SteveW

I've got a spare Myst demo lying around that i'll give to you. I'm not sure where in all my stuff it is, though (I'm in a highly cluttered state right now) . I'll bring it to OVGE, if you want (along with a 6-pack of Dublin Dr Pepper).

I found a picture of this machine on the site. Google can't translate Dutch, so I have no idea what it's purpose is, other than to look incredibly scary.

That's what I was thinking, too. Ziploc bags back then didn't have printing on them like the ones in the photo.

That was pretty good! Pretty imaginitive. Thanks for the link!

Let me guess.... you got the battery from Radio Shack? I've bought a couple dead batteries from them before.

I'd still like to see someone try to port it to the Sega CD. It's got the extra 68000 in it, after all.

I've got one of Sean Kelly's 256-in-1 carts. Nice job on it. What was especially nice was that I only ordered a 128-in-1 cart, but mine got lost in the mail. So instead of just sending me a replacement, he sent me an even better one! That was really good of him.

Heh, I already have the Sega CD version of the game. Signed by the author, too! Bought it at the Dallas VGXpo from the creator himself.

Isn't that weird? There's a Goodwill I go to on occasion that's the same way. I tend to find a lot of SMS games there. I don't know why that particular store tends to get Sega Master System carts more often than any other thrifts in the area, and any other Goodwill stores i've been to. There's another thrift in a different town that, on the few occasions they have something videogame related, it's usually Sega Saturn games. But to be honest, there's a store or two on the thrift circuits I do on my days off that tend to be wild cards, and I love those shops the most. You never know if you'll find something as boring as a Pong console, or as incredible as a Neo-Geo. Stores like that are why I like to thrift so much.

Ah. I kind of guessed it might be a PAL release, which wouldn't make a whole lot of sense here in the US. It's just a bad mislabel. Oh well, another label variation for me!

Today I picked up a loose copy of Stargate and Joust for the 2600, Whomp 'Em for the NES, and a badly abused but still complete boxed Radar Lock for the 2600. All $4.94 each. I picked up the Joust cartridge for a reason.... it's black end label has the name Joust, then a medium sized letter "P" after it. The front label says "© 1985 ATAR, CORP." I've bought carts with some odd looking labels before, so I thought i'd pick this one up to add to my collection. At another thrift, I didn't find much of anything. I passed on a Jakks Pacific-type Frogger TV joystick with no battery cover , and just as I thought about leaving, I spotted an Atari Remote Control Joystick transmitter on a shelf. I searched all over but didn't find the joysticks for it, though. $4.95.

I saw sketches and design documents for some of the strange devices that Atari was dabbling in, like medical diagnostic equipment. Wha....? Why is a videogame company messing around with medical gear? With that in mind, it doesn't really suprise me why Atari lost more than six hundred million dollars in 1983. By the way, the link for the boxart for Locomotion doesn't work.

I bought a used N64 just so I could play Tetrisphere. I wanted to give it a go, since it was originally designed and completed for the Jaguar, but Nintendo bought the game and refused the Jag version to come out. Bought the game, didn't like it, and never bothered with any more N64 stuff again. I will eventually buy an Xbox 360, but right now, there's only one game that even remotely appeals to me - Full Auto - so even the lure of Minter's VLM can't get me to cough up that much money right now. I bought a Nuon DVD player just for one game, Tempest 3000. Luckily, Merlin Racing, Ballistic, and Iron Soldier 3 were good enough to make me feel good about the purchase. Freefall was a good game design, but too difficult.

But it doesn't work with both fire buttons on an Atari 7800, does it? Considering it's a Sega Genesis controller, it would have to be modded to make it 7800 compatible.

I don't know if it's rare, but it's awfully cool looking! Really, how many Atari games got the book-on-tape style treatment?

Dude, nice find! Get a frame and hang that puppy on a wall!

Rebellion's putting out Rogue Trooper on the Xbox, PS2, and PC soon. I've got Judge Dredd for the GC (I think, I don't remember too much about the game), and it's terrible. It looks pretty low quality, and it's just all-out dull. Poking around Rebellion's web site, it looks like they bought up the copyrights and publishing rights to 2000AD, a really long running comic in the UK. Home to Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, to name a couple. I hate to be cynical, but it sounds a bit like Acclaim buying up Valiant Comics all over again, but with more of a British slant.

