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  2. Posted

    Interesting thread. I thought I should speak up, I was the other AA member that Thomas contacted and although he did mention Fredric had made an offer (did not tell me how much) and I was in a hurry I just sent a fast offer of what I was willing to spend on this cart (250.00 USD) had I known they had already agreed to a deal I would never have

    made any offer at all. After talking to Fredric I felt a little used and retracted my offer

    I am no longer interested.

     

    I really feel this has taken a bad turn and I will remove myself from any further interest

    I don’t want to be the guy that has ruined a deal another AA member had in the works

    I do feel bad I ever made the offer in the first place and again had I known it was already

    accepted I would never had made the offer in the first place

     

    Please accept my public apology for any part I may have had, however unintentional it

    may have been, in side tracking your deal

  8. Posted · Edited by FND

    Mr. Lawson gets honored twice this year

     

    Here is a link to a recent Mercury News articale 3-24-11

     

    Mercury News article

     

    Here is a cut-and-paste of the article just in case it gets changed or moved

     

     

    jerry_lawson_at_home.jpg

     

    By Mike Cassidy

     

    Mercury News Columnist

     

    On Friday the International Game Developers Association will honor Jerry Lawson for all he's done to move the state of the art forward.

     

     

    By Mike Cassidy

     

     

    The honor has been a long time coming.

     

    It was back in the mid-1970s that Lawson developed the first video game console system, breaking ground in more ways than one. You see, Lawson, 70, is black. And while we often try to pretend that's neither here nor there, the truth is it is here — and it was even more-so there, when Lawson arrived in the valley in 1968.

     

    Lawson started at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1970, when there were very few black engineers working in the valley. Within a few years he was launching and running the new gaming division, where he developed the Fairchild Channel F, a console that allowed players to change out cartridges loaded with games like "Video Black Jack," "Maze, Cat and Mouse," "Spitfire" and "Space War."

     

    Few at the time thought anyone could develop a console around its own microprocessor, which is what Lawson did. "The whole reason I did games was because people said, 'You can't do it,' " Lawson, of Santa Clara, says. "I'm one of the guys, if you tell me I can't do something, I'll turn around and do it."

     

    He is one of

     

    those guys, and that determination drove him to invent the console, develop a series of games with a team that reached 30, start two companies and persevere despite diabetes that resulted in his losing a leg and the sight in one eye several years ago.

     

     

     

    It's the way engineers are, and the way innovation happens. Every time you see an Xbox or PlayStation or Wii, you should think of Jerry Lawson. He was the first, and though the Channel F was soon eclipsed by the Atari console, he was there at the dawn of what is now a $20 billion industry in the United States.

     

    "He's absolutely a pioneer," says Al Alcorn, the Atari co-founder and Pong developer who competed with Lawson. "When you do something for the first time, there is nothing to copy."

     

    You have to think of everything, he added. "The cartridge: How to avoid static shock and people putting it in backward?''

     

    It's the little details, the trial and error, the what-ifs, that have intrigued Lawson since he was a little kid growing up in public housing in Queens, N.Y. He set up a mini-lab (two chemistry sets) in his bedroom. When he was about 12, he started building a ham radio transmitter from a manual.

     

    "I built it and it worked," he says. "I think the greatest joy I ever had in my life was when I put that thing together by myself with nobody helping me."

     

    Lawson says it was his mother and one special teacher who instilled in him the belief that he could do whatever he set his mind to. His mother stressed education, sending him to a superior public school across town that was nearly all-white. Mrs. Gubel taught first grade at that school, and she conspicuously placed a picture of George Washington Carver, a man who went from slave to accomplished scientist, on the classroom wall near Lawson's desk. This is what you can do, she told him.

     

    "I'll never forget that woman for that," Lawson says. "It was that kind of thing that made a difference."

     

    After he left Fairchild in 1980, he started Videosoft, which during a five-year run produced several games and contracted with prominent companies in the industry. He's since taken on consulting jobs, including one in the 1980s with musician Stevie Wonder. The singer had an idea for a Wonder Clock, which would wake a child in the morning with the sound of his or her mother's voice.

     

    It never made it to production, but Lawson still remembers his thoughts when Wonder first reached him by phone: "If it ain't Stevie Wonder, it's Rich Little."

