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I never did, but I've received a lot of games that have a first name written on it using a Sharpie. I also regularly get CDs and LPs that have names and/or phone numbers on them, often with printed labels. I think sometimes people who have roommates do this to prevent confusion when someone moves out.

I find it interesting, so that's one so far.

Tempest (Jaguar) - a very, very good port...been thinking of building a spinner (just for this). Jawbreaker (2600) - the trick seems to be to use the sliding doors often...my problem is I tend to go through them accidentally Millipede (2600) - game play is fast and furious on this version

or it would be fairly easy to bend an acrylic sheet to fit.

I can't find any topless wife conventions.

Obviously, he properly uses the more correct, traditional Middle English form of the word. like I do...

Not many. I had one and you could fit maybe a set of jumper cables and a spare t-shirt and shoes in the front. Fortunately, it also has a rear trunk that might actually hold a complete 2600 cart collection (without boxes), or a pretty healthy collection even with boxes.

Go visit taverns and arcades in Sunnyvale and adjacent towns and rub shoulders with Atari (and Activision and Imagic and etc) employees.

I pretty much have what I want, unless something breaks. If they want to give me something valuable, I'd tell them to just go sell it at the game store and come back and give me the money instead.

The simple answer is generally, the same game on different systems will play differently (though perhaps only slightly), and may be easier or harder. In many cases, two or three versions may have been programmed by completely different people or teams who just did their best, under budget and time constraints, to complete something reasonably close to target.

Depends on why you collect...I have a Genesis Madden collection just because, well, because. Other titles may become very rare in the future (check out Master System boxing title James "Buster" Douglas where one copy sold for thousands even though it was "last man standing" in the stores at the end of that consoles life).

Doesn't Venezuela have like a guzillion percent inflation these days? Not sure accurate pricing is really possible (or even delivery right now)... unless you're going to go get them yourself.

Not sure between titles, but Activision text labels are fairly common, really.

I hate throwing things away, so it's really weird to me that so many people these days don't even try very hard to figure out what's wrong when something does not work right. At a minimum, when something's broken, first thing I do is start pushing all the buttons, off/on a few times, wiggle the cords, check for unknown battery, fuse, or breaker compartments, swap power packs, and even "smack it on the side" solutions. Then there's cleaning contacts, and as a last resort, I start removing screws to see what I can learn. Sometimes I even get things back together in working order. And I always know more the next time.

It's always fun when you know you got those games at a good price, especially if you worked hard to do exactly that! I'm mostly a cartridge collector, but I've always had a fondness for the PS1. Got my first ones (2 at once) at a yard sale for $2, taking a gamble that at least one would work. Started seeing them at throwaway prices at yard sales and the flea market and picked up so many, I eventually had to tell myself to stop taking them home because "it's only 2 dollars" or whatever. I also really like the look and feel of the PS One (small, compact model). One time when a Game Crazy was going out of business, they had hundreds of different titles for $.10, $.25, $.50 each and got a ton of them. I remember spending like $75 dollars for three boxes of games... I still haven't tried them all out.

This is an old picture of a device that does what you want, I believe. I had it and used it for about 10 years to play games occasionally while (ahem) "working". It's OK, but not perfect, with some (in my opinion) minor artifacts. It takes as input either a coax antenna cable or a composite video RCA cable (yellow) and right/left channel audio RCA cables (red, white) and has the VGA DB connector that goes into your computer monitor. It also has an RF tuner and came with a remote, neither of which I used. I got mine at Fry's Electronics sometime in the mid-2000's, but can't tell you where to get one now, though. Sorry, I don't have any other pictures to show the back. I might still have it somewhere, but don't know where it is if I do.

I entered a video game contest in 1982 at St James Infirmary in Mountain View CA (a bar/nightclub) and won a Silverball Mania pinball machine. There were only a handful of contestants, and each of us played one game of three different coin-ops (I think Centipede, and maybe Pac-man, and something else) and they just added up the total score (not a very good way to judge). But I won first place and borrowed a truck from a friend and came back in a couple days to pick up my prize. I remember the manager didn't really want me to take it, but I insisted. Great fun to have a pinball machine in the living room for a few years, but eventually got tired of opening it up and cleaning the contacts for the lights and switches. Plus it's a PITA to move. Eventually essentially gave it away.

LOL most of my consoles I got at garage sales, so they usually had a BUNCH of pack ins. But seriously, My Vectrex came with Mine Storm (obviously). My Colecovision came with Donkey Kong. My NES top loader didn't come with any game. My Nomad didn't come with any game. My Game Gear didn't come with any game, or maybe it came with Sonic 2, not sure. My CDX came with 4 game discs and 2 music discs (which I still keep in my mp3 rotation): 1-Sonic CD ("Not for resale"), 2-Ecco the Dolphin ("Not for resale"), 3-Sega Classics on one CD: StreetsOfRage, RevengeOfShinobi, Columns, GoldenAxe, SuperMonacoGP ("Not for resale"), 4-Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, and two music CDs: 5-Sega Of America Presents Adventurous New Music CD (various artists I can't credit) 6-Sega Of America Presents Rock Paintings CD (various artists including Little Feat, Chris Isaak, Fleetwood Mac, Information Society, Jimi Hendrix) My NeoGeo Pocket Color came packaged with six games. I thought "Hey! Great start!" then never found any more games for it at retail after that. I hate fighters, and am not a golfer, and I already had a zillion versions of Pac-Man, but Metal Slug is a really good game, so that was what I consider the reason for buying this system. 1-Fatal Fury First Contact Pocket Fighting Series 2-King of Fighters R2 Pocket Fighting Series 3-Metal Slug 1st Mission 4-NEO Turf Masters 5-Pac-Man 6-Samurai Showdown! 2 Pocket Fighting Series My PS2 (thin) I bought at Frys Electronics in Sunnyvale. It was some special holiday weekend and it came with eighteen games I could choose from a huge stack of games that were obviously all flops and/or close-outs. I remember there were no driving games or scrolling shooters available (my preferred genres).

Never noticed that...

Also, 2600 Omega Race uses a special controller which allows extra button control (but not through the second controller port).

About predictions: "Bladerunner" 2019, and "The Running Man" 2019

That overlay looks like an original to me.

Public forums are so messy; much better if self-appointed experts control the information.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Since you are already comfortable with excel, it might be fairly easy for you to create a new database with openoffice or libreoffice (both free and run easily on most computers). You could likely use your existing spreadsheet as a starting point by just opening it up from libreoffice and see what you get. The open source file formats are very portable, importable, and exportable these days. ...and sortable, supportable, reportable, and even abortable if you decide you don't like it.