SEALED Atari 2600 Games on Pawn Stars!

[@PatTheNESpunk]

What do you think about this appearance of Atari games on Pawn Stars? Are you satisfied by the reaction of Corey and his assessment? ➡More info @kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5nGhq2gaLeqmJY

[@night_owlll]

i've passed on sealed atari stuff for under $10 on multiple occasions, maybe i should start looking into it to scam rich people

[@officespace7777]

I thought it was a riot when he asked for $1,600🤣 I was screaming $100! Lol. I agree with pawn stars. There is a bubble . It's not going to last. I have been in the market for atari in box games for a number of years now. I never go over $100. On average I spend between $10-$30 on the atari games I want. Right now I have been looking to buy an ET game. Mint in box I find the game going for $85-$100 mint in box. With a high price of $300-$400. (But those are scumbag up sellers.) In the end I will most likely pay $85 for an in box copy.🙂 But I think the high price games are a result of scumbag up sellers. The true value of atari games are around $10-$50

[@DreadGruntYT]

I'm very happy you guys talked about this. I'm an Atari collector myself and the past two years have just been sheer comedy in our community, and seeing it on Pawn Stars of all places was even more so. These people are going to lose so much money and I don't think they realize it even still after prices have started to tumble. Most of the games these fools are spending thousands on I can buy for 20-40 bucks CIB. It's doubly strange because you'd think comic people and such types would understand how rarity works. Nobody cares about Frogger or Raiders of the Lost Ark because they're a dime a dozen, it's like getting an entirely bland and looked over comic issue from the 40's and demanding top dollar for it like it's Action Comics 26. Real standouts are Red Sea Crossing, Air Raid, Pepsi Invaders or Video Life or things like that. Yet they're all still determined to throw money away on the most common things. 2020 really is just the strangest year on record.

[@WishItWas1984]

Agreed. This fantasy market has been manufactured out of thin air by auction houses and a new grading company. Rich people want to put their cash into something, knowing cash devalues over time, and we're just seeing them capture the small slice of moronic rich people who do zero research into their investments. That's the vast majority of the market. Superman, Batman, Star Wars...these things are evergreen (for now) and I can't wait for this bubble to burst when the investors dry up and there's no collecting public to fill the void. It's the same for 80s toys and games. Even oddball stuff like Monster Labs or a dime store rack toy goes for a considerable amount of money, just because a seller sees it's age, rarity, and will be damned if they sell it for less than assumed max value. So many collectibles sitting and languishing out of collector's hands because sellers are stupid, greedy, or both. The person who will laugh last is the one buying these for pennies for an antique store to make lunch money when everyone holding them are dead and in the ground. It really is amazing to watch. Like a slow motion car crash.

[@MikeStavola]

I have a game called "Little Bear" that's actually pretty rare, and it's worth... What, $10? Maybe $40 in box?

[@WishItWas1984]

@lass kinn If rich people buying these video games are actually doing research, they're dumber than I thought. If they have people doing it for them, they're still idiots.

[@bean420man]

A fool and their money are soon parted.

[@The_Real_DCT]

Yup, saw sometime back someone doing a video called "Rare Atari games" and it was all just variants of dirt common games like a sealed Telegames Pac-Man all while going off about how it and other were basically as rare and valuble as a air raid or other truly rare game. It was sad and hilarious at the same time.

[@ZeroB4NG]

I get that "sealed" for toys means they are in mint condition, but Bit Rot doesn't care if the storage medium is incased in plastic wrap, how can you even know the data inside is not corrupted when you buy something like this? oh, right, they never intend to open it anyway, just sit on it and hope to flip it later.

[@janedoe22x]

schrodinger's rot

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Old, sealed toys are not indestructible either. Plastic can become brittle, etc.

[@kbhasi]

@@ThePreciseClimber Yep, I agree. I remember someone opening up an old cell phone that was sealed in the box, and its battery wouldn't hold a charge. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn2bq5elgt-inqMm5s

[@RDJ134]

Ian starts to look more and more as a Jedi. The force is strong in him.

[@McHaro0079]

This is the way

[@tubernery]

I sense the dark side swelling within him..👹

[@tommyboy9998]

remember when Pat was on Pawn Stars with his NES WC cart?

[@unish25]

Pawnstars must feel like idiots now for not taking Pat's offer...

[@PatTheNESpunk]

@@foenix8094 Explaining obvious jokes to people who don't get it makes my skin crawl. Merry Christmas.

