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Hey all! I just wanted to let you know that I have resumed the eBaying of my collection after a short break. Now up on eBay is a Nintendo Virtual Boy In-Store Demo Display -- a very cool, and extremely uncommon item that would be the gem of anyone's collection! Check it out at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1368354949 Thanks!

In my opinion, $2.00 is only very rarely too much to spend on a Atari 2600 game. In fact, $2.00 for any 2600 game that isn't Combat is a decent price.

I still have about a dozen or so boxed 2600 titles available. Check out the Videogames section at ULTRAtwit.com. There's lots of loose stuff there, too.

I have both available for sale. Check out the Videogames / Atari 2600 section at ULTRAtwit.com and send me an email -- [email protected]

I deciphered the tree yesterday, although it does not help much... Resorting this poem is easy to do Roses are red Violets are blue The 7 frame Pitfall Harry animated gif says GREYINK, possibly refering to that strange set of grey 2 and 3 digit numbers. I figured I'd help out a bit, since I know there's no way I can figure it all out alone.

quote: Originally posted by Thomas Jentzsch: I had to renable GIF animations in my browser. Then the scorpion's tail displays the following text: going right: ZEFUWNT2WINTHPRIZE going left: THFRAMESUMSCRTNI For me it's quite hard to understand, but it means about: See if you want to win the prize the frames you must SCRTNI Can somebody translate me the last letters, please???! Could be related to the browser frames, or something completely different. I think we are close to solve the (first?) riddle. I think you're close, Thomas. You just have the letters in the wrong order. The animation reads (in order of the animation frames)... THFRAMESUMSTSCRTNIZEFUWNT2WINTHPRIZE If I am reading it correctly, as such: TH / FRAMES / U / MST / SCRTNIZE / F / U / WNT / 2 / WIN / TH / PRIZE Or... "The frames you must scrutinize if you want to win the prize." Now its just a matter of figuring out what frames to scrutinize. Or maybe this is the answer? Dunno...

So, Iguana... I'm dying to know if you've heard back from Ben yet. 'Fess up!

quote: Originally posted by Russ Perry Jr: I found that, and am totally mystified by the 1-4 bit with a couple 6s... And according to some clues it is "...is easy to do" "Roses are red, Violets are blue" my butt.

quote: Originally posted by Snider-man: Whoof. This doesn't get any easier as you progress through the stages, eh? You're not kidding, Tim! Sheesh!

quote: Originally posted by atarinvader: Is anybody else looking at a long string of 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 6s? Or think what relation this could have with anything? Yup! Decoding, baby!

Yeah, I'm not finished yet either. Worst of all, Tripod just closed down Pitfall Harry's site due to excessive use of Bandwidth. Sorry, Ben.

I've caught up to you, Matthias.

quote: Originally posted by Cybergoth: the three different RotlA prototypes Wow, they're coming out of the woodwork now! For years I owned the only known RotLA proto, and then over the past few months, 4 more are mentioned!?! Incredible!

Sure. I have a couple of them, plus several games. Check out my Nintendo Forsale List and send me an email.

quote: Originally posted by liquid_sky: this is an idea i came up with last night. Although not totally fair, ebay needs a seller filter. Users with a feedback at or above a set amount (i.e. 10) bids will automatically be entered. Users with amounts lower than the said level can bid, but the seller must first approve thier bid. A seller always has the option of cancelling a bid from someone they don't want to deal with -- no questions asked. It's a good safety mechanism, and works just fine for me. Anyhow, newbie eBayers are usually more prompt with payment than more experienced users, from my experience. I have absolutely no problem with someone with "0" feedback winning an auction. Now if they have "10" feedback with some negatives thrown in... the warning alarm goes off... [ 05-04-2002: Message edited by: twit ]

quote: Originally posted by weaselbrains: I think you probably could get the same effect using tables if you use bordercolorlight and bordercolordark tags. But how many browsers support this? I'm not too sure and it just occurred to me now that older browsers might not support it. Mitchell- Thanks. Actually borderlight and borderdark are proprietary Microsoft IE attributes. I don't want to go there (I'd like to try to keep it cross-platform). I'll just have to play around with trying to tweek the code to work on a PC, I guess.

