SNES and Genesis hooked up at Best Buy

[SNES and Genesis hooked up at Best Buy]

Sounds interesting. Please do post the vids.

[New Genesis Owner needs help.]

Get a Sega CD and a set of composite cables and the console will be amazing. Out of all my retro consoles, I play the Genesis the most.

[Video games back in the spotlight... again.]

20's and 30's - Radio was evil

40's and 50's - Comic Books and TV were evil

60's and 70's - Rock music was evil

80's - Now - Videogames are evil.

 

Will this shit ever stop? It's apparent that in the last 80 years, nothing in pop culture has brought down decent society. STFU conservative extremists.

Most decent people in the 1950s wouldn't say sh*t if they had a mouthful. I'm not a conservative extremist, but you'd have to be a fool not to see how entertainment has been used to erode our values over time.

It's not the entertainment. It's the rather stable economy for the past 60 years that really has spoiled everyone. During and shortly after the depression, people started to appreciate what they have and stopped lusting over what they couldn't have. Now people just want more, more, more and just ignore the fact that that they have family that they don't spend time with.

[Video games back in the spotlight... again.]

20's and 30's - Radio was evil

40's and 50's - Comic Books and TV were evil

60's and 70's - Rock music was evil

80's - Now - Videogames are evil.

 

Will this shit ever stop? It's apparent that in the last 80 years, nothing in pop culture has brought down decent society. STFU conservative extremists.

[Rumor Mill: Sony to drop UMD support on next PSP]

MiniDisc player suck. I've had 3 of them and they all broke.

[craiglist 2600 score with mystery item]

Wow. That would be awesome. It looks like a prototype of the Atari Junior as it's much smaller than the 2600.

[Sega CD]

[How much more valuable are games that are sealed?]

The only sealed game I ever opened was Seaman.

bet you regret doing that *lol*

yes, boredom can be narrated by leonard nemoy

Actually nah. I bought that game to play it. It wasn't shrink wrapped and the box was a little beat up anyway. It had a sticker seal. Here's a pic.

 

 

You can see where someone decided to do their math homework.

[How much more valuable are games that are sealed?]

The only sealed game I ever opened was Seaman.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Last year I went to a garage sale and asked this guy if he had any video games. He said no he didn't have PlayStation and Nintendo. I told him I was a retro gamer and he said "ya know what hold on a second". He went into the house and 5 minutes later he came down with this. He told me to make him an offer. I said $20.

 

 

 

You.....are.....a......GOD!

 

Was perusing the thread and see that free shit counts too.

 

Not going to believe this. My tenant just put a flat-panel in her two bedrooms. So she gave me and my aunt TWO flat-screen TV's(the ones with the flat screen but have a tube). They aren't more than two and a half years old. I kept the RCA Flat-Tube with built in DVD Player. Me and the girlfriend can FINALLY play Xbox without having to worry about using our VCR for inputs.

 

Can't believe that this woman was ACTUALLY going to throw these out!

 

BTW, we measured them. The RCA one is 25" and the other one(AIWA) is a 27".

 

I almost forgot. The RCA one DOES have AV outputs. My girlfriend decided to break it in by blasting "Outshined" on our stereo.

 

Hahahaha I wouldn't say god but maybe awesome. lol jk. It's really the only good deal other than getting all these 2600 carts for free out of a cabinet someone was throwing out.

They also came with all the booklets.

[Pong Tabletop problem]

From the looks of it, it was probably in a tropical area. My dad was telling me back around 1974 when he went to Puerto Rico that they were everywhere.

[Pro-Play Home Arcade unit Found!]

Sounds sweet!

[Pong Tabletop problem]

Holy crap! Did that guy leave it in his backyard or something. What the hell happened to it??

[My $0.99 Dreamcast issue...]

Quake III still goes online with about 30 people online at any given time. So does 4x4 Evolution but nobody is ever playing.

[Sega CD]

Ah. I didn't grow up with a Genesis/CD. I had an SNES/Super Gameboy.

[Sega CD]

It's has what?

[Regrets you may have made with your game collection?]

The biggest regret I ever ever had was hanging on to my extensive collection for such a long time. And building it up in the first place. I had complete docs and box and controller sets and tons of misc accessories for all the following systems.

 

Astrocade, atari 400/800/2600/5200/1040/520, Colecovision, Vectrex, O2, Trs-80 CoCo/pocket computer, Intellivision, Sinclair, Vic20, C64, PC, Telstar, arcadia, Adam, Amiga 500/1000, Ti-99/4a.. and many more.

 

I did save over 6000lbs. of Apple ][, ][+, //e, //c, //c+, ///, ///+ hardware, software, documentation, pictures, videos, ads, manuals, notes, and accessories, and 9200+ floppies, including literally every type of hardware board and software product (with manuals) that was ever made. My other games collection was similarly in-depth.

 

In retrospect putting this crap in the trash truck was the best thing since I had a ton of fun rebuilding the collection in a virtual style with emulation and the file archiving capabilities of NTFS - and a 500GB hard disk. Great! Freed from earthly physical constraints, my collection will last forever and can go anyplace. Eventually, sooner rather than later I will dissolve the Apple ][ series collection.

TRASH TRUCK!!!! You should have given it to me!!!

[Sega CD]

The Sega CD is such an underrated console addon. I think all CD addons are.....except the Jaguar. My Sega CD gets more play than any of my other consoles in my collection. Yes all of these.

 

[ColecoVision Arkanoid...]

AA allows imbedding Youtube's vids...

 

 

 

 

Tho it could be that the traffic is just high from users drooling over them.

 

For some reason it won't met me imbed videos. Also LOL Frank Zappa.

[The Official "Thrift finds" Thread]

Last year I went to a garage sale and asked this guy if he had any video games. He said no he didn't have PlayStation and Nintendo. I told him I was a retro gamer and he said "ya know what hold on a second". He went into the house and 5 minutes later he came down with this. He told me to make him an offer. I said $20.

 

[Regrets you may have made with your game collection?]

I sold my DS and True Swing Golf for Gears of War. I will never buy into hype again.

[How do I plug this in?]

[quote name='dommie' date='Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:01 AM' post='1708141'

I haven't toyed around with any PAL stuff yet, but it was my understanding that you need a PAL TV for PAL equipment to work properly. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what I've heard.

As far as I know it will work but there will be some flicker since PAL is 50Hz instead of NTSC 60Hz.

[How do I plug this in?]

Don't get me started on those f*#%s at Radio Shack.

 

Items that I've asked for that they had in stock but didn't know WTF i was talking about when I asked for them: D-sub male/female connectors, sub mini/mini jack converter, CAT5 cable!!! (I was like, are you kidding me!? when the guy asked what that was).

 

Items the staff told me "didn't exist" when I asked about them: analog/digital A/V converter, RCA to coax connector.

 

As for the connector, it looks like maybe a BNC? I don't know for sure it that's what PAL uses, but you can look at what a BNC looks like here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_connector

 

I haven't toyed around with any PAL stuff yet, but it was my understanding that you need a PAL TV for PAL equipment to work properly. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's what I've heard.

LOL I asked them if they had a Phono F to Coax adapter and they just said, cordless phone or wireless. I was just

[Show off your console area pics...and let us know what you have hooked up!]

Here's what I've obtained in the past 2 years. And no this isn't all of it.

 

 

 

 

 

I got that for $25 at a garage sale.

 

 

 

 

 

[Regrets you may have made with your game collection?]

I missed out on buying a box of 3 2600's and a shitload of peripherals for $15 at a garage sale. I only had $5 with me.