[@ParallelUniversity]

@@foenix8094 Except Pat's games were actually valuable

[@furydeath]

@@PatTheNESpunk ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@cdjxman]

@John6yt Ha! Hilarious!😀👍

[@ReservedInvestments]

Excellent analysis! I have been warning people about this 'bubble' for years now, why helping others profit from this boom. There is a TON of stuff out there factory sealed.

[@twicethemegapower3995]

I remember an episode of Pawn Stars where this punk from Jersey, (I wanna say his name was Matt?), came in and showed off a very rare copy of Ian's Ranch Dressing Story part 3. Rich from ReviewTechUSA came in as their Ranch Dressing Story expert, but they were unable to agree on a price. The seller wanted the burrito Chumley was eating, but he wasn't budging

[@MikeStavola]

It's a little fishy because sealed 2600 games used to be under $50 all day long. I bought a sealed copy of solaris for less than 10 bucks in 2015. There are still piles of them lying around in warehouses, somehow.

[@fatenabu1]

Wasn't Pat on Pawn Stars years ago?

[@johndripper]

Ikr prolly just to flex his collection lol

[@JTSuter]

He was speaking in jest at the beginning of the video precisely because he was on pawn stars

[@retrogameroom9019]

Showing off nwc lol

[@tedlogan5628]

I never really saw Pawn Stars as anything else but an historical item evaluation show. Prices don’t mean shit, the bartering is for entertainment value only, and the dialogue is abysmal 85% of the time.

[@beejay271]

Legitimate question... Why do people buy games and not open them, and how do people know what games will be valuable in the future?

[@georgehernandez2156]

Probably people who buy more than one copy or boxes that have stock that didnt sell.

[@tommyboy9998]

they don't open them because the games are crap and not worth playing. also, when unsold games are liquidated, they are rarely single units - wholesalers used bundle deals to move stock to retail, so nobody bought single units or boxes - to get the better price point they bought in 10x or 5x, usually getting a unit or 2 free. When a title bombed, You would get stuck with 5, 10 or more dead stock units, all sealed, all in storage. Ergo, sealed crap games are much more common than sealed good games.

[@hjalmarjohnson5846]

There's a few reliable assumptions as well. Ian kind of touched on this in a video a couple days ago. RPGs typically hold value, shooters typically hold value, similarly there;s some developers with enough of a fan base they usually hold value well, Atlus comes to mind. As far as buying games and not opening them, I can't help you there, I even open my old games I manage to purchase sealed. They're toys and meant to be played with, in my mind. Locking them away in a case on a shelf defeats the whole purpose to me.

[@theswapmeetflea]

It was an insult to the Atari Collecting Community 😂

[@matthewdixon3694]

Underrated meta reference

[@thaddeusmcgrath]

Mr. Brown got along famously with the 5200

[@StusGameReviews]

I have a sealed Raiders. I think I bought it for $30 like 5 years ago. They found a huge warehouse of them in Venezuela.

[@JTSuter]

Talking about a bubble - how about that CIB Stunt Racer selling recently for $4,550 on eBay? Completely asinine. Pricecharting clearly shows the game averages CIB at around $800. Now sellers aren’t listing much below $2000 based on that one sale. This the point where collecting becomes no longer fun.

[@brandonthetoyandgamecollector]

I remember this moment. Can’t believe people believe just because it’s sealed it’s worth a shit ton of money. I don’t see that with Atari games, mainly because there’s tons of Atari games out there and they’re worth next to nothing

[@midimusicforever]

Collectors gonna collect.

[@MiNuSThisDay]

My wife's friend was on that show.. Pawn stars asks you to say a crazy number and they pay you to be on there..

[@preslove]

Pawn stars is still on the air? Chumlee is still on and not in prison?

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Rich Tomorrow wearing a curly wig: IAN! Lets get into it!

[@liverush24]

I thought that my old records were valuable, right up until eBay became a thing. Now they're worth hardly anything. It used to be much harder to track stuff down. So we thought that the stuff that we had was rarer than it actually was.

[@liverush24]

@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Agreed. 👍

[@jonyoungmusic]

Records are all over the place since the advent of record store day and hipsters getting into the mix. I have a Lil uzi Vert LP that I bought in a used bin 2 years ago for $15 that is now with over $200. It was a record store day release limited to a few thousand copies. I also have 90s hip hop records worth hundreds because pressings were super low back then. Basically pressed up for DJs and radio stations. Not sure how older stuff does these days but anything like 1992 (around the start of the golden age of hip hop, grunge, etc) or newer has the potential to be valuable due to the new generation of collectors. Not sure they know much about anything before that. And if they do, they’ll just buy represses.

