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@smilin_joe - sorry to hear about the TV. I've always wanted one of those. I'm sure it would be repairable to something that's a little more functional, but it stinks that you have to put work into it. At least there are no bugs living inside? Here are my finds today for a buck and a quarter each: SNES Donkey Kong Country (haven't been able to find mine for 10 years!) Paperboy Mickey Mania (in box! it's probably me 2nd SNES box) Mario's Early Years, fun with numbers Also got a C-3PO bust that's a carrying case for Star Wars figures. It's a reissue as it has a speech chip built in with light up eyes, and it has maybe a dozen figures inside - that was $3!

My biggest near misses were a player piano for $25, a marchin bass drum for $10, and a priceless collection of 16mm home movies from an avid traveler in the 1930's for $28. I still weep a little about it.

Hiya, Kinda slow over here for games. Got these for a quarter a piece tho: Genesis Wheel Of Fortune Ms. Pac-Man Clue Bugs Bunny In Double Trouble Taz - Escape From Mars Disney's Aladdin Gargoyles Pac-Attack Desert Demolition Scooby-Doo Mystery The Lost Vikings Toy Story These were in baggies, so I had to buy them all to get the couple that I wanted. Hard to beef too much at these prices!

Well, some of this stuff is for my work so I have an obscene number of formats all piped into the same TV: DVD - all region playback VHS - worldwide standard VCR S-VHS - got a couple I used to use profesionally VCD - I have two devoted VCD decks besides the DVD players that can do it (also plays CD-G's) LaserDisc - got a couple players in storage too 3/4" U-matic - those big industrial cassettes Betacam SP - broadcast format, but the deck's busted I think Betamax - home format, took me forever to find a working one! Hi-8 - from a camcorder Video 8 - standalone player miniDV - from portable deck X-box with Media center installed and on my network to watch all the downloads 16mm film, super 8 film - the projectors have a video output to the TV PXL 2000 - it's true, but who cares? LD used to be the thing. When I taught classes in film school, it was THE way to analyze a movie, so I invested in one. Back then a lot of the movies could easily cost $80 on up for the "special editions" which is what I usually needed to teach from. I keep it around since there are a lot of movies I'm not going to replace on DVD, and also I frequently find LD's in record bins at the thrift. So for a quarter, I can own a movie in somewhat lesser visual quality than a $20 DVD. Works for me...

Hiya, I just put in my order. Any chance that this could do s-video output? I ask because I may be using this as part of a project for broadcast. I'd like to get the best possible picture. There are some mods out there for component too, which would be even nicer! Thanks for creating these boards. I can hardly wait to play nice clean Colecovision!

OMG on the Channel F. I was just going through my stuff and found some boxed Arcadia Games that I bought years ago. I was thinking of selling them off since I'll never find an Arcadia for cheap... but now I think that I'll hold out a little longer. Did you get a good price on the Channel F? I'm wondering what one of those might go for these days in the wild... my recent finds... $15 - Dreamcast console, 4 controllers, 2 mem cards $9 - Genesis 1 with CD console that fits underneath (always loved the look of it!) left behind a $75 Xbox with no cables and a $60 game cube. GC's are half of that in a used store including a controller and a guarantee.

That's why I linked the Retro Thing article - for some reason AA wasn't letting me upload them here. Tell ya what... I'll just take some better pictures now that I can see what the difficulties are.

Yeah, sorry... I tried to dress up the photo for the website. There are more pics there if you want to see - I can also upload more here if you want. It's just such a weird shape that it's hard to capture that without it just looking like a regular TV from a weird angle. It's also quite large, which of course my zany picture doesn't really make clear. It's got to be a 22 or 25" TV I think...

Here are a few pics of that oddball Sharp TV I wrote up a few posts back. I also did a post about it at Retro Thing. Sadly, these aren't the best pics (it was damned cold in the basement that night!). Any ideas what this thing could be? Thanks!

Sorry - the Sharp is still in the car. It's really cold in Chicago, and I don't want to smash it up trying to move it in. Hopefully tomorrow there will be a warm moment to haul it in. I'll be curious to hear what you guys think it is!

