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  1. Posted · Edited by brojamfootball

    What long boxes are you referring to?

     

    Here you go.

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/25-800-Count-Baseball-Trading-Card-Storage-Boxes_W0QQitemZ140342864105QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item20ad1628e9

     

    They also make a foldover top like here.

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/50-930-Count-Baseball-Trading-Card-Storage-Boxes_W0QQitemZ140342864109QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item20ad1628ed

     

    The best bet is to take a cartridge into a store that sells sports and CGC cards, though.

    Thanks! I think one of my varied, don't-match-each-other storage boxes is one of those.

    Yep, those from Ebay are a bit pricey for what they are but I'll try the local route. Thanks again.

  7. Posted

    I am interested in buying an Atari Game Center Storage unit. I have seen a couple on EBAY but they are in bad shape. I have searched all over the internet to no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

     

    Eric

     

    I have one that holds like 20 games and you rest the Atari 2600 on top of it and can put controllers and games inside. I can send you pictures tonight if your interested. I don't use as I already had a storage system, and it came with a yard sale I bought.

     

    Let me know!

     

    -Disjaukifa

    I'm interested if he isn't.

  11. Posted

    2600 multiplayer games are still great if you asked me.

     

    I've had numerous games of Warlords and Combat with friends over the last six months or so. It seems much easier to get someone to grab a joystick and start firing a tank than it is to show someone the multiple buttons/trigger/joysticks for a modern FPS deathmatch.

     

    Additionally, people who are generally disinterested in video games will, upon seeing a 2600, immediately start grabbing at the controllers, touching the switches and picking out a game. The antique/nostalgia thing grabs the attention of non-gamers. I see the 2600 as part of the nutty vintage toy collection that adorns my entire apartment. It has some of the same appeal as my 1970s Mr. Spock doll.

     

    So video games can be kind of like an LP record player. If I have a Sony turntable from ten or fifteen years ago most people don't care, unless they're LP people. But if I had an old hand-crank Victrola, everyone would want to turn the crank and put on an old 78 of the Carter Family.

  12. Posted

    Got a 2600 Jr. with all hookups, 2 joysticks, and 14 pretty common games. Any idea what I should ask for the lot?

    Where are you going to try and sell it?

     

    You can look through old listings in the marketplace here to get some idea of what Atariage value is, or scan eBay for price ranges there. Seems the JRs are less desirable/valuable than other 2600s.

  14. Posted

    Payment and message sent. I also had the Paypal address error when I copy & pasted, it worked fine when I manually typed it in though.

    I just did a quick search on this, and apparently this is a new security measure recently implemented by PayPal. It's to cut down on the possibility of a script auto-filling in the fields and the submitting the form, sending your money to someone you didn't intend to. Looks like you can copy and paste the address and then backspace over the last character and retype it, which is good to know (I haven't verified this myself yet).

     

    What's idiotic about PayPal's approach is they don't give the user ANY FEEDBACK AT ALL that the reason the email address is failing is because you are copy and pasting it. Instead you get a confusing "Invalid email address" message that makes no sense whatsoever. A simple, "Do not copy and paste the email address, you must type it by hand" above the field, or even after you attempt to copy/paste it would help immensely. I'd love to see their rationale in confusing the hell out of just about all their customers.

     

    ..Al

    That's exactly what I thought. I tried to send a payment many times, getting that "invalid email address" message over and over. Somehow I accidentally tried manually typing in the address and it worked, and a day or so later I saw it mentioned in this thread. If I hadn't miraculously gotten lucky I wouldn't have been able to send it. Insane.

  15. Posted · Edited by brojamfootball

    I want a copy of Juno First - but Paypal says that "[email protected]" is not a valid address!

    PayPal does that if you copy and paste the text (not sure why). Just type the text and it will work fine.

    That's good to know, although it's quite annoying as that's typically what I do (copy/paste) to make sure I don't mistype the email address!!

     

    ..Al

    I learned that just the other day and hate it. Email addresses frequently have weird characters in them that make cut and paste the best way to deal with them. Paypal has gotta get it together.

     

    Got any screenshots of these games?

  16. Posted

    OK, I know I am really biased, but I think Galaxian's port was actually better than the arcade version. True the yellow box on the outside is kind of ugly, but the game itself was a technical marvel on the 2600.

     

    Right-on, what was up with the border on that game? Total nonsense if you ask me. It's supposed to take place in outer space,

    not inside a spoiled pumpkin ;-)

    I wonder if they had some kind of technical reason for that-- something related to the way so many sprites are generated per line? (Something that could show up around the edges of the screen that they wanted to cover up?) But even if that were so, you'd think they would have made the playfield box black instead of orange.

