high voltage

Interesting, of course Atari Mindlink was supposed to be released 84, aiming at people with physical limitations perhaps? http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/mindlink.html

Funny that....'Winners don't do drugs'....that's coming from the pot smoking company

Wow, that is amazing, great thanks guys

BYTE Vol 00-09 1976-05 Shooting Stars another great issue. Many thanks. Wow, the first home computer space strategy game/shoot em up (for a Scelby Computer). (cropped pic for illustration purposes) I know, Basic programming books were loads available way back, but a book with just one game title, in machine language, with extras, to purchase as a video game intended. I want that book

You know, I would love for developers to do that, Activision come on now, re-release those VCS carts as NEW carts for my Atari 2600, boxed, with instructions at a fair price, EA, come on do the same, All Atari 800/C64/Apple 2 disks, boxed with instructions, fair price. Nintendo, sell us the NES games, new in box, NOW. I'd buy them immediately.

There is no good guys in this game, Taliban are bad guys, so are UK and USA.

Awesome another 70s issue many thanks I was just asked to do some magazine scanning myself, but it seems a difficult task to keep the pages straight in the scanner, especially if you have a Canon Pixma MP630, were nothing heavy like the other magazine half can be sticking out (as it falls to the ground). Tips?

I only have 150 VCS games so far, but completed not much yet. I got complete ITT, Gamex and Epyx Games series (sort of)

Nah that doesn't stick anymore, I see lots of unsealed stuff in his collection. Anyway, I would love to know from Iwan what is still missing from his awesome collection, can't be much. And what is your holy grail you're desperate after? For me, way back it was Q*Bert Qubes and Mr Do's Castle, never manage to get those.

If there is a will, there is always a way. I was gonna say Adam, the C64 obviously has an excellent range of American disk/cart titles to fall back on, the Coleco/Adam is far more fun to experiment with. Hell, I just would print out thousands of pages just to annoy the neighbours.

yeah, that was the 83 issue. Could you put up another 70s issue? They sure make exiting reading

One should not threaten his wife/girlfriend/fiancee/bit on the side with a baseball bat. But serious, what's missing in your collection. Do you own this or this

PSX is not the ps1....Drives me nuts when people refer to it as such. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_%28DVR%29 Moving on, currently there's not a lot of value in collecting for it but there could be in the future. But that PSX came much later. PSX established itself as the PlayStation abbreviation from very early on, here's even a magazine with that title: Anyway, a revolutionary console which is well worth collecting for. The rare titles are already appearing.

Isn't it time this being moved to 'Show us your collection' thread?

Love it too I don't mind a sideways page, good issue anyway. A mouse could be had for $332.00 and HDDs for $4000? wow.

Plenty Board games: Checkers, Chess etc Just check out Plato, they had RPGs, Flight Simulators, Multiplayer games all that stuff in the middle 70s.

On the other hand, a PAL European VCS will not work on UK (on a standard) TV, as UK does not use VHF anymore. For example, in Germany consoles run on the VHF band. Of course, any UK VCS uses UHF will work on European UHF with no problems

Shame you cancelled the Halo auction. I also never read the Halo thread, but selling a game on ebay is normal, even if you sell free games. People been doing this with NES comptetition carts for years. They made a very nice profit selling these carts, and guess what, nobody's moaning about it. I sold my Atomic CD for Jaguar, so? wanna gripe about it? Profit is the American way, after all.

That is sad to hear, Telematch was my bible along with Pac-Man & Co book Although calling games like Gangster Alley 'terrorist training games' was a bit stupid.

I love Amidar, one of my fave games

Wow, that's amazing, I love issue 3 from 1975 and the FIRST computer game book review (page 11): What to do after you hit return.

How isn't that fair? This happens all the time in business...although the gov't agreed with you, for in 91 they forced Nintendo to relinquish that contractual obligation. I'm sure if Capcom and Konami really wanted to design games for the Master System they could have caused more of a stink, but the market obviously didn't warrant such speading of resources. The 7800...really, the only time I ever even heard of that system being mentioned in my neck of the woods was in one of the first issues of Video Games and Electronic Gaming monthly (it had a big feature on Blaster Master). It reviewed a bunch of 7800 games. Being a fan of Atari, I was kinda pumped even though it was hard to get excited in those days about games like Battlezone when Blaster Master was on the NES. People wanted innovation. Well, no, if people wanted innovation they would have continued with STs and Amiga computers, innovation happend on those, not consoles, especially not the NES.

Arnold Schwarzenegger? You know the world had enough trouble because of one mad Austrian, don't need to know about another one.

