Last Thursday, the 21st, Sotheby’s auctioned off a lot comprising more than 2,000 items that make up a kind of archive of the “Golden Age” of Atari, around the years 1981 and 1983. It seems that Cort Allen, a gentleman residing in Pleasenton (California), rescued all kinds of papers, sketches, and merchandising from the trash that he found in some old office furniture. The fact is that the estimated sale price of the lot was between $150,000 and $250,000, but no buyer reached the minimum price set by Allen and, for the moment, he remains the owner of this ‘treasure’. Here is the link, although to access it you will have to register, and you will also find a brief history of Atari courtesy of the auction house.
