Rik1138

Selling some very rare vintage handheld VFD and LED games: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=rik1138&_sop=10 Including: Entex Black Knight pinball Eurosonic Pucki & Monsters VFD tabletop (boxed) Ludotronic Operation 'Z' (loose, but looks new) (same Actronics Wanted G-Man) Mattel Look Alive! Football Quelle Kampf der Monster (Bandai Go Go Dynaman VFD game) (boxed) Bandai Tokon Juohmaru (mint boxed VFD game) Bandai Kiteyo Perman (NOS boxed VFD game) And some other not-so rare stuff... I'll be listing more in January...

Yeah, it's cool to hear about someone that kept them back in the day and knows what they are to the community now. But the important thing is getting them dumped and having at least one or two backups somewhere. Those EPROMs won't last forever, and you also want to protect against some tragedy like a house burning down or someone not knowing what they are and throwing them away or something... I'm not too fussed about whether they are shared, just knowing they exist and we can at least read about them and see screenshots and stuff is good enough for me! I'm glad there's someone that people can trust to share stuff with the community, but not release it if that is their wish... Keep up the good work!

Echoing Emehr, I'm just amazed when previously unknown prototypes like this STILL show up after all these years... Can you provide any backstory about where this came from/where it was found? (Generic of course, unless the owner wants to reveal themselves, but I love hearing the stories of things found in estate sales, or a programmer found a box in his attic he forgot about, etc, etc... )

If you are in Germany, or want to pay for shipping, there's some good stuff in these lots, going cheap so far... https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/165869945_veotrex-konvolut-konsole-diverses-zubehor Boxed Imager and both games + Vectrex and boxed extra controller https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/165869946_veotrex-konvolut-spiele Two boxed light pens, and a 3-D game... Listing them as 'Veotrex' instead of 'Vectrex' might help keep the bids away too... Just found them by chance myself... (Don't forget the 26.5% buyer's premium though...)

Just curious, would it be possible to add a search-by-size function to your website? So something where I could put in the dimensions of a box I have, and the site would tell me which ones are closest to that size... There's likely a lot of random games that have the same size boxes as others... Or close enough, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to go through all of them...

Old school MK II for MS-DOS PC computers: https://www.ebay.com/itm/285572395382 Box isn't perfect, but the paperwork inside is in excellent conditions, and the discs have never been opened...

Some C-64 stuff for sale. All stuff I purchased myself back in the 80's and largely never did anything with... DiskMaker still sealed: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325897904981 Troubleshooting and Repairing your C-64 https://www.ebay.com/itm/325897891760 Sams Commodore 64/128 Assembly Programming https://www.ebay.com/itm/325897889311 Machine Language for Beginners (Compute!- for several 8-bit machines like Apple, Commodore, Atari, CBM) https://www.ebay.com/itm/325897884966 Creating Arcade Games on the C-64 (Compute!) https://www.ebay.com/itm/325897881764

I get the desire for Promo copies, and even screeners (I tend to collect both in the CD/DVD/Blu-ray realm, but they have to be MANUFACTURED differently than the retail versions for me...), but this isn't really either. It's technically what is called a 'cut-out'. It's just some of the normal, production run that the studio pulled out and gave away to people. Not even a guarantee it's an early release, they would do that with a movie like the Matrix when Matrix 2 came out, etc... All that's 'unique' about it is a sticker that says Promotional placed over the barcode. ANYONE could print a sticker like that and stick it over the barcode of any product... It probably was applied by the studio, but I'd really be surprised if anyone cares all that much. But as someone said, it only takes one fool with a lot of money... I have a sealed copy of the original Star Wars Trilogy on VHS that I was about to take to Goodwill or something until I saw a couple of copies in 'near mint' condition selling for nearly $1000... And mine's in better condition as I just put it in storage the day I got it and forgot about it... Might be time to get that graded and in an auction.

Bumping a VERY old thread here.. But maybe interesting information either way. Where did you read all of that about the Biederman cart? I know the Wideboys and the Retrovision have the actual CPU from the Gameboy in them, so they are basically re-packaged Gameboys that just output video and audio through the NES. Seems like they are basically just using the video-out circuitry of the NES and nothing else. Probably wouldn't have been too hard to just make them 'Gameboys that plug into a TV' if they added a video/audio output circuit... The Famicom Wideboy does have two programmable gate arrays and a PAL chip, so there is some customization there, but not sure what they do exactly. But converting Z80 code to 6502 code on the fly would probably have never worked (or worked well). Likely the Biederman cart also had the Gameboy CPU in it and was going to work similarly to the Wideboy...

And then another bidder placed a bid, got the price up to $650 or so, and then both bidders retracted all their bids... Not sure what's going on with this one...

I love that there's 7 bids now, and it's still at the opening bid of $500. That means it's all bids from the same bidder... Maybe deciding to up their maximum 7 times? He's selling an 'Apple Vision' Brazilian 2600 now too: https://www.ebay.com/itm/115531125426 Don't think I've ever seen either one of these myself...

I didn't read all of this in detail so sorry if this was mentioned... but remember one thing- that $600 limit before it's reported on your taxes has nothing to do with eBay specifically. It's on ANY digital payment you receive for anything, anywhere. You sell $600 worth of stuff here, and get paid by PayPal, you will be taxed on it, along with the 15% self-employment tax. (Payments for goods/services only, not friends and family/gifts). If you sell $600 worth of stuff on Facebook marketplace, OfferUp, or an add in your local paper, a garage sale at your house, if you accept a digital payment (PayPal, Venmo, Square, whatever), it will get reported as income if your total for the year exceeds $600 for that payment service. Accepting cash, checks, money orders and PayPal as 'friends and family' is the only way to not have it be automatically reported... (Not sure if Square, Venmo, etc have a 'friends and family' type of option...) So just selling here, or even selling at a swap meet (taking PayPal or Square on your phone) and you will run into the same problem... (At least if it's an in-person sale, you should both be comfortable with a friends/family payment...)

Not sure where you live, but look up Goodwill Computer Works. There's only like a dozen throughout the country (and not sure if they all survived the pandemic), but when I lived in Austin it was a great little store for finding all kinds of odd stuff. They used to have huge 'dump sales' every 6 months, with giant bins full of damn near anything you could think of. $25 for whatever you could stuff in you car, $50 if you had a pickup truck... Miss those days... Good luck with the sale, I've never been able to forget those crazy 3DFX commercials. Some of the best marketing I had ever seen...

I'm pretty sure many people have a copy of it, and that it's properly preserved... Not sure what makes you think otherwise... Just like the version that was finally released- it had been dumped, preserved, and even emulated in MAME for decades... I'd love to see it publicly released, but 'preservation' and 'giving a copy to everyone' are not even remotely related to one another...

But the important question is- can someone finally win the sword???