Yeah... I have a couple of broadcast CRT monitors around here for my work. Even old ones from the 80's beat the pants off of CRT TV's I got 2 years ago. They have the precision of a computer monitor, but are doing it with an analog signal. Magic. No wonder people pay through the nose for these. I think that I got mine for $500 used, and that was a deal because it has a 16:9 switch. LCD TV's have that kind of precision too, which is really impressive, but it doesn't display fields the same way an old CRT does, so that's why you miss that creamy smooth motion output by an Atari when you hook it up to a new TV. Though I must admit that my s-video modded Atari hooked up to my HD LCD is a beautiful thing. Almost worth the tradeoff for the loss of fielding. One place you may be surprised is how much grainier the image out of a Playstation 1 or an N64 is. Both of those systems (especially PS1) were designed with composite TV's in mind, so when you see their output on a much improved display you can see all the noise in texture maps. The designers of those graphics would use little tricks that would count on the image being slightly blurred by the display on most home TV's, but you'll see that hooking up your fave PS1 or N64 game will probably look a little unpleasant on a too precise screen. Again, congrats. I'm insanely jealous.

Real cheapie scores today... Xfiles PC game - 7 discs - $2 (been wanting to play this for a while, and another thrift had it for $7 and I refused!) Star Trek Borg PC "interactive movie" - $2 (I'm a dork. What can I do?) PS2 Namco Museum - $1 (yeah I have it for PS1, but for a buck I can upgrade) PS1 RC Revenge - $1 N64 - all a buck each Wave Race 64 Mario Kart 64 F-Zero X Zelda Pokemon Stadium Star Wars ep 1 Racer Starfox 64 I also found a really cool 80's TV. It's a Sharp 26LV96 "visual integration system" television and it looks pretty high end and stylin'. Still works. It's very angular and must need some kind of stand as it's kind of wedge shaped and putting it on a table puts it at an angle. I haven't looked at it too closely yet to see if a bracket snaps in there somewhere, but it is very cool and very 80's. Set me back $5. I don't think that it had a tuner - just composite in - so maybe it's a TV used for a store display or something. It's too slick for home use I think... Passed on a cow-sized $350 HD projection TV, but did almost buy a Toshiba 32" HD CRT. I thought it would be great for gaming because of the higher refresh rate than an LCD TV, but it didn't work and was massively heavy anyway. They only wanted $30 for that one! Wow...

Hey Jibba - where is that RGB mod you're going to do? Done it before? I'd love to at least do an S-video mod on mine. THanks for any advice!

I'd love to hear the results of your 1084 experiment. That's another mighty good monitor (I have a whole pile of 'em), but the PVM should be rather superior. As for the Xboxes, I pretty much have one hooked up to every TV. I wish that the wireless thingy for Xbox weren't holding its value so well. I have all the Xboxes hard-wired to the network, though I have one that has the antenna thing. It cost me $30 (which is a deal compared to it usually getting $40-50), but I haven't figured out the configuration stuff yet. It's in my arcade cabinet so the cab is kind of a mega entertainment center for the room its in. I've probably logged more hours watching downloads of MST3K on it than playing actual games!

@jibbajaba you have a tremendous find in that PVM monitor. I edit video for a living, and one of my best investments was my own PVM, but I paid considerably more than you did! Seriously, there is no better video display - especially for computer graphics and retro gaming - that those monitors. Outstanding! I did get a pretty good deal myself. A few weeks ago I got an Xbox for $18, which I thought was pretty good. I had to do some haggling to get it down to that - it was flashing the red ring (I forgot that it does that if you don't have a monitor cable hooked up), but I needed some parts for fixing another Xbox. Turns out that it works fine. Then yesterday I got an even better deal - I was at a Salvation Army, and behind the counter was an Xbox, so I figured it was reserved for someone. The price tag looked like it said $5, but I figured it must be $50. Turned out that it really WAS $5, and it was mine all mine. No cords or anything, but there was an NBA game inside it too to sweeten the deal even more. Works great. This is getting ridiculous - I have five X-boxes in a five bedroom apartment. I actually mostly use them as media centers instead of playing games!

