joesmooth

Still nothing yet. I tried contacting the seller again and got no response. Pretty lame. I'm considering having PayPal pull the payment, but maybe I'll wait another week or so. Joe

I ordered a Multicart Lite on December 13, pinged Andy/pootle on December 21, and haven't heard nor received anything yet. Sure hope it arrives soon - I've been selling all my loose Vectrex carts! Joe

Wow. I can't believe it's been over 2 years since I came across these. I've decided to sell off most of my Vectrex collection, including all of the pre-production prototypes that I have: Rip-Off Star Hawk Solar Quest Star Trek Berzerk Space Wars Armor Attack If you're interested, drop me a PM or respond here with any questions! Joe

...and the shirt has been sold to Wonder007! Joe

Daily bid update is that there is no update! The bid currently still stands at $100, which is quite a deal. Feel free to PM or post with an offer if interested

I'm sure it would look hot Those are girl shirts.

For free? Man, you guys are lucky. Joe I got two of these from him as well.

Current bid is $100. The frame job alone cost more than that Joe

Hi everyone- I'm doing a bit more house cleaning and have decided to part with my very rare Atari Consumer Electronics Division t-shirt and custom frame... I bought this shirt many moons ago from Dan Kramer (ex-Atari) who, when part of Atari's Consumer Electronic Division, designed the 2600 and 5200 Trak-Ball. According to Dan, he designed the shirt (his initials are on the lower right corner of the text on the back of the shirt) and it was made for a handful of "booth babes" that wandered the show floor at CES 1982 (or 1983?) to help promote the new Trak-Ball. There are VERY FEW of these shirts in existence and I believe they were all hand screened. It's hard to know if these were officially sanctioned by Atari, but somehow I don't think so. Maybe Dan (or someone else from Atari) can shed more light on the details of this shirt, since there doesn't seem to be anything online about it. I've attached a picture I took of Dan from CGE 2001 where you can see the shirt in the upper left corner. The shirt is in excellent condition. It's a women's size L and the label is still intact. Instead of just keeping it folded up in a closet, a few years ago I decided to order a custom frame for it. The frame was professionally built by FastFrame in San Diego and is full glass on the front and the back with a nice thick black box frame. There are hinges on the top and bottom to allow you to (carefully!) open the frame if you need to. Two mounting hooks are screwed into the top section of the frame. It measures approximately 34" wide x 31" high x 3" deep. The shirt appears to be floating in the center of the frame - it is hanging by two small lengths of fishing wire. A fitted insert acts as a hanger and gives the shirt its shape. I thought it would be fun to skip eBay/CTCW and offer this directly to AA members. I haven't fully thought this through, but figured I would just sell to whoever has the best offer in the next week or so. Feel free to publicly respond to the post with a price or send me a PM. I'll post updates every day or so as I receive offers. The offer should *not* include shipping costs, as this piece is *big* and I am going to have it professionally packed for UPS Ground shipping. The highest bidder will pay the actual packing and shipping costs (I'm not going to mark it up or add "handling fees") which I'll know once it's packed and ready to go. You are more than welcome to come pick it up at my house in San Francisco to avoid shipping hassles. Anyway, if you have any questions, let me know. I hope this can go to a good home where someone will really enjoy it (show it off in a game room, perhaps?) Joe

...which is already sold. Sorry! Joe

Haha. Not in San Francisco! We're lucky enough to have a roof over our head Joe

Hi all- I've decided to sell off a large part of my collection to make room in our new house. I'm holding on to some my favorite stuff, but have a ton that I'm letting go of. My list is attached in PDF to this post and organized by system - Atari 2600, 5200 (nearly complete), 7800 (complete), 8-bit, ST, Coleco (partially complete), INTV (nearly complete) - with plenty of rarities. I'll have a table at the upcoming Portland Retro Gaming Expo (www.retrogamingexpo.com), but wanted to give you guys first dibs. The prices are based on Atari2600.com (which are typically on the high side) and eBay, but are not set in stone. If there's anything that interests you, PM me and we can work out a good deal. Thanks! Joe EDIT: All cartridges are loose unless otherwise noted. If you want to see pictures of any items, just let me know. EDIT 9-5-09: List has been updated. Check marks indicate item is sold. There's still lots to go around! Joe-Grand-List.pdf

Thanks! It was cool that they worked him into the episode - the timing just happened to be right. I'm happy about that Joe

I just posted a bunch of random behind-the-scenes videos from the show here, too: http://www.youtube.com/user/kingpinempire The last 3 episodes are pretty good, but not my favorites. Watch the final episode for a surprise cameo appearance from my new prototype... Joe

...and fun was had by all! Joe

I have just about everything for the 7800. I'll bring it all. I think most of it is boxed. That 2600 joystick is from the XE Game System, I think. We can work out pricing/trades at the meet! Joe

I'll be there for sure! I spent 6 hours last night going through my collection here in Boston. I'm bringing *lots* of stuff, from common to rare carts (many boxed), systems, controllers, cables, manuals, etc. for 2600, 5200, 7800, INTV, Coleco. Interesting systems like Coleco Gemini and INTV III. I'm downsizing my collection and will have the most stuff for the 5200, 7800, INTV, and Coleco. I've attached a few crappy pictures to this post, but you get the point I like cash and trades. Looking mostly for rare 2600 stuff. Joe

That works for me! I suck at Wii, but I'll watch It will be cool to see everyone! Joe

Cool. I'm pretty sure I'll have at least a 5200 and 7800 there along with extra controllers and power supplies. Maybe others. Joe

Of course Joe

March 8 works for me! I'm looking forward to it. It's been a while! As mentioned above, I'm not desperate to get rid of anything, so if it's not a good deal, I'll just hang on to stuff - I'm not getting out of the hobby - just downsizing. I'm more than happy to trade, too! Joe

Ah, I was thinking more along the lines of current eBay/general consensus and maybe DP as a reference, but I'm not really sure. I'm not desperate to get rid of anything, so don't expect any complete give-away prices, but it's always nice to have stuff go to a good home Joe

Sure thing. I'll probably be back from March 7-15 or somewhere around then. I don't mind trades, either, since I could still use some of the more rare Atari 2600 stuff. Joe

You guys should have a meet on March 8 or March 14, since I'll be back in town visiting Oh, and I'm planning to get rid of a majority of my collection (Atari 5200, 7800, Intellivision, and maybe Colecovision, all almost complete) and this would be a good place to start! Joe

Most of the builds were actually 2 weeks, but we spent the first 6 months or so brainstorming ideas and had a slow start due to changes at Discovery Channel, among other things. Nothing has gone past the prototype stages. We filed some patents on key elements of some of the projects we feel are worth protecting, but who knows what will come of that. As for Season 2, we'll have to wait and see! The ratings apparently have been pretty good so far, but Discovery needs to make the final decision if they want to lay out the cash for another season. It's a *huge* amount of work and TV networks like shows to be created quickly for little money, so they can make as much profit as possible. Engineering takes time and money, which is already two strikes against us Take care, Joe