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Found District 9 on Blu-ray for $5, then to make things even better I found an Atari 2600 Heavy Sixer for $10...the first one I've found in years...works too.

What happened to the Heavy Sixer list topic??? I found one this weekend for $10 (haven't tried it out yet, but still it's been 4-5 years since I found one)

I figured it was some type of PoP Kiosk system...I sold it a few months after buying it since I wasn't a collector and had bills to pay. I was kinda hoping the guy I sold it to would see this, I forgot his name and was curious to hear if he ever got it running (the wiring was pretty bad). I actually took it to an electronics store and they looked at it, looked at me, looked at it again and said "okay what is it". Without a wiring diagram they didn't even want to attempt to figure it out. From what I remember it held 16 games with their names on the front face so you could push button select what games you wanted to play. It was in pretty sad shape, buried under dirt (seriously, I had to dig it out the dirt floor of the auction tent) behind the flea market. Wish I had better pictures of it (only took 2). Figured you guys would enjoy seeing something out of the ordinary.

Found this about 9 years ago in a flea market that is no longer around in a town that was wipe'd out by a Tornado years later.

I found one of those Sharp TV/NES combo systems. On a scale of 1-10...it's a -3, how someone can inflict so much cosmetic damage to a piece of electronics is mind numbing. About a 6" hole on the top where something melted thru, all the buttons (Channel, Volume, On/Off, etc) are gone so I have to use a pencil to press them, the front door is missing, er, broke off and missing, the back of the TV is loose like it's broken free from the screws, one of the feet is cracked, and of course the NES doesn't work (you have to force it down as far as it can go to play, but then if you let go it flashes), and it's dirty as a $5 hoe (or shovel if you like). The people I bought it from drove 45min to town, seemed like they needed the money, and were really nice so I bought it (sucker)...so for $120 I have a heavy paperweight. The lesson here, ASK CONDITION PRIOR TO HAVING SOMEONE DRIVE UP TO SELL YOU SOMETHING!!! I didn't.

A game is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I found a Stadium Mud Buggies complete in box at a Vintage Stock for $0.99, sold it for around $400...to me it was worth $0.99 but to I'd guess the 100s of people who visited the store prior to me felt it wasn't worth that. No way to me was it worth $400, but someone felt it was to them. Places like Game RapeChange do their part to inflate the value of some games...why anyone would pay $20 for Super Mario Bros 3 when on any given weekend you can probably find it at a garage sale for under $5 or on eBay for under $10.00...it's like antiques, book value Vs real life value. It's rare you ever get book value, unless it's truly rare, and most things aren't truly rare. In my mind the worst thing for anyone to do is verbally rape the poor girl about her collection and/or knowledge of game collecting...she's learning, she'll evetually learn and over time she'll get it...we all started out as retards thinking we knew everything. What is the saying...alittle knowledge is a dangerous thing. Simple criticism is okay, but damn some took it to another level. As for the girl herself...there's another saying...my eyes don't see a porn star, but my $%^* don't have eyes.

It's Star Blazer for the Apple II...and yes BOC rocks. As a kid their Fire Of Unknown Origin album cover used to give my nightmares.

Found 12 TurboGrafx 16 games for $15.00 total, New Tetris for the n64 for $5.00, Command Control joystick boxed for $1.00 and 5 N64 controllers (2 standard, 2 Atomic Purple, 1 Gold) for $4.00 each...and a Top Loading NES for $15.00 with a pair of dogbone controllers. It were a good day yesterday, for once.

There is an Atari 2600 in Poltergeist. Of course Cloak & Dagger had a few.

Got a 5200 I believe in 1983 for Christmas, then a Commodore 64/1541 in 1985. Actually someone gave my dad a TS 1000 back in 1981/82...completely useless little thing, but I loved playing with it because it was a computer and computers were magical.

I'm looking for a girl that needs a pair of SNES Super Advantage controllers to cover her stuff...not little SNES controllers.

I used to have a box full of Combat and Pac-Man carts...probably about 100 of each. Seems like every time I bought a lot of games, no matter for what system, there were Combat and/or Pac-Man carts with them. I started giving them away to people, we'd have a garage sale and I'd throw in a pac-man cart, I put them out by the road with a "Free" sign and I still had them later that night. I finally recycled them at a local computer salvage place. Hard to believe at one time I was like "sweet Combat, let's get it" I'm waiting for the time I waltz into a flea market and find a box full of Stadium Events carts.

Found a Nintendo Miracle keyboard at a garage sale a few days ago...have to say this was the first time I've found one of these in the wild. Guy said he used it in church as an organ....cool little keyboard though I paid $30.00 for it (probably the most I've spent at a garage sale this year)

Hey again...I sold a Heavy Sixer back in 02 on eBay...I no longer have those records of who I sold it to, but I did photo the sticker on the bottom...S/N 70796E. This was a true heavy inside and out. Just in case you really want a complete list of all heavy sixers in existence. Just for fun how many of these systems do you think are still in existence over say those that have been thrown away, lost, destroyed, etc, etc. Maybe 70%, maybe lower?

I have a light sixer with heavy sixer internals, but not in the thick, heavy sixer case. Has the Sunnyvale, CA CX-2600 sticker on the bottom (S/N 85977M) and the Channel Select Hole (but no selector switch). The board is CO1O462, Rev B 77, and there is a piece of paper inside with 99 08600110. The case inside has the number CO11925 an "A" inside a square, then the letter L. I bought this with a pair of working CX-10 joysticks (no Hex inserts), a pair of working '77 Paddles, the gray power supply, and a bunch of early black label games...all for $25.00 I've probably owned about 5-6 true heavy sixers (with the thicker case) over the years.