Stevaside
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Looks like this guys hoping to make about $125 profit off of those bulk O'Shea Ltd purchases he did a while back, multiple times over lol
& shouldn't it at least be Save More When You Buy 6??
Such delusional sellers out there I swear
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I just learned about this from the new 7800 Game By Game Podcast & came here to read up on it. Such awesome news!
Amazing that here in 2015, discoveries are still being made! The 1993 date is mindblowing too! 
Real heartwarming to see the existence of another platformer & again makes me think what a damn shame it is as far as what more could have been with the 7800 if it had better fortune
I've never saw the arcade or any other ports of it, but got the Lynx version recently & it is a pretty fun but challenging game. Haven't played it a whole lot, but hearing about this makes me want to go pick up my Lynx soon & spend some more time on it haha
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We did go wired though once we finally got cable
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When I got my first Atari for Christmas in 1983, it was hooked up to a 13" B&W. We didn't get a color set for it until much later.
Not everyone was rich enough to out fit their whole house with Color TVs in the early to mid 80's.
Well I wasn't aware of what seems like a huge difference in cost between B&W and color sets then.....All I know is I don't personally remember seeing a single B&W TV in someone's living room in that decade...& my family ....& neighborhood... was anything but rich, believe me. We were the last in the family to get everything from a microwave to a VCR & it was always donated from Grandparents...for all I know the 1st TV that I remember here was too
, I do know our second one was a hand me down...& neither one had remotes.
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Yeah, they were more of a 70s thing. Black and white sets were still some people's primary TVs in the 70s, but they hung around through the 80s as small TVs intended to be portable or as a TV for kids' rooms.
In the early 80s, I was one of the rare kids who had a 25 inch color TV in his room to play videogames on. Most other kids, if they had their own personal TV, had a 13 or 17 inch b&w set.
Hmm I would have guessed maybe early 70's, but I always imagined the 60's & before as the era of black & white TV......& you know yesterday I had a very fuzzy memory of seeing a portable B&W TV when I was real young, think a family member might have had one
& man in that catalog...$500 for a 2.7" portable TV in 1988 = more than I paid for a 50" HDTV in 2014!!! lol & I see the B&W Watchmans are CONSIDERABLY less...makes sense now
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We had a B&W set as late as 1992.
Wow
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Thanks for sharing. Spent two hours going thru all the stuff we got as kids. Each year we circled what we wanted and grandma and grandpa got us it. Mom n Dad got something too but was a surprise. Usually a handheld video game, A star wars thing or a new 2600 game.
Nice.....I just got a PS4 recently & my Aunt sent me money towards a game for Christmas...I was telling her what a trip it was how I could still remember being super excited sometime in the late 80's when the mailman arrived to our door with my birthday package from her, which turned out to be One On One Basketball
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That's definitely interesting about the TAC-2. I had no idea they were still selling it by 1988, though I'm glad they were because I've always loved that joystick. Putting it by the 7800 really gives the wrong impression; even if there was a 7800 TAC-2 (though it definitely seems to be the standard 2600 TAC-2), there's no way you could play two-button 7800 games with that particular configuration anyway; you'd have both thumbs on the buttons, but how would you control the joystick? Would have been great for single-button 7800 games and the 2600 titles though, IMO.
Thanks for sharing this man!
I'm not too knowledgeable about 2600 3rd party joysticks...Don't really remember seeing that one before at all....& yea, guess the fact that I've never seen or imagined a 2 button 2600 joystick & that I was so suprised to see this (seemingly) advertised by Sears as one for the 7800 , I overlooked how the configuration wouldn't work out..Does seem cool for strictly 2600 games though, I like it's design
Also I'm guessing the 2600 Baseball, Boxing, Tennis and most likely Football advertised are all from the "Realsports" series by that time, but for some reason they didn't list them that way?
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"Plays on black and white or color TVs." There's a statement that'll date you when you're showing this off to your kids, eh? (He says, knowing this from personal experience.
)Haha I didn't even notice that....I remember now that the 2600 had a B&W/Color switch when I was a kid, but just who the hell had a black & white TV in the 80's?? lol The Junior came out in the late 80's didn't it? & to those a little older than me was that really a thing in the 70's even ?! I can't say that I've ever seen one, as far as I know some old sitcoms in 60's & before were B&W ??
