Hydian

The Exchange in the Pittsburgh area is pretty good actually. Down where I'm at now, we have quite a few good places for classic games and I haven't explored all of them yet. The Gamestop thing is bad for collectors. It will mean fewer things out on Craigslist, yard sales, and flea markets. It will also further normalize prices in an upwards direction.

My girlfriend's ex recently broke into her house and stole a lot of her stuff (as well as a netbook and Nook belonging to me.) We're talking stupid stuff just to irritate her and the kids and to cause them suffering rather than simply expensive stuff to sell. For example, he took her coffee pot which was old and not worth anything just because she likes to drink coffee but left the computer monitor (he did take the computer.) There's a warrant out for him, but even if they find him before I do (and he'd better hope that they do...he won't be walking if I find him) the stuff is surely lost. The thing that I'm posting here for is the Xbox 360 and games that belonged to her 6 and 8 year olds. They're currently making due with the Gamecube that I had sitting in storage, but they would like to get an Xbox again and we don't have $300+ laying around for a new one. If someone has a spare system and some kid oriented games, I'd greatly appreciate it if we could work something out.

Unfortunately, that "contract" was nothing more than the standard shrink wrap EULA. Further, at least one of those copies was unopened and unused from one of the summaries that I read which means that the EULA was never even agreed to (this may or may not be truth...not everything you read on the internet turns out to be fact.)

Removed a bunch of stuff that is gone. As posted above, I can take pictures of things on request, but I'm not interested in spending an entire day dragging everything out just to snap pictures of them if nobody has an interest. I guess I should go see that dealer this weekend...seems like such a waste.

Removed stuff that is gone and added a couple more pending notes. I'll probably talk to a local dealer this weekend if I have time and it's off to the crushinator next week for whatever is still left of this after that. I'd much rather find this stuff a home than see it come to that, but my current situation dictates that it has got to go.

