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Those are some pretty sweet deals there, brotha! Welcome to AA, by the way! Thanks. My recent craigslist find of a nearly brand new Atari Lynx II brought me here. I think it may becoming a collecting addiction, as unlike every other console I own games for it are cheap. Yesterday I traded in an old Game Boy Color and a spare copy of Links Awakening for 2 boxed Lynx games, Crystal Mines II and Shanghai, at a local gaming store that specializes in retro games. Shanghai is addicting! Killed my first set of batteries playing it last night.

Eternal Darkness for the GameCube is a damn scary game at times. And the first time you get smacked with one of its 3rd wall breaking scares it will freak you the hell out.

I've only had 2 really good thrift store finds. The first was a boxed Sega Saturn for $30, inside were the system, 2 controllers(1 has a non function right shoulder button), a power cord, an RF adapter, 2 inserts, a spare internal battery and 3 games, Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter and World Series Baseball 98. There was also a Sega Stunner light gun for it at the thrift store on a nearby shelf but at the time I didn't realize it was for the Saturn and when I did and went back it was gone. :'( I've since purchased Astal, Gex and Clock Work Knight for it, all very fun games. Gex being by far my favorite. My other great find was a Nintendo Virtual Boy in fantastic condition at a local store, also for $30. I was kind of hesitant to buy it at first(no clue why), I thought about it for a few days and decided what the hell why not. So I went back and picked it up for $30, it came with 2 games, Mario Tennis and Mario Clash. I then fell in love with the thing and its been my favorite vintage system of all the ones I own since. I have since bought 2 more games for it, Wario Land and Red Alarm. It unfortunately started suffering the ribbon cable connection issues that they all suffer eventually a few weeks ago. But fortunately I was able to find a man in the Netherlands whom is experienced with soldering the connections that are at fault. There is a temporary fix you can do that involves heating the displays in the oven to resoften the glue that attach the ribbons to the display but I wanted a permanent fix and that one only lasts a few weeks. Just got an email from the guy in the Netherlands today and he says they are all fixed!

I've been a gamer a long time and I have seen plenty of glitches, most often there annoying and can ruin a session if you are a long time between saves but sometimes they are hilarious and totally make your day. I decided to start this thread so people could post experiences of theirs and if you'd got them share screen caps of them. This also includes glitches that are the result you trying to do something the game didn't intend for you to be able to do. Here are a couple of mine. The first two pictures are from Project Gotham Racing 4. What happened was I was driving along when suddenly I fell through the road and started accelerating like mad, the room was filled with a massive roaring sound and I had to quickly mute the audio. The car got to as you can see 967mph and in fact passed 999mph and rolled over multiple times, it went so fast it took several attempts to get a photo of the speed as it rolled over very quickely. The view from the inside of the car was bizarre, everything was distorted and rapidly changing shape, it looked like something you'd see in a scifi when a ship travels faster then the speed of light. The 2nd set of photos are from a Halo 2 session with my little brother. We decide to see just how far we could take a Warthog on the level Outskirts. We managed to get it all the way through all the buildings and to the Scarab at the end and after a few tries even managed to land on top of it. When we did it locked in place, stuck to the scarabs roof several feet in the air. As the scarab moved the Warthog went along with it moving side to side back to forward randomly and killing us if we were to close to it during a random shift. [

Didn't think so, just thought I'd ask since it seems totally pointless to have a screen to enter highscores when it deletes on restart.

Is there no sort of internal memory in the game cartridge or system? I ask as I tried Shanghai a little while ago and just fired it up again to play some more only to see the high scores are all gone. Do all high scores on Lynx games reset on every play?

Yikes! I'm scared to try this now as mine is in spectacular condition and it would be a real shame to wreck it.

I just picked up this game as well as Crystal Mines II today. Both were boxed with manuals and inserts for $5 each. Traded a Game Boy Color and a copy of Links Awakening for bother. Got to love having a local store that specializes in retro gaming. I have yet to try either out but Shanghai sounds like a really fun game.

Is that really the best way? I read that the screen can some how be easily popped off, unfortunately site didn't say how. Do the rubber grips just pop out or will I need to re glue them or anything if I use your method?

My Lynx II has dust behind its screen, most of it is impossible to see but there are several large bits in it that are very visible and annoying when I am playing. I read on another site that the black plastic piece on the front of the system surrounding the screen can be removed but the site gave zero instruction on how to do so. Can anyone point me in the direction of a site with instructions(preferably with photos illustrating the process) on how to clean out dust that accumulated under the screen?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'm thinking I'm going to get Toki first as that looks and sounds like something I'd enjoy, also possibly viking child though the game play videos I can find of it look a little slow paced for my taste. How about shooters like Nintendo's Metroid or Megaman or dungeon crawler adventure games like the Zelda series. Does the Lynx have any games like those and if so what that the best ones?

I just thought I'd say hi since I joined. I just bought an Atari Lynx II that I found for sale on craigslist today. I found it while trying to find an Atari Jaguar locally. I found one but it was non-functional unfortunately but on the plus side I noticed in the same add that the seller was selling an Atari Lynx. When I saw that it sparked a memory of playing a friends Lynx when I was a little kid and I knew I had to have it. So a few emails back and forth and I am now the proud of a Lynx II. As well as all that was being sold with it, a sun visor/screen guard, a battery pack(uses 6 D-Cells) and 4 games, Chips Challenge, Rampart, Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure and Hydra. He had a few other games, 5 I believe but I had to pass as I recently had to spend almost $50 to repair my Nintendo Virtual Boy. Everything was boxed and as far as I can tell complete. I'm especially happy with the system itself, aside from a few scratches and some dust behind the screen it looks almost brand new. The previous owner definitely took great care of it. In total I paid $55, $35 for the Lynx + accessories and $5 per game(talked him down from $10). I'm not really sure if it was a good deal or not but I don't feel cheated so I'm just going to assume it is. Can anyone give me any suggestions on what games I should look into for it? I'd really love a good platformer or action game, something a little more fast paced, I'm not really digging Hydra though so nothing like that for now(who knows maybe I'll develop a taste for it down the road). Thanks in advance.