Sah-weet. I've been waiting for this one. Especially since the Dallas VGXpo was such a dud. Time to get some locals together for a carpool!

I kept all of my boxes and instruction manuals, even when my mom wanted me to throw them away. Eventually, I did throw out some of my common game boxes away due to them getting crushed. And a few of the instructions have gotten misplaced over the years. I'm a severe packrat, I keep everything. I have nearly every single box from darn near every game that I ever bought that wasn't bought used. Around the time of the Atari Lynx, I got into the habit of stuffing the register receipt into the boxes before displaying them, so I could remember the date when I bought them.

I went thrifting yesterday, but came home with nothing, even after hitting 7 or 8 thrifts. Today, I didn't find much, either. I was in a pretty bad mood to begin with, because I stopped to get something to eat, and found what looked like a cockroach's leg in my food. Passed on a Virtual Boy controller at the Collins Street Thrift in Arlington, TX. Couldn't find the actual console, or any games for it, just a controller. Also passed on a paperback called Halo: The Fall of Reach. It's a prequel to the Halo series. But it wasn't priced, so I didn't bother. Stopped at Thrift Town, and bought two Starmaster NES joysticks for $3.99 each. I was shocked to spot an Atari 7800 inside the locked case at the back of the store, but once I got someone to open it for me, I found out that they wanted $39.99 for it! And it didn't even have a power supply, either! They had a few common 2600 games in the case, too, but I passed on it all. I now have three 7800 consoles, I don't need another one, especially with no power supply. At Texas Thrift Store, I picked up a Sega Genesis mouse, and a strange power supply. First thing I noticed about it was that it says "Sinclair ZX Power Supply" on it. It doesn't look like the power supply that I had with my first Timex Sinclair 1000. It does have the same connector type, though. I wonder if this might have been a later addition to the T/S 1000 series. Either that, or maybe it was a PSU for the Timex Sinclair 2048? It's a US power supply, I know that, it states it on the front, and has the US style prongs on it.

Have you guys seen Nokia's 770 Internet Pad yet? I saw one at Fry's Electronics yesterday. Wow! My technolust kicked in to overtime when I tried it out. I wouldn't really have all that much use for it, but dang, it was sweet. If it could play N-Gage and Symbian OS games, and had some kind of GPS attachment, i'd be all over it.

Why would anyone want to have another version of White Men Can't Jump? I bought it back in the day because #1- it was a new Jaguar game, and #2- it came with the Team Tap, which I thought was a nice peripheral that would get a lot of use in the future. I never had any interest in sports games, but I tried to play it anyway. Man, that game sucked. Why did Atari even bother with the movie license, anyway? They could have given it a generic name like "Street Balls" and not have to pay the license fee. And with a name like "Street Balls", you would hear the name and automatically know what specifically it sucked.

No, the one you're thinking about is probably Trader's Village, a flea market that i've had a decent amount of success at. This one is a grungy little hell hole that I tried out last month, that's southeast of Dallas, almost in Seagoville. Make a note, so you can avoid it like the plague. If you're thinking of visiting it, wear a Haz-Mat suit.

I've had my Colecovision working for less than a week, so I haven't formed too many opinions on it yet. Scott Huggins game Spectar and the EPYX port of Escape From the Mindmaster bought off CPUWIZ are the two that I spent the most time playing. I've had piles of Colecovision games sitting around collecting dust while I try to get a working console to play them on, and now that I do, I can't find half my games. I've probably got around 25 to 30, but i've only played around ten so far. I need to dig through all my Rubbermaid storage tubs and find them all.

I've always thought of the Jag as 64-bits. The Intellivision is a 16-bit system, technically, but because it doesn't have the same graphical prowess as the Sega Genesis or SNES, does that mean that it doesn't qualify as 16-bit? The Jag and N64 were designed to technically be 64-bit, so that's what I accept them as.