An Atari 2600 Game sells for $33,400

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Submission + - An Atari 2600 Game sells for $33,400

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @05:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: The first known and popular video game home console, the Atari 2600, seems have no love lost in the gaming community, as 35 years after it is official released it still sells like hot cakes! So when a copy of Air Raid came under the hammer, it sold for an impressive $33,433.30 at auction. The surpasses the most expensive Atari 2600 game ever sold, a record held by the same game which fetched $31,600 in April 2010.

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