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RIP Game Doctor. You will be missed by a generation of gamers, but your words live on!

Geoff jokingly said we better run it sooner than later. He is 80 afterall We might get him to CGE next summer, too! Awesome, Mike! I guess it really was a great interview since it is getting to jump the queue of interviews you have in the can. Can't wait to hear it!

Hey All, We just wrapped a great 2-hour interview with Geoff Edwards, host of Starcade, for an upcoming RetroGamingRoundup podcast. What a genuinely great guy with tons of great stories to tell about his history in hosting radio and game shows as well as acting. You won't want to miss this one! I think we will be airing it in our September show. And even at 80 he is still a gamer!

We are selling these for Keith. He will be the one shipping them Very cool! What would shipping to Canada be for the Thin Ice poster? (I'm assuming these are your own auctions right?)

Calling all Intellivision Fans. Don't miss this one! http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000545853 or this one! http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000545849

We realize there is a heated debate whether or not publishers should or should not be compensated for used game sales. We don't know who is right or wrong, we just know we can introduce a model that pays gamers more for games as well as (we hope) will aleviate "on-line" pass for our buyers as we will be rebating publishers already for all their games. This is something we are discussing with publishers as we speak. Next, we don't feel we can take on GameStop alone. That is part of the reason we want to include the publishers. So in essence, if publishers support us they support gamers and their right to get more for their used games - 30%+. Think of the 10% rebate we are paying them as more like marketing/advertising expense to us, they aren't getting it for free. And having the publishers support us publicly is some of the best marketing we can get. It also helps to get funding when we have companies like Sony, Nintendo, Msoft, EA, Activision, THQ, et al partnering with us. And remember, we aren't taking the rebate out of gamers pockets, that is coming out of ours. As far as the "instant gratification" argument. It's a good one. We know we will lose out on 1st day releases and are cool with that. On the flipside, we believe gamers have matured and are usually playing more games than just one. So they can drop a game in their mailbox and will be playing other games the 2-3 days it will take to get their new order. Netflix has proven that people are cool with waiting a couple days for their entertainment and we believe will this will spill over into our model. As far as GameFly is concerend, yesterday we just had one of their key execs reach out to us about early employment so seeing where that goes this morning.

I think I am masochistic but hey, all in the name for making things better. Read on. . . http://gamasutra.com/view/news/36532/Startup_Hopes_To_Disrupt_Used_Game_Market_By_Giving_Publishers_A_Cut.php

Any AtariAger's in Vegas? Check out our thread and plan an partying with us in Vegas next weekend! Hitting Hofbrauhaus on Friday night. Hitting the Pinball Museum on Saturday and special night podcasting from Insert Coins for RetroGamingRoundup with our listeners. Keith Robinson from Intellivision will be at Insert Coins too signing autographs (bring your intelli carts) and selling some Intellivision goodness. http://www.gamegavel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4408 Join Us and get on our show! More info here on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129855467105057

