Dolt

Midnight Magic is probably one of my top three favorite 2600 games; no one talks about it much, but it's really a fantastic pinball simulation, and just plain fun. An underrated classic, IMHO.

Any word? The world waits with baited breath...

Mail 'em to me. Your room will smell better immediately.

I opened it. If I didn't open it, it would be the same as if I'd never bought it because I wouldn't be able to play it.

I feel your pain. I got a sealed River Raid II today and my fingers are itching to open it up! Don't know what I'm gonna do...

It's cool, but I don't like it. I put my own name in there and it came up with about 12 negs I've had over the last 6 years of ebay (in amongst over 1500 pos feedbacks). When all it serves up is negs, however, it makes me look like a real scumbag. What's worse is that I recall most of those people and they were jerks trying to get out of paying for items or just plain psychos.

24. Door jamb. 25. Sling shot artillery 26. Drench the contacts in Armor All and then switch the cart with one in your enemy's collection.

Joe comes in, finds a $1,000 cart that the owner, Steve, didn't know about, and then gets treated poorly when he tries to buy it for the price he was quoted. Then, in the wake of everything that happened, Steve comes online and bad mouths Joe. Talk about a sore winner. What if Nick The Employee was manning the store when Joe came in? That Meltdown would have come and gone without him ever knowing. I don't know--if I owned a store, I'd find a way to thank someone for finding me $1,000, but this guy Steve came here and talked smack. As a result, Steve just sounds like a very insecure guy: --The college degrees have nothing to do with selling a game yet he mentioned them --More obviously, he got the money so the deal is done...yet he tracked down the AA forums solely to find out what people were saying about him. Most people would probably just be proud of themselves (from their POV) for spotting the proto (oops, I mean PROTO) at the last second and managing to get $1000 for it--and they'd leave it at that, not go hunting for critics. The fact that Steve came here to the AA forum means that the $1,000 is not enough salve for his guilty conscience for the way he treated Joe. To which I say "GOOD."

Glad to see I got a bargain. I haven't had a chance to plug it in--busy week--but now I'll have to make time to do that tonight, if only to see this gradiated background.

You set up the deal for him? I'm trying to just simply follow this from all the inferences...

OK, I'm lousy at connecting the dots. What happened here? Tempest bought the prototype?

Luck is relative, and we all get our turn. A few weeks ago, I drove from NYC up to Boston to help my dad move. As a personal incentive, I promised myself I'd go to Phase Four records in Harvard Square when we were done--they sell used CDs and fairly rare Atari carts (I got my Pole Postin there, for instance). That way I'd have something to look forward to while I was moving dressers in 95 degree weather. I even brought up a bag of used CDs to trade in, so I could really hog out. Well, after two days of breaking my back, I drove over to the store and discovered they'd gone out of business. Today, I was a bit luckier, is all.

Just for a mere $15!

Now we know how Skeet Shoot and ET came into existence!

It's a gag--it's posted merely to advertise a convention, and none of the bidders plan to take him up on the actual purchase. Check the Auction Central forum for the thread.

Gnaw it off. Flamethrowers work well too.

I'll probably get flamed, but you have the TNT version not the Atari version, so I don't think there's a Red/White label issue. I opened mine, but I got it boxed for about $12 a year or so ago. Bottom line, if you're willing to shell out for an additional loose copy, then go for it--it's a great game. If you don't want to shell out for another one, then bust 'er open. Clive

There's a lot of reasons for the drop that I can think of. Certainly, the economy is still wary, despite the government's assertions otherwise. Then there's also the fact that if the typical Atari collector is probably 28-40 (I know there's a lot of folks outside of that age range, but the vast majority of collectors fall in there), a lot of those people are at an age now where there's less discretionary income to spend on games. Folks here on AA are having kids, buying homes, and don't have the money--or the time to play, much less search for and bid on--games.

Too bad I only need 1 of them--I'm sure you'll do really well with it though!

It's a shame that CGX isn't in Vegas this time--I bet a batch of y'all could go down there and harrass this guy. On a different note, my job sends me to Vegas a lot and I've never seen game shops there. Where's the shop in question?

Journey was massive at the time, just freakin' huge. MTV played them every hour--Steve Perry perpetually sweating to death in concert, wearing a wretched lepoard print tank top--and radio stations fawned over them whenever their tours came to town. Given that they had such strong record sales, and the videogame industry was exploding at the time, I'm sure it made sense for everyone involved to get in bed together. Slap the band's name on a game, and open the bank vault for all that money that's gonna roll in. I mean, lets face it, other than the opening screen with the scarab and the tune(s?), this could have been made for any band--yes, even ACDC, even though they weren't very popular then, partciularly compared to Journey (BTW, Back In Black has actually sold 20 million copies--Mutt Lange was given a double-diamond award from the RIAA last month). Musically, they were professional lightweights, but that's fine. I've always been a power pop fan, and they straddle the line between pop and hard rock just fine. Their ballads have always uniformly sucked (Lights, Faithfully and, most egregiously, Open Arms), but Schon unquestionably has a unique, trademark sound (I mean, who hasn't heard Randy Newman's "I Love LA" and thought that Schon must have been brought in for the solo?). Video-wise, they never seemed to know the difference between cool (tour bus montage in "Open Arms") and lame (playing air instruments in "Separate Ways"). Oh, and I totally hate the game. Just my 2 cents.

If that Lochjaw cart shows up in the mail, make sure to look at the postage stamp for when it was sent.

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If you sell all those, you can buy the house outright! Too rich for my blood, but good luck!

Here's a postscript for you: I got the 7-drawer cabinet from Target together, and it's a nice fit for my collection of Atari games. I wanted something a bit more upscale than a cardboard box, and I found it. The drawers even fit CommaVid games vertically, which is a plus: Nonetheless, I had to compromise--I ideally wanted to hide all the boxes and stuff, because 25-year-old cardboard can be a real eyesore. I couldn't afford some giant cabinet, so I had to go the bookshelf route. For now, it all fits together nicely in a small, compact space, which bottom line, is what I needed. I repurposed an old Ikea microwave cart I had in the attic that was holding microphones and manuals for my old synth and crap. Now it's home to the ancient TV I play on and my game center: I don't have any Atari-related stuff appropriate for a wall--like one of those cool Atari banners (not that it would fit anyway), so I went with an '80s look instead, and put up a signed numbered print of Duran Duran that I got when I interned at Capitol Records back then. It's pretty appropriate anyway, as they were videogame freaks at the time; I wouldn't be surprised if they had a 2600 on a tour bus, actually. So all in all, it adds up to...well, not a room of doom, but a corner of doom! I liked a lot of the ideas and furniture that people were posting in this thread--those high-end 50s furniture replicas were cool, albeit for me impractical. They'd be awesome if I owned a penthouse overlooking Central Park though! To address some of the other stuff in the thread, I know what you mean about hiding media. I'm of a mixed mind about it--I would like to hide the Atari stuff so it's not so in-your-face, but I have no problem flaunting my CDs and DVDs. Perhaps it's because DVDs are more readily accepted by people--they aren't considered 'kid stuff,' even if you've got a box set of the Wonder Woman TV series on your shelf (as my wife and I do). Atari on the other hand, gets a lot of smirks--unless, of course, they ask "Do you have that jungle game with the guy running and the allagators? I used to play that forever when I was a kid." Perhaps having it stored more nicely will get a different response--but I doubt it.