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One of the more common Atari Questions / E-Mails we get, do you really have that Atari part or Atari item in stock. I have checked the world wide Internet and you are the only one that lists it? I noticed that your that your Atari web page(s) have not been updated (bottom of each Best Web page has a last updated date) for weeks, months or years? When we cleared out the local Atari Sunnyvale Warehouses here over a 10 to 15 year period, we hauled in thousands and thousands of Pallets of Atari Goods. Some Atari items we have a lifetime supply of (hence why the Best Atari web page for that product never gets updated) and other Atari items have sold out fast to the Atari collectors.

Here is a chronological listing of all Best Atari Web site Updates, Corrections or New Atari items since it went up in early 2002.

As you will see, we keep the Best Atari Web site current and up to date for all Atari Consumer products we support.

The World Leader in Atari Parts and Atari Supplies. On February 1, 2012

Best Electronics started its 28th year in the Atari business!

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The Perfect Holiday / Birthday Gift for that Atari Person.

Best Electronics was Voted "The Best Atari Supporting Company" in the World. By World Wide Atari users, in the Independent online, MyAtari 2002 and 2003 web site Surveys and 1st Runner up in the 2004 Survey! Survey was not run in 2005 - 2011!

New Best Customer feed back review! on his first Atari order from Best Electronics. Recently published in an Independent on line Atari Magazine.

More Best Atari Customer feed back:

All feed back comments are spontaneous Best customer comments and are posted here with the permission of each author.

Mark W. of the UK "Thanks very much for the cable, it works a charm." Best ST Multi Sync Adapter cable. Follow up question: Do you have a similar cable, but with audio break out?

Answer: Already built into the Best ST Multi Sync adapter cable.

Follow up Comment: "It was great before I realized it had built in audio out. Now I'm over the moon."

James A. of CO "Thanks for the last order - - stellar selection, service, and shipping speed, as always!"

Dimitrios B. of Greece "I receive yesterday my Falcon 2 GB Falcon Compact Flash Upgrade Kit
and im very happy !!! Thank you!!!!"
Follow up Comment "Im very happy with my 2 GB Falcon Compact Flash Upgrade Kit!!! Excellent quality and the best documentation ever seen!!!! Thank you!"

James A. of CO "the new, refurbished 5200 controllers are FANTASTIC!" Bests Reconditioned Upgraded 5200 Gold CX52 Joysticks

Mark R. of UK "I'd like to thank you for your previous outstanding service. I thoroughly intend on coming back again and again." Marks comment after placing his fourth International Atari order with Best. "I wouldn't normally mention this, but a few months ago, I bought a 600XL keyboard from another seller via eBay (this was before I found Best) and on unpacking, it looked like the bare keyboard had just been thrown into a box with others (i.e. it had scratched up keys with dings in the trim)."

103+ Additional Best Customer Feedback Comments from all over the World

Best Electronics Company wide Recycling and Eco efforts!

The Best Electronics State of the Art internal Upgrade for the Classic Atari CX40 Joystick!

Also See Atari CX40 Joysticks upgraded with the New Best CX40 Internal Upgrade!

Atari Flashback2 New Owners. Did you know that there is an Internal Hack / User installed upgrade that will allow the New Fixed 40 internal game Flashback2 Atari consoles to use the over 400 to 600+ Atari 2600 Game cartridges? It does require you open up (Break the Warranty seal) your Flashback2 Console and solder wires to the Flashback2 motherboard. Best Electronics is listed in this article and the only one in the world to have the New Atari 2600A Cartridge Guide assemblies ($10, Limit one) in stock for this Flashback2 upgrade.

What you should know before you buy a TV Switch box or direct connect RF adapter for your Atari 2600 / 5200 / 7800 Game System or Atari Computer to your Cable Ready TV!

