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    It's only the Intellivision IIs that won't play early Coleco games. v

     

    Well, that's how my life works. I am getting an INTV lot that has a INTY 1 and an INTY 2 that only has one controller. I say to myself, I will give thae INTY 2 to my daughter for her room so she will stop hogging my 2600. Only problem is she spends 98% of her Atari time playing...wait for it....Mousetrap!!! There has to be a resistor I can pull or a trace I can cut to bypass that nonsense, right? Morgan

  2. Posted

    In my opinion, the movies rank like this:

     

    1 - Empire Strikes Back

    2 - A New Hope

     

    It was very close between those two. I never saw a 'middle chapter" movie that stood on it's own as well as empire.

     

    3 - Phantom Menace

    4 - Return of the Jedi

     

    Again, very close and I know I am in a small minority picking Phantom menace here. It really was just that dipshit gungan that kept it from being a really good movie. And the introduction of real kick-ass lightsaber battles was awesome. The first 30 minutes of Jedi was fantastic and then it just seemed to crap out for me.

     

    5 - Revenge of the Sith

     

    I was really happy with this movie after the first viewing, but it did not hold up to repeated viewings at all. I really have a problem with 98% of the Jedi going down like punks without sensing any "disturbance" in the force.

     

    6 - Attack of the Clones

     

    I could not believe the people who were complaining about the Pod Race in Menace was just staged to be a video game had no problem with this movie. On first viewing I succesfully picked three or four things out that would be in games and I was dead right. Most notably the obvious platforming action in the droid factory. Just not a very good movie when held up against the top four. The highlight for me was Yoda finally cracking out that green lightsaber and getting down to action.

     

     

    Another thing I did not enjoy in episode one through three (again, I am in the minority) was that the droids had to be there for every bit of the story, passing from owner to owner to suit the story. Take them out, have Jar-Jar get killed by walking into the power beams of the kid's podracer and I would have been much more satisfied.

     

    All of this is relative, of course. I still throw them all in to watch from time to time. Morgan

  4. Posted

    I would suggest this label for distribution in the Pacific Northwest:

     

    or am I thinking of the wrong Griffey?

     

     

    Wrong Griffey. Check my label.

     

    Yeah, just a little jab at one of my local homies, sorry. Your label looks great; is that dog really as cute as the picture? Morgan

  7. Posted

    And there will be a DB9 connector to plug a controller into, that will either need to hang out, or mount into the 2600.

     

     

    Hmmm, I guess, then, if I preffered not to use the Kid's Controller with the longer cord, I could just put the DB9 connector on a few feet of cable as a "dongle". I have some black ten-conductor phone wire that would wrk for this and I could dress the connector end with a few different sizes of black heat-shrink. Morgan

  10. Posted

    This was one of those "right place right time" deals. Now normally, Value Village prices their SNES games at $5.99 EACH so I was shocked to find packs of 4 games at $3.99 per pack. So basically a buck per game. A couple of N64 games in the lot too and I was happy to find the Super Gameboy. Three of the four packs had a Super Mario World in it too.

    Nice one; the Kirby Superstar is probably worth what you paid for the whole shootin match....Morgan

  15. Posted

    But the real retro Flashback now charges fifty cents a game. (They were still a quarter a pop last summer.) That pissed me off BIG TIME.

    Really? You are that mad that a classic arcade has raised the game prices by only 25 cents when it is 20+ YEARS later and there audience has shrunk to maybe 2% of what it used to be? No wonder they all closed :roll:

    Amen brutha; coin-ops don't fix themselves, they take lots of spendy, hard to find parts, time and love. Besides, the people who love to play these games get plenty of play out of one credit. Morgan

  16. Posted

    I know the seller was a bit low on feedback, but *nobody* fought me over this ebay auction for a sega genesis "controller lot". ;)

    It looks like a MAS controller only upside down. I wonder what its story is.

     

    Anyway, it went for under $15 shipped, and it looks like a pretty expensive item to mail.

     

    I'd been eying up the parts to make a custom 1-button atari arcade-style controller for a good while, but now that I have this I really don't see much point in making my own.

     

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    Really nice score!! Morgan

  17. Posted

    A nice garage sale score today; a sweet 20" CRT TV for the game room. I keep finding deals on TVs, but this one is really the nuts for $10. Nice flat screen and RF, A/V and RGB hookups in the back, A/V hookup on the front and a/v outs in the back. This TV loves Atari - the best picture I have ever seen out of unmodded Jr. Hooked up the video output of the Atari image to my Atari-hating big screen and it is just as crystal-clear. I am super-effing happy.

     

    Also hit the Goodwill, and got NES Batman and Nintendo Tetris for 1.99 each. Morgan

  20. Posted

    Homer, that was really cool, thanks for sharing!! I would love to read all that info, but wouldn't want to see a scan put up somewhere, due to the douchbaggery some fakey mcfakersons would like try to scam on eBay. Yes, there seems to be some friendly thread-crapping, but I think you can chalk that up to Jell-Ass-y. Each new thread here needs to come with a roll of TP; to wipe the smelly rears of the crappers and the trickly-down tears of the crappees. Morgan

  22. Posted

    Thanks for posting this, I looove the look of that sears system. I have searching for my Inty for six months now and can't find it (yeah, I will be on Hoarders someday) and am just about ready to pick up a system. I bet they are really a new seller, cause they didn't inflate the shipping to save on fees, actually quite the opposite. If I could get this for $200 or less, I might go for it, if they would let me pick it up as it would be less than two hour drive. Mulling it over. (I would give up the Checkers) Morgan

  24. Posted

    Am I missing something here??? $35 Game goes For $103. :ponder:

     

    eBay Auction -- Item Number: 2805519720131?ff3=2&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&item=280551972013&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]

     

    There has to be something special about it. Tony never pays that high. :P

     

    Well, it is minty-fresh, but geez, it's maybe R4. I guess it's possible that a game could / should have a different rarity factor loose or in the box. For instance, the rarity of a Genesis game in a clamshell compared to a loose cartidge would be nearly the same, because the case was durable and nice to display. A cardboard box for a 2600 or NES game would get beat up and be discarded, making the box rarer. I don't know, but to be honest, I have seen loads of Deadly Duck carts and I had never seen this box before. Morgan

  25. Posted

     

    I think characters from specific games would be the best.

     

    I agree. The general character you made were well thought out and look nice, but something about bringing specific characters in from other games appeals to me more. It would be kind of like giving a Smash Brothers treatment to the Atari universe. Morgan

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