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Buying a sealed copy of Spider-Man on ATARI for $9k because it's of a popular franchise, is like spending ridiculous amounts on sealed copy of Madden for the SNES because it's popular series and winning coach.

$2700 still sounds like $2650 too much

I waited through two commercials just to say this: "GOOD! That game is STUPIDLY common. I've had it complete in box for decades!"

Pat is officially slowly progressing toward becoming Jim Cramer from CNBC's Mad Money.

The old phrase “A fool and their money are soon parted” rings true once again.

When I was a kid , they used to sell 2600 games for 2.99 and that was back in 84

Also anything before 2019 is labeled as “rare” on eBay

I saw ebay flooded with auctions the week after, the first video. And I just bought 6 sealed different games for under 25$ each with shipping, no spiderman, but still there are literally thousands sealed of all types of Atari games. And coming from an Atari collector, no one cares about a 9.8 graded spiderman, except resellers trying to manipulate the market.

Grading games is strange to me because your basically grading the box/plastic case the game comes in it would be like grading a sealed box of trading cards instead of the actual cards.

lol oh my god that look on Ian's face when you hit that drop button... priceless.

I hate the whole grading Industry when it comes to games, should be reserved for Comics

Spiderman, Spiderman. Takes a dump in a coffee can

I"m still surprised it's going for even that much

I'd buy that for a dollar 🤑

I’ve got a box of over 50 ms Pac-Man seals copies I’ve been slowly selling off.

“Seeeeaaaled!”

I thought Pat predicted this happening in a previous cast. 🧐🤔☠️

The 2600 Jr was sold at retail until 1992.

1st rule of Acquisition states Once you have their money never give it back. Not the sellers fault that the buyer didn't understand the 3rd rule which says Never pay more for an acquisition than you have too. Only thing I hate is I didn't think of it 1st. That's why we have the fools and money are soon parted saying.

I remember finding this as a kid in the 80s at my grandparent's house, opening it, and playing it. I remember getting frustrated while playing it. A lot of fun though. Too bad I did not keep it sealed. Lol. In my opinion only idiots invest in video games because they want to make money. Its maybe a 50.00 game at most sealed.

I can attest to seeing tons of Atari games around '90 from grocery stores. It's some of my earliest gaming memories

Its effecting more than just the 2600 now, we've seen fairchild channel f games go for ten to 20 times or more than what we have paid for in simply a few months. Some of us wonder if some of this is all a con to inflate worth to then resell to someone who thinks its worth more. As games get older, it's getting more problematic, as "collectors" who like "valuable" things start buying it up and assuming worth. This sealed graded stuff is just a comical joke that is making it worse. The only benefit will be that when those of us who do collect as gamers sell up, we'll be laughing. I've never treated my collection as an investment, but it may get to a day where its too expensive to continue from non gamers getting too involved.

That game was one big pumpkin bomb. Bought mine for $7.00. that was enough.

This is when you know a speculative bubble is taking place.

Beastie Boys drop!!! Awesome!👻😎

I have an F-Zero SNES sealed. Payed like $30 for it years ago.. I know there was a pallet of these somewhere because it’s a really easy find but it’s nostalgic to me so I bought it to display for fun in my game room. I don’t even own a SNES as I use my Wii or WiiU as emulation. Same goes for my sealed Crazy Taxi on GC. Never owned that version as my favorite is the DC and Crazy Taxi 3 on the OG Xbox, but it has a KB Toys price sticker on it and that’s very nostalgic to me. I payed like $20 for it.. I shopped there a lot as a kid though I couldn’t afford much. My most remembered memory from there was when they had Ecco the Dolphin on Genesis you could play right as you walked in. Heck, I even have the RC Crazy Taxi car in box with the KB Toys sticker now that I think about it. Can you tell I like CT 😅.. I have a 60K run on the OG Xbox CT3 on my channel if you wish to check it out 😄.

The only Atari 2600 game i have nostalga is for Pit Fall. I can't imagine payimg tens of thousands or a hundred thousand for a CIB slabbbed video game.

I got unopened Atari 2600 games from a store called Everything's A Dollar in the early '90s. Specifically I remember getting Space Jockey. The same store had Sega CD Lethal Enforcers with Justifier a few years later and I was angry because they were charging $2 at a store called "Everything's A Dollar." The guy at the register pointed out that they changed the name to "Everything's A Dollar+." Even the grocery store has items under $1 so it was strange to set a price floor.

