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  1. I'm down to about 10-12 loose copies, mostly of the "01 combat" text variety and two copies of Tank Plus.
  2. And they're running out of parts for the 820 too. I have one that needs a drive belt.
  3. I vaguely remember my dad playing a few games of Target Fun and Gunslinger with me on Christmas morning in 1979. I think my mom might have played a couple games of Ms. Pac-Man in an arcade during a family vacation in 1983. I would be surprised if either of them has played a traditional video game of any kind in at least 30 years.
  4. I still have the original receipt for my Sears heavy sixer. It was $159.95 (IIRC) when purchased in November 1979. Gunslinger, Tank-Plus and Pong Sports were $19.95 each. I vaguely remember them being $189-$199 not too long before that.
  5. This looks like a Quantum Bigfoot to me also. I have a 4GB version that was pulled from an IBM Aptiva that I bought in 1998 or 1999. Still works too.
  6. I made a complete, albeit fairly short, game with Adventure Construction Set in the summer of 1985. The only things I remember about it was that it was very loosely based on the movie Day of the Dead (which I had recently seen in the theater) and the plot revolved around finding pieces of a key (or something) while fighting/avoiding zombies. Also, most of the object/monster graphics were lightly modified from one of the pre-built adventures that came with ACS. The disk that my adventure was on was misplaced or lost along with about 80% of my original C64 disks in the mid 90's. I think I may have uploaded it to at least one BBS shortly after it was made, so it might still be floating around somewhere. It would be a hoot to see it again.
  7. I haven't seen an Steeplechase machine since Starcade at Disneyland got rid of theirs in '87. I'm going to be in Pittsburgh for a concert the weekend before their grand opening. Bah.
  8. I turned 43 a few months ago and didn't get my first Atari 8-bit until 1995 or 1996. But I had a TI-99/4A, VIC-20, C64 and an Apple //e back in the 1980's.
  9. I just checked the tracking on mine and it looks like it was delivered this morning. I'm looking forward to playing it this weekend.
  10. I buy those adapters 5 at a time for about $1.30 each, shipped, from Monoprice. The cheapest I've ever seen them locally (in the last 3-4 years) is $6 for two of them.
  11. I desperately wanted a hard drive for my C64 or Apple //e back in the day. I also badly wanted a PEB for my TI-99/4A; I didn't get one of those until 2012. I didn't have a hard drive until I got my Amiga 500 in 1989. (It was a Trumpcard 500 w/a Seagate 80MB SCSI drive and a 1 or 2MB RAM expansion, if I remember correctly).
  12. Speaking of which, I wouldn't mind having a physical copy of the 1981 and 1982 Sears Wish Book. Despite my best judgement, I went to eBay to see how much people were trying to sell them for.
  13. Has shuffleboard been done on the 2600 yet? I played it for the first time on a cruise I was on earlier this year and it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be.
  14. I went through all the old computer magazines that I have with me currently last night and found that I have 45 issues of Compute! ranging from September 1982 to February 1987. I also have 11 issues of Compute!'s Gazette ranging from November 1983 to June 1986, but I only have the disks for 5 of them (all of which still work). I also have 10 copies of inCider ranging from March 1983 to December 1985. I should have more somewhere since my dad subscribed to it for two years. I assume all of my Amiga World and Computer Gaming World magazines from the late 80's/early 90's are still at my dad's house in a box somewhere. I'm pretty sure I never threw them out and everything I've stored there since 1998 has been largely untouched.
  15. I like to get out my old computer magazines every few years and look through them. I regret getting rid of a couple dozen 1984-1986 issues of Computer Shopper in the mid-90's, but they were just too big and heavy and were taking up space in a storage unit I was trying to get out of at the time.
  16. I have a loose Motor Psycho. All of the other 7800 carts I own appear to be a R3 or below. I've never owned a 7800 (although I came very close to buying one several months ago). 100% of the dozen or so 7800 carts I own came in lots mixed with 2600 carts.
  17. Currently: Non-enhanced //e Amdek 300A amber monochrome monitor MemoryMaster //e (80 columns + 128K RAM) Grappler+ (parallel port card) Apple Super Serial Card (used mostly with ADTPro and rarely with a Hayes Smartmodem 1200) Apple disk interface card Apple Disk ][ floppy drive x2 Apple Imagewriter dot matrix printer Apple joystick (the one with gray buttons, I think it's actually called a "Joystick //e")
  18. I received a Sears Heavy Sixer for Christmas in 1979 with Target Fun, Gunslinger, Tank-Plus and Pong Sports - all of which I still have today. The only reason I still have the original system box was because it was used to store seldom used Christmas tree ornaments until the early 90's.
  19. I got a confirmation e-mail either yesterday or this morning saying that my order for both a Intellivision and Colecovision Flashback has shipped.
  20. I go to the Strong National Museum of Play once or twice a month. I've been going to Golf N' Stuff once or twice a year, but the amount of "classic" arcade games there has dramatically decreased over the last 3-4 years. Not sure if I will be going back, especially since I no longer have family in the immediate area. If there was a "barcade" type place within 30-40 minutes of me that wasn't seedy and had a decent collection of late 70's to late 80's video games that were adequately maintained, I'd go once a week. I go to happy hour once a week anyway, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch.
  21. According to my spreadsheet, which I haven't updated in almost a year, I no longer have a Atari picture label Football cartridge. If I didn't have four Atari text label Football cartridges I'd be more concerned... I also seem to be missing six rarity 2's and they're all Sears variants. I could have sworn I had a Sears football and Warlords.
  22. I worked for Radio Shack part time from late 1988 until late 1991. The amount of mismanagement from the district level all the way down to the three individual stores they rotated me through was appalling and unethical. Falsification of store records and outright theft by employees was rampant. Looking back, I'm surprised that I only knew of one person that was arrested during my three years there. I have no love for Radio Shack and haven't bought anything from them in over 15 years. Since I invested in a desoldering iron that has tips that last longer than two weeks, I no longer have any reason to step foot in a Radio Shack.
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