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I think you can open the shell withput breaking it. It seems that they are glued, I cant see if there is a screw. I dont know how it will look like, but maybe GroovyBee could use this shells to put his multicard in it? Just a assumption I just have one copy of DK, so I wont try to open my shell, maybe you are right and its impossible to open them. But there is another great way to use this cartridges. If you collect more, you can build something like that: A throne to play Intellivision Not comfy, but cool. Allow me the pun: A Throne of Games! (I watched seasons 1 and 2 of the series just a few days ago)

Oh, I my oppinion there are some huge drawbacks. First of all: Its ugly. I know that some people really like this 80s look, but I dont like it, a Intellivision looks noble, a Intellivision II just looks cheap. Another disadvantage is the controller. Its good that they are removable, no question, but the buttons on the keypad are plain. The buttons on the first Intellivision controller are uplifted, so you could play by sliding from one button to the next, knowing that the 2 is beside the 1 and so on. On the Intellivision II there are no uplifted buttons, so you have to look or feel where your finger is to press the right one. Its much more complicated in my opinion and thats the only true thing mentioned by AVGN. And the last real disadvantage if the fact, that the Coleco games are not compatible to the Intellivision II. I know there are the CBS Versions, but its more difficult to get them.

The Controller is just unfamiliar, not bad. In reality the controller is pretty good and there are games like Space Battle were the controller is brilliant. Just try it out yourself: Play the Intellivision Lives Collection on PS2 or Gamecube and after that play the original hardware, you sure will recognize that most of the are games are much better playable on the Intellivision # The only thing which I have to criticize is the disc, because its sometimes a bit to woolly, so that fast direction changings are a bit difficult. But the layout of the buttons is pretty good if you get familiar to the controller A little addition: I am talking about the Intellivision I controller, I dont like the Intellivision II controller... well I also dont like the Intellivision II

But I cant see why "Schadenfreude" fits to your plan? You donate some carts + paying shipping. Also if its nearly worthless, the seller could sell them for 1 or 2 Dollars, I am sure he get some sales with that. Its not much, but its all free for him. If you dont know what to do with your carts go on making art Or I have another, much better idea: spend the cartridges to some of these amazing homebrewers, so they can will the worthless shell with more great games

2k for a broken cartridge... But to tell the truth: All the auctions of this seller reach damn high amounts, I am a bit sceptical. Thunder Castle and Tower of Doom Bundle for 170 and the Strategy Network for 72? I wonder why his offers reach nearly the double of the normal price.

In my optinion the whole VGA-thing is for scammers, so if this guy fakes, he is just faking fakes. I really dont mind.

I bought three new games for my collection today. 1. Lady Bug: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.de%2Fitm%2F271174735259%3FssPageName%3DSTRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT%26_trksid%3Dp3984.m1439.l2649 2. Dracula: http://www.retrogames.co.uk/more/on/details/009210 3. Super Cobra: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574883395&toolid=10001&campid=5336500554&customid=&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.de%2Fitm%2F271174737270%3FssPageName%3DSTRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT%26_trksid%3Dp3984.m1439.l2649

When the game is completed and shipped, do you release the ROM-File?

I think it would be no problem, but with double shipping it becomes expensive for you. By the way, I have a german Pitfall version here for a trade. If you can offer me a game I do not already own we maybe can make a deal One general question: Is it impossible to edit old posts? I cant edit the first post, guess its a board setting

Today Mr. Basic meets Bits'N Bytes arrived, so I have 63 CiB and its exactly the middle 62 done, got this one, 62 to go.

Whats a nice price for Dracula? I got one offered for 72 Dollar, but the priceguides list it for much less. The Problem: I cant find one on Ebay for some time.

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 171009577266 This may becomes interessting. I wonder how high this ultra common game will climb just because it got a cage of plastic. By the way, I placed the highest bid right now. If the price stays at a normal Snafu-sealed level I would take this one, knowing that grading cost more as double as I had to pay (so please dont outbid me) The seller deleted my bid I asked him about shipping to Germany and he told me 28 Dollars. I know this could be done cheaper and so I asked him if thats possible, because Snafu is so common that no special shipping is needed. His advice was, that I should buy an ungraded Snafu, because this is available for 20. Thats mean

I am quite sure he gets this copy sold. Sure the condition isnt the best and the price is very high, but there are many crazy collectors out there and just one of them must place a bid. Some people have no patience to wait for another chance. I would be very surprised if this Spiker doenst find a new home. But who cares about Spiker, I wanna get a CiB Dracula and Fathom. Dracula is available in UK, but its to expensive in my opinion, but I cant find a CiB Fathom

Congo Bongo is already on my watchlist, but I wont pay too much for it. Of course I got some advantages because of the nice exchange rate, but we'll see. The last one ended 450 or something like that, if it goes that high again I'll dont think I will buy it. Edit: 4 Days 14 Hours to go and we already reached 250 $....

