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    Super nice guy.. He's a doctor in New York and bought up a toy store going under in the late 80's. He built a new house recently, and the entire basement is a carefully planned retro gaming room. He has a HUGE collection of pinball machines, and retro games adorn his home and office. I've bought his Coleco stuff for years, and it's all good. Best to contact him direct. He sells as much his accountant will let him each year regardless of those eBay prices. His Coleco stock is dwindling...

    The dude on ebay, (Jeff is his name BTW, super nice guy - I found his email). He literally had pallets of Coleco stuff, plus Intellivision, Atari 2600, TI99/4a and much, much more - NIB games, consoles, accessories, etc. A retro gaming goldmine! The sealed, NIB Coleco stuff was found in the basement of an old electronics store that was going out of business and the rest was the result of 15 years of collecting (at the time - email is from 2014). I saw Coleco shipping boxes full of SACs, EM#2, Roller Controllers, etc, which he's been slowly selling on ebay over the last few years. His Nib CV consoles were regularly selling for a grand or so but I don't know what his stock is like nowadays.. Apparently he still has some stuff though, obviously. It would be cool to have a Coleco shipping box in the collection, but it would be tough to store and keep preserved, unless you broke it down and folded it up. Stupus is right though, he could pretty much ask whatever he wants since he's pretty much got the Nib market on lockdown.

    Anyways, he's trustworthy, so have at it. :)

    Here's just a couple pics, out of the many he sent me, back in 2014. Check out those nib mini Coleco arcades! :lust:
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    ... and the TI 99/4A got Bill Cosby. The poor old '99 still can't get a break.

     

    I really liked the Alan Alda commercials, too. In 1983, around the same time as the huge M*A*S*H finale, I'm sure he was quite a big name for Atari. He strikes me as someone who was intellectually curious enough to have been genuinely interested in home computers at that time, which (to me) put him a cut above the other celebrity pitchmen who were more obviously doing it for the money. The commercials are not the kind you'd see today, of course, but that only makes me like them more.

     

    In his tweet, he said he learned Basic on his Atari, so he actually owned one and used it. He definitely loves technology and science... Always wanted to meet him...

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