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Would you ever buy a video game for $500,000?

Neither would we.

But recently eBay saw one of the most expensive video games ever put up for auction. It wasn't a copy of "Kizuna Encounter," "Pepsi Invaders," or even a "Nintendo World Championship" cart, but an Atari 2600 game that has never been known to exist.

On February 20, eBay user Phantom listed "Gamma Attack" by Gammation for a half million dollars. Gammation, a company that was thought to only produce Atari peripherals, was only ever rumored to have produced any video games. Over the course of the last thirty years, none of them had ever surfaced, until now.

The high cost of the cartridge wasn't the only interesting thing about the listing. For example, the only delivery method offered was "pick-up only" and the picture of the actual cart was altered to not show the actual color of the label.

With such a unique and controversial listing, and a new piece of Atari history we tracked down the owner and decided to investigate further and conducted the following e-mail interview shortly after the auction began..

I put the listing at $99,999.00 briefly, but decided to jack it back up because the last thing I wanted to do was have some rich guy that had $100G's to throw away come along deciding he wanted a "one of a kind" and do just that.

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