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  4. Posted

    That's great if you're looking for Galaxian or Pac Man, but typically, the more unusual an item is, the more likely the postage is crap. I needed BMX and won it for $4.50 but the shipping was another $4. It's all a matter of degrees--there's an accessory going for about a buck right now, and I'd buy it, but with $4 shipping, it's not worth $5 to me. It's worth a buck.

  5. Posted

    There are few things more fun in life than either A) being stuck in traffic in Connecticut on 95 or B) nearly getting run off the road by a convoy of 18 tractor trailers on 95.

     

    OK, actually there's a LOT of things more fun in life. Like just about anything.

  7. Posted

    Wow--I'm probably the one person happy to read that about those ebay auctions. Last friday, I got in one lot

     

    --All TWELVE Supercharger games and their manuals (no packaging boxes though, just cassette boxes and cassette packaging)

    --14 of those off-brand game holders that hold 14 games with a slot in the middle for manuals (well, I got 4; i have to pick up the other 10 today, as I couldn't carry it all on my train at once).

    --All three issues of Atarian

    --A boxed, sealed Mindscape Powerplayers joystick (the one I posted about that day)

    --A dozen common games (realsports football anyone?)

    --A bootleg of CTCW.

     

    ...all for $50.

     

    The best part of the Supercharger aspect was that I actually already owned the packaging for Frogger--I had all of it except the cassette and the cassette box. Now that's complete. :D

  8. Posted

    About seven years ago, I found a loaner cart with the black label on it, but nothing indicating what game it was. I got the owner of the store to pop it in, and it was "Dodge 'Em." I didn't buy it for $5 because I already had a real one....

     

    And then there was the time I threw out all my boxes (maybe 30) because I didn't have much room in my apartment at the time. Even as I did it, I thought 'someday I may regret this.' Damn right I regret it.

  10. Posted

    Digging through a $1game bin the other day, I pulled out a few labels that had fallen off games in there. The owner laughed when I said I wanted them (I fixed my crummy Street Racer with a better label this way) and gave them to me.

     

    Soooo, if anybody wants a Q*Bert label, a Mousetrap label or a Gunslinger end label, let me know and I'll mail them to you. My minuscule tip of the cap to the restoration effort

    Clive

  11. Posted

    I still have my original and all the old games. Raaaather, I regret this story--when I moved apartments, my pal Dave was REALLY interested in my Atari, asking if I still wanted it and so on (this is around 1994 just as I was getting back into it). Well, I didn't give it to him but a few weeks later when I went garage saling, I found an MIB Atari 2600 with about 30 games also in the boxes--all for $10. I kept about five games I didn't have and gave the MIB 2600 and the rest of the boxed games to Dave as a surprise. That Atari is now in a storage locker somewhere in New Jersey. He loves it and has about 200 games, but has a small apartment with a 1-year-old, so it had to be put away for a few years. I still have mixed feelings about giving it to him instead of giving him my old one and keeping the one in the box. I did a good thing, but sometimes I wonder if I was too generous. I feel like a jerk for thinking that way--I usually tell myself to shut up and just enjoy my games.

     

    One reason I can tell myself to shut up is that I passed up other opportunities to own one. Well after the point I'd started wondering about giving him that boxed Atari, I was driving to work through my neighborhood. I had just moved into the area and didn't really know people, and wanted to make the right impression on the new neighbors. Well, 2 blocks from my house, sitting with the morning trash was--you guessed it--a big Atari 2600 box in great condition. I don't know what was inside it, but odds are that it'd be an Atari, considering the condition.

     

    My mind raced: "Could I trash pick it? Should I trash pick it? What would my new neighbors think? Maybe the polite thing to do is to knock on their door and ask if I can take it. But who wants a stranger knocking on their door at 7:30AM asking if he can rummage through their trash? If someone did that to me, I'd think they were nuts!"

     

    So I sat a minute more, trying to decide what to do. Time was ticking away--I still had to get to the train station on time to catch my train. Finally, I decided I was just going to hop out, grab the box, run back into the car and speed off! I really WANTED that box!

     

    Just about then, this quiet suburban street exploded with activity--two joggers went by, a few dog walkers appeared. Someone came out to grab their paper off the lawn, a few kids left their houses to catch a school bus or something...and I chickened out. I couldn't pick their trash in front of so many people. I just drove off and caught my train, hating myself for not just doing it. I tried to console myself that the box was probably filled with diapers or soggy coffee grinds, but I didn't really believe it.

     

    Now every trash day that I drive by, I'm like one of Pavlov's dogs, peering at their cans longingly as if there'd be another box there this time. Arrrrgh. And when I REALLY want to drive myself crazy, I wonder what rare and exotic games were hidden inside that box! :D

  14. Posted

    I picked up a pile of stuff, and in there were a few basics like Realsports Soccer. I plugged it in to see if it worked, and it's different than the other version--the field is orange and the screen rolled like a PAL game--per chance, is this the PAL version (I would think they'd use the world football instead of soccer then). Anyone know what the heck this is?

    Clive

  15. Posted

    What's the deal with Romox carts--are there games and also programmable carts? I saw two of their carts that I'd imagine were programmable carts at Multimedia 1.0 in Greenwich Village the other day but they want almost $60 for them--not worth it when you don't even know what the hell they are.

  16. Posted

    Thanks to all of you for the response. Funny thing--right after I posted the note, I started digging through the first issue of Atarian, one of the other nice items I got in this haul (and what a haul it is, but that's a different story). Right at the back is an ad for a store selling compatible joysticks, including (you guessed it) the Mindscape Powerplayer.

  17. Posted

    Hey, just got my hands on a MIB, wrapped in cellophane Mindscape Powerplayers joystick. I don't know if it works with an Atari 2600--the box says it's good with an Atari 800, ST, Commodore 64/128 and Amiga computer. I don't want to open the plastic, so does anyone know if theoretically it'd work with a 2600?

  19. Posted

    Maybe the best thing to do is find a catalog or a videogame book with lots of different games in it and get various programmers to sign it next to a section or screen shot in it. The item by itself wouldn't be worth much, but with a batch of programmer signatures in it, it would be worth quite a bit. And if it's just for your own permanant collection, then heck, what a great way to remember meeting all those people. I've done this at the NAMM convention with various rock star folks and it works out pretty nicely.

  23. Posted

    My Pac-man is signed by some kid from way back when and that made it infinitely more valuable; I paid $125 for it; do you think that was too much? I mean, it was a VINTAGE signature. :D

  25. Posted

    Hiwatt, a company pretty known for its guitar amplifiers, has a new thing called Hiwatt Nanocarbon that they're going to be selling in music instrument retailers and also audio and video big box retailers. Basically you rub it over most any metal connector and it improves signal flow (or so they claim).

     

    They sent me a packet of it which I'm going to try out on my guitar cables (their PR guy insists that it will improve low-end; we'll see), but I'm thinking that it might be a good thing to try on a cart. Next time I get a dodgy cart, I'm going to give this stuff a shot and see what happens.

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