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    ...i have a lot of things to get rid of.

     

    Any more Atari stuff?

     

     

    yeah a ton of stuff...was just going to put some stuff up on ebay each week until its gone...just now getting started with that...i dont have the room anymore to store it all and i've got a new kid that will be here in mid-july with any luck...so everything is going to go and i'm just going to get a laptop and a new desktop and run emu's on all my game stuff for the most part. I've been collecting stuff for about 20 years + now and i'm done with it...getting out of it...have some good stuff if you want to take a look let me know....i have some stuff i can't sell on ebay....repro's and what not.

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    I would guess (again)...that Atari probably would have taken the path of least resistance on the Rubik's game...if both parties agreed that it would benefit them both to use the Rubik's name, then Atari might have figured it was better to just re-brand the cube game than to fight a lawsuit (if there ever was threat of one in the first place). This is at a time when the Rubik's Cube was pretty popular...so I could see them wanting to use the name. Atari could have also developed the game wanting to use the Rubik's name all along, the Rubik's people might have held out for a year...could have been any number of reasons...point is that this comes down to a "chicken vs. egg" sort of thing in which came first...and the AVC seems to be prior to the Rubik's version....only problem is that it goes against the seemingly urban legend that we've all assumed in that the Rubik's people sued and changed the name to AVC...all things point to that not being true.

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    my friend works for best buy...i asked if it would XFR to the new owner...she said :

     

    yep, as long as you have the original receipt and the prp number (which should be on it if he bought it together) then u are fine...on the prp brochure there is a spot on the back that u can fill out (no one does) that says im transferring this replacement to so and so... but u dont need to do that, its just there if u want to be an over acheiver...all we do is look at the numbers and type them in... we dont care who its registered to

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    Are any of the Holiday carts in the rarity guide? I looked under homebrews and didn't see them....were any of the ROM's ever released and is there a section about them anywhwere other than doing a post search...which i've done...just curious if they are documented anywhere else on the site like the rest of the games are? :ponder:

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    my point is the C64 thing proves you can have it both ways...and still at a cheapo hardware sales price...wait and see someone will take advantage of this on one of these retro stick type things and it'll be huge.

     

    maybe they have plans to do so on down the line and want to exploit the crap end of the market first...who knows...but if you are going to do it, do it right.

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    the only place I know of that had them for $10 was KB Toys...and that was probably a promo type thing...I'd guess they did a deal with them to buy a bulk amount at a cheap price to get some out on the street and get some buzz going...besides...you are talking about a computer system and not a home arcade type system here...different type of deal all around from an Atari or Colecovision stick....

     

    What is the big friggin deal about putting a cart slot on it? I'm sure it can be done cheap enough and it would be the first to market an entire catalog at launch...put some unreleased demos and homebrews on it...maybe 20 games or so...even if it didn't have the big hits, I think with the slot it would sell good...maybe even make a flashback type thing instead of an "on a stick" type system....then you could offer some legit joysticks instead of a crappy single stick...give people some good quality hardware and room to grow and I think it would be a hit...don't charge an arm and a leg...don't get to greedy and it would be a good idea.

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    In that article:  "I'm hoping at some point the technology will be there to do a plug-and-play with original Intellivision hand controllers for $20."

     

    If they sold 1,000,000 of those Intellivision units, the economics are *definitely* there to make an Intellivision-on-a-chip.  It's all upfront, one-time costs to create it, the per-unit cost should be nearly the same as the famiclone chips.

    I'm hoping they'll do a CV on a chip but I doubt it. The funny thing is that it should be easy because the CV used all off-the-shelf ICs. I've studied the schematics and it's very straightforward. Maybe someone like Telegames holds the copyright to the OS code or something

     

    well main problem is that most of the 'memorable' Colecovision games were arcade licenses that are now nigh impossible to deal with either a $, rights finding, or just a 'no way' (Nintendo & D.Kong) scenario. You have to dig deeper to find some of the better 'originals' for Colecovision, and by then, even though they are good games, they are the ones that 99% of people haven't heard of.

     

    gavv

     

     

    Ok...so...here's the deal...these are all hardware sales...so make hardware that is cool and has a cart slot so people can still play friggin donkey kong...there are a zillion of them on ebay and one day the corp shirts will figure out that the more you involve the "retro" side of a "retro" piece of hardware...the better it will sell...and they are wanting to sell hardware...no one is trying to market games for this piece of shit...so just put a friggin cart slot on it somewhere...christ...you shut up all the classic game people and open it up to a complete library of existing titles...and it's the real thing...not some cheap crappy NES on a chip emulated junk.

     

     

    It's really a no brainer...someday someone will get smart on this shit...the C64 thing was about as close as it's come.

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    I find this weird because I didnt even know Tecmo was still around...I thought someone flushed that turd years ago...nice to hear they are alive and kickin...I'm gonna go play my NES now :ponder:

     

    Tecmo should consider doing the same since they obviously have way to much time on their hands...or better yet make a new Xbox 2 game for the big launch in a few months...

     

    :ponder:

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