'Barnstorming'. =:-D

[SmartnSekC]

Hmmm. Maybe I should get that out of storage in the basement. The one game he pointed to, Starmaster, I have. That game also came with a special controller.

[delfmeek]

I think the game you are thinking of is "Star Raiders", which was a very similiar game. It came with the "Video touch Pad" and overlay to allow you to switch between the map, and other functions. Cool game though. I suggest digging that system out!

[subforsubx]

i two ataris for free down my street

[burr1aj]

I think they got it mostly right.

[gamesonice]

I like how they are playing the version of pac-man which is supposedly to blame for the video game crash of 1983.

[vigo894]

They also blame the E.T. game for the Crash too.

[melies138]

yup...just bought one today, with 17 games, for 50 bucks...

[mikekearn]

Why the hell would you sell something like that? I mean, I suppose if you absolutely needed the money or the mob was coming to break your legs, then perhaps. But then again, if you sell the system, what are you going to play if they break your legs anyway?

[fornello123]

lolol, "the simple pleasures of bombing the universe." that's my new myspace headline

[juniorpiscis]

wow! its very cheap, i think i will buy one XD.

[TheRealCritique]

I've got the box for the first PONG game. wonder what that's worth?

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[Webins]

I think the prices he quotes are for mint-condition in-box systems and games.

Also, as the years pass these will become rarer and more expensive.

But whatever it's selling price, the Atari 2600 deserves all the respect in the world.

[Dorelaxen]

Wow, this guy is WAAAAY off on his pricing. 200 for a 2600? 10 bucks for Pac-Man? Bullshit.

[delfmeek]

yeah... no joke. If that's the case, I'm sitting on about $10,000 worth of cartridges.

[DJTekid]

Yeah, he's full of shit. I picked up a 2600 and a box of 20 common games for about $40, from a collector as well.

[1eyedcatfish]

Pauls a game?

[KappenandFriends]

is he playing pac man? the atari version sucked.

[stuffisgd]

k.c. munchkin

[atarikee]

Must be old. Atari systems, even woodgrain models, can be had for $30 or less these days.

[delfmeek]

Yeah, I question where he received his pricing figures. A 2600 *might* go for that much if it is new, sealed, and in the box... but not used.

[drayton35]

How did he pauls the game?

[ramairgto72]

Now I do feel old.

[delfmeek]

Believe me, I felt the same way when i saw this.

[ramairgto72]

1974 looks like your right with me. I rem going to K Mart and picking out Pac Man. I can even rem the guy behind the counter taking it off the shelf! Well at least they are saying late 40s is the new middle age. Its strange to think we know what it was like before Cable , and the USSR pointing Nukes at us.

[dtrks80]

He didn't mention that some of those porno games on atari go for high prices also.

[donaldpan]

SELLING away SOMETHING that RARE for JUST $500-$1,000!? Not WORTH IT.

[SailorBabe]

WOW! I have the same system, as well as a Fairchild, and Atari 400 with games and pleanty of old Commodore 64 keyboards and stuff! We even have two PONGS!

[1987ian]

i saw one at goodwill for $2.50 and i bought it and it works!

[delfmeek]

Accordind to this video, you can resell that system for a hefty profit... ;)

[nicks5150]

my mom still has a working atari 2600 with like 60 games and finding pond paddles is hard

[ethen24]

Atari? On Antiques Roadshow? I am standing here beside myself! Usually all you see on AR is old people with vases and paintings and furniture...

[jarerex]

Atari made more Cartridges than there were players on the planet at one point. There is, quite literally, a landfill near one of Atari's former plants in the states that is purely pac-man and ET cartridges.

Nolan Bushnell was a fool.

[delfmeek]

Nolan Busnell was a fool for selling Atari to Warner.  By the time Atari had mass produced cartridges and buried them in a Landfill, Bushnell had left Atari (They kind of forced him out).

[kennedyucla]

Gosh, that PacMan looks so Ghetto. Can't even get nostalgic playing that piece.

[BlasterMaster031]

wow I think the most I ever payed for a system was 2 bucks and the most ive paind for a game is 50 cents lol

[delfmeek]

What you didn't pay the inflated $200 a system, as stated in the video? :)

[nierates]

i got 6 systems and 75 games off of my parents, by there figures i am in the money. anybody want to buy one. haha. you might get $50 for the system, a controller and a few games.

[delfmeek]

yeah, if I could get about $200 for an Atari 2600, i would cash in right now :)

[RossPK81]

The system it's self goes for about $100 to $200 dollars? Well, he certainly got that wrong.

[delfmeek]

I agree. I don't know where in the world he got his figures. That amount *might* be correct if the System is new in the box and never been opened... but, he didn't claify that.

[420wheatbread]

wanna buy games?

[jeepsk8]

yars revenge kicked ass

[DanielBMS]

WTF? They don't even mention how millions of Atari Pac-Man cartridges were buried in a landfill.

[gdbob2]

Actually it was E.T. cartridges that they buried in a landfill. The Pac-Mans always sold! :)

[DanielBMS]

Actually Pac-Man on Atari was disastrously unpopular. It too wound up in landfills along with the E.T. cartridges.

[catfeet2]

worth a lot of money in the u.k, very sought after bits of kit.

[orsiorsi186]

Missle Command is still the best.

[MrOik]

Pardon me ''at home''

[MrOik]

I have a have 2 Quadrun games at home that is complete and its in Superb Condition I believe I purchase both for $200 bucks each in 1990. Now, they can reach $1,000 bucks each easily

[MrOik]

For more information of Atari Homebrew games for the 2600, 5200, 7800, The Atari Computers (such as the 400 and 800), The Lynx and The Jaguar, go to Atariage dot (.) com. y'all will fall in love with it.

[delfmeek]

Absolutely! It's a great site! I check it regularly and it shows that there is still so much love for the Atari machines!

[delfmeek]

I thought the prices were high as well. But, it was SO COOL to see this on Antique Roadshow. While everybody is wondering what that ugly painting is worth, we have some REAL merchandise on the show.

[MrOik]

Well, the Atari 2600 made its debut in October of 1977 (not 1978) and it lasted although the 80's and finally till 1992 (not 1983). The real original name for the 2600 was the Video Computer System (VCS). The reason why they change the name (reason being) that the model of the system was called "CX-2600" Even if it was stopped by mass producing the VCS in 1992 the system continues to live on. Personal developers are making "Homebrew" (There own games) and selling them.

[MrOik]

$100-$200 for a Atari 2600 game console? Not likely. If your really searching, you can get one for $10-$30 bucks no problem.

[videogameknowitall]

I thought that the prices that they mentioned in the video were way to high. The $10 to $30 range for a system sounds about right. Video game titles should go for no more than $2-$3, but yes for "rare" games like the ones mentioned above I would expect to pay much more than $2.