First off, you're awfully angry to be defending a system you admitted you didn't even like!..I'm going to bite, however, as I know you can't get on with your life until you bait me into ending this pitiful 'argument' of yours. Gamers, when given a choice between Sega and NES for straight up, game vs game action, chose the NES. Although not in all cases...especially in cases where your name begins with "The". Really? Really. "The Laird has spoken; The Laird is ready to prove to you all that twenty years ago Nintendo cheated its way to the top and The Laird will prove The Truth relying on two sources!"...my nickname pays hommage to the most important video game system ever created, while you simply tag "The" in front of yours and demand respect. Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode..."I'm The Laird!..and NOOOOO-body beats me!" ...ok, first. That lame 'article'?...looks like the graph came from the back of a Wheaties box and you can tell how scientific and accurate it is by its high tech lack of numerical data! Instead, it relies on some typed bull text above, culminating in all kinds of official sounding jargon such as "heeheeheehee". Bunk, and you should be ashamed to use is as 'evidence'. But it gets better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Over_(book) ...really? Let me expand the title of this book "Game Over" to include its subtitle: Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children Wow. I'm not even kidding; that's the title of this book! Now THAT'S a book that's going to offer fair, balanced and non-agenda based truths. Sounds like it was written by some bible-thumping clown who probably thought Pong was a little too violent in the 70's! Here's a tip: people write all kinds of crap to SELL BOOKS (especially to cranky parents who want a reason to blame for Little Johnny's poor grades other than their lack of parenting skills). If Nintendo was/is guilty of such wrong-doings, don't you think that Sega could have hired an arsenal of lawyers and fought tooth and nail against such an 'obvious' manipulator? Oh right...they were too busy advertising on Canadian television... while kids who knew better were busy playing their Nintendo Entertainment Systems. The enslaved children!...whatever shall be done about the ENSLAVED CHILDREN!?!!!?! ...hold the presses, folks: BRAZIL apparently sold more Master Systems than NESs!...how do we know this? Cause a few people here said so?...this entire argument is devoid of reality, folks. The reality is that the reason Master Systems sold well into the 90s while the rest of the world was moving on to N64 and Playstations could very well have been because the majority of people in Brazil couldn't afford new systems! That's not a slam on Brazilians, by the way. I'm sure if the NES was priced to match the SMS early on, it too may have continued to sell. But guess what...they were probably too busy selling new systems to the rest of world, thereby ensuring their business would live on while Sega pulled out after the Dreamcast fiasco! If you're selling 'new' systems at about 20 USD, then of course you're going to sell more...more subpar games! Were these Master Systems even legit machines, or were they cheap knock-offs?...who knows! My simple point is this: history has proven what the 'better' system and company was. You and I may have a disagreement on personal tastes in video games, but the market bears the results: Nintendo for the win! Game per game, you just can't compare SMS to the NES. Yes, Sega had some good games. But not good enough, and they didn't allow third party developers the kind of support they needed to ensure the SMS could be a viable alternative to the NES. The SMS cost more and provided less impressive games from the get-go. Nintendo easily quashed Sega's plans as smart businesses do, but really, they just put out better games. Period. They ensured their third party developers could design top notch games for the NES. Double period.. Nintendo took over because Atari screwed up. Nintendo did not repeat mistakes. It did nothing short of destroy the competition and no, not by some loony theory of shady legal doings, but by providing the MAJORITY of the world with the games that would see Nintendo dominate the video game industry for years to come. Remove your tin-foil hat, The Laird. Turn of your Betamax. If you truly think that some conspiracy transpired to get Nintendo to the top, then obviously you didn't pay attention to the killer app which truly ended the 8 Bit wars before they began: Super F'in Mario Bros. End of story. Now there's a "Game Over" you don't have to search Amazon to find! Why you think you're kidding about the tile of the book Game Over, it is no joke.... How do you know Nintendo sold more systems? Becauce Nintendo said so? Also devoid of reality. Nintendo didn't do 'smart' business, they did bullying tactics business in the USA. Actually, other companies did hire lawyers and fought Nintendo in court, but in the end, money talks (Nintendo had loads from flogging the Famicom in Japan), the truth didn't matter anymore. Nintendo's NES did NOT dominate in Europe, and that is already a proven fact. Since I own the book Game Over (several editions), I don't even have to search for it on Amazon, I just have to open it and read, now...and here's an even better TIP from me to you: I'd suggest you try and get a copy of this fascinating, fact based book and do some reading yourself before even trying to make unknowledgeable comments about it. You're like this American guy I've seen on TV: 'Hey you like Seinfeld'?....No, it's garbage....'Which episodes don't you like'?.....Don't know, I never watch the program. On the other hand, maybe that book is a big lie, after all, it includes quotes/interviewed subjects like Howard Lincoln, Peter Main, Sigeru Miyamoto, Minoru Arakawa, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Bill White, Yoko Arakawa, Gail Tilden and many many more from the Nintendo stable...and you know what they're like... BTW, against VHS, Betamax was the better video system.

Most excellent, been waiting for this long time.