[@liverush24]

@@jonyoungmusic I sold my old Street Sounds Electro LPs in 1985 for money for cigarettes.

[@jonyoungmusic]

@@liverush24 probably for the best. That’s the stuff I’m referring to. Kids today wouldn’t know what that is lol. I was born in 1983 and still had to look it up.

[@liverush24]

@@jonyoungmusic Very true.

[@xreev0x]

Pat, don’t you remember being on Pawn Stars?

[@PatTheNESpunk]

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[@Viper505repiV1]

This was actually on within thr last few days and I'm still surprised that Corey said what he said about the whole video game collecting stuff.

[@ScottCrippen]

I watched this and was surprised. 'Really, dude? Atari Games?'

[@Aragorn7884]

That show is such a scam...

[@furydeath]

i love watching people act like a pawn shops should pay full price for stuff

[@BigSnipp]

@@furydeath Why do you love that? I' curious.

[@furydeath]

@@BigSnipp cause the internet is full of dumb people

[@nouseforafap]

thank you Pat and Ian for you insight and knowledge on this stuff. it would be wise people shoping in the video game market to take your advice on thess matters. i know i will. anyway happy holidays.

[@jay9058]

Video games have become over priced. I got tired of being priced out and started selling my Dreamcast and Saturn games. Bought a mode and now I’m starting to buy everdrives. I’ll be back when these people tank the market ✌🏼

[@Sevenigma777]

Pat gonna act like he wasnt one of those guys coming in asking top value for a video game on Pawn Stars? Lol

[@oldmandandan]

I think Pat and Ian might just owe the Chumster a sandwich for speaking up and providing a responsible thought to this sealed nonsense. :)

[@CoolBrewDubstep]

You can still get your NES Punk video out before Christmas Pat. We believe in you!

[@TheCreepypro]

it is nice to see at least one guy admit that this is mostly artificial and could go away any time on this pawn stars segment

[@theeturnone]

Pat opening this question up, and the way he did it is absolutely perfect. lol . Pat is truly a funny guy. they should have showed the clip of him on the show. . . great inte4rnet/TV crossover history there!

[@bergfruehling]

There's probably some money laundering going on there. Same with unknown artists suddenly selling paintings for millions.

[@ivanvargas2425]

Lol I like how Pat is making fun of himself. At least I think he is... idk either way it was funny.

[@PatTheNESpunk]

[@EddiXP]

Pat describing himself in the first 25 seconds

[@_fadingcolors]

I don't understand buying a game you're not going to play. Such a waste.

[@somegamer7958]

As of right now (June 2024), sealed Raiders of the Lost Ark are going for around $60 on Ebay lol

[@Lifers]

I love the Atari and Intellivision and I hope I remain in the minority!

[@kellinwinslow1988]

There are 2600 games that are worth money but these are not it. Not by a long shot. And no game in existence is worth a million. $1,600 for Frogger? Get out of here. $400 for Indy? I'm sorry. I actually have 2 copies. Not sealed but in box in nice shape. It's just out of control here.

[@richardtheconquerer]

I was also born in the early 1980s. Nobody I knew had an Atari. NOBODY. Once the NES came out, practically everyone I knew had that other than a neighbor who had a Master System. Atari seemed old to little kids even back then. There's no nostalgia for it because the people who loved it are like 50 now or even older. Hell, most of them probably got into the NES when it came out because it was so much better or they completely moved on from video games 40 years ago.

[@thaddeusmcgrath]

I would be a betting man that Frank has a 2600 at his bungalow playing while listening to Violent Femmes on the turn table!

[@TimmiiGamingChannel]

those games for 40 years ago should be at least $100-200 because no one plays Atari only NES and beyond. Atari are Arcades version but poor quantity.

[@chillthorn]

I'd sell my soul for sealed Frogger

[@johndripper]

1 million give or take

[@aaroncopeland5964]

I check what’s going on with PriceCharting whenever I see this kind of stuff. Raiders sealed is going for $28 and Frogger sealed is $132. So $160 for both, and even what Wata quoted is too high.

[@dennismcdonald2607]

Can we ALL finally agree the beginning of the end was the advent of grading? ? The correct answer is YES.

