It's funny, you know. You spend your adolescence scrimping to save your measely allowance and the spare change you make working part time at Baskin Robbins only to find your favorite Atari cart is $30 at Toys R Us. Then fifteen or twenty years later, people are practically giving it away. Not only that, but you've got an extra room in the house and all this spare time now to blow on your new hobby. Adulthood is pretty cool after all!
Anyway, I've just recently gotten into collecting classic computers and videogame systems. On the computer side, I've managed to acquire an Apple /// with a Profile 5Mb hard drive, an Apple IIe, a Tandy 1000HX, a Commodore 128, a Commodore 64, a Tandy 100, a Tandy Color Computer II, a Macintosh SE (dual 800k floppy), and an odd little item called the Micro-Professor, (a book-shaped circuit board with a keyboard used to instruct computer science students in the early 80's). I thought I would just stick with classic computers until one day my wife came back from a garage sale with a mint-condition 2600 Jr. (Rev A.) in a bright red box. Six months, (and innumerable garage sales, swap meets, thrift stores, and ebay sales later), I've ammassed the following collection:
Adventure
Air-Sea Battle
Asteroids
Berserk
Bowling
Breakout
Casino
Circus Atari
Combat
Defender
Demons to Diamonds
Human Cannonball
Maze Craze
Missile Command
Night Driver
Outlaw
Pac-Man
Pole Position
Phoenix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Slot Racers
Space Combat
Space Invaders
Super Breakout
Swordquest Earthworld
Video Pinball
Warlords
Yars' Revenge
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Frogger
Popeye
Qbert
Tutankham
Name This Game
Donkey Kong
Carnival
Journey Escape
Boxing
Chopper Command
Frostbite
Ice Hockey
Kaboom!
Pitfall!
Seaquest
Stampede
and
Super Challenge Football
Yeah, lots of those are dogs, but alot of them are fun too, and all of them were fun to find.
Along the way I encountered this site and the community that supports it. I've just got to say, you guys rock! I'm looking forward to keeping my system running for years to come. They can have my games when they pry my Epyx 500XJ from my cold dead hands!
LTugo