Okay, we’ve seen some awesome Child’s Play auctions this year, but this is absolutely nuts. It’s an Atari 2600 that was specially tricked out by third-party publisher Imagic for game development. Specifically, says the guy, “the CPU chip on the outside in a quick-release socket; this was to allow the use of an “in-circuit emulator” (ICE) to debug games.”
I don’t know what that means; all I know is that since this is the only one known to still exist I’d have expected the bidding to go very, very high even without the extra Child’s Play publicity. Now? Millions of dollars. No. But maybe over a thousand of them.
Original Imagic 2600 [eBay]