Chuck D. Head

I have about four Goodwills that I frequesnt regularly and after telling them enough times, a couple of the stores have actually started putting the sticker on the back on plastic only. One store even has started pricing sports games cheaper than non-sport as I have suggested - loose sports games from older systems at .99 or 1.99 while the non sport are 1.99 - 3.99. They still think that Xbox and PS2 are current systems and price stuff at 7.99 - 9.99. Morgan

Nope! Its not that easy on the Inty. Thanks, I am an Intellivision virgin, so I will be asking some stupid questions. OK, I will have to give her the INTY 1 and find a spare controller for INTY 2, but it does not seem that they grow on trees. Morgan

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

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

I feel that this is Mr. Dolan's finest work to date....he should not be walking the streets unsupervised. Morgan

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

I second this one. Just chillin out and opening presents and seein what they do. Fun stuff. Sometimes I will play just long enough to know I have some rocket skates and visit the level 0 hot tub with the hula babes. Morgan

I would suggest this label for distribution in the Pacific Northwest: or am I thinking of the wrong Griffey?

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

Sound fun Ax, thank for taking this on. I am in. Morgan

Ummm, no. Chris Yeah, I honestly have no clue what he's talking about. Same functionality and a little more comfortable to the hands. **IGNORE** Morgan

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

.........Probably from Value Village ten minutes before I got there. Morgan

What was Apollo thinking when he and Rocky shared that tender hug on the beach in Rocky III??? Morgan

This is a very original idea and I would gladly buy a finished product. Good Job!!! Morgan

I'll take the Intv stuff. Can't pm right now, Internet down and using my phone. Will pm shortly. Morgan

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 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

Really nice score!! Morgan

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

There is a forum thread listing arcades with classic machines on the Retroist website right now: Link In addition to Ground Kontrol in Portland, there is the big arcade (name?) in Seaside, OR with lots of classic stuff as well as lots of redemption, and in Vegas, there is an arcade on the strip near the MGM with lots of classic stuff. Morgan

YAaaaayyy!! Big huggz all around! Morgan

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

Lowered smore prices. So far I have $3 pocket money for PRGE; any pity sales??? I will probably put some of these on ePay after tomorrow. Morgan

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

"celebrate good times, come on.......". Nice haul; take the day off and play games................. Morgan