[@Disappearit]

Collecting will eventually slow down with rise of digital and people not caring as much

[@splugereport]

wait a minute.... didn't you go on pawn stars in a cringy scripted mess? love you pat 💖💖💖😍😍😍

[@internalwarrior2410]

Can't wait for the new Pat the NES punk video.. It will be a Christmas gift for all us fans!

[@grandpasretrovideogames]

People think just because Videogames are old they are automatically worth a fortune regardless of what they are. I collect for fun and my personal pleasure. But some dude at work a few years ago thought his Atari 2600 with pacman and combat was worth 1,500 dollars and that I would pay that.................SMFH! Lol

[@RetroHabit82]

When are we getting a certain Gameboy guidebook?

[@JasonVectrex_187]

I have about 500 individually different games or variants for atari 2600 about 150 CIB, and about 25 of those are sealed. None sealed are worth over 1,000$. Sealed games are not rare for atari they are actually pretty common. No one cares about atari when I started collecting and no one does still to this day. Minus the rare ones. I don't even care about those sealed games, and I will continue to collect for atari until I die. There is no sealed game i would pay 1,000$ for even with nostalgia or a mist have for my collection.

[@dtphenomenal]

Wasn’t pat on an episode of pawn stars trying to sell stadium events?

[@thatdude4957]

I miss Long Island retro, hopefully they can do it again in 21

[@nouseforafap]

merry Christmas guys! 2020

[@drobgaming]

@patthenespunk Thanks for covering the show. Id be happy to come on and talk about it some time...

[@juannunez5767]

Where exactly is the value of physical games? The "art form"(for a lack of a better term) is digital, the actual gameplay. It's not like a painting, where the art is the object itself. You aren't paying for scarcity. There hundreds, possibly thousands of examples of these "valuable" games. So why exactly are these valued like they are? I mean besides the obvious answer that a small number of people are manipulating the market.

[@Clay3613]

The box has nice artwork too.

[@blairlohnes8103]

Eventually, the market grows out of collecting the games that they find nostalgia for. Mario is still relevant so Mario games will probably cost a premium until Nintendo drops Mario, but eventually, the kids with expendable money who want to collect their childhoods will have little interest in older consoles from before their generation. I collected many consoles and when I started getting rid of them, the old ones that had no personal connection to me were the first to go (ie: Odyssey 2, 2600, etc.)

[@Dj_Exo1]

But here’s the thing pat if every one has them at high prices ,if they don’t buy them it will go down

[@odaddy47]

I dont think that dude sold anything in the L.I. expo.

[@pizzamike4420]

I like how pat says seaaaaaled when he runs across a game on flea market madness. I recently picked up tomb raider limited edition seaaaaaled strategy guide with the necklace for $10.

[@hokyman]

A dealer buying up all the copies of something wanted by the market and jacking up the prices... Where have I seen that recently?

[@varsityathlete9927]

Zelda, Mario will be collectible in the future, only because they still exist as active franchises. Overall they are excellent series of titles across every generation. Will sealed be crazy price, eventually they have to drop.

[@itsdiego3387]

Its midnight with an upload?

[@mario64remix]

These clips are likely uploaded in advance with a set scheduled publish time.

[@HybridBoss]

Very interesting discussion around the value of game collecting/collectors.

[@kenny31000]

Atari 2600 bubble has popped real fast

[@thespacecowboy420]

A lot of getting people into collecting anything at all is long term stability. I don't collect expensive shit not because of money but because I don't own a house.

[@cooladee]

I have some sealed 2600 games and I feel the ones I have would be worth the same even if I opened them. Does anyone want to have a sealed copy of Super Football? I don't think so.

[@Lappelduvideify]

How and why do you have a sealed copy of Super Football?

[@cooladee]

I picked it up while game hunting, even though I already had a loose copy. I picked it up just for the box.

[@hjalmarjohnson5846]

sealed frogger buy it now: 299 dollars right now on eBay Raiders Sealed: 69.99 buy it now right now on eBay.

[@fearsomerep332]

Once Mike Tyson dies it will spike

[@gregoryballestero4369]

Are these "graded" games played to see if they work or are only nib games grade-able cause someone can clean up a dirty cart with a non working board right?

[@theeturnone]

ah, Raiders of the lost arc. i tried and tried to figure that out as a little kid. . lol

[@ericmay2d2]

The gold rush was started from rumors

[@calinator51]

Pat should listen to the advice about the bubble comment. Consider selling your collections while the market is high.