My place is starting to look like an episode of hoarders (well, not quite that bad yet, but it is getting bad) with servers, routers, switches, computers, parts, video games, board games, etc all consuming so much space. I'm expecting to move soon so I need to put a lot of it into storage and since I don't have the time to deal with it anyway, I thought that I'd at least try to get some of it to people who can enjoy it. This is a liquidation, so anything that I can't move here is going to be offered to local vendors (as much as I hate to do it) and then whatever remains will be taken to a green recycler. I really hate to do it, but I can't keep it anymore. This is simply round 1. I have a lot more to go through yet. Prices were pulled from Video Game Trader for the most part, but I'm not married to them. In some cases they seem way off to me anyway. Don't expect pristine stuff here kids. In some cases, like the INTV stuff, it is pretty rough. In other cases it is pretty good. Pictures and/or detailed descriptions can be provided upon request. I'd rather err on the side of caution than get anyone's hopes up. Also be aware that I am currently working a lot of hours (55-60 a week) as well as working on certifications, so I may not be able to respond within a couple of hours or ship the next day every time. If somebody wants to make large lot offers and pick stuff up, I'd be very agreeable as that would save me a lot of work. If looking to trade, I'd be interested in items for the following (in no particular order): Nintendo DS, Neo Geo Pocket, TG16, possibly Neo Geo or arcades, board/card games, miniatures games, other random things. So here is the first batch: Sega 32x (Boxed – Box worn and partially faded) -- $75 for all Includes: -Unit -Adapter Collar -Metal grounding clips -Genny 2 cable Cosmic Carnage, Loose Golf Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes, boxed Star Wars Arcade, boxed Metal Head, boxed Mortal Kombat II, boxed Doom, boxed Nuon – Tempest 3000, complete -- $10 Sega Genesis – Batter Up controller, sealed -- $20 Atari 8-bit games K-Razy Shoot-Out, loose (K*Byte) w/ manual -- $13 K-Razy Antiks, loose (CBS) w/ manual -- $22 Deluxe Invaders, loose w/ manual -- $5 Jungle Hunt, loose -- $7 Pilot Programming Language, Loose (label on it) -- $2 Adventure Creator, loose -- $8 Missle Command, loose w/ manual -- $7 Flight Simulator II, loose -- $9 Tennis, loose w/ manual -- $6 Joust, loose (label on it) -- $2 Donkey Kong, loose (homemade label?) --$5 K-Star Patrol, loose (CBS) w/ manual -- $31 Moon Patrol, sealed -- $23 Sega Saturn 3ea Sega 6 Button Controllers (2nd generation) -- $10ea 2ea Sega Joysticks -- $10ea Superpad 8, boxed (box in bad shape) -$5 “The Punisher” Blue Lightgun with Saturn and Playstation connections -- $10 Sega Steering Wheel -- $10 Netlink Modem unboxed with Netlink version 2, complete -- $15 Nights into Dreams, complete (game sealed, controller unplayed) -- $50 Christmas Nights, disc in sleeve -- $40 Virtua Fighter Remix, complete --$7 NBA Action, disc only -- $2 Bootleg Sampler, disc only -- $2 Virtua Fighter pack-in, complete -- $4 Creature Shock, complete -- $14 Spot Goes to Hollywood, complete -- $12 Thunder Strike, complete -- $4 Daytona USA, complete -- $4 Myst, complete -- $5 Sonic 3D Blast, complete -- $15 The Need for Speed, no manual -- $4 Robotica, complete -- $5 Break Point Tennis, complete -- $2 Virtua Fighter 2, complete -- $7 Grid Runner, complete -- $6 Galactic Attack, complete -- $17 Madden 97, complete -- $4 Gungriffon, complete -- $13 Brain Dead 13, complete -- $11 Bug Too!, complete -- $18 NBA Live 97, complete -- $6 World Series Baseball 98, complete -- $4 2ea Hyper 3-D Pinball, complete (one has a cracked case) -- $6 Solar Eclipse, complete -- $5 Sega Rally Championship, complete (case hinge broken) -- $10 Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition, complete -- $8 Mortal Kombat II, complete -- $22 Maximum Force, complete -- $21 Tetris Plus, complete -- $9 Fighting Vipers, complete -- $10 Mega Man 8, complete -- $68 Worms, complete -- $13 FIFA Soccer 96, complete -- $4 Madden 98, complete -- $4 College Slam, complete -- $3 NHL All-Star Hockey, complete -- $3 Manx TT Superbike, complete -- $10 World Cup Golf Professional Edition, complete -- $4 Battle Monsters, complete -- $11 Clockwork Knight, complete -- $12 Soviet Strike, complete -- $8 Bubble Bobble, complete -- $16 Mr. Bones, complete -- $25 NFL Quarterback Club 96, complete -- $2 Alien Trilogy, complete -- $9 Croc Legend of the Gobbos, complete -- $8 Scud The Disposable Assassin, complete (cracked case) -- $6 Ghen War, complete (cracked case) -- $4 NBA Jam T.E., complete -- $6 NHL 97, complete (cracked case) -- $3 WWF In Your House, complete -- $8 Space Hulk, complete -- $6 Revolution X, complete -- $10 NBA Live 98, complete -- $3 Bug!, complete (cracked case) -- $11 Blazing Dragons, complete (cracked case) -- $8 Stack of random manuals, mostly Atari 2600 – Pay Shipping Super Nintendo Gen 2 deck w/ power supply and one controller - $35 Genesis 3 w/ power supply, composite cable and one controller -- $35 Nintendo NES NES Action Set, Complete S/N N28166730 -- $75 Cart Only (Plastic cases): Tecmo Bowl -- $11 Dragon Spirit -- $4 Rygar -- $7 Deadly Towers -- $4 Monopoly -- $6 Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game -- $7 Ice Hockey -- $6 Rad Racer -- $7 10 Yard Fight -- $5 Super Dodge Ball -- $24 Kung Fu -- $7 Super Sprint (Tengen) -- $5 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -- $8 Gauntlet (Tengen) -- $7 Marble Madness -- $5 Super Mario Bros -- $9 Boxed Games: Tiger Heli -- $17 Duck Tales -- $33 Bionic Commando -- $17 Rolling Thunder (Tengen) -- $10 The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout -- $10 The Legend of Kage -- $15 Jack Nicklaus Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf -- $4 Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition -- $15 Tetris -- $8 Golf -- $10 F-15 Strike Eagle -- $13 Bad Dudes -- $12 Iron Sword: Wizards and Warriors II -- $22 The Legend of Zelda (Gold) -- $66 Punch-Out!! -- $31 The Adventure of Link (Gold) -- $40 Super Mario Bros 3 (Box only) Game Genie w/ Manual -- $11 Controllers: NES Advantage x2 -- $5 Quickshot Joystick -- $5 Quickshot gamepad -- $2 NES Max gamepad -- $5 “Dogbone” gamepad x2 -- $8 Zapper, Grey -- $6 Zapper, Orange -- $6 Powerpad -- $11 Quickshot XII Joystick, Boxed -- $8 NES Advantage, Boxed -- $8 NES Fourscore, Boxed -- $8 Also a handful of plastic cart cases. Sears Video Arcade II, console only -- $25