I over paid for an Atari item! E-Bay is a great place for Atari Bargains, but over the last 5 to 7 years we have seen E-bay bidders over pay for thousands of New and Used Atari items that have No Warranty at all, when Best Electronics has the exact same New Atari item in stock for less money with the normal Atari 90 Day Warranty and in most cases with cheaper shipping charges. If you do have a problem with your Atari E-Bay item you won and it is sold as No Returns, you can come to Best Electronics to get the Atari replacement parts or free Best Atari Technical advice on how to fix your ailing E-Bay Atari item. So when you find an Atari item on E-Bay you are thinking about bidding on, suggest you come to the Best Atari Web site and use the above search function (and also located at the bottom of most of the Best Web site pages) to find if Best Electronics has the same New Atari item in stock. Remember that not all of the over 5,000+ Atari items we have in stock are listed at this Atari web site, only the more popular ones we get requests for. So if the Best Web site search function does not find it on this web site, send us an E-Mail to Sales. The lesson here is, you should always check the Best Web site before bidding on any Atari item and do not get caught up in E-Bay Bidding fever. Here are some recent samples of over paid or over priced Atari items we seen on E-Bay:

VERY RARE ATARI 5200 SILVER LABEL ZONE RANGE NEW IN BOX. 30 days money back, buyer pays return shipping Current 4 day E-Bay Auction as of 02-03-12 Buy it now for $43.79 with free shipping.

In stock for the last 15+ years, New in the Shrunk Wrapped box Activisions 5200 Zone Ranger with normal 90 day Atari Warranty.

$20.00 plus shipping

Jaguar Atari Banner With Cat Eyes 800/7800/2600/XL/XE/ST Collector USED No returns or exchanges! Final E-Bay Auction winning bid on 02-02-12 $30.95 plus free Shipping

Bests New Atari Jaguar Banner with normal 90 day Warranty $24.00 plus Shipping.

Used Parker Brothers Frogger Video Game for Atari 400/800. No returns or exchanges! Current E-Bay Auction as of 02-01-12. E-Bay starting bid $17.99 plus $5.95 shipping.

Best New in the Shrunk Wrapped box, Parker Brothers Frogger for Atari 400 / 800 / 65XE / 130XE / 1200XL / XE Game System with normal 90 day Atari Warranty. $17.95 plus shipping

ATARI 400 / 800 / 800XL / 1200XL/XE * CHICKEN * GAME NEW 7 days money back, buyer pays return shipping Current E-Bay Auction as of 02-01-12. Starting E-Bay bid $19.99 or Buy it Now for $24.99 plus $5.00 shipping

Bests New in the Shrunk Wrapped box Synapse Software Chicken game with normal 90 day Atari Warranty $17.95 plus shipping.

ATARI 5200 CONTROLLER / JOYSTICK REBUILT - 14 Days 100% guaranty! 3 available 14 days item exchange only, buyer pays return shipping. History 3 Sold. (Reconditioned with new Atari CX52 carbon dot Joystick parts bought from Best Electronics by the E-Bay seller) Current 17 Day E-Bay Auction as of 02-01-12 Buy It now for $38.95 plus $6.00 shipping

Bests Reconditioned Carbon Dot version CX52 Joystick with normal 90 day Atari Warranty $27.00 plus shipping.

Best Upgraded Reconditioned Gold Dot version (lifetime version) CX52 Joystick with normal Atari 90 day Warranty $43.00 plus shipping.

Atari 7800 CX-78 European Joystick Joypad Thumb Controller 2600 / 800 / XL/ XE / ST No returns or exchanges! Final E-Bay Auction winning bid on 01-31-12 $39.99 plus $4.00 Shipping

Bests New Atari CX78 Joypad with normal 90 Day Atari Warranty $17.00 plus shipping. The E-bay above seller incorrectly listed the CX78 Joypad as it would work with Atari ST computers. The Best ST computers Upgraded CX78 Joypad version $17.95 plus shipping

Used Parker Brother Star Wars ROTJ (Return of the Jedi) Video Game For Atari 400/800 No returns or exchanges! Current E-Bay auction as of 01-26-12. Starting E-Bay Bid $28.99 plus $5.95 Shipping

Bests New in the Parker Brothers Shrunk Wrapped Box Star Wars Return of the Jedi for Atari 8 bit computers with normal 90 day Atari Warranty $24.95 plus shipping.

Used stock Carbon dot Atari 5200 Joystick Controller, in excellent working order and has been very well taken care of. No returns or exchanges! Current 15 day E-Bay auction as of 01-26-12. Buy it now for $49.99 plus $8.83 shipping

Read about the 24+ year known problems with the Atari stock CX52 Carbon Dot Joysticks

Best Upgraded Reconditioned Gold Dot version (lifetime version) CX52 Joystick with normal Atari 90 day Warranty $43.00 plus shipping.