Seller Subscriptions GameGavel is now subscription based. What does this mean for you? As a buyer, it means nothing. You are free to shop on GameGavel and bid or buy from a great group of sellers. But if you are an existing seller or anticipate selling, then this is very good news! We have done away with costly and unpredictable transaction fees and have replaced them with two levels of monthly subscriptions. There are no hidden fees or additional costs. You can choose between one of two subscription levels and start selling! You can also now use Paypal or Credit Cards to pay your subscription, too! Our two levels of subscriptions are as follows: Silver Subscription - $1.99/Month=20 Listings per month. For smaller, less frequent sellers. Gold Subscription - $7.99/Month=Unlimited listings and sales. Sell all you can for one predictable, low monthly cost. The next time you login to your member’s area, at the top you will see the two subscription options. Click on your choice and you will be taken to fill out the GameGavel/Paypal Recurring Subscription form. Fill that out and you will be good to go. If you do not use Paypal, then email us at [email protected] and someone will contact you to set up your seller account with a credit card. All sellers who purchased or were gifted a free seller account after our launch in 2008 will still use the site for free so this change will not make any difference for you. Also, since this change is taking affect mid billing cycle you may have one final credit card billing for existing transaction fees to date. Once this final payment comes out, this system will no longer be around and you will only be charged your monthly new, subscription amount. If you have any questions about this please let us know. Seller Case Study – RETROGAMECITY We recently had a new seller, RetroGameCity, move his store from Ebay to GameGavel.com. Be sure to check out his items – all imports from Japan! The cool thing is he is selling tons of stuff. One thing that is making him successful; he is taking some of the money he is saving selling on GameGavel to advertise his store using Google Adwords. He has also linked his website, http://www.retrogamecity.com to his GameGavel seller store page. He was spending over $1000/month on Ebay (now he is only spending $8/month) so he is saving a tremendous amount of money selling on GameGavel. Feel free to message him through his seller store front and ask him any questions you may have about what he is doing to be successful selling on GameGavel! Advertise Your GameGavel Seller Store If you are a seller and want to advertise your GameGavel store consider purchasing a cheap banner that will be featured in our header or footer. Or choose other types of cheap advertising we offer. Click here and you can see what you will pay to promote your store and the variety of ad spots we offer. Again, we feel this is very inexpensive and will help drive additional traffic to your store. http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/59664 GameGavel Company Store We are also excited to tell you that GameGavel is now selling new releases and popular titles for the current generation consoles. Our selection is small but growing! If you are looking for titles for your PS3, XBOX360, Wii or handhelds please remember to check the GameGavel homepage to see the new additions to our store. We always feature FREE SHIPPING on all our Products! Check out our store listings right here: http://www.gamegavel.com/sites/gamegavel/ Also see new releases and popular titles for sale in the GameGavel store right on the GameGavel.com homepage. As you can see, there are a lot of changes going on here at GameGavel. We believe the subscription system will benefit all sellers by giving you all a very predictable and inexpensive way to sell your video games. We hope this will entice other sellers who are fed up with Ebay’s high and unpredictable transaction fees to come over here to set up shop. As always, with website upgrades and changes there are bound to be a few unexpected bugs or glitches. If you witness anything strange please let us know.

http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000534825 And taking offers, too!

Count me in if possible.

We interviewed the owner of the company from the last CGE. On a past RetroGamingRoundup podcast. I will find the episode and post it here.

Glad you enjoyed it! Ted was great!

It's the Saturday Night Aracde Party! Sitting in your room at CAX taking a break? Tune In Now! http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?station_name=peterhirschberg&site=pro&tm=1889

Unexplainable. Unless these people all thought there was an Atari in there? Strange!