Sorry to bring this up since it was posted so long ago...but Apple didn't create any of those things. Mouse...first invented by Douglas Engelbart at Stanford Research Institute. The first commercial mouse was released by a German company and even Xerox had one before Apple. GUI...Xerox had a couple before Apple. USB...Developed by a group of seven companies. Apple is not one of them. Multi-touch...Apple does claim to have invented this and even filed patents on it, but in reality their exact implementation of multitouch was publicly demonstrated two years prior to their claimed timeline by someone else and forms of it have existed since the 1980's. But all of this talk about who invented what isn't really what defines innovation. The innovation is how it is used. Rumble Packs, for example, are built upon a patent and technology that belongs to a company that developed force feedback for medical systems. The innovation is taking that technology and making a better gaming experience with it. Online gaming and hard drives existed on PCs long before Microsoft released the Xbox, but that doesn't diminish the impact or innovation of their applying that technology to consoles. Sometimes, taking something that had been tried and failed and figuring out how to make it work is real innovation. The Wii controllers are innovative as is Natal because they allow you to interact with games unlike anything before them. The fact that there were previously controllers that had some of the technology in them doesn't change this. None of those previous controllers let you just stand in the room and interact with the game without having anything to directly connect you to the console. Every company has had some innovations. Nintendo's just stand out more because they are constantly changing the way that we play games. Where other companies are generally content to follow along, Nintendo will fearlessly go out on a limb and produce what everybody claims is doomed to failure. Then, more often than not, the rest of the industry finds itself scrambling to come up with their own solutions to copy what Nintendo has done just as they are right now. I hate to say it, but Nintendo doesn't miss very often. I'm sure that someone will accuse me of being a fanboy, but whatever helps you to sleep at night. I don't have any skin in this game. I just buy what I like and I call them as I see them. If anything, I'd like to see Sega come out of retirement and make another run at a console, but that will never happen.

Novell DOS 7 (DR DOS) also had real pre-emptive multitasking in 1993, but by that time Microsoft had pretty much sewn up the market. I liked OS9. Good OS for the time. Others that deserve a mention are NEXTstep, BeOS, and AmigaOS.

What's the sidecar? I had one while in high school and we had several sidecars on ours. I still kick myself for letting my dad get rid of that and our heavily modded CoCo1.

I used to play. Started during Unlimited and stopped during the first Urza's block because people were getting too annoying. I will still occasionally play sealed deck or draft if the urge hits me, but that is pretty rare. I play way too many other games (card, board, etc) to spend an evening being annoyed by a bunch of hyper competitive ADD kids. Oh, and the Planeswalker game...it had Revised, Antiquities and I believe the Dark (I could be wrong about the Last.) You could also win Unlimited cards such as the power nine through dungeons and particularly tough duels. The expansion added in Arabian Nights and some of Legends if I remember correctly.

No, it didn't go in that (I checked through all of the PMs starting from that date to the present.) It came up in some other thread after that had faded away that this person was looking for one and I mentioned that I had one collecting dust. I just can't find the postings or the PMs that would lead me back to it and I still have PMs going back pretty far. I don't delete things until I have to. We'll see if this posting gets a hit or not. If not, I'll see if I can track the person down another way.

My memory is failing me in my old age...I just brought up a junk box from the basement and it has the 3DO in question in it. I probably mixed it up with another one that I had and did get rid of. *sigh* yet another thing that I need to find a home for now.

For PC gaming, I really like Saitek. I have used their stuff for a long time. The Xbox controller is also a good choice.

It is. They do guarantee them though. They are also saying that they send a new case and manual (since those don't get mailed out to people they should be new.) ...and they do have PS2 titles on sale...no Xbox on sale even though they do still rent them. I don't think that Gamefly was around in the days of the 5200.

I didn't see anything obvious in the titles on the first page, so I figured I'd post this and risk having someone whine that it has been posted before. Gamefly is having a sale on their used games and they are shipping free until 4 JAN. http://www.gamefly.com/sale