     

    Michael

    I always figured sort of the same thing--kind of like when they put Doom on 16-bit consoles but it was not full screen. Perhaps Galaxian's border limited the size of the playing field in a way that eased programming, its orange color being self-decided by limitations of the 2600 rather than a choice.

  17. Posted

    Maybe you could just use images of 2600, joysticks, etc and not pay any licensing fees? Far as I know, anybody can make anything Atari-shaped and pay no royalties, just not using the Atari name, like Curt and the Legacy Engineering USB joystick. I read somewhere around his site or his posts that the patents/copyrights for the physical design of the 2600 and joysticks is expired.

     

    Also, I don't know where you'll get your shirts from, but $4-6 extra for larger sizes seems pretty excessive. I recently had some shirts with four-color screen printing done on fancy pigment-dyed tees for under $10 per shirt total. This was with a very detailed image, small image printed on upper left of front(where a pocket would be) and large image printed on back. These were done by a partner I was working with, and we all browbeat her for wasting too much money with the four colors and pigment shirts. For our purposes, the logo could have been edited down to two colors and cheaper tees could have been used, making cost maybe $7/shirt, one or two dollars more for XXL or XXXL.

     

    Just my two cents on my recent experiences.

  18. Posted · Edited by brojamfootball

    The ones I dont like are the ones that say untested,but then you look at thier ongoing auctions and thier selling the connectors in a seperate auction/which I would equate as stupid on thier part.

     

    Haha, speaking of which, I was looking at Jaguars, and one guy had one that said just that: "Cannot test it, as I do not have the av or power adapters", yet one listing under the Jag, why, that looks like he's selling, *GASP*, av and a power adapter for a Jag?

     

    Thanks for the tips. I'm going to try to get one from this community if its possible, before looking at eBay anymore.

    I always put that stuff in the same category as the idiotic car sellers on craigslist who say things like

    "head gasket blown/transmission but was great until that happened."

    Guess what? ALL cars once ran great. Why not say "Ran like a top when it came off the showroom floor 13 years ago."

     

    That being said, I have a 5200 I'm interested in selling. It's a pretty complete package, 2 port machine with about 17 games, three joysticks and a trak ball. Most memorable games I can think of are Pengo and Miner 2049er. Controller #1 I cleaned and it works well, #2 I had to put foil on the start and fire buttons, and #3 I have never opened--has unresponsive buttons. I'm not looking to get megabucks for it, but with all the games and trak ball it's a pretty nice package. Shipping will be expensive I'm sure. PM me if interested. I just got my camera together and everything, and was gonna try and make a post about it in the next day or two.

  22. Posted

    Using a program called AndreaMosaic, I created this photomosaic of an Atari 2600 using screenshots found in the rarity guide. I bet I can get an even cooler looking one if I used more screenshots (I only used <60), but the question is, should I do the work?

    In a word, yes.

  23. Posted · Edited by brojamfootball

    Those shiny labels, even Activision carts, sooo very very nice.

     

    Those are the the kind of games that really make a collection shine--something from thirty years ago like brand new.

     

    Even if they are commons, the condition makes them really stand out. Even people who don't collect will recognize and appreciate these particular cartridges.

     

    Edit: I just looked at 'em again--that shining Fishing Derby, that gleaming Dragster, that sparkling Stampede, twinkling Laserblast and mirror-like Megamania--just very nice.

     

    Got more pix?

  24. Posted · Edited by brojamfootball

    Nice use of the pen--I gotta try that. As many things as I've read about repairing the 5200 controller with new parts or tin foil or whatever, I don't think I've seen this before.

     

    Does it seem to last pretty well?

     

    edit: This has gotta be the best presentation and pics of opening the 5200 controller I've seen.

  25. Posted

    Phoenix was pretty good for its time.

     

    Although I now find Night Driver boring, I loved it back in the day and it actually expanded on the arcade game.

    Same with Space Invaders--arguably the first real "killer app."

     

    Joust--managed to have pretty good graphics while really preserving the feel of the arcade game--you can almost feel the inertia when changing directions. The floating egg thing is a drag but overall impressive port for 2600.

     

    Warlords accommodated four players for true preservation of the arcade game mechanics. Great version of a great game.

     

    I am also fond of Star Trek. Although it is a slightly watered-down version of its vector graphics arcade counterpart, and like many 2600 arcade ports suffers from the Atari joystick button shortage, it's one of the few, precious 2600 titles that manage to use lower resolution versions of the arcade icons and sprites with great success. The splitscreen-style interface looks pretty darn nice, too.

     

    Asteroids was a classic one. The graphics were just good enough to work and the game was fun. So what if it was much easier than the arcade game? Tons of game variations change difficulty as well as many other options.

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