Warren Robinett turned the text game Colossal Cave Adventure into pictures and fit it into 4K of ROM with 15 bytes to spare. Atari released it in March 1980, and it sold more than a million copies. Atari didn't credit its programmers then, to keep rivals from finding and hiring them, so Robinett hid a room that reads "Created by Warren Robinett" and left the company before anyone found it. A fifteen-year-old in Salt Lake City did, and Atari's software director Steve Wright argued to keep it in, likening it to an Easter egg for players to find. You hunt an enchanted chalice past three dragons named Yorgle, Grundle and Rhindle, plus a bat. AtariAge rates the cart Common+, so a clean original isn't hard to find.
Before you plug it in
Should come with it
Check the listing photos against this list, and ask the seller about anything you can’t see. A missing piece should come off the price.
The cart is a single 4K ROM with no battery, so condition comes down to the label and the contacts. On a boxed copy, check the box and manual as closely as the cart.
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Buying guide
We'd buy the text-label cart titled tested at $16 delivered, the original first-release label, under the $24 median of the $15 to $40 band. That band is almost all loose carts, while complete-in-box copies titled tested ask from $70 delivered and one with the box and cart but no manual asks $41. The text label came first and two picture labels followed, all numbered CX2613, and Adventure is also on the 2600+ 10-in-1 cart and Atari's Flashback consoles, so make sure a listing is the single original cart. Reproduction carts exist for many 2600 games, so ask about a loose cart whose label looks freshly printed. Skip the CIB copy at $128, about $58 more than the one titled tested at $70.
$15.58est. delivered
The lowest delivered cart titled tested and working, a picture-label copy at $15.58 with no bids yet, so it will climb. We'd stop around $16 delivered, what the tested text-label cart asks.
Atari 2600 Adventure Game Cartridge Tested And Working
$15.98est. delivered
Titled tested and clean, with the original text label, at $16 delivered from a 99.9% seller. That's the first-release label for about the price of the later ones.
Atari 2600 ADVENTURE Game program CX-2613 Tested Works Great Clean J96
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Used$15.58est. delivered
$10.00 + $5.58 shipping
Auction · no bids yet · ends in 2d 21h
Good buy
Auction, no bids. Picture label, titled tested and working.
Seller: goodsonvintage
99% positive
Used$15.98est. delivered
$9.99 + $5.99 shipping
Buy It Now$9.99
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Good buy
Text label, titled tested and clean.
Seller: jonasbarneslmt
99.9% positive
Used$10.58est. delivered
$5.00 + $5.58 shipping
Auction · no bids yet · ends in 5d 22h
Our take
Auction, no bids. Text label, cart only, no test claim.
Seller: atniii
100% positive
Used$18.53est. delivered
$12.95 + $5.58 shipping
Buy It Now$12.95
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Our take
Picture label, titled tested.
Seller: denhayretrogames
100% positive
Used$18.75est. delivered
$13.00 + $5.75 shipping
Buy It Now$13.00
Our take
Text label, cart only. No test claim.
Seller: jeremginentha-0
100% positive
Used$41.18est. delivered
$34.19 + $6.99 shipping
Buy It Now$34.19
Our take
Box and cart, no manual. Picture label.
Seller: chloscoolcollectables
100% positive
Used$70.00delivered
$70.00 · free shipping
Buy It Now$70.00
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Our take
Titled CIB and tested.
Seller: tocol-921
100% positive
Used$128.24est. delivered
$119.99 + $8.25 shipping
Buy It Now$119.99
Priced high
Titled CIB and tested, about $58 more than the other tested CIB copy.
Seller: braar84
99.7% positive
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