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Very cool to see them all together. Congrats!

You're comparing the rarest game on one system with a bunch of commons on another. Here's a better comparison: https://www.ebay.com/itm/383481127102

Very nice. You've got some real talent as a photographer. The Vectrex has never looked better!

Well, duh, my brain just skipped right over the CD part.

There was Spot Goes to Hollywood for the 32x, but maybe that doesn't count as a homebrew.

1 each for the Select-A-Game, WonderSwan, MSX, and VideoBrain, all systems I don't own. Of the systems I do have, probably the ActionMax with 4.

Standard thrift store prices for games when I started (mid 90s) were 39 cents each or bags of 10 for $1.99. Garage sales were even cheaper. It was a glorious time.

Looks like Genesis/Megadrive, with 817 barely edges out the 2600 (an even 800 carts) for the current lead in my collection. Other contenders are NES (765), SNES (735), and PS1 (713). I'm probably somewhere around 700 for the C64, too, but don't keep good records of non-cartridge software for that machine.

I've got one too if we're counting.

No problem here.

Mind.Blown.

Excellent detective work Rogerup.

Oh, absolutely. As computers they're fairly useless, but this thread is about looks.

Have to disagree with you there, as I kinda like the look of the 1500 & 2068. The TS1000 looks more like one of those oversized universal remotes than a computer.

Depends on what you mean by "actively." I refuse to use ebay for buying or selling because of their anti-seller policies and ever-escalating fees, but I'm always looking for stuff at thrifts/flea markets/garage sales/craigslist and similar. It's rare to find anything thru those routes, anymore, and what you do find is usually overpriced, so I've bought very little in the last decade. Always looking, though.

CYA by the seller. Items sold as "for parts" are less likely to be granted a refund if the buyer files a not-as-described claim. Some sellers are willing to accept the lower prices these sell for, even for known working items, to avoid the bogus claims ebay's we-hate-our-sellers policies encourage. Or, maybe it's just broke. Take your pick.

I'm a fan of the Tandy 200, myself, but I'm afraid I don't see any resemblance to a PET. Did you know Commodore made a prototype of a Tandy 200 style machine, the Commodore LCD? You can see similarities to both the 64C case and the plus/4 keyboard in the design.

Good reminder - I had forgotten about that. It does look better than the production PET 2001 (which looks like something you'd expect from a company that made file cabinets), but it'd be disqualified from this thread anyways for not being an '80s computer.

I always liked the sleek look of the Commodore 8032SK, the so-called porsche design: and the similar B128:

And where does one buy this game? All I could find was the author's development blog.

Yes, $600 for the TRS-80 vs $795 for the PET, though I'm not sure what each system included at those prices.

Anecdotal story here, and I can't remember where I heard it or if it's even true. Might have come from Michael Tomczak's Home Computer Wars book. When Commodore was preparing the original PET for market, they approached RS to try to set up a distribution network. RS, already hard at work on the model I, hemmed and hawed and basically strung Commodore along for a few months until the model I was ready then pulled the rug out from under Commodore, which then was forced to turn to more traditional computer retailers. This, of course, pissed off Jack Tramiel and drove some of his pricing/marketing strategies to try to undermine RS, much as he later used predatory pricing on the VIC20 to destroy Texas Instruments' TI-99 line to get revenge for TI's behavior in the calculator market. So RS did have an influence, even if it wasn't the one they wanted. Again, don't know if it's true but it made for good reading.

Why does eBay show Dallas TX as the item's location? Or is the link taking me to the wrong auction?

I've got nice, working, stock versions of the 520ST, 1040STF, 1040STE, and MegaST4. If I were to cut back to just 1 ST machine, which would you recommend? Primary use would be to play games.

3 consoles, 1 of which isn't working. Never came across a CD unit and didn't want to buy one at ebay prices. It's been over a decade since I saw anything Jag related in the wild.