GoldenWheels

I use what are called "ladder shelves" on either side of my TV. They are just bookcases that get smaller from bottom to top, but they feel less huge than a real bookshelf, and they are open sided so easy to run wires around. There might be one available narrow enough to fit in that spot. To fit more systems, you could add your own stacking shelf on top of each existing one. It also might tuck in BEHIND the TV slightly (looks like that casing must curve back and be narrower at the back than at the front). IF it worked, you could then run ONE board off the second to top shelf, attach it to your wall on the other side with a cleat etc, and you'd have more storage. Alternately.....put the TV on the white wall with the window, and you have more wall space.

I have a: Seagull 78 Seagull CV Then I got these anyway: Super 78 Super CV SG products got me back into 7800 (before I learned to build sticks, so easy), and got me to actually appreciate my Colecovision for the first time (just couldn't enjoy it with the bad controllers I had). I am sure the 5200 stuff will open that world up to new people too. (If gotta complain...which I don't....I don't love Edladdin color schemes. I find the blue used on some stick cases and the Super CV...very unpleasant. JMO!)

I have some PCE Works discs(bought at postage via a forum basically when the PCE works guy was trying to atone for some shady nonsense he was called on, can't recall exactly what) and while I did play them (kept me from having to buy a real Beyond Shadowgate ,etc ) to me they may as well be blank CDRs. I don't like this guy's "products" at all, no matter how many energy drinks he includes. OTOH....an actual UNRELASED game, and I can have a real huey of it....Imma try to buy it. I can't resist.

Fooled my parents! XD

Let me just add...Basement Brothers is a GREAT youtube channel if you have any interest in NEC/Sharp/Neo Geo.

Jeez, in looking that up, they also made a "Tristar" too which let you NES/FC and SNES/SFC on the 64! I gotta think on where these things lie...they're kind of systems themselves that sit on top of the host system and piggyback it....but some I already have on the list are maybe like that too. Hmmmm (I may be a chicken and just ignore weirdo third party stuff...it could get too complicated to stay consistent).

So because the CDX is just an all in one re-design of the system and the add on, I am not going to consider the CDX two discrete systems IN one console for the purpose of the thread. Sega CD (and 32X) couldn't exist WITHOUT a Genesis originally, so to me those are the same "system", even when you recombine them without all the extra hardware. Same opinion on the X-eye Tanooki! Appreciate the input though fellas, I know I am splitting hairs here.

GODDAMN! I have an eBay search saved for them for crissakes. Right over my own head.

My loosie collection has everything (most re-labelled with the silver foil labels). I have a boxed collection with almost all the commons and some rarer ones (Water Ski, Super Skateboardin') but is also missing some bigs (Tank Command, Mean 18). Sold off my few Salus as I wanted that dirty PAL garbage out of my house (just kidding, I decided in my mind they didn't "count") I'm at this weird point where I don't know whether to give up on the US collection or re-double my efforts. I can get most of them....but the odds of ever getting a sealed Tank Command....makes me think even going further is kind of pointless. Right now I really concentrate on AA store games, gfx hacks, homebrews, and whatever Bob D. releases.

We gave it a good go when my friends were in college, Powerstone and Soul Calibur DID get played. But old habits die hard and nine times out of ten the N64 got fired up instead. Mario Golf, Mario Party, WCW vs. NWO Revenge on a loop basically.

I could have totally lived without my Dreamcast BITD. Never "hit" with me, never became a hit for couch multiplayer with the boys. Not a bad system at all but for me, a dead end of gaming.

That is a perfectly cromulent question.

Soooo...about this Water Ski/Tank Command combo.....

So....seeing the first part, I said, this belongs on the list, it's the same situation as the 7800. But reading the last part (new games work on the older version of system), I am guessing the Videopac+ wasn't truly a new system but was really an upgraded Videopac where most programmers didn't even bother using the extra stuff. If most games really work BOTH ways, well....*brain struggles to categorize it*....I think that's another topic! XD Still, an interesting addition that I appreciate. Thanks Cat.

Sooooooooooooooooooo Facebook for sure be stalking me because at lunch I got fed a rando post on the never released VIC-20 Cardapter. As it is of the right era, I'm gonna include stuff like this in the list.

Ah, I should have checked for this knowing about the Coleco. Nice!

