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  5. Posted

    The way Buyatari does it is not all that bad. Saves the owner of CEC from having to buy more coins so it's not a total loss for him. It reminds me of a time I did something similar...

    My Dad does road construction/removal and I remember back in the 80's when I was a horribly addicted Arcade Rat (like most of us kids were) he would save any kind of coin or token he found while ripping roads apart in a huge jar and give them to me to use in the arcades (probably so I would stop begging him for quarters) Most of them were these things called "Trade Tokens" from the early 1900's. Well, a lot of them worked! I hit the jackpot, free video games! The joke was on me 20 years later when I found the jar and started popping the few leftover coins that didn't work in machines on Ebay....I have been averaging $10 to $20 a coin...I likely wasted a small fortune on the hundreds and hundreds of these I used in arcade machines.

     

    hehe ... i remember the eighties finding out that french 20 centimes coins would work well in germany. while the 1 DeutschMark coin was worth about 40 cents, 20 centimes were like 2-3 cents ... and since i spend every summer in france, i would come back with my pockets full of these french coins ... it helped me leaving highscores on any phoenix machine i came across, and leter to fuel my addiction for the "pin-bot" pinball :)

     

     

    :ponder:

     

    I don't know about onmode-ky, but if you go in there with regular ky, you will get some weird looks. Some concerned father might actually tackle you. :D

     

     

    :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

     

    one RT-post a day keeps the doctor away!! :D

  8. Posted

    Some people are still trying to get the extremely rare prices for them but it's too late because they are R5's at best now and may be even more common than that by the time they empty the warehouse. I'd hold off on buying anything rare that they are currently selling from any seller until then because the price will bottom out.

     

    those games here are defenitely a bit harder to find than motorodeo meanwhile :)

  12. Posted

    today on facebook:

     

    Between You and Atari Videosoft

    January 16 at 5:50pm Report

    you decide to make a fake account on DP, you might want to use a different email address.

     

    Idiot.

     

    hey scott, since you're surely reading this thread as well (and you closed down the only DP account i had):

     

    it was my only account as i could not activate my old one anymore ... it wasn't a fake account

     

    but posting on FB with a profile called videosoft that you delete right after sending me this message ist just so ****** :roll:

     

    grow up!

  14. Posted

    ... delete the first one, then put up a second one, delete that one then put up an edited version of the first one :lol:

     

    i read it from time to time but never post there ... i forgot the password of my account and don't have the email account i used to register back then ... so i never bothered to register again

  15. Posted

    interesting note: the discussion about those games has completely died, here and on DP since the first DP thread was deleted, then a second one was posted and deleted again and now the first one has been restarted as an edited version. that's the shortest discussion about a new proto release i've ever seen.

     

    :ponder:

  18. Posted

    A Rastignac, salut compatriote !

     

    There's no easy way to guess, I fear. I tried, but that's hard: no sticker, no letter after the serial number... Opening the console, perhaps, can show something ?

     

    This is unfortunately what I was feared about... Not easy, except buy one from an english or german customer...

     

    - Buy a "7800". They are are PAL; there are no SECAM 7800; no risk. And most of 7800 are scart/péritel, so it's even better !

     

    Yes, I'm currently following this tip. Someone sold me his old 7800 but without the scart lead :-(

    Since I get contradictory information about replacing the lost scart lead with an Atari ST one, I created a thread on AtariAge 7800 forum to sort out this thing before ordering for sure an Atari ST cart...

    Moreover, the 7800 came with no game at all :-(

     

    JihemB

     

    i have a bunch of juniors ... boxed and loose ... as well as PAL 4 switchers ...

  20. Posted

    there surely is some minor changes .... they usually had to change 5% of the code. this was the ammount that needed to differ from the original in order to surpass copyright laws back then.

     

    more than 5% of different code = "new game" :P

     

    this is why so much companies have released known games with minor difference, usually just the colors, a few pixels and the logo ...

  23. Posted

    The chip had a little glass window looking inside, from stuff i have read in the past I get the idea that this is vulnerable to light, so I covered it - is this correct? or did i totally misunderstand that point?

     

    u did the right thing :)

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  25. Posted

    "once upon atari" really has the look of a selfmade documentary happening just in between all the ex-employees ... which is really nice though. it's got kind of an "insider-video" touch, touching subjects a regular documentary might not show.

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