206+ examples of over paid for E-Bay Atari items

Best Electronics Atari Joystick, Paddle, Trackball and other Atari Controllers Quick Reference Guide!

Best Electronics Quick Reference Guide for Atari Replacement OEM Power Supplies, Cables and Connections to TV's and Monitors

Best Atari Information tip: Atari Power Supplies or what you should know before you buy a used E-Bay Atari Power supply or E-Bay Atari product with an used internal Atari Power Supply.

Best Atari XL / XE Power Supply information tip. Are all Atari XL / XE replacement power supplies the same?

Best Electronics Final Answer to the Atari 5200 Joystick 20+ year Problems, What Every Atari 5200 Owner Should Know!

Best Electronics Exclusive and Very Comprehensive article on the proper rebuilding Atari CX52 5200 Joysticks Includes a short list of the more popular Atari CX52 Joystick and Atari 5200 OEM replacement parts we carry (end of Article).

Announcing The first Major Improvement to the Atari CX52 Hand Controller in 15 years!

Do you have one of the Classic Atari CX40 Joysticks that is not working well? We have the perfect Solution for you. Includes a short list of Atari CX40 OEM replacement parts and the Brand New Best Gold CX40 PCB boards

Good News! for Atari CX40 Joystick rebuilders! As you know Best has been very low (close to running out of them forever) on the Atari CX40 rubber boots and has had a Very Strict Limit of One Atari CX40 replacement boot per Customer total for the last couple of years. Recently we were breaking down a pallet (one of hundreds and hundreds we still have to break down and put the Atari items in stock) of Atari goods and parts we bought out of the local Sunnyvale Atari warehouses 8 to 10 years ago. On this pallet of Atari goods, we found a small cache of Atari CX40 rubber boots. So for now we have raised the Limit of Atari CX40 boots to 5 per customer per order.

Do you have an old pair of Atari CX30 Paddles that have Shaking / Jittery cursors when you use them? Read how simple it is to cure this problem. Includes a short list of Atari CX30 Paddle OEM replacement parts. One of the critical parts required for this Atari CX30 Paddle rebuild was Sold Out, but after a 6 to 7 year search the critical CX30 Paddle part just got upgraded to a 3X better version. See information below.

Another Best Electronics Exclusive Atari Upgrade item! Read about Best Electronics 6 to 7 year search for a replacement Atari CX30 Paddle Potentiometer. New Extended life Atari CX30 Paddle and Ultra Pong, Super Pong, Super Pong Pro Am hand held Pong Paddle controllers replacement Super Potentiometers!!!

Back in Stock after a long absence, the Atari CX24 Joystick / Atari CX22 Trackball Fire button replacement PCB's.

Atari CX40 Joystick Users! New Improved / Upgraded Atari Replacement Inner Joystick Handle!

State of the Art, Atari Joystick for the Older Atari Systems!

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Ever hear an old Atari person talking about an Atari BBS or Sysops and wonder what they were talking about? Find out what Atari Computer users did 15 to 18+ years ago, before the Internet as we know it! See a Demo of an Atari BBS or with a little effort, you can once again connect up to a live Atari BBS!

Best Atari Information Tip: What you need to know before you buy an Atari Light Gun for your Atari 8 bit computer or Atari 2600 / 7800 game system

Having trouble connecting up the your old Atari to your Cable Ready TV and think your Atari is Bad? or What you should know before you connect up your Old Atari Product to your Cable Ready TV. Check out our Best Electronics Money Saving Atari Information tips (and other common problems) before you doing anything else with your Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Atari 8 bit Computers or ST Computer system! These Best Tech Tips also apply to Most Atari products made, that connect up to a TV.

Best Atari 2600 Tech Tip! What to look for when Buying/Bidding on a Used or third party Reconditioned Atari 2600 / 2600A / 2600Jr console. Includes a list of Atari OEM 2600 replacement parts.

New Atari Dust Covers for the Atari 2600/2600A Consoles and for the first time in 22+ years, Brand New Custom made Covers for the Atari 2600JR and Atari 7800 Consoles

New Atari Engineering 2600 Heavy and Light console Composite Video Kit

The Atari 2600, Glory Days

A new published mini article on Atari 2600 History.

Best Atari Tech Tip: Faulty Game Cartridges?

