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Re: Why are Atarisoft games so common?

Subject: Re: Why are Atarisoft games so common?
From: "Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2007 07:57:00 -0800
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Someone just found a warehouse full of them.  Atari had lots of stock
left over when the crash of 83-84 caused them to kill off Atarisoft
which got stuck in warehouses and forgotten about until the early
2000's.  Lots of people are finding NOS Atari items lately.

On Jan 23, 7:12 am, "skylarking" <petsound...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed on eBay that there seem to be quite a lot of still sealed
> copies of Atarisoft games for sale. Does anyone know why they appear to
> be so common? I was wondering if maybe Atari manufactured too many
> copies, considering they have a bit of a history of doing that...

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