$1.75 million game

Holy crap...guess he wants to buy a few PS3,360,Wii's this holiday season...along with a few others things 0_0 Id lmao if some one bid....

'E's 'avin' a giraffe. Atlantis 2 is basically exactly the same game as atlantis 1, but with a slightly different scoring system, due to several players maxing out the original in said competition. True it's rare and pretty damn valuable, but $1.75 mil? Hahahahahah. No.

Try $14, might get a bid or two

What an idiot. The most I see that going for is a couple thousand. 1 & 3/4 million? Yeah right.

OMG, I always wanted that game! I think I'll go bit 2 million, no wait 5 million, thats how much I want it!

;) I love being rich!

Damn, at least it's free shipping.

What a douche.

I hope it gets stolen. That's outrageous.

For collectors, this is a very good find for a very interesting part of gaming history. Atlantis is also a very good game, along with most of IMAGIC's games. That said, he's smoking something if he thinks he's getting anywhere near that price for that.

His reply to the question asking about the box for the game is to tell the person "if you want a box make one yourself! I probably have the original box but I know I riped off the celephane to the box so the little generic Atlantis II Mailing label to the box is gone!" ... Wow. $1.75 million and he "probably" has the box around somewhere that he might look around for if the winning bidder is lucky? He's either a regular idiot, or an attention-seeking idiot.

I do not see what proof there is of this thing being real. The starting price is is so high but he wants you to take his word on everything. WTF. He is also very snappy with the answers to questions given him. He also refuses to give close shots of the games and the documentation. Also, would'nt their be yellow of the documents if they were over 20 years old? (I am genuinely asking) He also refuses to provide pics of the game being played. Again, WTF? This whole thing seems fishy to me. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Goddamn bullshit,I tell ya! Poor homeless people sleeping in dumpsters in dangerous rat infested alleys... and I still can't get a Ps3...hafta try Ebay I guess....woops! sorry! I thought this was Engadget...o.m.g.!

So, let's suppose that I have some obscure collector's item of unknown value. I could:

1) put it up on ebay for a low/reasonable starting price and hope that enough of the people who might like to buy it notice it. Maybe I could get something close to it's actual value this way.

2) ask around on message boards for an estimate on what this thing might be worth in the hopes that someone out there might have seen one of these sold one time in a back alley somewhere. Maybe. From this, I try to come up with an asking price that someone out there will take and that isn't ripping myself off.

3) put it up for some absurd price on ebay and hope that it garners some attention. A mention on joystiq, for example, would be ideal. People start talking about it and I get a feel for what people would be willing to pay. Maybe even a few offers.

In order to get that kind of attention I'd have to put it up for not just more than it's worth, but way way more than it's worth. No big deal though - ebay lets you re-list unsold items for free.

Maybe he's just tired of selling Digimon World 4 strategy guides for 3 bucks :P http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250035180799

I love how the guy puts the thing on the floor when taking its picture. Yeah, it's definitely in the right hands. Especially when asking for the low-low price of 1.75 million dollars. Douchebagaroo.

*Also, would'nt their be yellow of the documents if they were over 20 years old? (I am genuinely asking)*

Not really. In fact IMAGIC's game were packaged, at least for the Intellivision, with some of the best materials. The manuals were nice full color stapled booklets. The print quality was quite nice for the times. Here's a pic I took of some of my IMAGIC games for your study...Atrai on the left, Intellivision on the right.
http://www.spiffyneato.com/joystiq/imagic.jpg

If this guy was around to win the game way back then he's got to be around 40 years old. So why does he have the writing skills of a sixth grader?

This poor sod only seeks to draw attention to his other auctions w/ a listing this high. Ebay's listing price tops out at $4.80 which isn't too bad for the advertising he's getting... 1418 views so far.

dig this:
"I wont split it up without the docs the cart is valueless to me as a company in europe makes reproduction carts from original atlantis 1 cases and yes they use mask roms in the case so you can't tell the diffrence between an original and a fake!"

-indeed.

Better move fast, his Vince Neil cd's auction ends in 16 hours!

With all the PS3 shortages, you'd be lucky 2 a PS3 for double that.

This guy took advantage of the 10 cent BIN listing day on eBay that happened this week.

In other words, there's no way the guy put that on eBay to sell. He just put it there to brag. (That is, if it's even LEGIT.)

He should just go and ask Bill Gates to buy it from him.

When the guy asked if he could put up a video of the the game being played, I'm sure he wanted that preview for frere. In another Response, the seller wanted a retainer of $250K just try out the game at his house, so both those responses were relatively worthless

I'm not an expert, but I am an insatiable consumer of video game historicity. I do believe the auction douchebag's correct about the origins of Atlantis II carts. Apparently, the developer was not expecting people to top out the score system on the original Atlantis during their competition, and they threw together this special competition cart billed as a sequel to up the difficulty. It was mailed directly to the tied competitors, which may account for the lack of packaging.

Someone should set up an account on Ebay and buy the product- doesn't the seller get stuck with charges even if buyer doesn't pay?

GOD!! whats wrong with you people? ... for once look at the positives.. FREE SHIPPING !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AS IN SHIPPINGS FREE BITCH!!! :) lol

Bidders, enjoy your scam! He's refusing to let anyone see the documents or a close-up of the cartridge. He's pulling something, and he knows it. Either that, or it's a joke, and he just wants to prolong the magic.

Who cares? I'm an eccentric millionaire!

im tempted to rune my ebay rating and buy it just to get him excited lol

I think you may be only slightly wrong when you say that the greedy PS3 whores aren't that greedy. the day that you had the "It begins!" article, I checked online and saw a buy it now for 1 million.

I wonder what kind of drugs this guy has been using or if he's just plain crazy or stupid! One thing for sure, he wasted allot of money in listing this auction. This site lists the value of the game at $6,000. He could quite possibly sell it for that amount if he ever snaps back to reality.

http://www.stageselect.com/games/game.aspx?gameid=3262