That said, just acknowledging that the 2600 was my first console is starting to make me feel old as s**t these days
I helped a friend of mine unpack these old boxes from his parents attic a while back that were lined with old newspaper from the 60's....Pretty hilarious seeing an ad for a TV that proudly stated "COLOR!!!!!" in huge fonts as it's main selling point
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Sure someone has uploaded this & alot of you have already seen it, but figured I'd share it anyways for those who haven't. It's from the wishbookweb.com site I recently discovered that is an absolute GOLD MINE for nostalgia! Full Sears Wishbook catalog scans from every decade
& On a side note..what's up with that TAC-2 7800 joystick?? Don't believe I've ever heard of that....
"Let yourself go with the PREMIUM GRAPHICS of the Atari 7800! " ...and "the HIGH-RESOLUTION SUPER SERIES CARTRIDGES!"
Love it!
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Doh! (hand travels rapidly in direction of head....) missed this one when yappin about Desert Strike Clones:
Wow..I collect for NES too & have a decent knowledge of their library, but don't remember that one
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Shortly after my older posts here I managed to build a collection of 30 games & the lovely Lynx Kit Case to store everything including my charger & batteries . Then a month back I picked up a PS4 too & although at the moment I have to confess my older consoles haven't been getting as much attention...My Lynx is still getting plenty of action! lol..Currently focusing on trying to beat Ninja Gaiden (original) & getting further in APB (Both frustating titles I can't put down
)....Starting to bring it with me on trips & have been enjoying sitting outside with it in this slightly cool Florida weather were getting too.I started collecting around 1997 & now have all 7800 games aside from Tank Command & Mean 18 + the Super Pacman homebrew...as well as close to 200 2600 carts...Atari will always have a place in my heart tho & even tho I've gotten back into modern gaming recently, I will always go back to it sometimes...Especially my 7800. Out of all eras , it just has the highest levels of nostalgia to me
& BTW the Lynx has a nostalgia factor too, but it's memories of sitting in class fascinated by the stuff I saw in EGM & Gamepro, desperately wishing I could have one & wondering why so many more ppl wanted the inferior Gameboy lol........................now over 2 decades later...........haha
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Regarding the game boy boxes you can find many many diffrent lots on Ebay. I am sur you can find exactly the quantity you want.
And regarding my custom labels there was just made with Word like this model :
Last I looked the only lots of like 10 + had the Nintendo logo on them or were different colors, which I'd rather not have.... Think I might have to copy your idea for labels once I get some cases haha
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I like Bags Unlimited. The LP (vinyl records) protectors work great.
Yea I actually bought a few of those from a music store in the 90s for some of my records....I really would like to keep all my manuals for various consoles in a binder though...I have more 7800 and 2600 manuals by FAR, but was thinking of getting the ideal size binder pages with pockets for each, and then a set of dividers
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Storage of boxes. That's what attics are for.
Attics.....that's what homeowners have, not renters of rooms
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Yes. Let me know the postage
OK, man...I'll try to remember to put it in my truck tomorrow and most likely sometime next week I'll get a chance to stop by the post office to see...Glad I was able to find someone that wanted it for their collection, I have no space except to maybe squeeze it in the back of the shelf in my closet, and that'd just be senseless..I'd forget it was even there until my next move haha...I'll msg u when I get out there
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Just realized I forgot to add these pics and it looks like there's no option to edit your post here after a certain amount of time goes by
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I'm not trying to make money off of it. I just got the case new from Video 61 and I really have no room for the box. I just can't bring myself to throw it away, and thought I might be able to send it to a good home haha...If one of you would be interested, let me know and whenever I stop by the Post Office next I guess I could see how much the shipping would be..That's all I'd ask for plus the buck or 2 it would cost to pack it the proper way as to not get crushed.
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Those look cool, but I'm wanting to keep the games in a small case such as the gameboy game clear shells so I can keep a row of them inside my Kit Case, which just came in yesterday....Thanks for commenting tho. I thought using Gameboy cases for Lynx games was a common thing..crazy how like 200 ppl viewed this & not 1 person can tell me a good place to get a few of em at lol
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Should these work? Someone actually told me he used this size on here like 3 years ago but I never got around to ordering em lol..I was just about to now but measured one of my manuals which suprisingly seems slightly longer than the pouch ???