     

    He's slowed down a bit. His impressive 6-foot-6 frame is now folded into a wheelchair. But he intends to be at the Game Developers Conference Friday afternoon networking event in San Francisco, where he'll be introduced as a gaming pioneer. It's an honor that came as a sudden surprise.

     

    The idea of celebrating Lawson was born about three weeks ago when John Templeton, a San Francisco publisher who's highlighted the accomplishments of black technologists, asked an acquaintance with the developers association whether the group ever planned to recognize Lawson. The association is the world's largest nonprofit trade organization for game developers. Joseph Saulter, who leads the association's diversity committee, told Templeton that his mention of Lawson was the first he'd ever heard of him.

     

    "I was really very emotional about it," says Saulter, founder of Entertainment Arts Research, an Atlanta-based gaming and media company. "As a matter of fact, I started crying — just for somebody like him to be left out."

     

    And so while the association and its many committees periodically hold formal award ceremonies — honoring the developers of "Donkey Kong" and "Tetris" and games such as "Grand Theft Auto" — the salute to Lawson will be a more informal affair.

     

    Saulter, who is black, says Lawson had waited long enough, and delaying his recognition for a more formal ceremony simply wouldn't be right. Lawson's story is too important, says Saulter, particularly to the tiny percentage of those working in gaming who are black. "It's inspirational for me," he says, "because it gives me a foundation to say, 'We go back to the whole foundation of this gaming arena. I belong here.' "

     

    As important, says Templeton, Lawson is an inspiration to young blacks who might wonder whether there is a place for them in the gaming industry. Seeing, as they say, is believing.

     

    Which is to say that Lawson's overdue turn in the spotlight might well be his own Mrs. Gubel moment.

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  10. Posted

    Yes the description is rather Vague but could be because the seller just does not know.

    Also if anyone here was interested I would ask if the box fells heavy enough to actually

    have a game inside, I have some Display boxes that are shrinkwrapped but do not contain any

    games. Being the sticker says Demo I would think it does have a game inside but better to ask

    now before finding out its just a display item ?

  11. Posted

    I made payment on some books while ago, and had to reload the page a couple of times. Hope I didn't get charged! twice!!

     

     

    Could have something to do with the Wikileaks thing as I know hackers were targeting the CC company sites

    that were stopping the payments to the site and I know PayPal had also stopped or frozen there account ?

  12. Posted

    OK guys & gals I have decided to sell off all the rest of my PAL games and thought I would post them here

    first but as I have not been buying or following PAL games I am not sure what a fair price to ask ?

     

    I was hoping I could get an idea from the active collectors as to a fair asking price. Not looking for ebay

    prices but what would be a fair price to ask from fellow colletors. I have looked at the PAL data base for an

    idea of rarity and included what was listed but we all know rarity guides are for the most part just a guess

    at best especially when talking PAL games, just to many variables to consider. With that said I do see there

    were a couple 9's and 8's

     

    So here is what I was hoping for, I know this list is long and dont expect anyone to give fair asking price for

    each game but if you can give me a clue on any specific titles that would be great. I am hoping to let this

    thread run for a week or two before starting sales but if there are specific games you are interested in you

    can PM or post here letting me know your interest and what you think is a fair price. At the end when I am ready

    to start posting the asking price's I will try and give the interested partys first, second, third chance on the

    games they are interested in according to who asked first, that is of course if there is any interest at all

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

    Here is the list of games I have if it does not have a list of whats included it is just cart only

    nearly all are collector grade but some better then others I will add pictures as time permits but

    if there is any interest in specific titles just ask

     

    COMMA VID:

    ==========

    STRONGHOLD - R8 - PICTURE Label

    CAKEWALK - R8 - CART & INSTRUCTION - PICTURE label

    ROOM OF DOOM - R5 - PICTURE label

     

    FUNVISION:

    ==========

    SPIDER MONSTER - R8 - PICTURE (SAME ONE AS SHOWN ON ATARIMANIA, MIDDLE CART, SECOND ONE PICTURED)

    SPACE MONSTER - R9 - PICTURE (SAME ONE AS SHOWN ON ATARIMANIA WITH LIGHT BLUE COLOR AND TYPED NAME STICKER)

