Mindfield

Probably just an employee pirate. That wasn't uncommon among people who worked at game companies back in the day.

Removed all sold items (except for stuff purchased today) and combined the two separate posts into one so it's easier to pick stuff out now.

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I'll spare you the indignity. Remember that scene at the end of The Terminator where Sarah Connor slams a pneumatic press down on the T1000's head and its metal skull gets squished until its one cyborg eye fades out? Sarah Connor is the reset switch, you are the T1000, and Karate is the press.

Party at Moycon's! Bring your own shovel. And lots of bologna to keep him distracted. ObNote: O'Shea's website doesn't like Firefox.

Between the two, Pac-Man hands down. Way freakin' down. I mean c'mon, its own sequel puts it to terminal shame. (Yeah, okay, its own sequel was acutally pretty damn good so that doesn't say as much as it would seem to) E.T. isn't actually that bad if you actually sit down and give it half a chance -- and read the dang manual so you actually know what you're doing. Yeah, the pits are a pain in the ass and getting out of them can cause spontaneous premature hair loss, but those little gameplay logistics aside it's really not all that bad. Want a bad game? I mean a really, God-awful, soul-sucking, I-want-my-two-minutes-back bad? Play Froggo's Karate. Or Apollo's Skeet Shoot. Or Activision's Double Dragon. I mean, I can come up with a decent list of games that all plumb the veritable depths of horror, and each and every one of them would make you wish you were playing Pac Man and E.T. Simultaneously.

What's up with that one? Must have been done by one of the last owners of the proto. Is it also common that all of the lab loaners have tabs that are all written in the same hand by the same pen? (Not that I'm casting suspicion -- it just struck me as curious)

I wish I could find a place in my city that doled out $1 carts. The vast majority of thrifts and classic game places are far more like to charge $3, 5, even $10 per, because they're "vintage" and therefore "rare" (regardless of how common they actually are). Fleas are the worst for this kind of thing. Consider yourself lucky you live near a place that sells 'em cheap.

Unless these are on eBay or some other auction site, you may want to have this moved to Marketplace. Pictures for stuff like this will also help a lot, since a "found" stash like this is almost certainly going to be considered phony without some substantial proof to back it up.

Sonnova... I thougth for sure that thing was gonna go higher than that. I guess the winner done right by his own name...

Hey, real Atari-branded disks. I didn't even know they existed! Cool.

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I know it's legal in Canada and the UK at the very least. AFAIK the only reason the rule exists is because of the aforementioned Truth in Lending act in the US.

i have one for sale

I had that Jr. box a while back. Didn't know it was that uncommon.

Glad everything arrived okay! Crackpots is a fun game -- I start sucking when the little spiders start moving unpredictably from side to side though.

I always move my payment reciepts as soon as I'm finished paying for stuff, so if I suddenly get one of these damned things when I'm not expecting one I know right off the mark that it's a phish. I'm still pissed that they have my name (and others, of course). That crosses the line.

They're gone. But I have to ask -- what's Amityville Horror? (I know of the movie, just never heard of a game designed after it)

Wow, nice surprise there! Gotta love those vaguely descriptive lots. Sometimes you find a nice goodie or two.

My excuse is that I always bid above common borders (above the $0s and $5s, and/or anything other than common divisors like .50 or .99 or whatever)

There. That's better.

But if the BIN is for a lot less than the item is worth, your buckshot just ends up in your shoe. Unfortunately there are too damn many people with really bad aim.

Last call for alcohol! And carts! And manuals and hardware too, while you're at it.

No, International Editions were Canadian releases (bilingual French/English labels, manuals and boxes) Most PAL Activisions, IIRC, weren't distributed by Activision. (Kung Fu Master is one exception I can think of) Some were released by Salu in Europe (Ghostbusters II, for example) or HES in Australia (the "Pak" bundles, along with River Raid II and some others). The ones that were released by Activision were mostly late releases as far as I can remember, and had plain white labels similar to the black label editions in the US. This is not always an identifier though, since there are some NTSC white-label releases that also had black label releases (Space Shuttle, for example).