Part #2 of the Al Alcorn interview in our June 2011 RetroGamingRoundup podcast. Enjoy! http://www.retrogamingroundup.com/sh...36_2011.06.htm TOPICS COVERED IN THE SHOW E3 / EGC Editorial - (04:44) Hardware Flashback - (29:35) It Came From MAME - (110:51) Guinness Gaming Records - (123:19) Al Alcorn Interview Pt2 - (124:39) The British Hour - (193:43) Top Ten Video Game Hunks - results - (203:44) Gaming Trivia - (255:30) Descendants Of Erdrick Interview - (255:56) Pinball Wizard 7 - (277:10) News And Listener Views - chat log - (279:00) Electric Lifeform (Chip Shop Master) - (388:10) Keith Apicary Interview - (393:31) URLs And EMails - (400:33) LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW HARDWARE FLASHBACK The National Pinball Museum Part 1 IT CAME FROM MAME Navalone (Navorone) Orbitron AL ALCORN INTERVIEW Al, Ted, Nolan, Fred TOP TEN Mario (Super Mario Bros) Spider (Micro Machines) SoCal (Mike-Ro Machines) Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy Simon Belmont (Castlevania) Death Adder (Golden Axe) Ash (Streets of Rage 3) Cloud (Final Fantasy 7) Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem Forever) Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil) Dirk The Daring (Dragon's Lair) Megaman (Megaman) Guile (Street Fighter 2) DESCENDANTS OF ERDRICK INTERVIEW My Space Page Facebook Pag Website NEWS AND LISTENER VIEWS uStream chat log 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time Ottawa Pinball & Gameroom Show OBLIGE Level Maker For Classic Doom Gameboy online emulator Video Craze Documentary New arcade movie - Kickstarter Indoor "classic gaming" theme park in a hotel Pinball Painting sells for US$3M+ 10 Unreleased Video Game Consoles Gummi Bears 8-bit Kids Gaming Alphabet Amuseworld Puppy Arcade Linux Pen Drive Every Playboy Issue Ever Published On Your iPad Fatigue Ends Q*Bert World Record Bid 5 Real-World Mechs Straight out of Science Fiction 10 Weird and Awesome Arcade Cabinets How To Build a Video Game Urinal Top ten ends of the world in video games HxC Floppy Drive Emulator National pinball museum goes tilt after 5 months What Games Would Had Been Made from the 70s Mario Themed Wedding Go the Fuck to Sleep iCade reviews appearing New Intellivision Donkey Kong cart to be released in August 5 Things We Learned from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games Mario graphics made with soda boxes. Atari 2600 games if they were made today If Dr. Who had been a Snes game M.U.L.E review on Retroist UK Gaming Auction House Entering old competitions Handheld Dreamcast systems go on sale in Japan Interview with the guys who made A Link to the Past Bunga Bunga in the main stream Pac-Man ghosts screen saver Skateboard / BMX Pinball Park New NES Homebrew Demo: Super Bat Puncher Church Fete Retro Find Desktop Dungeons Retro Realities Choplifter HD coming to XBLA, PSN and PC Vintage Arcade Machines Showcase LinkedIn Tetris Space Invaders Salt & Pepper shakers South Park "Custer's Revenge" cab Classic Gaming Bead Sprites Forum Posts Classic Gaming Bead Sprites Blog Michael Ruppert Slot Car Pictures -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8 -9- Virtual Boy Arcade Cabinet 6 Glitches That Accidentally Invented Modern Gaming Socal Quotes App for Android E3 Classic Gaming booth Goldfish music video Android emulators removed Tardis MAME Cab Wizard Of Oz Mini Playfield Drawings Kami Retro on the Android Market C64 Yourself Amiga Documentary Game Room Junkies How they got from Jumpman to Mario Retro Game Master Legends of the Joystick American airlines replacing paper maps with ipads Pitfall post mortem by David Crane FlashBack 3 at E3 was BS Stop action Mario Vs Megaman Takahashi Meijin leaves Hudson Soft Before Mario Blog Receipt Racer Unused Mario 3 beta gameplay Video from 1988 Programming the Micro Mario's Agent Sega Hacked Pepsi Throwback Atari arcade on Facebook What's In The Box? KEITH APICARY INTERVIEW Talking Classics Game Trailers

Ya, great idea and one I have been wanting to integrate for some time. I have someone that does the site for me and our hands have been full trying to get our search function improved which is taking forever the way the site was originally written. Once that is done we will move on to other things and this may be one of them.

We may have 2-levels of subscription. For example $3 up to 30 listings and $7.99 for unlimited. We will try and make it work for everyone.

