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Man get on yahoogroups and look for your local Cheapcycle and Freecycle reflectors. I posted that I was looking for an Amgia and got a reply. Wound up getting mine for free. You never know what you'll score!

Oh, I wouldn't say it's underrated. Most people into classic computing/gaming are well aware of just what an Amiga is and what it's capable of. It's a little unfortunate though that more and more newbies into the Amiga only think of it as some kind of nostalgic gaming computer. Maybe that's what you meant? 'Cause in reality, it's much, much more than that. The Amiga is a lot more indeed. My experience is limited but I have seen what it can do. Even the 64\128 did more than just play games. Think I'll add the A2000 to my radio shack, or the geek room as the wife calls it.

Hello again. Well I got them but didn't have a lot of time to mess with them last night. I host a Zombies board game event each week at a local Comic Book shop, but that's another story. What I got: A2000 A1000 (both have mice and keyboards. Very little yellowing, and the cases are clean.) 2 external floppy drives. One Supra and the other is a standard Commodore drive. Amiga 1084S monitor. External SCSI controller for the A1000. Home brew hard drive case for the A1000. Misc cables, disks, and manuals. I did fire up the A2000, it came up fine after 10+ years of sitting in the basement. Unfortunately the 1084S has issues, the monitor turns on fine but no display. When I push the mode button on the front I can briefly see the desktop. Will take apart, discharge and see if I can clean it up. For now I have a 1080 that I used for my old Nintendo consoles, it has a new purpose now. LOL. Before powering up the A2000 I took a peek under the hood. I found a SCSI card with a 60MB drive, and a memory card. The memory card has one row populated, I think there are four banks in total. Also there is a Supra Turbo 28 accelerator card, bumps the speed to 28Mhz. Not sure of the Kick ROM version, but Workbench 2.0 is loaded. The hard drive is segmented into three partitions, and has a lot of programs loaded. Looks to have 512K RAM on the MB and 4MB on the memory card. Total memory looks to be 5MB as reported on Workbench. I wanted to get SYSinfo on it to see what exactly is in her, but even though CrossDOS is loaded there are no drivers to read MS-DOS disks. So I'll have to find another way to get programs into her. Next I want to fire up the A1000 and see what's on it's hard drive! I'll post pics when I get a few minutes this weekend. My plan for the A2000 is to clean it up real good and check\replace the clock battery, beef it up a bit, and add a CD-ROM. This is going to be fun! Think I'll add it to my Ham Shack, don't want it soley for a "game machine". The Amiga is SO much more. I have used both a A500 and a A1200 in the past and I speak fluent Commodore 64\128, but my knowledge is limited with the Amiga. Any tips will be very welcome. Dan

Woo Hoo! After work today I'm picking up an Amiga 1000 and a Amiga 2000. Not sure of condition, options, extras, etc. Just happy to get these bad boys and get them up and running again. Will post details after I get them to their new home.

In no order: 6 switch 2600 Original Genesis\CD\X32 setup Dreamcast Black Wii. Reminds me of the monolith in 2001. Original X-Box. Beefy!

Nice haul!. We have a Goodwill® store here exactly like that one. We refer to it as the "Pick-n-Pull". Reminds me of the bar scene from Star Wars®. Some of the "humans" will kill to get at that one item that will sell for a million dollars on e-Bay® and release them from their pathetic life.

No, I know that. It just looks like piss. It's probably my #1 unfortunate side effect to collecting. For me, there is nothing desirable about a nicely yellowed SNES, NES, Atari 800, 1080, Apple //c... (A close #2 is defective product, but at least you can keep it for parts) Good point. I'm the same way to a degree. My old trusty SNES was badly yellowed but ran 100% and I played the hell out of it. It got replaced by one that looks as if it just came out of the box.

4- vs. 2- rubber feet on the bottom. I hate the yellowing. So gross. You do realize that the yellow SNESs have nothing to do with how dirty they are, right? It's just the crappy plastic that they used is breaking down. I'll bet that there are unopened units in boxes that are yellow today. This is very common for a lot of plastic from the late 80's to early 90's. A lot of Commodore 64\128, Amiga, and other computers suffer from the same yellowing. Aside from aesthetics, there is nothing "dirty" about them. I think some people equate this with yellowing from being used by heavy smokers.

I have 19 different working consoles and 5 TV\monitors, all setup with switching. 5 systems can be played at a time, and with simply changing a switch box. Emulation is cool on a PSP for traveling, but outside of that it's a tool of the debil!

