Time 2000 is probably the hardest one to find out of the bunch. Middle Earth comes up fairly frequently, space riders not quite as much.

None of the Atari pins are particularly exciting to play, although Time 2000's layout is certainly quite different with the way the four flippers are arranged.

Atari pins aren't seen enough in working order for most folks to gauge how they play.

At *some* point (and once I find a Time 2000 or Time 2000 cab), I'd really like to get all of mine up and running and line them all up together at a show.

If only someone could come up with an aftermarket boardset....so many of these games could easily be brought back to life

Yeah, Superman is really the only highly desirable one out of the bunch just because of the theme.

Unless you are really enthusiastic about Atari games or are already geared up to repair them, it's probably best to let them go if you have other projects to work on. However--they do get parted out a lot because they are often not working, and I at least try to prevent that fate from befalling them, especially since most of them are in really good cosmetic condition.

The artwork is certainly wild--and quite colorful. Much different than most other pins. One of the main reasons why I like them.

They don't fold!

Honestly, I'm not sure anymore if that number is actually accurate (even though it's the only production number that came out from Atari's paperwork on production numbers for their pins). I've been starting to think it was a typo and the number might have been 3500, rather than 350. I see Airborne Avenger pop up all the time.

I was emailing someone at the start of the year about the possibility of remaking atari boards and displays. I'll have to check with him again and see if he started on anything yet. So far, this fellow seemed to be the only one that I'm aware of with any interest in coming up with something.

There were *two* at pinfest this past weekend. I thought the prices were a bit high for their condition though.

Nice

Heh...the games I saw at the show played nothing like that.

In all fairness, some technical and design choices they made were certainly cringe-worthy. But a few things they did were innovative at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial

Only about 1300 cartridges of the estimated 700,000 were removed from the burial, as the remaining materials were deeper than expected, and made them more difficult to access