Concern: You expect me to carry an Atari cart in my pocket? That can’t be comfortable!
The truth: Atari wallets are the same size as a traditional wallet, but a fraction of the weight!

By the numbers:

…         Atari wallet  vs  Leather wallet  vs  iPhone G3

Length:     3.88 in.        3.5 - 4.5 in.            4.5 in.
Width:       3.32 in.        3 - 3.5 in.               2.4 in.
Depth:       0.81 in.        0.5 - 0.7 in.            0.48 in.
Weight:     46g              224 - 448g            133g
(56g with chip)    (or 5-10 Atari wallets)  (or 3 Atari wallets)

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There have been many comments about the ease and comfort of carrying an Atari wallet. While I’ve been carrying one for years, I forget that people will be concerned about carrying a piece of plastic in their pocket. Words flow from me like warm chunky peanut butter, so below is a much more eloquent response from a current Atari wallet user to others who expressed the same concern:

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I’ve had quite a few suggestions to include an option to send in your games for wallet repurposing, and I hear ya. The thought crossed my mind, too, but as the wallet-making processes became clear so too did the challenges of doing mail-in custom wallets.

The first challenge everyone recognizes is the need to keep all the parts marked & together. In reality, this is the least of the challenges, adding only a few minutes to the process. Sometimes issues crop up during the machining process and not all make it through the process alive. Hell, some carts do not have the proper internals to complete a wallet, but enough carts fail along the way to balance out against the number of carts missing the necessary guts. Let’s also keep in mind I have to have enough carts to warrant another machining run, which unless the wallets become overly successful this will not be happening with frequency enough to support this kind of request.

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