[@smokingunclefrank6037]

As you said bubble it can also go way way down more then likely my opinion after all we are not talking about Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[@TheNewSoda]

Idk if he had a copy but he should of try to sell Water World

[@8ByteBrian]

HIGHFALUTIN Merry Christmas you two :)

[@Dusty_B]

Wow this is an early one I enjoy Pawn Stars, but I watch it for entertainment and to see cool crap, not so much for the history lessons or assigning value.

[@kbhasi]

Yep, and that's also the same reasons I watch "The Pickers" / "American Pickers" for.

[@clintwilliams3818]

I love Pawn Stars for some reason.

[@codgod3085]

pats looks so cool i bet he be a good dude to smoke with and chill

[@jasont340]

Didn't Pat go on pawn star's with the nintendo championship cart's?

[@OldSchoolCurt]

Pac-Man sealed on Atari would be bad ass to have!

[@ghettosteeve]

Only stuff that isn’t going down is pokemon

[@poposterous236]

yee haw I gots me a vidyagame gimme a million dollas yee haw

[@gokid]

I wish I had watched this video two weeks ago... :(

[@mikemartinez2745]

Mortal kombat for sega genesis is the best game ever

[@michael_stout79]

Damn no sleep either wooha

[@Boswd]

I think their hate for Atari is just getting to be a bit too much. While I agree these two games aren't woth what he wanted. Heck i don't even know if the first run sealed Space Invaders for Atari could get $4000, But to say no one cares about Atari anymore is where he lets his odd hate for Atari cloud his thinking. It may not be there for people in the their 40's and younger that's true, but people in the late 40's and into their 50''s and 60's that's untrue. Maybe it was the pandemic or something but all of sudden a lot of people I know have been buying the atari flashback series from atGames, I bought the 9 Gold with the SD card slot. And thesee are selling well. There's a market for it. It all comes down to the generations He's dillisuional if he thinks people in their 30's are pining for original Zelda or Super Mario, beyond a few Nintendo fanboys who look back on it as part of it's history and even then it's nothing more than quick look and play. It's the people in their 40''s that love the classic NES games Why? same reason as people in their 50's and 60's long for classic atari games it's memory of their youth, games had a certain simplicity to them and still very addicting. I still love playing Centifped on the atari 2600 despite it not looking like the arcade etc. I was on ebay looking for an actual 2600 and I got outbid at $120, people buy these things , It may not be the high priced market but to say there is no market is letting your bizarre hate for atari letting your judgement sound clueless.

[@Boswd]

@John6yt well there you have it you speak for everyone

[@Boswd]

@John6yt didn't know you weren't allowed like different genres of games? Must be infuriating to live in such a narrow mindset.

[@bolasmarkov8050]

Hey pat love your content man have ian do more tales from the game store videos!

[@undergroundironentertainment]

Its reality tv. No much real about it. Pat knows.

[@jonnymmac]

Lol, we have many games like this.

[@clobberonline6812]

Just like the stock market full of bubbles !!!

[@jubjub444]

NES is starting to bubble

[@oppyh]

Hey I have some vintage Nintendo signs from Toys R Us (above display case) circa 1996-98 if you are interested Pat. Good price for ya.

[@stevenewsome5306]

“These people I don’t know if they have an ego or not, but they go on pawn stars with their highfalutin games.” Hmm no offense, but you was that guy my friend. I understand nwc carts have organic collectibility and are very different than a sealed atari game, but I just think you could have worded it better is all. I still love your show and haven’t disagreed since Diablo mobile, but had to point that out. Very cool to mention my favorite channel reserved investments, he really knows his stuff and genuinely wants to help people. Merry Christmas Pat and Ian 🎄

[@PatTheNESpunk]

Explaining obvious jokes to people who don't get it makes my skin crawl. Merry Christmas.

[@stevenewsome5306]

@@PatTheNESpunk I get it now and didn’t think about the nondisclosure, my apologies. Love your work.

[@UNDERGROUNDskateco]

Lmfaoo 6:05

[@Hack_The_Planet_]

Weird timing for a video

[@jayvictus80]

Coin & toy guys need to stay out of the hobby...also "journalists" writing about game prices need to know the difference between an Ebay listed price & what a sold price is

[@IcyBird420]

Ian's cooler

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

WATA Scam!

[@simokav6130]

pharcyde

[@jeremymurphy6095]

HIlarious, MMM DROooop