Recently I became aware of the Dina two-in-one console, which can play both SG-1000 games and Colecovision games. Sadly, it is priced above my desire level but man I am kind of fascinated by this thing. It even has two cartridge slots (yes, that impresses me a lot somehow). That kind of got me thinking about older, single systems that had the ability to play multiple systems games, WEIRD two-in-ones like the Dina in particular. I don't mean like with new systems, running emulation of older systems (duh), and I certainly don't mean systems that had previous gen games converted up onto them on a newer format. I also don't mean systems that play two types of media (card/cart/CD/whatever), assuming both types were made FOR that system, or systems that play multiple REGIONS of games (sorry to my NEC boys). I mean systems that play the actual physical media of a completely different system, let's say no older than 2001. I didn't come up with a lot just thinking, and my thoughts ended up in different "classes" even. I figured if I list them here, you guys will be able to pile in with ones I am unaware of. I'd appreciate it. No peripheral needed: 1. I have to put the Dina at the very top, the best example of what I am talking about. Two systems (SG-1000 and Coleco) and TWO cartridge slots. Goddamn. 2. My beloved Atari 7800. Obviously, it can play 2600 and 7800 games. Only one cart slot needed and thus that is all there is. 3. Supergrafx. Plays the 5 Supergrafx games & all PC Engine hu-card games. 4. Older model Wiis which can play Gamecube games Peripheral needed (no particular order): 5. Colecovision with the Atari 2600 Expansion model (plays...duh...2600 games too). 6. Sega Genesis with the Power Base Converter (Plays SMS games too). 7. Sega Game Gear with the Master Converter (plays SMS games too). 8. Nintendo Gamecube with GBA Adapter. 9. SNES with GBA Player. 10. Atari 5200 with VCS Player 11. Intellivsion System Changer (plays 2600 games) 12. Mark III/Japanese SMS (plays SG-1000 games) 13. Pioneer LaserActive w/ NEC PC-Engine PAC OR Sega Genesis PAC Vaporware (never manufactured/released): 14. VIC-20 with Cardapter (would have played 2600 games) I'm unfamiliar with the Game Boy world but I think there is compatibility between GBC and GB and GBA...somehow. Sometimes. Not sure. I also don't know where, say, a backwards compatible PS3 falls--is it emulation?--and I don't ACTUALLY care so that is why I drew the line at 2001 (I realize stuff like the GBA player may actually be emulation too, I was not sure). I'd be most interested to hear about systems which DON'T need an extra peripheral but I'd love to hear about any other vintage 2-in-1s of any kind I haven't mentioned. EDIT adds in italics.

The real thing? Pfft. Some guy made an awesome 7800 version where thankfully I can (if I so choose) play only the pinball part!

Punch Ball Mario Bros and Mario Bros Special Seem like they could have been/could be a neat fit for the 7800.

I'll second Arkanoid.....we have the availability of first party, good quality paddle/driving controllers, why not lean into that? (Hell, I'd actually PLAY Pole Position II if it used a paddle or driving controller. Be a LOT more fun IMO) Double hell, I'd play an upgraded version of Tac-Scan on the 7800!

Kind of a stretch but the final boss for the NES game Adventures of Tom Sawyer is "Injun Joe".

Soundtrack got some sample love in the latest TechMoan video.

I think it may have...he had clearly been a insert/manual keeper. I'll check again tonight. I know there was SOME kind of FF map in there but it could have been for Mystic Quest.

The poor snes had a smashed bottom with most screw bosses broken, and the top was only "on" on two separate chunks. Was also FULL of dust and random bug dirt. I mean it looked like they took a hammer to it and so I didn't even try to power it up (didn't come with a PS but I could have used my SNES set up gear). I looked on Ebay for a shell (even a yellowed one) as I hate to waste anything and random shell PIECES were going to $40+ bucks. So I left it on the dump "trade" table with a controller....if somebody wants to fix it, they can give it a shot! As an Atari AND paddle game mark, I have really enjoyed Fire Striker. Made it to (I think) the final boss the first night. He had even kept the poster from Fire Striker that shows that you can do 4 player with the multi tap. I had never even heard of this game! Teasingly to me, he had a FInal Fantasy III SNES manual, but the cart wasn't in the box. I may ask to check his basement! XD

Yeah judging by the outside and the smell....at least moths. I am hoping not cockroaches. In my experience though, 2600s are pretty tough! It can be saved I bet. The Mario Paint mouse oddly still had the a red cover for the ball, to keep dust out (I had no idea what it was at first). Funny considering how dusty everything was. He had tons of manuals and game posters too, fun to flip through.