Captain_Combat

$40 was a lot of money in 1983. I was working two jobs making around $3.50 an hour. A movie cost $2 or $3. Used to love going to happy joes pizza and mall playing asteroids, donkey Kong, Pac-Man etc. Liked defender but it ate my quarters quickly. I beat galaga after a couple weeks playing took about 2 1/2 hours so my quarters went a long ways in that game. Used to play at a friend's house who had a Atari 2600 and thought it was amazing playing combat, bezerk etc. Nowadays I think we should destroy tech before it destroys us.

Hollywood suggested retail price for wizard games. 1983 Halloween....$39.95 1983 Texas chainsaw massacre....$39.95

Atari 5200 game.

Was helping my cousin with a big lvp job. I told him about the encounter I had and he showed me this picture he took a couple years ago. He lives in Appalachian remote golf course. Is it a large black bear track or something else.

Another Jaguar battlesphere gold cib. I was going to attempt to play this but didn't have a Jaguar system. Instead have a Sega CD unit.

Sealed double dragon ntsc for the Atari 2600. Took a swing at Tarzan but was knocked off the vine by donkey Kong.

I bought these just for the Atari labels to display in my collection. Not sure what system played these 8 track tapes . There's a red 2600 by kaybee games in the museum that may be one of a kind??????

Spooky times! If you get a chance to pickup a boxed Frankenstein monster do it. The box is tough to get and should appreciate nicely. Macro, geopolitical not looking good. Paying off as much debt as possible is the thing to do if possible.

Place was packed, the arcade was just like arcade's of the 80s packed. Got to play galaga again , beat the game in the 80s two weeks after it originally came out scored 999,999 after that rolled back to zero and became easy again. First time playing galaga since then. The train museum was very neat as well. Just one collector donated his entire collection to make this up. It's a non profit and they lease the space for free which is nice from the city of Frisco Texas.

Attempting the national video game museum in Frisco Texas today if we can make it through big D traffic. Pics to follow later.

The kiss cart. Such an 80s marketing ploy.

A couple more sealed PS2 games

A couple more sealed PS2 games

It was welcome to Pennsylvania for us on the very first hike in the state. It was definitely scary, unwanted and very unexpected. I should have bought you're game I think it was a limited release. Now you might have to do a part 2. You definitely don't want to have a real life encounter.

Pennsylvania is remote but nothing like Idaho. I don't think I would hike or camp in Idaho because you're in grizzly and r10 country . We went to Dillon Montana during covid lockdowns and some local was telling me about hunter grizzly attacks in Idaho not far from Dillon. Also the possibility of getting lost in that expansive woods. I guess if you wanted some r10 activity have your buddies take you where they had theirs, but they probably don't want to go back. Our Pennsylvania occurrence definitely intimidated us and we turned immediately around after high pitched whistle that lasted for 30 seconds.

Around 2007 we took our kids to Idlewild which is a kids amusement park a little over an hour from Pittsburgh in a mountain area. I asked some of the Park employees if there were black bears 🐻 in the area . They said some of the landowners had trail cams on their property and have some pics of 400 pound bears. We left the park around 6pm and I wanted to do a hike. There's a couple quaint small towns. I saw a small park with a trail leading into mountain area. We were about 15 minutes into the hike which for us would be 1 mile in and we heard this huff sound. My wife and I looked at each other but kept going a few more feet and heard another very loud pronounced huff. We stopped in our tracks and then heard a loud high pitched whistle that lasted for 30 seconds. It wasn't mechanical and we were both amazed and scared at the same time. The lung capacity to do this whistle sound had to be something huge . Don't know any known animal that makes a high pitch whistle. After the whistle sound coon dogs started about a quarter mile or so away. My Wife and I immediately turned back around on the trail, we had our kids in a double jogging stroller. I told her if something comes out of the woods I would stay behind to try and slow the thing down while she gets the kids out of there. I was looking for branches to pick up on the way back out. Ran into a couple hiking and warned them about the huff sound and said it might be a bear. Didn't tell them about the high pitched whistle so I know it wasn't a 🐻. Wish I would have recorded it but I had a flipflop phone at the time and it happened so fast. This happened around ligonier pa in Westmoreland county. Someday I want to go back and hike that trail and maybe talk with someone that lives out there about it. Never told the story publicly until now but my wife and I talk about it periodically. I think it was territorial and we got the point and turned around right after the 30 second whistle.

Two more sealed PS2 games

I also have a rarity 10 scary real hiking story that happened to my wife and I while hiking in western Pennsylvania. If I was a desert rat I would get a dune buggy, eye patch, document petroglyphs, explore mountain areas.

2 sealed PS2 games and pulling up on an unexpected R10 found in the wild. Half the town of Evergreen Alabama has seen the thing at some point.

Missed it, really nice find however. I suspect 100 years from now someone will find a super rare video game in their attic like they did with the honus Wagner baseball card.

Two more sealed PS2 games.

Two sealed PS2 games

Looking for your everyday average games like boxed pepsi invaders and a boxed air raid. If you're relative was a Coke executive in the 1980s you might have one laying around. I believe most of these were probably thrown out . From what I can tell about air raid it was mostly if not all found in the southwest states. Menavision a California toy store. Interesting how some rare games are found in select geographic locations.

Couple more sealed PS2 games.

A couple sealed PS2 games I picked up on craigslist years ago. The brother was selling his brothers video game collection to pay for bills while he was in prison. Bought a bunch of sealed and unsealed games from him. In 2010 at a video game convention in Vegas I remember this weird guy staring at me at the entrance with a basketball referee shirt on. Also a guy came strolling down the aisle dressed to the nines in suit and 👔. I didn't think anyone dressed up like that to go to a gaming convention. I thought he was the president of the United States. Anyways year's later after reading some thread's here I found out it was Walter Day and Billy Mitchell. It looks like youtubies have replaced these guys at conventions now.