Ok…this is a very cool auction, but I might actually be more excited about the fact that this unearths a bit of video game history that I did not previously know (Steve Kent needs to get back to work).

eBay seller atarimuseum has several interesting auctions up, but my favorite (and the one getting the most blogosphere love) is the Super Breakout LCD Prototype.

The history lesson comes from the Atari Museum page linked to from the auction page:

Atari started and quickly stopped its new division: Atari Electronics Games. Among the products were the Atari Touch Me handheld which was released in 1978 and coming in 1980 there would be two new handhelds based on the Atari licensed Space Invaders and Atari’s own Breakout. These new games would be managed through Atari’s new offices in the Toy Building at 200 Fifth Ave in New York City. However sluggish sales in the handheld market did not look favorable to Atari’s management and the plug was pulled on Atari’s new Electronics Games Division and with it the new handhelds.

…and accompanying awesome image:

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