Astrocade games - 6x Artillery Duel 5005; 1x Amazing Maze; 1x Biorhythm; 1x Astrocade Pinball; 1x Cosmic Raiders - $1.89 each!

Ok I kid you not, and this was probably the first big find I had since I started. Basically I wandered into the book section of Goodwill and found a stack of these odd looking boxes which seemed to have a old  look/style to them. Who the hell knew, I never had a Bally Astrocade.

Didn't hurt to look them up and realized these were from the early 1980's. It felt like I was doing something dishonest as I placed a stack of these on the counter at the checkout. Wasn't sure what excuse to give:

* "I just collect these."
* "these are for my friend."
* "I need these for gifts."

I chose to say nothing. Thinking maybe the clerk just wants to pass time and scan the barcodes away (Goodwill barcodes every freaking thing now), but no. He paused for just a few more seconds than normal to read what it was. The greedy bastard in me hoped they had more in back and I was thinking maybe they'd release more ...

.. but heading back today, no. No more! Anyway - it was nice to find a couple high value ones, at least according to rarityguide.com. I wasn't expecting to find these and perhaps I never will again...

So, the total score for a $20 (a little less than $2 each) cost:

6 x Artillery Duel @ $24
2x others @ $15
1x Cosmic Raiders @ $185
1x Astrocade Pinball @  $172

$531 / 20 ~ 26x



So, if only I could buy some Bank of America stock and get a 2600% return that would be great. I'll settle for this though. Even if you shorted or bought some FB Aug 17 $21 put options on FB, would you get 2600% on your money if they went bankrupt by the end of next week?

I wonder how often VGA grades these. But still who the hell really buys these?