How you can salvage questionable Atari Game Cartridges.

Other Best Free Atari Tech Tips

Latest Free Atari Tech Tip on getting Composite Video out of your Atari 2600, 5200 or 7800 without any internal Mods.

Atari 2600 Cartridge Collectors! Do you have an Atari 32 in 1 Game Cartridge in your Collection?

New Atari Prototype / Unreleased in the US, 7800 Light Gun Game! Atari US / NTSC version Sentinel.

Have you seen those E-Bay Auctions for 7800 Composite Video modifications? You pay from $35 to $50+ and send (you pay for the shipping) in your 7800 console to be modified. Best Electronics has a new Atari Engineering designed 7800 Composite Video mod for US 7800 Consoles you can do yourself for far less money!

New or First Time US Atari bidders, Read our informative Best Atari Information Tip, That will save you some Grief, Hassles and Money!!

Thru a Special Purchase, Best Electronics has purchased the remaining New stock of the Wizztronics MIDIMAX MIDI Keyboard interfaces (first released in 1985) recently unearthed at Wizztronics, for the Atari 8 Bit Computers (400 (48K), 800 (48K), 1200XL, 800XL, 65XE / 130XE or XE Game Machines with an Atari 8 bit Disk drive. With an inexpensive MIDI Compatible Keyboard you can now learn how to Play MIDI Synthesizers, Drum machines, Write/Save, Play and Modify Music without the normal High cost of a normal MIDI system and Computer. A Brand New application for your Classic Atari 8 bit Computer!! Sold Out!

Bests New Enhanced Composite Video cable for the Atari 65XE / 800 / 800XL / 130XE / 1200XL Computers

Just In Dust Cover for the Atari 800XL Computer with the Atari Logo!

New Unreleased / Prototype Atari XE Game Cartridge!

The Rare and Hard to find Atari 400 Factory 48K Ram Expansion Kit!

Once is a Lifetime buy. New Atari 825 80 Column printers in the Atari Original 30+ year Factory boxes!

Check out Best Electronics Latest Product!
New Atari Lynx Collector Items, Very Limited Supply

Reconditioned Atari Lynx I and II Console Specials!

Best Atari Tech Tip for a dead Atari Lynx

New Feature: You now can sample the Music Tracks on the Atari Jaguar Tempest 2000 Audio CD before you buy! Originally scored for the Tempest 2000 Jaguar Game Cartridge. Normally Only sold with the Jaguar CD players, Now you can purchase it separately! Only $5.00

Now in stock the long over due Jaguar combo Composite and Enhanced S-Video Cable.

Best Electronics Repairs Atari Jaguar CD Drives. Please E-Mail Us for details and costs.

Best Electronics exclusive Jaguar console Red Screen of Death Atari Tech Tip.

Atari ST / Mega / STE / MegaSTE / TT / Falcon Owners. Heard of the Atari produced Upgrade Ajax Disk Controller Chip and wonder what it was? Read about this Atari Custom chip that is fully Backward (to all ST computers made) and Forward compatiable to the very old WD1772 Disk Controller chip. Atari designed State of the Art Custom drop in replacement DSDD / HD Floppy Disk Controller Chip.

Best Electronics is now the US Distributor for the Atari ST Bench Mark HDDRIVER Rev. 8.41 ST Hard Drive / Hard Drive Mech. Prep program.

New Double Sided, Double Density (DSDD) 3 1/2 Floppy Disks! Atari 520ST, 520STFM, 1040ST, Mega 1/2/4, Stacy 1/2/4, MegaSTE, early Mac's and Amiga Computers Owners. Have you tried to find New 3 1/2 inch DSDD Floppy disks lately? They are basically an obsolete / discontinued item and have not been produced by Floppy Disk Manufactures for close to 8 to 10 years now. Best Electronics recently got in a lot of New DSDD 3 1/2 Floppy Disks, probably the last new ones we will ever see. Also see the Best Floppy Disk Information tip below.

Best 3 1/2 Floppy Disk Information tip: for Atari ST Midi Composers and ST Users who use Atari 520ST, 520STFM, 1040ST, Mega 1/2/4, 1040STE, Stacy 1/2/4, MegaSTE, TT Computers equipped with 720K Internal Disk Drives also early Mac's and Amiga owners, are you having problems saving data to your floppy disks? Are you using the wrong type of Floppy disks?