weaselbrains: I'm assuming you are on IE5 for the PC, correct? I've tested it in IE5 for the Mac and everything lines up just fine. Anyhow, it isn't just a simple line that surrounds each box -- it's a 3-pixel mini-bevel effect. In any case, I cannot achieve exactly the same effect using just tables, unfortunately (I wish I could, it'd be easier). I'll try to jump on a PC today and take a look-sie at it. Thanks.

Aw, c'mon. The colors are my favorite part!

Hey all! I just posted the very first part of my newest reincarnation of ULTRAtwit.com. So far it's just my sale lists, but the future has much in store. Eventually I hope to have some classic-feel online games, and other fun toys. Check it out. Let me know what you think!

quote: Originally posted by Russ Perry Jr: If I remember correctly, Netmaker is the RainbowVision pirate of Amidar. You do. It is.

I first good thrift find in quite a while this past weekemd -- a Virtual Boy In-Store Demo display. It's in pretty rough shape, but can definitely be fixed up. I haven't found anything this good in years!

Clint- I have Genesis, 32X, & CD systems with games and controllers, as well as some Saturn games available. Check out my site: ULTRAtwit.com. Feel free to make offers.

Tell him to check out ULTRAtwit.com -- I have some NES games, and a whole bunch of Atari 2600 stuff that I am selling. Some pretty good quality games, if I do say so myself!

Hello! I am looking to sell my Stratovox Cocktail Table arcade game. I need to free up a little room in my apartment... Anyhow, Stratovox is a 1980 title released by Taito. I describe the game play as a combination of Defender and Space Invaders. Quite fun, actually! The coolest part is that it was the very first game that included a digitally generated voice as part of the sound effects! There is a good description of the game on the Killer List of Video Games: http://www.klov.com/S/Stratovox.html The game plays well, and the cabinet is in good condition -- there are some minor scratches on the glass top that do not obstruct game play. Remember... this is the cocktail table version cabinet. If you need pictures, I will be happy to either email them or post them to my website (I just haven't gotten around to it yet.) Please feel free to email questions to me -- [email protected] -- I'll do my best to answer. Since I am technologically inept I may not be able to answer "techie" questions regarding the game with too much accuracy, but I will try. Shipping is pretty much out of the question for me. I do not have any way to crate this up, much less the manpower to move it. Ideally, I'd like to sell it to someone in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN or surrounding area who can pick it up. I'm also willing to be here for you to have a crating company come pick it up for you, but please be aware that you will be responsible for setting it all up. Please forward any offers to me at [email protected] -- Thanks!! [ 04-14-2002: Message edited by: twit ]

quote: Originally posted by Tempest: Atari had a few staff Artists who did the artwork for both Sears and Atari. Someone was trying to track the individual artists down, but I'm not sure if they ever found any. That was me, Tempest. And I had horrible luck. I am trying to track down my list of names that I was keeping, but haven't seen it in several months now. I'll post it if it turns up. IIRC, I had about 30 names of illustrators I was trying to track down. I spent the better part of a week going through all my 2600 boxes trying to decipher (with a magnifying glass) the signatures on the illustrations. quote: Originally posted by Randy: Some of the Atari watercolors appear to have the signature "Spohn" on them. There are numerous references to an artist by the name of Franz Spohn on the web. His background and style are such that he could have done those paintings, although I haven't seen anything that directly links him to Atari. "Spohn" was one of the names I was working on as well, but I tracked it down as far as finding a "Cliff Spohn" who made illustrations of the period that stylistically matched the label designs. Unfortunately that research didn't get much farther than that.