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  4. Posted

    I got my Melody Chase along with one of my BurgerTime carts, on an obscure little auction site in Australia called www.oztion.com for a price so low, I still feel a little guilty about. The little auction site was eventually bought out by QuickSales. There was a Melody Chase on eBay 6 months ago and if I remember right it went for around $250 (someone please correct me if I am remembering wrong). I put an Aquarius Modem on eBay at around the same time (I was selling my spare to make money to pay for the Melody Chase auction, which I lost anyway)

     

    I obtained my factory sealed Chess and one of my Aquarius Modems from a guy getting rid of all of the junk he saved from his childhood including his Aquarius computer stuff, they were a hell of a bonus in the lot :D

     

    The only two cartridges I am missing now are Zero In and Space Speller. I have the manual scans and box and cartridge pictures on my website www.GeekVintage.com if anyone is looking for them.

     

     

     

    I don't remember the Melody Chase a couple months back.... Wow - $250!

    The one I kind a remember had a pretty beatup box, but I thought it went for $125ish???

  5. Posted

    HOLY MOLY guys! I neved knew Space Speller and Zero In even existed till now! Maybe I didn't hit the right link or something, but was there pics of the box art for both of these guys?

     

    I'm not discounting that Melody Chase and Chess were never released in the states. But I know for fact, when K & B was liqiudated them; I/family bought everything they had. We knew of only 1 other store that had Aquarius stuff (I believe it was a Service Merchandise) that we would hit up every weekend, and I never saw both of those titles....

     

    Maybe they were limited to certain stores? Certain regions?

     

    Can anybody confirm that Melody Chase that was on Ebay a couple years back or was a dreaming?

     

    As far as getting these two, I definitely might hit up a fellow Aqaurius collector. I don't think Ebay is the answer....

  6. Posted

    Typical seems to be about $100-$120. They can easily hit $200 at random, though, it seems.

     

    I was thinking of selling mine. Doesn't have the original box, though, I got it in a 4A box.

     

     

    Thanks Tursi! I definitely would be interested! Let me know when you're ready...

  7. Posted

    Should be able to get a complete TI system (barebones = console, power supply, RF modulator and maybe a few carts) for $20-$30.

     

    Thanks Save! But I'm referring to just the TI 994 not 4A......

  8. Posted

    I'm not sure if this is the appropiate forum or not for this question. But, what's the going rate for

    one of these? Been on a TI kick lately, and I always wanted to get one of these! There is a Ebay seller that

    has parts to "frankenstein" one together. Would like to try to find one complete if possible....

  9. Posted

    I'm still in the hunt for these two elusive titles for a while now... Mind you, I'm only scouring Ebay for right now.

    The closest I've seen was a *boxed* Melody Chase a couple years back. And of course, I completely forgot about the auction.

    Here we are, years later, and nada!

     

    The most surprising thing is that I haven't even seen a loose cart for sale! I wonder if the denizens across the pond are hoarding them all! :D

     

    So... to owners, what's your story on how you obtained either one of these elusive gems?

  10. Posted

    Here are two Homebrew boxes that have been created by avid Coleco enthusiasts. Sorry for the small picture size, but that's all I got.

     

    These were made by me ;)

     

    The left one is the older one, and it look like $hit

    While the right one is the latest I made, better resolution

     

    Now, I need the time to print and sell them, I actually have a couples of boxes made that I need to print but can't find the time to sell them though.....

     

     

    Definitely interested when the time comes! ;) BTW: Awesome job! :lust:

     

    So it's safe to say that a Slither box or a Turbo for that matter, never existed?

  12. Posted

    Anybody else a big fan of this game? I'm in the minority, but I think Slither trumps Centipede for gameplay! I remember my parents bought my brother and I the rolleraball accessory on clearance at Zayre's - remember that store? And became a devout fan ever since!

     

    I've been in the arcade scene since the late 70's and have a collection of cabs myself. About 2 years ago, I've been on the hunt for a ded. Slither machine.

    Let me tell you, this is a *rare* machine! It's so rare even parts are hard to come by! This, Victory and Looping are very rare in the dedicated scene! I thanks the CV to actually make ports of some of these gems!

     

    Back to the parts, I finally got one piece for Slither....So if you have any parts for a Slither cab? Let me know! :)

     

    One question... has a boxed Slither ever surfaced or has it ever been comfirmed to even exist?

     

     

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  13. Posted

    im at a house yesterday, doing a trouble call for cablevision. i had to go to the customers basement to fix some lines. while im there, he turns on the lights and there is an RENEGADE arcade game! im like "wow, where did u get that from?" the guy replies "ive had it for years... i dont use it anymore. it works mint". i ask him "well, if you ever decide to let it go, let me know." he then says "my sons friend wanted to buy it. he offered me $2500." i replied to the guy "you should have took it".

