jahfish

hi millerscrapin, i'll tell you if you trade me yours

well, i collect only one box from each company. that makes it more than hard enough to complete it ... think about boing or waterworld or similar rarities .... i only try to get all variations ... i have 5 different space invaders in different languages and different styles (red-silver- brown - light blue - dark blue), one box from the sesame street series, one from the disney game packs (actually similar but in different colors) and that's it for atari .... besides 7 different boxed consoles imagine you go into details and try to get all atari games boxed including the variations ... well have fun completing your collection of japanese boxes. these seem impossible to find. only thing i ever got in my hands is a phoenix manual in japanese. but have have a great respect for those box hunters like marco. don't let me discourage you! i was also very influenced by the packaging design and the graphics, but after a while i realised for me, that i could find all these in the manuals too. and more in the catalogs. so i started focussing on those, specially addtional handouts, related items like rub-off cards, stickers, etc .... these items are way easier to get. and there more stuff i don't know about, so there's always new surprises to find out! greetings fish

one promo-pack for me too please. thanx fish

hehe .... wollte ich auch fragen!

i have a bunch of new joypads here still in the original packaging. send me your tradelist if you are interested. i realised they are quite rare in usa, while they were distributed with the 7800 and 2600 junior in europe.

here's the insanity in person. the name: fish i have about 900+ carts. i can't even count them anymore, it's too complicated ... i guess the first 150 titles are only the atari & sears titles. i am not sure about the number of games (without counting similar or bootleg titles), it is supposed to be about 650 .. while all carts come up to way more than 1500. ask marko, i bet he is one of the three biggest collectors ..... and always when you think there's just this & that missing, there's something else appearing from nowhere .... example: i have nearly all atari & sears titles, waterworld & loaner carts, even all consoles boxed (thanx, scott!) and i really thought the quest is over .... now i just found out about some label variations from atari, on the carts they produced specially for new-zealand .... hehe, it's really insane ... greetings fish

i really like the specials sets. the box is nice, the start menu where you choose the games is nice too ... these PAKs were released in australia, then later distributed in netherlands, germany, ...the box says it was limited, and it took me a year to get all 8 limited paks (super action Pak- super hit Pak- mega fun Pak- rad action Pak- sport action Pak- Go for Gold Pak-.smash hit Pak- hot action Pak) in a good condition. the value of those seens to vary. i have seen people pay between 2-3$ to 20$ for a loose cart, and 5-25$ for a boxed one ..... they must be rare in USA, as it was a PAL cartridge, and only the harcore collectors start collecting PAL after a while. if i were you, i would stick to them. i usually collect only one box plus variations from each company, but i had to get the whole set of PAKs .... now i use the carts for my atari travelling plastic case, the one you can put in a console, controllers and 14 carts. so that way i have a lot more games than cartridges that would fit in this case. when i ordered my last missing PAK, i had to find out that the PAKs were also released in a white midsized package, so the quest ain't over.... the rarest HES titles are double-packs with imagic or CBS games ... hard to get! they also have a nice catalog with a double dragon cover. and an incredible copy cart set in a vinyl case from Homevision. there has been then a lot of single titles: nearly all activision titles, parker titles like frogger, Imagic Titles like Atlantis, Bomb Titles like wall defender, cbs titles like donkey kong .... and even tnt bmx airmaster has been released in a vinyl pak. so i hope this can help. decide for yourself how much importance there is for you in collecting those ... it's a little the same problem than having most atari carts, and then start collecting the sears titles (all the same). at the end .... the more you have, the more you want to get. it's an adictive drug. greetings fish

anybody looking for a compumate? send me your tradelist .... [email protected] fish

i have a small folder (color+silver) about the 5200 console, some games and the super arcade controller. as the 5200 is nearly impossible to get in germany, i trade my only 5200-item i have. if you have any interesting stuff for the 2600 let me know. i am looking for a xonox catalog, the green logbook from atari or a sears catalog for example ....

you mean the regular typo ... that must be some classic font like FranklynGothic or frutiger or similar .... dunno the exact one right now. on the manuals they used Helvetica (depending the manuals), on the paddles there's a bauhaus typo ...