Things are slow here the past week or so. Did get Super Mario World at a thrift today for $5. Not a big deal but it pacifies my addiction.

Nice score. I've found the SNES top loaders in the wild but so far never an NES one. I'm a purest when it comes to modding. I like to keep mine original. But I do love some of the case mods, and wild things people do. Might give that a try sometime.

Gratz! I got mine a while back, not in perfect condition though. It looks like someone laid a soldering iron on one part and the plastic is a little melted there. I got it when my front loader went kaput. (I thought it was the pin connector so I ordered a new one, while waiting for the parts to arrive, the cat pissed on it. Cleaned it up as best as I could and replaced the connector but still didn't work.) My Nintendo collection is far from what you may consider complete though. I still don't have all the handhelds, game and watches, foreign systems or other variations on systems (like the colored 64's), but I'm pretty happy. Thanks. I've had cats chew up cords but never piss on one yet. My collection is no where near complete if you factor in the watches, foreign units, and hand helds. Mine is mostly the consoles and most of the hand helds. I don't have the more recent ones but it's all a matter of time. I'm not the "NRFB" collector, all my games are setup to be played with. I don't have room for box collecting. Also I love the reaction from my kids friends when they see my collection for the first time. Priceless! Funny thing, with all the Playstations, X-boxes, and Wii systems, they almost always pop in either Mario Cart 64, or Mario Party.

So I finally scored a near perfect Nintendo NES-101 "Top Loader" last night from a local dealer! I love wheeling and dealing. Works great, all I need is a pair of the original dog bone controllers, came with a standard one. This makes my Nintendo collection (except for a couple of the colored N64's) complete.

Nice, to me it's the thrill of the hunt. Don't matter if it's an ultra rare or an everyday common. Good hunting and have fun!

Went to a local shop tonight and finally struck a deal on a near perfect top loading NES! This completes my Nintendo console collection (except for a few of the color variation N64's).

Hello all, Great weekend for fun, not so great for treasure finds. Did find the following: A2600 Backgammon $1.99 A7800 Super Huey! $2.70 A7800 Winter Games $2.70 NES Breakthru $1.99 NES Guerrilla War $1.99 PS One dual shock controller $2.00 First gen Genny with Knuckles Chaotic $5.00 (OK, that was pretty good) Also found Redneck Rampage for the PC for $1.99. Loaded up DosBox and it plays great, forgot how much fun that game was.

For me it would be the Sega CD. Very bad games, ever play Bug? Now it was bleeding edge for it's day, but almost every game was a lame video sprinkled with bad gameing. JMHO

That has to be the find of the year so far!

I just picked one up at a local game store last week. In perfect condition, and the controllers are great. This completes my Colecovision collection! Now to just get all the games. LOL

LOVE the cow controller!!! I wonder if that was aimed at a certain games audience or what. Did they make Harvest Moon for PS2?? Morgan Nope. The controller is for a PS1. I would like to know myself why it's like that. Could be just an aftermarket gimmick. At any rate, it's now my favorite!

Not a thrift find, but a co-worker who knows I collect video game "stuff" brought this into work this morning and gave it to me. Also included was a blue controller, and two basic 8K memory cards, one was EA Sports branded.

Congrats! Was this a rescue from the wild or did you adopt it from the Internet?

Nice! I have yet to see one in the wild in my small pocket of the world. Great find.

Hello all, Hit a couple of stores and a local flea this weekend. Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, PS1 $2.00 Coleco Gemini complete sans box. Traded for a NES Power Set. Boxed Star Raiders with pad sans the overlay. $4.95 Jinx, 7800 $1.99 I added three more "letters" to the Atari 2600 collection: N = Night Driver, $1.99 O = Outlaw, $1.99 Q = Q*Bert, boxed $2.99 Only need U and X! Nicest find was a complete and working NES Satellite wireless adaptor. $8.00

Start soapbox; I have no problem what so ever killing characters in video games. I'm a well adjusted human and in no way correlate what happens in video games with real life. I have never wanted to kill "real" people and have no desensitized feelings towards my fellow humans. If you have issues with video games then you need to stay away from them and talk to your doctor. I'm 48 and grew up watching cartoons that were very violent by today's neutered society standards and at no time in my youth felt compelled to drop an anvil on anyone. As for kids, that depends on their maturity level, I have three wonderful kids (now young adults) and they grew up playing video games. I would not let them play violent games when they were young. There are plenty of games for young minds that are not violent. IMHO people need to stop watching Dr. Phil and The View and get a grip. End soapbox; return