     

    im, sorry, $2500 for renegade machine? is he nuts? or am i?

     

     

    He's nuts!

  16. Posted

    Game I is Endor Battle, and I thought I heard Game II is Death Star Battle. Not sure why they advertised the skiff battle...

     

    Game II box was on Ebay a while back. I remember going over 1k'ish! Has anybody ever made repro boxes of these? I know I would be

    definitely in line to purchase one....

  18. Posted

    Great Thhread! I've been on a Genesis kick myself as of late!

     

    I remember when Batman was first announced that it was coming to the Genesis.... Since I LOVED the Burton flick and saw it countless times in the summer of 1989; I couldn't wait! I was actually contemplating on buying a preorder for $90.00 - yes, that was not a type-o! I held off. While the gameplay is a little too easy, the games was one of the best audio tracks ever in a home gaming system!

     

    Some other notables I've been playing

     

    Musha

    Golden Axe 2

    Mystic Defender

    Ghostbusters

    Granada

  20. Posted

    CEC robots are quite hard to come by. Like was already mentioned, any salvageable parts are re-distributed throughout the company. Any older robots which are no longer used, like the original CEC heads sticking out from the stage, the hippopotamus, or the lion dressed like Elvis, are destroyed on-site when they are decommissioned with detailed pictures sent back to the company.

     

    At least that's how they did it when I worked there back in the early 90's. Could be different these days.

     

    Nope, its the same, and they do the same thing to arcade cabs.

     

    I was crushed when I found out my local CnC TMNT machine got destroyed a couple years ago.

     

    There was a story on one of the others forums where a guy found a Simpson's Pinball Party in the dumpster by CEC.... Yes that's the newer Stern one! :twisted:

  21. Posted

    Welcome to the CIB club. :D

     

    In the 80s, I always kept the boxes of all the Atari stuff (console games as well as computer games), but by the time the NES came around I stopped keeping the cardboard boxes. When I started collecting in the 90s, I didn't bother with boxes (other than my continuing Atari 8-bit collection). Heck, I was buying most of the stuff at flea markets and garage sales, where 99% of games were bare carts or cart+instructions.

     

     

    See, I was the opposite. Unfortunately, almost all of the 2600 and Colecovision boxes met their fate to the garbage can! I was young and didn't know any better, and my parents never really cared.... It was the Nes era, that I was prudent enough to keep the boxes.

  22. Posted

    I think folks are being a bit rough on TZ101. I've learned through experience that when dealing with eBay sellers you can not assume anything: you have to give specific shipping instructions with payment. Some sellers really are ignorant dunces, and have no clue that the original box is a major part of the collectible's value.

     

    I've been in the collecting vintage Star Wars stuff for awhile now. Specifically stuff that's boxed. In all my transactions, past and present, I had not one person send me an item that way! These transcations are in the hundreds! Now maybe I'm just lucky or they're compentent, but not once I had to give a head's up to the seller to ship in a more robust box.... And some of these items are not cheap!

     

    I wasn't being mean to TZ at all. I just got the feeling he sided with the seller a little bit.

     

    Either way the seller is a moron! To the OP, I hope you negged them and let them know your displeasure!

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  23. Posted

    Wow and Wow!!!! You're not familiar with Ebay and/or buying valuable items? :ponder:

     

    NEWSFLASH: Everyone does not think like some posters on these forums. One thing common to forums, be they internet or otherwise, is that people have different methods of thought. I know, this is quite a revelation.

     

    Spell it out for people if you have some concerns, just to be sure.

     

     

    I'm not going to try to figure out what people and what they think... Yes, there are *alot* of morons on this planet! But, this person is a Ebay seller, and has an item that sells over 2 bills. Do you really think that's accceptable just to wrap the box and that's it? You know how shippers and carriers this days! My god, a monkey can figure this out (no disrespect to the monkey!) And the seller needs to be reminded of this? I'm not sure why you think when need to hold people's hand in this situation?

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  25. Posted

    Ok, educate me. They seem to have wrapped the box in brown craft paper and taped it up. I have sent many packages that way. Are you wanting this put into a larger box, padded around it, then taped shut and shipped? Did you specify that to the seller prior to shipping?

     

    I do not know that this sounds so much like a lazy shipper, than USPS damaging the package. Maybe they should have insured the package? Did you pay extra for insurance?

     

    If the buyer does not opt for insurance, then they get what they get. Not to sound mean, but the shipper can package it to their best ability, but it matters nothing if UPS/USPS/Fed EX are careless in their handling of the package.

     

     

    Wow and Wow!!!! You're not familiar with Ebay and/or buying valuable items? :ponder:

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