SteveW

Well, CPUWIZ, you've got all those common games like the E.T. carts taking up space. Why don't you kill two birds with one stone, and take up a hobby that can help you get rid of some of your overstock? Like skeet shooting!

You've got a Minicade? Holy poop-on-a-stick! If I were you, I'd brag about that in every single post I made here.

Sadly, I missed out on a deal like that earlier this year. I decided to hit my local flea market one Saturday, but I, being lazy, got off to a really late start. I got there around 2pm and didn't find much of anything. I usually hit the collector guy's booth at the far end of the market before I go, and the owner of the booth showed off his latest aquisition: a boxed Vectrex with 14 boxed and complete games. Someone at the flea market was selling it that morning, so he snatched it up. He wouldn't tell me how much he paid for it, so I'm guessing it was very cheap. He sold it all off on eBay, for what I'm sure was a nice chunk of change. I've got a lot of 'Holy Grails'. A PC Engine module for my Pioneer LaserActive, a Texas Instruments 99/8 Home Computer prototype (rumored between 150-250 of them floating around out there, in the hands of ex-TI employees and hardcore TI-99/4A enthusiasts), a Neo-Geo console with a heap of games, an RDI Halcyon console/computer, a SMS set of 3D glasses that are actually complete and working, and maybe some of the late '70s and early '80s oddball consoles like the Fairchild Channel F and the Emerson Arcadia 2001. I've already fulfilled one of my greatest desires, I bought a Milton Bradley eXpansion system (MBX) for my TI Home Computer. That was a good day, i've gotta tell you.

I don't go to garage sales, the few i've been to usually have some dirt common Genesis or SNES console that the woman running the sale thinks she'll get $50 for. At most garage sales i've been to, the people usually have no idea what their stuff is worth, so they either charge next to nothing or charge way too much. Usually it's the too much people I end up with. I didn't go thrifting or flea market shopping this weekend, but last week while out of state, I found a few Atari console and 8-bit computer common carts, along with a 2600 Space Canyon cart and a Pac-Man lunchbox. The next time I go down there I have to hit the antique shop where the Pac-Man lunchbox and Space Canyon cart came from. The guy told me he had a non-working Ms. Pac-Man arcade game in storage that he'd sell me for $100. I might just pick that baby up and fix it.

Electrocop has guns in it, whereas Impossible Mission 1 & 2 don't. I guess that was enough of a gameplay change that it deserved it's own name.

You lucky bastard! I wish I could find Vectrex carts in the wild. I have a fear that the local thrift stores don't recognise any videogame cartridges that don't look Atari 2600 shaped, so they toss them in the trash. It seems like the saleswomen have no idea about videogames in general. Very nice find you've got there!

And for some reason, there seem to be a lot of 7800s in the wild. Or at least in my neck of the woods. This year, i've picked up 4 of them. I hardly ever find games for them, though.

Don't most Odyssey2 collectors have doubles of Speedway/Spin-out/Cryptologic? It's the Combat of the Magnavox set. I've got three of them in my meager O2 collection. On the extremely limited occasions when I find any Odyssey2 cartridges in the wild, they usually turn out to be the pack-in game Speedway/Spin-out/Cryptologic. Every console must have a comparable version of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, I guess.

I'm happy with the outcome. I was hoping it might go for over $500, so $660 is a welcome price. Pretty nice for my first auction, although if I ever decide to sell anything on eBay again, I think it's going to feel like a letdown after this.

Stopped in an indoor flea market in Alexandria, LA, and bought a copy of Flash Gordon and Gangster Alley, for $3.99 each. Didn't stop anywhere else during my 10 hour drive to look for thrift finds on the trip like I had originally planned out, I just wanted to get home.

Shattered Universe was going to be a standard issue 3D space fighter until they managed to get the Star Trek license. I love Shattered Universe. After playing it a bit, I liked the hard difficulty. And i've always liked a good 3D space shooter. Giving it the Star Trek makeover clinched the deal.

As far as oddball rare systems, it's a keeper. It takes up virtually no room, so why not get it? It's not going to take up a lot of shelf space, after all.

Blasphemer! I've never played Zelda in any incarnation. About that time, I stopped buying or playing any NES games. I still have no interest in playing it to this day. I've got a copy of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the N64, but i've never bothered playing it. I also got a copy of Madden 2000 with it, and there's no chance I'm going to play that one. I'd rather fill out tax forms than play a sports game.

