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Our last show of 2012 is now available. The December 2012 show features our debate of the top-10 Konami Arcade games as well as our interview with gaming historian and co-author of Atari Inc. Business Is Fun, Marty Goldberg. All that and much, much more in this 7 1/2 hour podcast!
http://www.retrogami...055_2012.12.htm
TOPICS COVERED IN THE SHOW
Hardware Flashback: Fignition Computer - (00:00)
Retro Regurge - (24:35)
Guinness Gaming Records - (42:24)
The British IBM (The British IBM) - (44:15)
Marty Goldberg Interview - (48:48)
The Great And Powerful Oz - (74:12)
Top Ten Konami Arcade Games - results - (74:42)
Gaming Trivia - (201:22)
It Came From MAME - (201:49)
Hardware Flashback: Homebrew Games - (222:42)
Live News And Listener Views - chat log - (250:52)
SoCal Christmas Wrap - (436:27)
Focus On The Prize - (439:40)
Xenon 2 (Bitmap Bros) - (441:03)
URLs And EMails - (446:34)
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW
HARDWARE FLASHBACK
RETRO REGURGE
MARTY GOLDBERG INTERVIEW
TOP TEN topic
Fast Lane
GTI Club
Lethal Enforcers
Silent Scope
Amidar
X-Men
Time Pilot 1984
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tutankham
Track And Field
Gyruss
Scramble
IT CAME FROM MAME
Karate Champ (Data East, 1984)
HARDWARE FLASHBACK
New Games For Old Systems
Christmas Carol Vs The Ghost Of Christmas Presents
LIVE NEWS AND LISTENER VIEWS
Disturbing Realistic Kirby paper mache
Idiot looses his wife to Second life...
Free intellivision game rom to win real prizes in December
Sydney man smashes video gaming record
Renowned Sports Journalist on Mattel and Coleco Football
Game Graphs: Systems and Genres
Sonic crosses over with MegaMan
Cardboard WiiU Gamepads on Sale
A retro advert for Dark Souls...?
New Commodore 64 Book of One Line Programs
Impressive Commodore 64 Birthday Cake
How did HAL Laboratory get it's name
Interview with Odyssey 2 case deigner
Raspberry Pi micro arcade machine
Denny's new Las Vegas restaurant puts weddings on the menu
Solid gold Lego brick for $14,000
RC Car controlled by Sega Rally Cabinet
Golden Age Arcade Historian blog
Portal being played on a TI Calculator
A retro version of Robot Unicorn Attack
Complete Famicom and GBA collections
Classic Sega AM2 Fighting games on PSN/XBLA
A Console version of Binding of Isaac is coming
More video game themed bongs for socal
Sony Computer Entertainment President spamming on WiiU
Ever Played this Playstation game before
The First Prototype WiiU Gamepad
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
14 Video Games classified as art
10 Things You Might Not Know About Atari
Sir Patrick Moore (The Gamesmaster) Dies
24 Things that prove video games are all grown up
Missing Virtual Boy Game FINALLY gets released
Capcom releasing free Mega Man 8-bit game
Craigslist Ad Of The Month: Used Panties
FOCUS ON THE PRIZE
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Hey Curt,
This hobby has been far better with you and your projects in it. Thank you or all you've done and will do in the years to come. Take care of yourself and get better soon!
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Well,here is a cool new arrival to the collection that I thought you would like to see.
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Nice, where did you pick that up?
On that OTHER auction site
I had to drop $450 for it but you don't see these come around to often. Seems about the going rate from what I've learned. It was an original owner robot, no yellowing and it had the Atari/Commodore software too. According to the original owner, used once and put in storage until now. -
I've been looking for one of these FOREVER to add to my collection! Anyone else have or used one of these before? All I know it will be a great decoration to my home arcade, but I will be hooking it up to my C64 too!
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Hey Everyone,
GameGavel is proud to be helping friends and family of nightmare Tony, who passed away earlier this month from cancer. There will be some very rare and interesting items donated to these auctions throughout this week. All the money raised from these auctions will be donated to the American Cancer Society in Tony's name.