     

    K-TEL VISION:

    ============

    SPIDER MAZE - R9 - PICTURE

     

     

    TAIWAN:

    =======

    CIRCUS - R4 - CIB - LABEL TEXT, GREEN BACKGROUND

    CHESS - R? - CIB - LABEL TEXT, GREEN BACKGROUND

    SKI RUN - R5 - PICTURE BLUE

     

    TAIWAN COOPER:

    ===============

    ASTROWAR - R2 - PICTURE - DOUBLE PACK

    BLACK HOLE - R4 - PICTURE - DOUBLE PACK

     

    TAIWAN COOPER SHORT:

    =====================

    SEE SAW - R3 - PICTURE - DOUBLE PACK

    MOTOCROSS - R4 - PICTURE 1ST PERSON VIEW - DOUBLE PACK

    LILLY ADVENTURE - R3 - PICTURE

    BOOM BANG - R4 - PICTURE

    RIVER RAID - R? - PICTURE

    KING ARTHUR - R3 - PICTURE

     

    TELEGAMES:

    ==========

    UNIVERSAL CHAOS - R4 - CIB - TEXT, SILVER BACKROUND

    KUNG FU SUPERKICKS - R3 - CIB - TEXT, SILVER BACKGROUND

    WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL - R? - CIB - TEXT, SILVER BACKGROUND - INST. TITLED SUPER CHALLENGE BASEBALL, CART SIMPLY TITLED BASEBALL

     

    QUELLE:

    =======

    LABYRINTH - R2 - PICTURE ORANGE

    BILLARD - R3 - PICTURE

    TOP GUN - R? - PICTURE

    SUPER-FERRARI - R3 - PICTURE BLUE FONT

    BERMUDA - R? - PICTURE RED/PURPLE TEXT

    PAC-KONG - R3 - PICTURE YELLOW TEXT

    SEE-MONSTER - R3 - QUELLE/BIT CORP - PICTURE

     

    HOT SHOT:

    =========

    SKIN DIVER - R4 - PICTURE

    FOREST - R4 - HOT SHOT/GOLIATH - PICTURE

     

    SANCHO:

    =======

    FOREST - R4 - CIB - PICTURE

    DICE PUZZLE - R4 - CART & BOX (No Inst) - PICTURE

     

    MYSTIQUE:

    =========

    CATHOUSE BLUES - R? - CART & CASE - SMALL PICTURE

     

    VIDEO GEMS:

    ===========

    SURFER'S PARADISE BUT DANGER BELOW - R7 - TEXT

     

    RAINBOW VISION:

    ===============

    TIME RACE - R4 - PICTURE

     

    ITT FAMILY GAMES:

    ================

    PETER PENGUIN - R5 - PICTURE

     

     

    KONAMI:

    =======

    MARINE WARS - R? - KONAMI label Not the GAKKEN label - PICTURE

     

    BOMB:

    =====

    ASSAULT - R5 - TEXT

  15. Posted

    That is most definitely a PC Engine case. Normally PC Engine HuCards came with a strip of foam that you'd place on top of the HuCard to keep it from moving around inside the case.

     

    Well that makes sense it must of somehow/somewhere been put into a PC Engine case?

     

    Thanks for the response's I think its now clear as to How/why its different

  16. Posted

    Yup Thats exactly like the one I have, I had not noticed the thumb ridges on the front edge but mine

    also has them as well, Also has the round sticky spot. Mine came in the cardboard box so I am 99% sure it

    came that way. I am guessing these were late products that were probably produced for cost cutting reasons

     

    Oh does yours have the end label on the case, Mine does not and again I am 99% sure it never did

     

    Thanks for your response it helps to convince me it was really released that way

     

    Dennis

    AKA FND

  17. Posted

    Any TG16 collectors who could help me with a question ?

     

    I just recently got a boxed Ninja Spirit TG16 Game and noticed inside the box

    the CD case does not have the usuall plastic clip that holds the HuCard in place ?

    not only does it not have one there are no holes that it would snap into, the back

    part of the CD Case does however have the molded raised area that keeps the HuCard

    from moving around. Also there is NO edge label on the Case (never had one, no old glue)

     

    I guess I am asking is this a normal late release that maybe they started leaving out

    these parts to save money ?