Today, I stopped at an antique shop outside of Thibodaux, Louisiana, and bought a Pac-Man lunchbox for $15 (no Thermos inside, unfortunately) and Space Canyon by Panda for the 2600 for $2. The guy there told me that he had just gotten in around 200 Atari 2600 games, around 100 NES games, and a bunch of assorted Intellivision stuff. He hadn't priced everything up yet, though (his wife was looking on eBay for pricing ) and had only priced a few 2600 games, Space Canyon being one. I wish I could be in town when he puts the rest out, if there's one Panda cart, I'm hoping there's going to be more rare carts. When I was leaving, he told me that he had a working Pac-Man arcade cab and a not working Ms. Pac-Man arcade cab in storage. He would let the Ms. Pac-Man go for $100. From what he described, there is a wire that's come unattached inside that goes to a reset switch, so it won't run properly. It sounds like it would be easy to fix. I need to let my brother know about it, since last year he was looking for arcade machines to go into his new game room. Elsewhere, I picked up a few common Atari 800 computer cartridges and a couple common 2600 carts at an indoor flea market for $1 each. Yesterday, I picked up a copy of Earthworm Jim for the Genesis (no box, but with instructions) for $2 at a Salvation Army. Until today, that's the best thing I found all week.

Didn't Radio Shack have a computer magazine called Whiz-Kids? Maybe there's a connection. It could have been a Tandy educational computer or something.

True, but the NES Flashback was available now, not in a week and a half with fast shipping. I needed to check out a cartridge quick, before going out of town.

I remember reading that the company Interphase was actually a one-man operation. The guy programmed everything by himself. I can understand why the games might not have come out all that good, but they're pretty good. There's no excuse for the Coleco releases.

That's the problem with these Circuit City sales. They put them into the computer a week before, and that fact gets out on the internet. When I finally find out about the sale, everything's gone except a bunch of lame sports titles. I've done that two years in a row only to come home empty handed and feeling insulted by the sales staff, and because of the treatment i've received at their stores, I will no longer step foot in a Circuit City store.

I never owned E.T. for the 2600 until recently. I still haven't bothered playing it. I knew a kid who had a Sears Telegames 2600, and he always wanted a Combat cart, since his console came with Target Fun. I hope he eventually got his wish. I'd like to play Motorpsycho on the 7800. I know it's not that great of a game, and it's slightly more rare than other games i've bought in the past, but i've always wanted it since reading something about it in the earliest issues of GamePro Magazine. Their minimal space devoted to the 7800 is usually why I hunted down games like Ninja Golf, Basketbrawl, Fatal Run, and Alien Brigade back in the day. I don't recall ever seeing Motorpsycho for sale at Toys 'R Us, though.

My first Intellivision (a model 2 I bought off a co-worker) had the MPCB in the controllers trashed. The disc had ground through the flex circuits on both, making them almost impossible to use. Luckily, my co-worker gave me a mailing list that his family had gotten from INTV, selling off Mattel's old stock. I bought a couple spare controllers, a couple clip-on joysticks, and a game or two. I got on INTV's mailing list that way, which was great. Got the chance to buy a whole bunch of stuff from them.

They're already showing up at my local flea market. The people out there find cheap crap at stores and thrifts, buy it up, and triple the price they paid for it. Still, nobody's buying them.

Wasn't there some kind of software kit you could get for the VLM2 (Nuon DVD version) that would allow you to put files on an audio CD that would manipulate the VLM's effects? I thought I read something about that long ago on the official Nuon forums. I'm wondering if Jeff might have put something similar into Neon's programming. It'd be pretty cool to be able to generate your own effects with software embedded in an audio file.

That's how I feel when I use my Supercharger with my iPod! I like to mix that old and new technology. If I ever bought one of those really expensive hi-def plasma screen TV sets, the first thing i'd do would be to hook up a Pong unit to it. Just for sh*ts and giggles.

My sister put the auction together, I didn't even look at the shipping price. The package only weighs 1lb, 11.2 oz. I'm planning on shipping Next Day Mail whenever the payment arrives. I guess I need her to fix that shipping price, I thought she said something along the lines of $8 for shipping on the phone. Sorry about that, I'm new at this, and I'm not trying to be one of those jerks who charge insane prices for shipping. I actually told her that I wanted to offer free shipping, but she wanted to charge. I guess I need to call her.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Myriad-6-in-1-game-car...1QQcmdZViewItem I'm selling off my Myriad cart. I'm not much of a Nintendo collector, and my car needs a lot of work (mainly the air conditioner in this Texas heat). I know there's not a lot of NES people here, I just thought i'd mention it. For some reason, the pictures came out tiny, so my sister (whose selling it for me) is going to fix that soon. I've never sold anything on eBay before. I feel kinda dirty. But, I also feel like bursting into flame while driving around in 105 degree heat with no air conditioner. So it's not too hard a decision to sell.