What are the most common and most rare games for the 2600/7800?
Commonality and rarity of a game depends upon many things, including geographical location, cart and label condition, label variation and personal experience. VGR’s cart list, the Digital Press Collectors Guide and JerryG’s Beta One all give ideas to a cart’s rarity and subsequent worth. (VGR and the Digital Press paper edition use a scale, while JerryG and the DP cdrom use prices). For you unix folks, a quick way to determine carts of a certain rarity is to download the plaintext version of VGR’s list, and then grep out the rarity that you want: grep ” xx ” filename > xx.list where ‘filename’ is the name of VGR’s list and ‘xx’ one of VGR’s rarity codes (C, U, R, ER, EP, UR, UP, NR; case is important). xx.list will then contain the list of carts you are interested in. For those of you who yearn to know the prices carts have fetched in the past, check out the Atari 2600/7800 Auction Price Database (http://www.valendor.com/acn-uk/auction.txt), which contains final auction price informati
Commonality and rarity of a game depends upon many things, including geographical location, cart and label condition, label variation and personal experience. VGR’s cart list, the Digital Press Collectors Guide and Atari2600.com’s Beta One all give ideas to a cart’s rarity and subsequent worth. (VGR and the Digital Press Collectors Guide #4 use a scale, Atari2600.com’s Beta One and the DP cdrom use prices, and DPCG #5 uses both). For those of you who yearn to know the prices carts have fetched in the past, check out the Atari 2600/7800 Auction Price Database, which contains final auction price information for hundreds of carts culled from many net auctions.
