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    I recently picked up a Video Arcade II; I love that pseudo-5200 styling. Anyway, I only got around to really taking a look at it this weekend. I finally noticed that (duh) it didn't come with the right power cord. Accordingly, does anyone know what I'd need to pick up at Radio Shack in order to get this thing running again?

    And of much lesser importance, how much do these typically go for? Just curious for my own edification, not for ebay purposes.

    Clive

  3. Posted

    I went to Phase Four and got some excellent finds today. I came prepared however, with a bunch of CDs and DVD-As from my job to trade in. Armed with credit, I got Sentinel (which I've never even seen in 10 years of collecting), the "Pole Positn" of Pole Position, Sears Circus, Pac Kong in the box, Weltraum-Tunnel in the box, and a bunch of commons in the box like Pac Man, Poker Plus, Yar's Revenge, Sears Casino and some others. Even after I used up trade-in credit, I only spent a whopping $13, so I quite pleased. :D

  5. Posted

    You're totally right. Most of it was junk, but I found a Leonard Cohen videotape for a friend for $4, and they gave us directions to the flea market a few minutes away in front of a multiplex (I forget the name of the town, Revere maybe?). There was one guy selling Atari stuff, so I managed to get a replacement Super Cobra for $3 (my old one has a torn up label).

    Thanks to all for your help,

    Clive

  9. Posted

    It may well have been that the endorsement was limited to North America. For instance, stars like Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt do commercials in Japan (apparently it's considered quite a prestigious thing to do there) but those endorsements don't extend to the US, because our culture would claim it's tacky (unless you're Sting, apparently). :wink:

     

    So, getting back to the topic, can anyone tell me what this double-ender might be worth then?

  12. Posted

    I picked up this Xonox double-ender on eBay from a seller in Germany, who said in his listing that he thought it was an NTSC cart. The cart in question is "Artillery Duel / Super Kung-Fu." I can't find a listing in the Digital Press guide for anything by that name (and yes, it appears to be "Chuck Norris Superkicks" under a different name). The added weird thing is that "Super Kung-Fu" has vertical hold 'problems' (like a PAL cart would here in the US) while the "Artillery Duel" side appears on the screen just fine. Does anyone know what the story is with this cart?

    Clive

  13. Posted

    I went to a book signing last night at Barnes & Noble's in NYC for Neal Stephenson's new one, "Quicksilver" (a hard but fun read). I got to chatting with people around me beforehand, and of course, I mentioned Atari at one point. This led one guy to say that he had one he was trying to get rid of with some weird controllers and 50 games. As he lived a few blocks away, I went and took a look at what he had for sale.

     

    For 25 bucks, I got a Sears Video Arcade II with the bizzaro joystick/paddle controllers, driving paddles, 1 Atari Pro Joystick and an Omega Race booster grip. The box also had about 30-40 manuals, including a few for games that weren't in the box. The 50 games was actually 60 games, mostly commons, but there were Demolition Herby and Thunderground (both of which I needed) as well as Threshold (with manual), a Xonox Spike's Peak/Ghost Manor (with both manuals), the aforementioned Omega Race and a few other goodies.

     

    So not only did I get my books signed by a brilliant author, I also got some cool stuff for cheap--it was a very good night. :D

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    A couple of comments:

     

    --About 10 years ago, my brother-in-law, then a teenager, became 'born again.' Seized with the spirit (and stupidity), he printed up his own tract about how all jews were going to go to hell unless they converted. Then he started going to train stations on Long Island (one of the biggest Jewish populations in the US) and handed them out to tired commuters going to work at 6AM in the middle of winter. This was not a good idea. To let your imagination run wild, I'll simply say that he didn't hand out tracts very long.

     

    --Here in NYC, you can buy Chick tracts at See Hear, an underground rock zine & book store near St. Mark's Place; they clearly see it as humorous, as most anyone who'd walk into See Hear would be a target of Chick's wrath.

