Looks to be legit. Can someone provide a little history on this game? Is it a prototype or just an EXTREMELY rare game where no one has seen the box before?
Looks to be legit. Can someone provide a little history on this game? Is it a prototype or just an EXTREMELY rare game where no one has seen the box before?
The latter.Originally Posted by ShinobiMan
It's a rarely seen game that's essentially a partial hack of Space Jockey (it shares something like 60% of Space Jockey's code someone once said) and there's a handful of copies out there. But so far, with those few copies, nobody has seen a box for it. Until now, if it's real. It was speculated for the longest time that it might be a Mexican pirate game, and that there were supposed to be EPROMS inside rather than real ROMs. I haven't kept up with the saga of this game's history, so I don't know much more about it.
Wow, this is incredible. Anyone else hoping that this goes for more than that Stadium Events? I mean, I love the NES, but this has just always seemed like more of an "Ultimate Grail" to me.
Welcome to Macintosh.
Even though this might be the only boxed Air Raid we see in our lifetimes, I'm not sure it'll sell for that much. Stadium Events sells because people are very passionate about the NES and collecting for it. I mean, Atari has its fans, but there were just so many games, so many of them forgettable shovelware. I don't think there are as many people willing to rabidly bid for a rare Atari game as for a rare NES game.
How much did the last unboxed Air Raid sell for? Does anyone remember?
$2850 (on 11/23/2009)
Someone really needs to print up some posters of that box art. That shit is classic. It's almost as good as this.
--Zero
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Last edited by DefaultGen; 03-12-2023 at 05:50 PM.
You know if employees had known what we future people know now....
Shit.. You know I'd hate to think I worked to create something so futurely valuable and had it pass through my hands and daily as gruntwork..
Has to be a fake, I'm sure the account belongs to a AtariAge regular that was created for this purpose who owns one of the handful of known copies of this game or is friends with someone that owns one.
AtariAge gets something like this every year at this time.
Last edited by Leo_A; 03-31-2010 at 02:18 AM.
Yes, Air Raid cartridges contain EPROMs as opposed to production (masked) ROM chips, although there's nothing particularly unusual about that...lots of games used them.
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