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Rarest Atari 2600 game ever for sale
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 18th February 2008
Gamma Attack is said to be one of the rarest Atari 2600 games ever made.
The game in question, Gamma Attack had an incredibly limited run for the Atari 2600. In fact, less than twenty copies of the game were ever sold apparently.
The game is so very rare in fact that it's been near-impossible for us to find a good picture of the game or find out much about it.
So, there's two days left for the auction and there's been 23 offers so far - though we doubt any of them have approached the 'Buy It Now!' price of a cool half mil. The auction is complicated further by the fact that the seller will not ship the game at all - it's pick-up or personal delivery only.
Rare games are becoming an increasingly popular collectors item in some circles and the recent sale of a sealed copy of Chrono Trigger for $1200 is a testament to that fact.
Still, half a million dollars may be pushing it.
Do you think such an item could ever justify the cost, and what would you do with it if you bought it? Let us know in the forums.
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I wrote a game, and it never even got published, so perhaps I should sell it for...1 million dollars...
Probably because it was jsut as good as the ET game.
No game on this planet is worth £250K no matter how rare it is.
Is it the original, 16-colour, floppy disk edition?
That's gotta be worth a few thousand $$$ :D
Yep, for the Amiga A500+. Unfortunately, the box is in ruins.
Or maximize their exposure and free advertising. After all, we're discussing it here! So this is yet another free ad for them.
and then get it put on xbox live arcade so that it then becomes worthless