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Its called economies of scale. Giving a programmer a small honorarium to port a game from MSX etc, costs of printing small runs of boxes and labels and manuals, cost of carts and PCBs etc - there is not huge profits to be made by selling 50 copies of a homebrew @ $50 bucks. More a labour of love really.

Im just curious on how you opened the brick. Dremel, vise, hammer...

Put me on the list

Any difference between channel 3 and 4?

Found a site with reviews. About 10 positive saying it worked great for their application and about 10 negative saying it was a POS. So there we go, nothing definitive.

Looks Atari to me

I dont know if I am talking thru my hat but PAL-M I believe is a little different in that its 60Hz like NTSC which I believe means that it wont scroll. But the colour coding is different meaning the display will be in black and white. The crux of my question is really - does anyone have any experience with those Far East Chinese $14 converters on Ebay or is it a waste of money?

LOL and it wasn't $5 either. That one and Pole Pos,n were $6.99. and in answer to the 2nd question asked earlier, I don't recall the name of the place but it was in Houston.

Theres been a zillion of these come out of Greece lately.

Irks me when Ebay wont do anything about a seller who is so obviously shill bidding on his own crap.

Reviving this topic in case members have more current feedback on the topic. I see cheaper converters on Ebay now as low as about $12 CAD from far east but don't want to buy one if they just don't work. Any one got a Brazilian PAL-M console they use in N. America on an NTSC TV with some inexpensive converter? thx

I just ordered a Digiplay Inty II console yesterday then today I am thinking shoot, am I going to be able to use this thing on my TV? Do they display in PAL-M and if so that means black and white only right? How about those converters you see now, kinda scary buying one of those Chinese $12 units if it doesn't work? Anyone have input on this topic? thx

I do a fair amount of travel for business and one thing I do is visit flea markets, used video game stores and pawn shops. Last trip to Texas I dropped in just at closing time , asked if he had any Intellivision games. Owner says he has just some sports titles mostly that most people aren't interested in. $5 bucks each. Holy crap, I filled a few holes with this lot pretty cheaply.

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Big Rally-X fan, if you haven't shipped my box yet, let me know what it would be to include that one..

And maybe I,m being too critical. But stuff like heres what the experts are saying - Coleco is making a console. I mean its a little underwhelming if thats supposed to be an endorsement to generate some level of excitement or legitimacy .

Is it just me or is this flyer kinda...whats the word I seek...lame. And not just because they misspelled ColecoVision on page one but it looks like the whole thing was written by an amateur and not very polished. E.g. paraphrasing - Coleco went on to sell 2.5 million cabbage patch dolls then 20 million were bought in one year. Umm, huh..

Reviving a very old thread to add pictures of this item,

Speaking of high, aren't these pictures taken from about 5 feet too high? eBay Auction -- Item Number: 252278326363

When I lost my high score in Frogger. George Costanza

See a one-piece Parker Bros Australian box on Ebay, I believe this to be an update since all I could see in the latest update was reference to the 2-piece parker bros australian eBay Auction -- Item Number: 321977584143

Well I got my refund....well sort of...Paypal shows a refund then they put a hold on the refund. Nothing for Opcode to do, its between me and Paypal but WHAT JERKS. Whew, feel better now.

And I'd forgotten how great it was to pick up a magazine off the shelf new and read ADAM articles and see a dozen ads in the back for ADAM goodies.

ADAM Family Computing Magazine from Scholastic ultimately became Family Computing Magazine instead and was devoted to all the 8-bit computers of the time, I used to buy every issue at the store when it came out. (because a Canadian subscribing to a US magazine often means paying more than the sticker price) so you saved by buying off the shelf. As I now look it up under Wikipedia to prompt my memory "The title was changed, first to Family & Home Office Computing and finally to just Home Office Computing with ever-diminishing coverage of home computing topics" Oh way cool, just found that these magazines are all scanned and archive here I typed in every one of those BASIC programs and when they didn't work, was so pleased with myself to find where the typo was....

Turn of the century CRT TV's - a 2004 15 inch Electrohome and a 32 in. JVC. After trying 3 light guns, two TV's, two games, and both a SMS and SMS II with the exact same behavior, I come to the conclusion that my TV's are too new. I think I will try my circa '84 Commodore 1702 monitor next.