     

    --My father-in-law is the guy in charge of buying tracts for his church; he was horrified by the Chick tract my wife showed him (after a trip to See Hear, of course--what a bad influence I am). I've never understood why people feel the need in general to hand out tracts, but having gotten to know and appreciate my father-in-law for the nice guy he is, I can say, based on him, that at least some people do it as a kind gesture and nothing more. I'd venture to say that he has a rather 'live and let live' attitude and that he leaves tracts here and there more as giving people an opportunity to hook back into religion if they were once religious and let it fall by the wayside (ie, he's not an in-your-face kinda guy).

     

    --That said, when I walk out of Penn Station every day here in NYC, there's this wild-eyed preacher and his Korean assistant who are extremely in everyone's faces. He shouts praises, and swears that if you're lost...etc. while his assistant tries to give tracts to everyone in sight. Man, stuff like this freaks me out. I don't know if the fault is his or mine. Maybe he does some good; maybe he helps people. I tend to be embarrassed though because I'm a fairly religious person and I think he turns people off (including me). But everyone has their calling in life and I guess that is his--who am I to criticize? Like I said, maybe he gets through to some folks. I find his zealousness creeps me out but maybe that means that really I'm a lousy catholic; I dunno. If nothing else, he's made me examine daily why I feel the way I feel about my beliefs, and I guess that's a good thing.

     

    So, in the end, if someone sends you a tract and it's not your deal--and I'd imagine that few people are swayed by them personally--then throw it out and don't think twice. Figure that the person who sent it to you at least meant well. Then go on with your day.

    Clive

  17. Posted

    If he's selling homebrews, you can get him but you'll have to jump through a few hoops. Basically, you have to be able to claim that you are the copyright owner on the item--in this case, a piece of software.

     

    Then you contact the VeRO program at eBay and request to become a member. They send you some forms which you have to print out, fill out, sign and fax back. After that, they put you in their system and provide you with a generic email used to report voilations of your copyright. This will take a few days, but it'd be worth it.

     

    After the initial set up process, it's easy to get auctions taken down and ebay will be very responsive. You'll be amazed how fast they act when you do things this way, because if they don't act quickly, you theoretically can sue them.

     

    And how do I know all this? I used to sell a videotape I made--a tour of locations in Kevin Smith's movies--and it was heavily bootlegged among fans. I had to go through this whole process and get auctions taken down all the time. In a few cases, I then had to chase those same bootleggers out of Yahoo and Amazon auctions as well. To this day, it's still sold at comic conventions and so on--I have a friend who's a lawyer that has sent a few cease & desist letters for me over the years as a favor, but I don't really know if that worked (I'm not really a comic convention kind of guy, so I can't check).

     

    Good luck!

    Clive

  21. Posted

    My cable system has Tech TV interactive, where they re-run segments for a week or two and you can order them up when you want to see them--it's basically like On-Demand movies, only much shorter and it's nerd stuff (oh and they don't charge extra for it). I bet this segment will wind up on there.

  22. Posted

    "Where was the strangest place you bought a game?"

     

    "That'd be the butt, Bob."

     

     

    Ok, but seriously. For me, it'd probably be the parking lot of a Too Much Joy concert at the now long-lost Malibu Nightclub in Long Beach, NY. This kid and I had traded emails and agreed to meet there before the show. I ran the band's fan club and had been sent a lot of promo stuff, so I traded him a record store mobile relating to the TMJ album "Mutiny," and he gave me "Snoopy & the Red Baron," "Sorcerer's Apprentice" and one or two other games. Then we went inside and rocked out 8)

    Clive

  24. Posted

    Since the last two Starpath games didn't come in cassette boxes (or game boxes for that matter), has anyone ever made a Starpath-style cassette box insert or a game box for these games?

    I have all the Starpath cassettes in a box that holds exactly a dozen cassettes, but the last two look dopey with handwritten cassette inserts. I kinda want to make some similar inserts for those games that I could print out on my printer, but if someone's already done it, I'd rather take advantage of their expertise.

    Anyone?

     

    Clive

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