Man Pays 31k for Air Raid Atari Game

Some intelligent fellow decided it was a good idea to dish out $31,600 for an old school video game, the game in question is Air Raid for the Atari game system. Below is an excerpt of what happened;

The excitement today comes from an auction for Atari 2600's "Air Raid", a baby blue cartridge with a strange T-shaped handle on it. The cart is rare enough on its own, but this is the first known instance of finding the box as well - for a long time collectors questioned whether there had ever been a box! You probably never heard of "Air Raid" (for a long time no one knew that that game was even called "Air Raid" for sure, since it's not on the cart itself anywhere) as it came out near the end of the 2600's reign. As more and more companies tried to cash in on the videogame craze, they did so with crappier and crappier games. These often forgettable games sold in small numbers hence their rarity.

Some crazy fool won the bidding recently on Ebay. It makes me wonder why someone would pay more for an old crap game than they would on a pretty nice new car! But hey, at least he got free shipping!

Source: https://www.retrothing.com/