Thank you, so should wait for a better chance to get this game.

What is a fair price for Hover Force? Is 60$ a fair deal, or is that too much?

Thank you. I got many games from New old Stock, so at least 20 games were sealed when I got them. But I prefer Mattel Electronics releases (gatefold box), the most games are INTV Inc releases, maybe I replace them in the future, but this has a lower priority.

Bubble Ghost would be much cooler than Bubble Bobble. Give me Bubble Ghost and North & South and I will be happy

If someone can offer me a CiB and nice shaped game which is not already in my collection, I can offer a german (or lets call it european) version of Pitfall. But dont forget: I am from Germany, so shipping will cost about 15 USD or something like that.

Its the same with some Soccer versions, were die NASL Label is on the cartridge, but not on the box. I guess its maybe new assembled stock after losing the licenses, at least this would be my explanation. In the future I wanna replace my german versions with US releases, because they look better, expecially the backcover. http://ogdb.eu/index.php?section=game&gameid=35602 The two slots were made to hold the localized manual, because the manual was representing the backcover. I really dont like it and the slots make the box more unstable then US boxes.

Thank you for the responds, so it really seems to be an coincedence that on intvfunhouse is talked about three and my version has three.

Like some other members here I am on the way to complete my 125 CiB and its nearly half-finished (unfortunately just by number of games, not amount of money to spend). I have 62 games already in my showcase, and 21 are on the way. Here is a list of the games I already own, if you wanna see pictures just click here: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (Intellivision, Inc) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin (Intellivision, Inc) Armor Battle (Mattel Electronics) Astrosmash (Mattel Electronics) Atlantis (Imagic) Autoracing (Mattel Electronics) B-17 Bomber (Mattel Electronics) Backgammon (Mattel Electronics) Beamrider (Activision) Beauty & the Beast (Imagic) Big League Baseball (Intellivision, Inc) Bomb Squad (Intellivision, Inc) Boxing (Mattel Electronics) Burger Time (Intellivision, Inc) Buzz Bombers (Intellivision, Inc) Carnival (Coleco) Demon Attack (Imagic) Donkey Kong (Coleco) Dragonfire (Imagic) Football (Intellivision, Inc) Frog Bog (Mattel Electronics) Frogger (Parker) Golf (Mattel Electronics) Horse Racing (Intellivision, Inc) Ice Trek (Imagic) Las Vegas: Black Jack & Poker (Mattel Electronics) Lock'N'chase (Intellivision, Inc) Microsurgeon (Imagic) Mind Strike (Intellivision, Inc)Mission-X (Intellivision, Inc) NBA Basketball (Mattel Electronics) NHL Hockey (Mattel Electronics) Night Stalker (Mattel Electronics) PBA Bowling (Mattel Electronics) Pitfall (Activision) Popeye (Parker) Sea Battle (Mattel Electronics) Shark! Shark! (Mattel Electronics) Sharp Shot (Intellivision, Inc) Snafu (Mattel Electronics) Soccer (Mattel Electronics) Space Armada (Mattel Electronics) Space Battle (Mattel Electronics) Space Hawk (Mattel Electronics) Space Spartans (Mattel Electronics) Star Strike (Mattel Electronics) Star Wars: The Empire strikes back (Parker) Sub Hunt (Mattel Electronics) Swords & Serpents (Imagic) Tennis (Mattel Electronics) The Electric Compaty: Math Fun (Mattel Electronics) Thin Ice (INTV Corp) Triple Action (Mattel Electronics) Tron: Deadly Discs (Mattel Electronics) Tron: Maze-a-Tron (Intellivision, Inc) Tropical Trouble (Imagic) Truckin' (Imagic) Tutankham (Parker) US Ski Team Skiing (Mattel Electronics) Utopia (Intellivision, Inc) Vectron (Intellivision, Inc) Venture (Coleco) There are also a few homebrews in my collection (this number really needs to grow): Christmas Carol vs. The Ghost of Christmas Presents D2K Arcade Minehunter Space Patrol

Maybe, I dont know. The only way to get sure about this is buying a sealed version, but its too expensive at the moment, I prefer to spend the money on games I do not already own. But if I can complete my 125 someday this upgrade could be made

As far as I know there is just one known version of the overlays, but according to intvfunhouse the game came with three of them and the version I own (International Version) also has three. Here is the link: http://intvfunhouse.com/imagic/ Maybe one here bought his game sealed in the past? That would the securest way of answering the question if TT came with 2 or three overlays.

I use this thread for another question. My Tropical Trouble has three Overlays and I didnt cared, because I just thought it was one from another game, but now I saw at intvfunhouse that the game comes orginally with three Overlays, is that right? Does someone know why there are three? I cant see the reason, because they are all the same.