Like all other websites we charge by the cpm or per 1,000 impressions. So $2 will get you 1,000 impressions. However,the advertising system will require a minium of 10,000 impressions which it will calculate based on the total impressions the site runs. For example, let's say you want to buy 10,000 impressions. Take 10,000/1,000=10 and multiply that x $2 = $20 for 10,000 impressions. Then your banner will be added into rotation throughout the month until it uses up those 10,000 impressions. You will also see your banner ad stats which will show you how many click throughs your banner is getting. It's pretty cheap to try it - $20 and you could see if your item views and sales increase. It can be canceled at any time. Click the link and you can play around with the various ad spots we have - some are only $1/1,000 impressions It is pretty self explanatory. You pick one, upload a 728x90 banner and it starts running. Question ? since I have never puchased any Banner/ad space the pricing is somewhat vague to me what is IMPS? I would think Impressions ? how do they work ? is it pay each time someone uses the link ? or maybe each time you show it on the site ? how it is calculated Thanks in advance FND

Feel free to use our logo any way you want if it is running on GG +1 For monthly subscriptions.

Hello GameGavel Community, Summer is finally upon us so we hope that means you can all get outside and enjoy some warmer weather! For us, it is business as usual looking at trying different things to keep enhancing the user experience here on GameGavel. New Subscription Model vs. Transaction (commission) Model Starting the following week or two we are going to make a change that we feel is for the better and we hope will promote more selling in the GameGavel marketplace. Since we launched three plus years ago it has been brought up by many to consider moving away from transaction based selling fees (commissions) to a monthly subscription model. We now have developed a system to do this and will be trying this out soon. It will simplify our billing and payment structure immensely and be much more affordable and predictable for our sellers and incent more listings. So, instead of sellers being charged a % of each sale, and for listing enhancements, we will simply charge $7.99/month and open it up to unlimited selling. Seller stores, selling tools, the bulk uploader and listing photo uploads will still be included for free. Listing enhancements (bold titles, highlighted listings, featured homepage listings, etc.) since hardly ever used, will be removed and we will do other creative things to showcase random listings based on # of views, bids, starting and ending times, etc. $7.99/month will cover it all! Also, with this change we will be integrating with Paypal through a new seller interface which you can easily set up monthly recurring billing through Paypal and not require using a credit card. However, we will still have a separate credit card option for those that don’t want to use Paypal to pay this monthly subscription fee. Also, you will be able to pause the program during months where you know you won’t be selling anything. Obviously, if you are only going to be a buyer on GameGavel you won’t have to worry about any of this. And, if you are fortunate enough to have a free seller account on GameGavel, you will continue to use the site free of charge! While Ebay is continuing to raise prices and confuse everyone with their fee structure you can count on knowing on GameGavel you will only be spending a small, set amount each month regardless of how many items you list and sell. Seller - Banner Advertising The next new thing to announce is we are opening up our banner advertising to enterprising sellers who want to better promote their GameGavel stores or personal store websites. Our banner advertising runs in the header and footer areas of the GameGavel marketplace and forums. It is a great promo piece that can show everyone what you specialize in (retro gaming, modern gaming, specific systems, imports, Anime, etc.) and drive buyers to your GameGavel store or your website. Banners run $2/1000 impressions and can be purchased here - http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/59664 . Give it a try! GamerSpots.com Also, please remember to register on GamerSpots.com and help your fellow local gamers find video gaming hotspots in your community. Submit and rate your local independent video game stores, arcades, LAN gaming centers & video gaming shows or expos! Or use GamerSpots to find and get directions to gaming centers and stores all over the world. Thanks again to all of you for being a part of our growing community of gamers. Know that with each listing and sale we are getting one step closer to being that Ebay alternative we all really want. As always, feel free to contact us if there are any issues or things you want to discuss. The GameGavel Team

Yes, and 8-Bit Weapon

GameGavel and RetroGamingRoundup shared a kick-ass booth with the CGE Team and their Video Game History Museum. Here are links to some photos taken from E3 on our Facebook page - scroll through a bit to see them all as well as a video showing what was going on in the booth. It was packed all three days and it could be heard by many that this was the "best" booth at E3! RGRU Facbook: http://www.facebook.com/GameGavel#!/RetroGamingRoundup GameGavel Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GameGavel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgnqsN_YxFw&feature=youtu.be We handed out over 2,000 RetroGamingRoundup podcast CD's and hung this poster in various places:

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