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  1. Posted · Edited by kroogur

    Some of you folks need to relax, methinks. Don't take commercials to heart, and why does it matter if anyone makes fun of, well, anything you do? You're gonna keep doing it, right? So, who cares?

     

     

    Sadly folks will see that commercial and when they find out we like Atari or any of the other classic systems they will have the image that we are "losers" because we are not hip, trendy, fresh or keeping up with the "Jones" in terms of technology. I realize it still falls under the "who cares what they think of us " category but there is still just the simple matter of pride and the fact that no one needs to be put down for enjoying something thats not deemed cool by the marketing guru's at Pepsico or any other company.

     

    Catering to a niche segment of the population will not keep you in business long but on the flip side why alienate potential customers? For example i have been steering friends, family members and customers away from Hyundai cars for years simply due to a commercial they ran a couple years back where they (Hyundai) slammed AMC by showing a family burying a Gremlin at the beach because they had to have a shiny new car and the Gremlin was old , I am a long time AMC fan and know that they are wonderful cars (go to ebay motors and do a search on AMC and see what kind of money those cars are fetching and not just the Gremlins) and while we AMC fans are a niche community when we saw that commercial we made sure to spread the word to not buy Hyundai and if i can take away even one sale of an overpriced tin can off of Hyundai then thats a good thing!

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    I tried the search feature but didn't find exactly what i was looking for so i apologize if this has been discussed to death before.

     

    I bought this system 9 years ago from Goodwill it is the console only, i found places to order the controllers but does this model (2 port) use the funky switchbox? and if so where do i go to get one? same again for the adapter. I will be trying to assemble this critter after the holidays but would like some info now so i can get an idea how much i'm going to be spending.

     

    Thank you for any help you can offer.

  10. Posted · Edited by kroogur

    Greetings gang i am in the long process of unpacking all my systems and i came across this ....well i don't know what it is it looks like one -o- them early 70's "pong" variants, there is no tag on the bottom with anything meaningful and it's simply labled AGS:

     

     

    game002.jpg

     

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    The controls not pictured are similar to scaled down Fairchild Channel F controllers with the roto-knob on top.

    Anyone have any idea who made this or when?

     

    Thanks

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    To ship all that would cost a bit but probably not that much, look at some of the other auctions listed they have a small 8" tall angel figurine and shipping to PA where i live is $17.75 :|

     

    I ship UPS when i sell on ebay and they tend to be pricey but i find them better with tracking and insurance claims , thats one risk you take on ebay you many not get big bux for you auction so unfortunately folks pad the shipping and handling, they state in their auction they charge for shipping handling and insurance and none of that is negotiable.

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    Anyone else's Wii turning itself on randomly? I took the disc out last night and in the wee (no pun intended) hours of the morning the thing came on and the blue light around the disc opening flickered on and off till i went over and hit reset.

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    Its the cosnole with the largest library of this gen...so its bound to have some crap, just look at the PS2 and PS1 library...crap around every corner.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Waitaminit!!!! you're not trying to tell us that Batman and Robin wasn't the pure gold must have title for the PS1?? :D :)

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    I haven't tried that version of the Skip Dr. but i do have the manual version with the hand crank and i gotta say it does work! I had a bunch of CD's that fell behind the seat of my truck and bounced around back there for awhile so you can well imagine what they looked like and after one or two uses of the Skip Dr. they work fine. I also had a copy of Gex for my 3DO and it brought it back just fine.

     

    The only problem i have run into is the resurfacing wheel, they claim about 50 uses out of it and i got nearly that many however when i went back to Staples to get replacement wheels....well they don't carry them in fact no one seems to carry the replacement wheels so i order them online other than that i'm happy with the product.

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    Great pics! thanks for sharing with us.

     

    My first home computer system was a Vic20 we picked it up at a yard sale back in the early 80's for around $75 i think it had the computer, a bunch of accessories and a stack of books, i had a blast with that thing later i got the C64.

     

    I'm pretty sure the first game program i tried was "Flog" i think it may have been in the instruction book, it took forever to enter it all in and turned to be a golf game i think. Good Times! :cool:

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    Ghostbusters Easily my favorite Genesis game! I started out with the 2600 game...and it well and truly sucked. Later i completely skipped the NES version because after renting it i saw it was the same piece of $#@% with slightly(very slightly) better graphics .

     

    But the Genesis version is great! selectable characters, interesting bosses, cool power ups and decent variety make this a worthwhile addition to any collection.

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