Here is the tribute story and links to the Tony-A-Thon auction listings:
http://www.gamegavel.com/reviews/2012/12/04/romstar-snk-veteran-passes-away-charity-auctions/
Keep an eye out this week as more items get added. Thank you,
Mike, GG
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Ending tonight bump.
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This thread flew under my radar until someone listed on on GameGavel - http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000699605. I had to jump in it. Can't wait to get it. Now just need to fine me an EA2001 console
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Just scored this sweet multicart on GameGavel - http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000699605
Now I need an Arcadia console. Anyone have one to sell? LMK. Thanks
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It's great! We are getting so many calls and new registrations. People asking what's my game worth, and digging through their basements, attics and storage units.
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Congrats to all involved. I am just glad GameGavel was apart of such a great auction. The coolest thing about this is I will probably see Jose at SC3 in a next weekend (and yes, you better bring this Air Raid to the party to show everyone) and Tricia and I are going to have dinner with Harve and Alana in a couple weeks and toast the sale. This was a tense couple of weeks but it's just as much about the people you meet in this crazy hobby as the item's themselves. I hope we can all find out the true history behind this game in the mean time. Aweome! Just awesome!
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The Air Raid auction ends at 10PM EST or 7PM PST TONIGHT. Will it continue to rise or stall out at $17K? Watch and find out
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Here is another higher profile auction on GG. SNES Campus Challenge Cart and Console
http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000690873
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Woke up to see a new high bidder. Now back over $17K.
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eBay doesn't even show user names of bidders anymore. It's all kept private so you don't know who wins an item. I guess you could see it through the feedback page, though.
There are too many people who know the big collector's ebay handles for that to happen.
Congrats Rick! Doesnt leave much for you to have to collect now! With two Air Raid carts you can now play the game in stereo
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That is my guess as well.
So, basically the high bidder won the eBay auction and can't afford two copies...
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We did remove all the highest bidders bids above the 2nd and 3rd place bidders. Rick63's high bid at the time was $15,750 so we are just $300 over that with the current bids in place.
Shouldn't all his bids be removed then? I know they don't matter at the moment, but you never know. eBay is very bad in those situations because when someone retracts his highest bid, all the others stay in and the auction ends on the second highest bidder. This means that even though the previous high bidder doesn't want the item, he still forces the other people to pay his second bid price... That is not so in this case, but still he remains in there with a few bids.
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I wanted to give you all a heads up that I received an email from the highest bidder asking to have his bids retracted citing financial issues. We've made the adjustments and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place bidders were notified of this situation.
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The press continues. I just saw another huge traffic spike on GameGavel tonight and discovered where everyone was coming from. So far over 21,000 views for the Air Raid auction on GG. Lots more to come now that IGN has picked it up.
http://www.ign.com/a...yes-big-profits
Keep on the look out for a couple more very rare and desirable items, one of them for Atari collectors and one for Nintendo collectors, hitting GameGavel later this week!
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Some good press starting to hit:
Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2012/10/25/3555866/the-atari-2600-air-raid-cartridge-a-story-of-serendipity
MentalFloss: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/148509
Technabob: http://technabob.com/blog/2012/10/25/atari-2600-air-raid-for-sale/
Geekosystem: http://www.geekosystem.com/air-raid-complete/
VGUtopia: http://vgutopia.com/air-raid-and-4-other-impossibly-rare-video-games/
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The current top two bidders have both been members since 2008/2009 even though they have had no transactions. They didn't just sign up to bid on this auction. And we have verified them. A few of the others are members here. We are watching the bidding and bidders closely, I can assure you all
They are probably just paranoid about a stranger coming over. I believe it is real. I'm more concerned about if the bids are real.
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It looks kind of like the TRON arcade building
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Atari Hotwheels Kiosk - Get one and store your boxed games in it
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Not sure if any of you have begged your K-Marts and Walmarts for one of these displays yet, but you should. You can just buy the remaining cars and ask if you could also have the display. That is what we did and it worked. Otherwise, wait until they are almost empty and talk to a store manager to get it when they are done with it.
It can store up to 60 boxed Atari games! See pic: