As I discussed last week on the #CUPodcast, I made an attempt to get an unreleased Atari 2600 game prototype preserved for video game history -- a "brain game" named Intuition. (thread) In Jan., I was emailed by a @halfpricebooks employee in Illinois who said that the Intuition Atari cartridge was traded into a Chicago area store. Intuition was developed by Tigervision, of parent company Tiger Toys (of LCD handheld game fame).

Super Mario 64 sold for over $1.5 million. It is the successful result of two+ years of a concerted effort between Heritage Auctions, Wata, and a small group of collectors from other hobbies with deep pockets to artificially pump up the sealed game market. However, this "pump" is unnatural and dangerous long-term. 99% of these games are not as rare as these purchase prices justify, the price increases are meteoric, and we do not know how many copies of each title exists, since *Wata does not release population reports.*