I just wanted to comment it is about time you got the mmm... DRRROP! clip. Love it!

Atari was still selling games at software ect and funcoland in 1992 when i was shopping for snes games they had a small rack in the back for atari

The main reason sealed Atari games do not sell for sealed NES prices are that the vast majority of Atari 2600 collectors (like me) have been collecting for over 30 years, meaning we are all at the point where we are chasing the same 1/2 dozen games that are super rare and consider graded games a fad and joke. I have a dozen sealed copies of Spider-man still sealed. Frankly, I am surprised they are going for $2K+.

Is it possible collectors, companies, websites with stock of these games are creating fake auctions and are artificially rising the prices in order to sell their copies or stock at a much higher price then they would normally go for. I am just wondering how regulated it all is any market or online auction can be manipulated without proper regulation.

A couple of years ago I got Pac Man and Astoroids CIB for 20 bucks each, mostly for the fact that they where a couple of the most played games from when I was young. That is about my limit on that sort of thing.

5:05 Beastie Button, I approve. 👍

Games shouldn't stay sealed, that are meant to be played period!

The production value with the soundbites really tied this video together lmao.

Thank god these guys are talking some sense .... despite this, history will repeat itself. Damn, even thrift shops are pricing on uninformed speculation these days.... great term by the way Pat.

lolol the sounds audio bits lol

I got this game for my 8th birthday good times and I remember the 50. Cent bins at the local Job-Lot and Odd-Lot stores they sold sealed games In the bins up front they were the first type of dollar stores in the 80s

It plummet so hard , it made Gwen Stacy falling to her dead look like a soft landing......oh, that's not right 😓

You guys are absolutely right. When I was 9 or 10, I got an Atari 7800 for my birthday and I do remember my mom buying me some games for it for cheap at the Big Lots along with some 2600 games, and yeah I want to say it was 1991 or 1992 roughly.

It's easy to find sealed Atari 2600 games because there are warehouses full of cases of them in South American countries where the 2600 and clone systems were still popular well into the late 90s. I've seen Ebay listings from countries like Venezuela showing cases of sealed games, so these games definitely aren't rare at all.

How long do you think until NES games are in this same position?

If it sold for 2760 dollars, that means you could get 46 copies of spider man miles morales on release day for the same price

Saw an open case with all six sealed copies NOS sell for $150 in 2012. They are nothing games. The inflated prices these are going for is jaw dropping dumb.

You should use your stream Deck with the CU podcast video Pat like if you want to do a seal sound effect you can.

I'm sure the guy running the shell game would also yell at you if you told people that the shell was up his sleeve...

On the flipside, as a new collector that wants to just collect things I had in my childhood :( I feel like theres a big negative connection sometimes to those that are just bad at researching. Like getting bamboozled on SNES games, its hard to tell as common people not into the hobby or new into it whats a fake cart, repro cart and nostalgia kinda blinds people to making good decisions sometimes

There were new in sealed case 2600 games readily available about 10 years ago. There was that mountain warehouse company that was selling new old stock

Scumbag sellers will try to make unfair profits on anything. You really have to be an educated buyer when it comes to games like these.

I think this really comes down to a viable up-ward chain. Something is usually only worth anything if someone else desires and is willing to pay for said item. If there isn't then the item has reached its peak.

I was thinking of what other common superhero games could have a similar effect. On Price Charting X-Men 2 for the Genesis has gone up for a complete version from around $30 in January to around $70 today. It's current price is by far the highest it has ever been. I'm assuming this is a similar situation. X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse for the SNES is doing the same thing. Complete in box price has never been higher and shot up significantly since January, while the loose cart maintains the same price.

During the early 90's my sister had bought a Qubert Atari game and I totally thought if she only kept the box and didn't open it even that would of been something worth lots of money. But then it's just Qubert where there are a lot of them out there. lol

5:03 & 5:44 You sampled "Beastie Boys?" Did you record yourself saying "Ssseeeeealed?" When can I expect a Staind soundbyte? If you don't have a *PatMath™ Button,* do you at least have a *Completely Unnecessary Sound Test® of your Completely Unnecessary Sound Board†?* †PatEnt Pending

I just got Spiderman for the 2600 unsealed for including shipping and handling 36 bucks , with the box , manuel and game cartridge albeit someones last name Byrnes written in black marker on its top side , ugh. But luckily loosely i can get another cartridge of it for only about ten bucks luckily online.