Alldata and Bell and Howell users! Best Electronics has full Hardware support for your Atari ST/Mega (Alldata 3 and 4 Systems) Auto Diagnostic System and 1040STE, MegaSTE or Falcon based Bell and Howell Mail sorting System. Atari Mice, Atari Keyboards, Atari Replacement Monitors/Multi Sync adapter cables or board level Components.

Atari STM1 Gray ST / MegaSTE / TT / Falcon Mouse Rebuild Kits

Atari TT and MegaSTE Owners, Looking for Replacement Internal SCSI 1 Hard Drive?

Looking for an Atari ST Color, ST Mono Chrome Replacement Monitor? Find out how you can get 2 ST monitors in 1, using Best Electronics Multi Sync Monitor adapter cable. Now with a New Expanded List of over 110+ Compatible ST Multi Sync Monitors! New Updated Information on using the Best ST Multi Sync adapter cable with a RGB to VGA Converter Box to just about any of the Newer Larger LCD / TFT Computer Monitors, The Largest LCD TV's and Projection TV's. This RGB to VGA converter box will also work with any of the largest Tube type of Multi Sync monitors too.

Best Electronics ST/Mega/TT/Falcon Truemouse Special!

To Celebrate Best Electronics 20+ years in the Atari Business and 14+ years selling the High Quality Truemouse (The ST/MegaSTE/TT/Falcon replacement mouse), we are running a Limited Special! Buy 2 Truemouse�s for $34.95 each (click here for more information on the Truemouse) and get a "FREE" Atari Handy Mouse / Mini Trackball (click here for more information on the Atari Handy mouse), a $32.95 value!

Special to end without notice!

Best Electronics exclusive Mouse Plus Teflon upgrade internal roller set for the Taiwan Made STM1 Gray 520ST / 520STFM / 1040ST / 1040STE / MegaSTE / TT and Falcon ST mice.

Best Electronics Sleeper ST Best Trackball

Now back in stock, the PC version of the Best Trackball!

Best Electronics is now the exclusive World Wide Distributor for the Wizztronics Falcon 2 1/2" to 3 1/2" IDE Hard Drive plug in adapter board

The New Best Atari Falcon Upgrade all Falcon users can use!

A Money Saving Best Tech Tip for Atari SLM605 Laser Printer Owners!

The Absolutely Impossible to find Atari ST BOOK Lap Top Battery!

Atari Falcon / PC/Mac Owners! Special Buy on External Iomega Jaz 1 Gig drives

New High Quality "Embroidered" Atari Logo T and Polo Shirts!

All sizes back in stock again! Also see our New Custom Embroidered Atari Golf Cap.

1987 Atari Player on Board Window sign

Atari Collectors, think you have one of just about one of everything Atari in your Collection, Maybe not?

On one of our recent Trips to a German Atari Messe (Fair) we found a rare Atari Collector item, which most Atari Collectors have Never seen before, a Genuine Atari Made Full Size Grocery Bag with the Atari Logo's on it. These Atari Collector Bags, were given out at the Atari Booth Store when you purchased some Atari Collector Clothing, Products or supplies 10 to 12 years ago. Very Limited Supply! and Limited to 1 per Lucky Atari Collector. $15 each.

See pictures of Best Electronics at the April 10 -11 1999 Semi Annual International German Atari Neuss Messe (Fair/Show)

Looking for a Non Atari Classic / Vintage older Video Game system, Classic game Cartridge / Game CD / Tape, Hand Held, Repairs or Current State of the Art Game Systems Support. Check out this suggested Web Site.

Our Revision 10 Catalog all Atari Catalog with over 5000+ Atari Parts and More! New Updated information! Catalog front and back cover pictures, Catalog Specifications, Catalog Questions and Answers, Comments and Reviews on the Best Rev. 10 Catalog, Ordering information.

Best Revision 10 Catalog 13 page Addendum online with color photos. Best Rev. 10 Catalog Owners, Down load and add the current Addendum to your Best Atari Catalog!

We are the Largest Atari Dealer for Atari OEM Replacement Parts in the World, for Atari Computers and Game Machines with over 5000+ different Atari Parts and Atari Accessories in Stock and Ready to ship. We cannot list our complete 5000+ Atari inventory on the web, but it's in our catalog. order your copy today.

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