I thought Atari games would be rare...

It's been so long since old Atari 2600 went out that by now, I thought the games were pretty rare to find in good condition. But apparently not... here's an article about a company that purchased some of Atari's surplus back in the day. They bought three million games from Atari back in 1990. It's been nearly twenty years now and they still haven't sold them all.

LOL, you can download a 7.3 MB zip file with all 1,700 Atari 2600 ROMs in it in about 10 seconds.

Goes to show how well loved Atari is in the grand scheme of things, huh?

Every year at the http://www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ there's at least one vendor who has stacks of sealed Atari 2600 and 7800 games for $2-$5 apiece. I guess this must be where they're getting them from because the titles mentioned are the same ones I always see there.

They are definitly not rare I bought my Atari 2600 off ebay at the start of last year and like 32 games all up. The games were only like between 50c-$5.00 each. Definitly not an essential purchase but cool none the less. Its just sows how much video games have advanced in the last 30 years.

We still have our Atari game systems and most of our old games. I would never part with them...atleast choosingly doing so...they are some of the most fun games I remember, even though I rarely play them now.

It's good to know that the games are so cheap though in case any of our old ones don't work for some reason or other...I wouldn't mind having a spare just in case.

I'm still looking for a good deal on an Atari 2600 system. I would really like to experience these games eventually.

Same goes for Intellivision, ColecoVision, and Vectrex. Respect the classics.