hi albert, i could lower the picture size a little more ... i hope you will be able to have that extra section soon online. would be a nice one ... or at least this could be an extra section for the message board did you read my posting about the contest? also i would have more ideas for new sections, but let's see how active the others will be on this one ... all you others, post some more pics of other cases or storage solutions ... come on. don't sleep! greetings fish

stick to www.gamereset.de if you need assistance for brasilian carts .... greetings fish gamereset

yes, i am thinking of more variations .... - a toilet with built in paddles and a screen on the wall - a pocketsize game that you can open up like the small motorola mobile phones - in addition to this, a small joystick where the stick can be screwed of and slide in on the side, like the pen on the palm. - put all this antique technology on a very small card including all games, so that you can insert it into the base of a remote control joystick and instead of the antenna, just have a cable going directly to the TV. how great would that be? the "all-in-one joystick. it would be similar to the megaboy with 256 games on it .... but i don't think we need to discuss the visual and feeling difference. that's a good project for the VCSp guys .... let them know ... - similar to the romcharger, a TV set that you fix directly on the console, maybe even a tft-screen to make it lighter and smaller ... - have you seen the plastic case in my "storage" posting? why take out the console ? ... let's have a samsonite with a powercable on the back. open up and you're smiling at the build-in tft-screen, in the bottom case, you choose from 50 carts that you can insert directly on the side. or will they be allready connected because the whole bottom part is a mega-game-brain? hot sh*** now post some more ideas ..... maybe one of these things will be built ...

ok, i will send you some starnge pictures, but even if i win: please give the price and specially the title of "most obscure item" to this guy who build a 2600 console into his VW scirocco. that's one of today's last heroes. give him the price! now or after the contest, whatever ... greetings fish

excursion on the storage theme part 4 so now you think you've seen everything and all that is boring? or you have all of that allready? ok! here's the solution: get together your 24 rarest carts and insert them into this imagic demo console that was made for the shops. or get the atari kiosk if you like it complicated and want to incorporate boxes games into your storage solution or at least try to get this display for boxed carts and accessoires now you have a real quest, probably harder than finding all the easter eggs at the digipress-competition. i am sure you have more chances on this nice item: a very nice wooden case for the console and games. it was manufactured by a brasilian company called framar. ok, so for for my little storage excursion, i hope the loading time didn't kill you ....let me know what i forgot greetings fish

excursion on the storage theme part 3 why extra storage solutions ? it's good to have the games you like to play more accessible .... also the ones you like to show to collecting friends so beside having this wonderfull ataricase with console, both controllers, 13 carts and power unit that you can take everywhere .... there some real good solutions like the gamebrain. a multi-cartridge-unit for 6 games where you choose the game you want to play by pushing the appropriate button or the romcharger for 10 carts if that isn't enough, you can connect a second unit to your gamebrain by just putting the connector in the 5th slot of the first unit. i couldn't find the instructions so i am sorry there's no scan possible of this illustration.

excursion on the storage theme part 2 they were soon copied by many third party producers ... on the next picture you see (my) modular cases from canada (very nice because of their silver framing) that i combinated to a pyramid. you can do some crazy sh** if you have a lot of these boxes. clean them well before so they won't get stuck forever. Very nice for the UR comavid carts you probably won't get boxes for, are these small "telespiele" cases from germany. they are a bit longer, so the comavid titles exactly fit inside ... (i have a few ones i may trade for some atari binder, i still look for the dark one and the one without the fuji logo) let me know if you have any box for the only two milton bradley titles they released. i have them right now in a doublegame-package from HES from the multicart titles. (also some homevision and ITT games were packed that way, and of course some CBS and Parker titles licensed by HES in australia) i am sure you can find some empty ones like that from packaging companies that may have those stored somewhere ....

obviously all special cases and boxes very forgotten in the storage & care section. ok, here's some more tips for storage: if you don't want to hide your loose carts in big boxes, specially if you like to play some of them as well, then there's some great possibilities to collect them: let's start with the atari binders: there has been at leat 3 variations of the binder they are very nice for the rare atari games like video cube, obelix, quadrun, crazy climber ... or the loaner carts. but i don't know if these games were mentioned on the original set of title stickers you see on the next picture next to the new boxed binder, you see the two other storage systems from atari: these are the game library .... and the modular cartridge library .... ... and maybe this one (i don't know the origin)!

heh ... another try

i will enjoy ... i also like the idea of the storage section. let me just test an image link (it should work) and i will provide you some good aditional info and pics ...

it's a very nice site, always helpfull .... but i prefered to have the message board in one single part. on the other side, you were loosing old messages quite fast. now you may have a better overview ... we'll see ... in the meantime, i wish you good luck and many visitors on your site ... greetings fish