10-15 years ago, I didn't buy an unopened spiderman for $20. I specifically remember coming across it at my local junk shop and being surprised that it was that pricey. I had bought sealed copies of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Star Raiders for like, $5 each around that same time. About a decade later, I bought a sealed copy of Faxanadu from the same place for $15, and gave it away as a gift. I felt that was a more fair price.

Pat needs to trim those lovely locks! lol

My local shop has Spider-Man for the Atari 2600 in stock for $6.95. Maybe I should buy it to play it to see what all the fuss is about.

Wata is a scam, change my mind.

Same thing is going to happen to most Pokemon cards, they are grossly inflated at the moment

I saw Atari games for sale at KMart when I went to buy Final Fantasy Tactics when it was released.

I think the last 9.8 A++ of Spiderman went for around $800.

There are a lot of some titles on Atari 2600 and some are super rare to find sealed...like Superman, Adventure, Telegames titles. Spider-Man is so popular because it’s the first appearance of Spidey in a video game and the first Marvel video game. While not rare, it’s very popular as you can tell. I’m guessing a sealed Superman would fetch over $15k.

The soundboard is great!

I bought some new old stock Atari games from a As Seen On TV Store in 2008.

Oh man, I was planning on getting this but now it’s not worth as much

There’s a couple up for 1.5-2k. Then there’s this active one for $13: comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/atari/spider-man-wata-96-a-sealed-2600-parker-brothers-1982-usa/a/122027-11731.s?ic16=ViewItem-Inventory-BuyNowFromOwner-OtherAvailable-081514 It still has 6 days but maybe they’re learning?

I remember atari and intellvision games still being for sale at toys r us for like 2.99 in 90-91

The value!

Swordquest Water World - the only golden ticket in the 2600 era

Pat's sound board usage is getting close to the Podcast/Radio episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".

There's one on eBay right now for $9,999.99. With FREE SHIPPING! 😂

This is good news. We can get all the games as ROMs

The dollar store here in the 90's had Atari 7800 games.

yeo use to be here in canada at dollar store here as well like up too 95 2 for 1$

I keep seeing this and it just blows me away I know I'm a cheapskate but I would want to make sure as much as possible that I am getting the best price on something before I drop that kind of money I don't understand the mindset that these people have to be spending money on games like this

This is the comic collector influence. When a movie is coming out for heroes the comics go up huge, spikes, they think their collecting styles and trends will work in video games too and are going to be disappointed

My pappy taught me how to Pat math here in the country of Dipshitlandia

People don't care about sustainable collectors markets, the people buying these are most likely flippers.

Pat...was that one copy a pre-production...that “maybe” had a typo or some other mistake on the box? Maybe...very minute details that are different from the normal volumes of that game?

Always search ebay for sold prices NOT what it is listed for. I can list an item for anything. Be smarter. A sealed 90 plus grade sold for 2k

I learned with comic books It’s worth what someone will pay you for it

if a game drop with 1000´s its better not to sell it, fuck it, let it wait a few more years then.

I honestly dont believe that any sealed game be it atari, or any other high priced game people will make their money back. I dont think vintage games will continue to hold their value. I think even NES games will go down in price as the market shifts for newer consoles to be the Nostalgia console.

Drop drop drop watchin' bubbles pop...

Lmao the Beastie Boys reference at 5:08 I caught that

That isn't much speculation. That guy probably bought a sealed crate of those damn things for less than $100 and just sold one for $2700? He just made out like a bandit to some stupid collector...unless it was a shill bid and he never got paid...

They definitely had Boxed 2600 Atari games at Big Lots until 93/94

I fuckin popped at 5:00

I bid the half-eaten McDonald's cheeseburger I left in my fridge last week.

I have a Spiderman opened cartridge but who cares if you got the box or not. lol

great game, sealed $200 makes sense but a beanie baby used to go for that and the value of any of this is what it is.

I have like 70 sealed Atari 2600 and ive never even looked for a sealed game. Guess it's time to retire lol

I have it CIB but not sealed lol

At most, I would spend 20 bucks on this.

someone really should help that guy find his keys...

DROPPED

is it just me or does ian seem super uninterested? yawning into the mic and giving 1 word answers

People get sealed games because they think they’ll keep rising in value. Not the same mindset as looking for the rarest loose nes Carts. That said a lot of these people will likely take a bath.