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These are still pretty easy to find at pawn shops, thrifts, and garage sales. Might be cheaper than paying to have one shipped.

First Update! Here's bookcase #39. Top two shelves are Amiga stuff I've had for awhile, the remainder are new acquisitions. These range from the utterly mundane (PS2 sports games I got for free) to my WiiU (the first time I ever bought a new, current generation system). Other highlights include a stack of CD-i demos (the unmarked cases on the bottom shelf), a mint boxed NES Power set, some weird Vectrex multicarts, my first Intellivision homebrews, and an N64 disk drive.

I've got 150+ spare copies of very common Intellivision games, and going thru them I notice that many of them have 2 (or more) different boxes, manuals, and/or cartridge shells and labels, and sometimes different overlays, too. There are no rare titles and very few that could even be called uncommon, but if you're the type of collector that wants every trivial variant, let me know what you're looking for and I'll see if I have one. I should mention up front that most of the boxes are *very* worn though the carts and manuals are usually OK. These are all US releases - no international editions. It's too much work to go thru and list all the variations - just let me know what you're looking for. Asking for anything rare would be a waste of time.

Nice pickup on the VIC. You don't need the modulator - the VIC outputs the same composite signal as early 5-pin C64s (and Atari 800s). Your load/save issue is most likely a defective tape, or dirty or misaligned heads on the recorder. A short program like yours actually increases the chance of a successful load.

I believe the Parker Bros games from Brazil work in the US, but not those from Europe. I'd test this if my O2 stuff wasn't in deep storage.

Now, that is a thing of beauty!

I've got 3 pets: 8032, 4032, and 2001-8 chicklet. Two from garage sales and the other from Goodwill. Much as I love the look of them, they don't get much use as my desktop space is limited.

When I was 16, there were no videogames, except maybe Pong. You're off to a great start!

Thanks for the kind words, Ian. I don't haunt the thrifts like I (we) used to but still find stuff occasionally at garage sales or thru craigslist. Hope the hunting is good in Texas (what happened to Chicago?). That's pretty much what I do. I keep half a dozen systems set up semi-permanently, and rotate thru the others.

12V DC, 500mA, center positive.

It all packs up pretty efficiently, ~8500 games in a spare bedroom. Some of the hardware I have to keep elsewhere. Most of the actual playing is done with various multicarts, flash devices, or emulation. Helps to have an understanding spouse, too.

Early on I was actually standing loose carts up on the bookcases with other items hidden behind them to prop them up. Eventually I gave up doing that and started laying things out on the floor in shelf-sized chunks and used photoshop to move those chunks into a picture of an empty bookcase. Sometimes my sizing was off which is why some things look weirdly compressed. There was no compelling reason to do it this way except that I'd already started down the path of trying to find out how many bookcases it'd take to hold it all. I really developed an appreciation for games that had spine labels and could be readily stacked. 650+ PS1 games fit nicely on a case, but <100 Odyssey2 games took a case and a half.

You'd never get past the array of light guns guarding it. Besides, why would I ever leave?

That's part of a Inty demo unit. Fill it with carts, attach it to a console, and it cycles thru short segments of whatever games are plugged in. I think it shows some advertising text between games but can't remember for sure. Both it and the KB unit are working.

Ha! Last thing I need is a bigger house to put more crap in. Limited space is the best restraint for my hoarding tendencies.

Final Upload: Everything Else (including some stragglers that missed thier original photo op) CD-I, 3DO, VIS: ColecoVision & ADAM: Intellivision: NeoGeo Pocket & MVS, Watara Supervision, Tiger game.com & R-Zone: Magnavox Odyssey2/Videopac: Odyssey2, Channel F & Astrocade: Turbografx16/PCE, Vectrex, Studio II, Amiga CD32, Arcadia, Microvision, & Misc:

Commodore, TI99 and other computers Commodore 64: Commodore 64: VIC20: C16/Plus 4 and C64/VIC20 Overflow: TI-99/4: TI-99/4, Tomy Tutor, Mattel Aquarius, Panasonic JR200U: Tandy Color Computer, IBM PCjr, Timex/Sinclair:

Nintendo & Microsoft Systems: NES: Nes: SNES: SNES: Famicom, SFC, plus NES & SNES Overflow: Gameboy & GBC: N64, GBA, DS & Virtual Boy: GameCube & Xbox:

Sega and Sony Systems: Master System: Genesis: Genesis: Genesis & MegaDrive: Sega CD, 32X & Pico: Game Gear: Saturn: Dreamcast & Sony PS2: Playstation One:

Up First: Atari Systems: A800/XL/XE: A800/XL/XE & ST: A2600: A2600: A2600: A5200 & 7800: Jaguar & Lynx:

Note: This is a biggish collection, so I'm breaking the upload into 5 parts (plus this intro post. Please hold any comments until all parts are posted. If I had 38 bookcases,I'd have part of one shelf left over. But I only have one, so I had to keep filling, photographing, and emptying the same bookcase. Took about 6 months to do all this. Started out filling the entire case before taking a shot, later I switched to loading up just one or two shelves then assembling them in photoshop. For some things that wouldnt stand up properly on the shelves, I laid them out on the floor then photoshopped them to look like they were on a shelf. My photoshop skills are limited, and Im pretty lazy, so my scaling, lighting, and other details are highly variable. This documents a good chunk of my collection, but not everything. Not included are pong or (most) plug-and-play systems, games on disk or tape for the Atari & Commodore computer systems, or any Amiga, TRS-80 (except CoCo), or cpm computers. I also only show as many systems/peripherals as needed to fill the shelves. I've managed to fill up the bookcase a few more times, including some of the stuff I initially skipped over plus newer acquisitions. These pictures appear in later posts.

Huh. I got my Inty Congo Bongo for <$10 a few years back when it was mistakenly listed as a C64 cart.

You forgot to mention the worst sports teams on the planet: one 33 year old title from a team that no longer exists (OK, and a Stanley cup from 80+ years go), and fans who blame every defeat on the officials. The Jersey joke was a throwback from my Pennsylvania days

Atari 8 bit or Commodore 64/128. TI-99 isn't a bad choice either but the others have larger libraries and more active homebrew scenes.

And they smell about the same...