Someone got a deal for the history books

i'm sure some savvy entrepreneur already turned it into a 60-and-1

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Scary thing is, when something like that goes for so little on a local venue multi desecration is within the realm of possibility.
 

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Oooh, minty Gravitar and Space Duel, along with a nice looking Martha. Ah, 1983. [emoji2]

Scott C.
 
Maybe the VERY recent history books... it wasn't that long ago that Gravitars (and Space Duels) were pretty unwanted among color vectors. I picked up my Gravitar (with factory Amplifone) around 2010 for $200, which was a good deal, but not unheard of.

DogP
 
That auction was a year and a half ago.

EDIT: Also sold as "untested" I.E. not working.
 
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Paid $150 for mine last week. Board seems to work, monitor doesn't. Overall great shape with fantastic side art. Only 2 previous owners
 
On a more positive note, how about these circa 1983 MTV featuring Martha Quinn with Gravitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4tdsOzIBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzq3p-SQ_38

That's funny, I own that actual Gravitar. I bought 4 games from MTV's head broadcast engineer in the late 90's - it had yet occurred to me to look for them on YT, though the Grav and Xevious are the only ones I still have. The story was that Warner owned Atari & MTV at the time, and they passed them a few of their less-popular games to place on set @ 1515 Broadway.

They lasted a year or two, then got stuck in the green room until they couldn't repair them, and the guy just took them home. I had to pull a lot of band stickers off the cabs...
 
Met Martha a couple times great gal.

Pat that a cool story about the games.
 
Pat9k, quite a neat find you have there. A slice of 80s history, and I was wondering how such esoteric titles wound up on there instead of an obvious blockbuster like Pac Man etc. Nice to know those machines live on, and that Gravitar has the neatest provenance of Gravs out there, no doubt.
 
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They may have slapped the extra logo on to advertise Atari in addition to the prop role. You see extra big logos on product placements like the infamous Sony monitor in front of Judge Ito during the OJ trial.
 
That's funny, I own that actual Gravitar. I bought 4 games from MTV's head broadcast engineer in the late 90's - it had yet occurred to me to look for them on YT, though the Grav and Xevious are the only ones I still have. The story was that Warner owned Atari & MTV at the time, and they passed them a few of their less-popular games to place on set @ 1515 Broadway.

They lasted a year or two, then got stuck in the green room until they couldn't repair them, and the guy just took them home. I had to pull a lot of band stickers off the cabs...

Funny, I bought a cab just because it had a lot of stickers on the cab. That cab always gets a lot of attention due to the stickers it has. I have seen people go up to the cab just to read the stickers on the cab and not play the game.
 
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