     

    Thanks to anyone in advance that can answer this question for me

    Dennis

    AKA FND

  19. Posted · Edited by FND

    Looks like Fairchild must of really liked the look of the woodgrain they used

    on there game systems, apparently it was not the first time they used it ;)

     

    Here is a picture of the 1975 Digital Watch with box notice they were using

    it there as well :)

     

    http://fndcollectables.com/AUCTION_PAGE/SHIPPING/VIDEO_GAMES/INTELLIVISION/MISC6/watch1975/fairchildsilver4.jpg

     

    I wonder who started using the Woodgrain finish for there electronic products first ?

    Maybe the 8-Track systems or Calculators manufacturers ? Were the small hand held caculators

    even available before 1975 ?

  20. Posted · Edited by FND

    I just purchased a sega 32X game from EBAY seller, the game arrived well packed and in very good condition in the box with instructions. Payed for it $5 and $4 shipping.

    The game is freezing and the contacts are clean. Sold it as tested and 100% working.

     

    What can I do?

     

    To make it more interesting lets make a poll for a week.

     

    Return the item for refund - have to pay for return shipping

    Keep the game - give Neg feedback

    Keep the game - give Neutral feedback for good shipping and quality of case

    Demand refund with out shipping the item back.

     

    This is my third game from ebay that does not work, different sellers

    Thanx

     

    Before doing anything contact the seller and ask what they can offer as a remedy, they may surprise you

    with another option

     

    EDIT Looks like another post above has the same suggestion ( I posted before seeing it)

  22. Posted

    I have a couple PAL XONOX Double Enders I am interested in selling if anyone is

    interested please PM me an offer or questions, Thanks. Please send offer less shipping

    which will be added to the agreed price once we decide on shipping method. I am in

    the USA

     

    Oh I have tested both sides of each game and they seem to work, I can see the game screen but since they are PAL format they scroll. I can't do much testing as I am in the USA running a NTSC format game system and TV but considering the game screen is showing up and can be started or changed with game select I am sure they are working

     

    Payment should be PayPal but other forms are possible, Shipping will be paid by

    buyer. I use Boxed 1st Class but again I can ship using your requested method.

    Exact cost rounded up to the nearest dollar will be the amount requested.

     

    Games are

    Robin Hood / Sir Lancelot

    Robin Hood / Super Kung-Fu

     

    Scans of actual cartridge below

     

    http://fndcollectables.com/AUCTION_PAGE/SHIPPING/VIDEO_GAMES/INTELLIVISION/MISC6/de_sl_rh.jpg

     

    http://fndcollectables.com/AUCTION_PAGE/SHIPPING/VIDEO_GAMES/INTELLIVISION/MISC6/de_rh_skf.jpg

     

    Thanks in advance

    Dennis

    AKA FND

  23. Posted · Edited by FND

    Actually the Fairchild Channel F was the first to have a HOLD button (Pause) on the game system

    It can also be used to change game speed or time of play without changing the score, which I think

    would also be a First

     

    here is a copy (text) of the Channel F instruction manual that refers to the button

     

    Other Important features

    about the Console games.

    The "Hold"/Re-program features.

     

    Unique to the Faircild Video Entertainment System is a "Hold" button that allows the

    players to do two things: one, "freeze" the action of either Console game in progress

    (in order to take a short break) by simply pushing Selector Control button 3: two, after

    "freezing" the action, change either the time, the speed or both during the course of the game,

    without altering the score.

     

     

    For the record however since the statment was

    "The Atari 5200 was one of the first consoles to feature a "Pause" button."

    (ONE OF THE FIRST)

     

    The statment is still correct

     

    FND

  24. Posted

    A.) It's the real deal.

    B.) You should really have covered up that EPROM window. :ponder:

     

    How would he cover the EPROM window if the cartridge was closed?

     

    Uhm, before taking a picture. Simple, take sticker, cover window and then take pictures. :ponder:

     

    What is going on here today? LOL

     

    Can't you just close the window shade before taking the picture ? Its very hard to find a large enough sticker

    to cover a whole window

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