![]() ![]() Also, because Agent X is so rare, hopefully it will mean I am one of the few people who have a copy of vector artwork for the Agent X kickplate, sideart, marquee, speaker overlays, control panel, or whatever else I decided to vectorize and prepare for reproduction. I like the two people I have met, so it is a good opportunity to show them some good will in networking. Now they made have made their hands into serious collectors who know their value, similar to Joe, but the only way you might get one is to start the way he did and track down some old Atari employees. Pictionary: The Game of Video Quick Draw : 1990 Developer : Software. So basically my interpretation of this information is that of the few Agent X’s that were produced, most of them are or at one time were owned by Atari employees. Genre : Sports Paperboy Game Manual Hop on. “Probably way more information than you wanted, but it’s one of my prize games, so I like talking about it! It was a pretty big search to find and get.” Slight art changes were made to coincide with the movie released with the same name. ![]() Certainly one of the most valuable in my collection.” Dedicated prototype game for Cloak & Dagger. I’m sure that’s no longer a valid offer as that person has since got a dedicated Cloak & Dagger. At one point someone offered me $10,000 for my Agent X. The last one I heard selling was a Cloak & Dagger which sold for $3,000. Dedicated units are close to impossible, as there were only 20 or so made, and the ones out there are typically in collectors hands that don’t want to sell them. “Cabinet wise, conversion units are cheap and relatively easy to find. So game play wise, Agent X and Cloak & Dagger are exactly the same, only difference is the title screen.” Cloak & Dagger was released for general purchase in kit only form, for converting other games, specifically Williams games (Stargate, Defender, Robotron, Joust). Of those 20, 7 were Agent X, and the other 13 were Cloak & Dagger. Rumor has it that only 20 dedicated Agent X units were ever made and these were only made for field testing purposes, they were never meant for public release. Agent X was already a version of the game. Then Hollywood made the movie Cloak & Dagger and asked Atari to make a game for it. When Atari originally developed the game, the name was Agent X. “On the Cloak & Dagger, it gets a little collector/geeky/anal. This is what Joe had to say about Agent X, recalling as best he could the history of the game off the top of his head and what he had to go through to find his It wasn’t until successive conversions later that I found out about Agent X’s rarity. I have met one owner of an Agent X arcade game, although I didn’t know anything about it when I met him, nor did I even see the game during my visit. ![]()
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