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My "Atari Lynx Man Purse" should be coming in next week to store everything in my new collection...
Would like some of these to organize the rest of my games that won't go in the 12 slots it has....These seem harder to find then I thought...I'd like to buy a lot of 20, but the only listings I've seen with bigger quantities come in mixed colors or are from Asian sellers that I get a bad feeling about the quality...
I don't really want to get them with the Nintendo logo on them, I just don't feel right about that hahaha....In that massive Lynx collection YT vid I posted recently that happened to be from member Rygar on here...I noticed they had what looked like printed game labels inside the cases at the ends...I really like that idea, and would like to do that myself...Should you be able to do that with any Original Gameboy case, whether Nintendo brand or generic?? I have no idea if the sizes differed, but some I've seen look to thin to really do that
Any links you guys can send ?? I know there has to be some independent game stores online out there that still sell them...
Thanks in advance
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I really like the Songbird holders. They are well made of the same type material as the Lynx Carrying cases. The price is right as well. 30 games, ehhh. I wish I had stopped at that. Obsession, it's called. I have about 80 games, some great, some not so. Overall, the Lynx was SO ahead of its time with scaling, etc. I remember telling my wife I NEEDED one back when they were still being sold in the stores. Love at first sight.
Yea I don't plan to stop permanently at 30...Matter of fact I have a list made up of about 50 that I really would like...Im kinda jumping around between consoles collecting right now..and since I added a Genesis and Tandy Color Computer 3 with a fair amount of games recently too, it just feels stupid to me to not have a Super NES in my collection lol...Planning to jump to that for a little bit next, then do some adding to a couple other consoles, and finally try to get with the times a little and pick up a PS4 by the end of the year
I do see myself ultimately going back to the Lynx and increasing it, just not right away..Im kinda trying to get the best of the best for multiple consoles right now, games that I know are pretty good or seem to be That said I really love the Lynx and see it getting plenty of use from me for years to come...I'm amazed at how ahead of it's time it was. I can remember seeing gaming mag coverage when I was a kid, sitting in class fascinated by it and wishing my parents would get me one lol...and it made me think the Gameboy being black and white was ridiculous.. a belief I still hold 24 years later haha
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Welcome to yet a new obsession. Warning, this WILL cost you $$. But, ain't great? I was wondering if the other classic computer/gaming systems (Commodore, etc.) have the same loyal following 30 years after releasing their systems. I think Vectrex has that following.
haha yep..I think I'm going to pause collecting after I acquire 30 games [And picking up Hot Dog when it gets re-released]...... do a little more collecting for some other consoles, then come back around again to the Lynx & gradually build it up some more....I've been having alot of fun playing it & once I get a battery charger I plan to take it on the road with me a little too haha
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With games, you can put 4 or 5 of the Lynx Wallets in the Lynx I Pouch. Good use of the pouch.
That's good to know, I guessed 3 at the most..I really like the look of those alot and that's good to know they can hold more...Im probably gonna take a break once I hit 30 games in my library and the wallets would be cool for that...but I think to future proof things I'm gonna wind up going with some Gameboy cases, as I could wind up holding more in the pouch with those if my collection keeps growing. I like the idea of the binder too, but I like the thought having one carry all for the Lynx, games & cord
EDIT: can anyone refer me to any places that I can buy 30 of the Gameboy cases for a good deal besides Ebay? I wouldn't want to get them with the Nintendo logo on them, that'd be total blasphemy IMO lol
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Posted · Edited by Stevaside
Wow....unbelievable..... & anyways looks like he changed the listing & the link I posted no longer works..here's the new one....&yea he's got multiple listings for different common games, 2600 too...&they're all titles I'm pretty sure I remember seeing on O'Shea LTD in the 90's....In case it gets deleted again, the dudes basically selling 6 common NIB games (highly likely that he got for around .80 cents a piece which can be found MUCH cheaper indvidually nowadays than what he's asking) for $134 claiming it's an "investment"
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-7800-Asteroids-Case-Of-6-Mint-Sealed-Video-Games-Investment-VGA-Ready-/181661189693?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4bd9c63d
SMH....Scum