Picked up a couple N64 games for a buck each - can't believe that it took me this long to find Super Mario 64... super mario 64 diddy kong racing starfox 64 extreme G also SNES Street Fighter II for the same price Picked up a whole bunch of 80's pop LP's, a stereo Wollensak reel to reel, and the last CRT mini TV (the screen is about an inch diagonally) that Panasonic made. It still works, which from my research might make it worth a couple hundred bucks.

Gb Light - now that's a score! I thought I did well when I bought mine for like $40. I wrote about it too if anyone is interested:

N64 Wheel of Fortune - 75 cents 2600 - $1 for all space invaders (silver label) donkey kong junior pole position Radica 20Q big tabletop version for group play NIB - $4 Xbox console with controller, mem card, need for speed 2 - $15 passed on a PS2 marked $80. I also somehow kept myself from buying their two Game Gears and their dozen copies of some 2005 xbox football game.

I have a couple Saturn import games that I've never been able to play. I see that there are a few modchips available, but are there also any carts that would just fit into the Saturn to get it to boot the import stuff? Cheap-ish I hope?

NES $1 ea. Muppet Adventure - Chaos at the Carnival Spot - the video game I passed up a Genesis setup for $8, the Xfiles PC game (it was like six discs!) for $7... though I couldn't resist the complete DVD set of the first season of Rockford Files for $3. They were showing it on regular TV here in Chicago a few months back, and I've missed it terribly sinc it went off the air.

Personally I love Oink. It was missing from my collection until a few years ago. A buddy brought it over to a party, and I found its simplicity charming. It's the same party when I saw the blessing that is Kool-Aid Man too. COngrats on the rest!

depening on the type of tivo, you could probably still extract the files and find out what's on it.. but yeah.. free 80 gig drive woohoo! VLC media player is usually good for playing back most anything I'm a big fan of VLC player, but the thing here is that the disk isn't in a standard format that the PC can read. There's probably some conversion tool out there, but it's not worth the energy just to see how many "According To Jim" episodes might be on there. I use these as external drives for torrenting to save wear on my system drives. Funny thing is that the external enclosures still cost money... but $20 for an external 80 gig drive doesn't seem all that bad.

NES - Little Nemo Dream Master - $1 Game Gear - The Majors Baseball - sealed for .50 PS - Die Hard Trilogy 2 - $1 PS - Tomorrow Never Dies - $1 PS - Gran Turismo - $1 PS2 - Giants, Citizen Kabuto - $2.50 PC - Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault - .50 PC - Necronomicon - .50 Famiclone knockoff of Wii with wireless controllers first gen Gameboy, clear - $2.50 Excalibur Space Invaders handheld - .75 Excalibur Frogger - .75 misc stuff that will be used for gaming fun: Casio 2" LCD TV (with external input) - $7 Sony 200 CD jukebox - $15 transparent 13" color TV - $10 Robosapien - $5 Roboraptor - $5 micro stereo system that plays mp3's with light show - $10 Found a Tivo in the alley (my fourth). No remote so I couldn't check out what was on it, but cracking it open yielded a free 80 gig hard drive! Yay!

- NES Tom & Jerry - 75 cents Strider - 75 cents - NES boxed, complete - 75 cents Smash TV Vice: Project Doom Days of Thunder Crustalis World Wrestling Rollergames - N64 - free sharkbyte keycard Quest 64 - not sure what this is for? Probably for a specific game? Also found a very cool old dual CD pioneer player for $6, and a bag for the Pixel Vision camera (the one that shot onto audio cassettes) for a buck. I scoured the store hoping to find the camera, but no dice.

Not great, but really cheap: N64 Elmo's Number Journey - 50 cents PSX Syphon Filter 2 - 75 cents Xbox Eragon - $1 Xbox Lego Star Wars (would prefer the one covering eps IV, V & VI, but oh well...) - 75 cents