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    My friends games

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    Is it me or are people on here just getting too damn lazy to do any research on Ebay for pricing of games? ;)

     

    Just don't research them at your local used video game shops... The local Exchange here wants $4.99 for Combat, because it's so rare!

     

    :rolling:

    9-pin connectors still in production?

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    I didn't have much luck finding these (sans ears) a few months ago when I was working on a few joystick projects. If anyone has a source for "joystick" connectors instead of "serial" connectors, I would love to know.

     

    On some DB9 connectors the metal part comes off pretty easily (indeed, I've had it come off when it wasn't supposed to).

     

    Any computer supply store worth its sodium chloride should have both versions (with ears and the Van Gough models). I picked some up a while back for a project I haven't quite gotten to because of the threat of moving over the summer. :roll: I will post some pix of these later today when I finish cleaning up my work area downstairs (assuming I find them :P ).

    My friends games

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    Shipping is always up for contention. I, like Homer, have nothing better to do than to keep checking prices. I make very little when I sell carts for $1-2 because, for some reason, it costs me more to ship from my part of Michigan than from other places. My job doesn't have me driving to Grand Rapids anymore, so I end up shipping from what they call a 'premium zip code' :ponder: Selling in lots seems to be the only way to go, if you want lunch money at the end of the day.

     

    I do agree that this list is between $15-20

    A simple question of responsibility.

    in Buy, Sell, and Trade

    Posted · Edited by Starhopper

    The USPS's.

     

    The seller, by providing the tracking number, has done everything he/she could do to assure the buyer that their product not only was shipped, but that they can keep tabs on its journey. It makes no logical sense to put any responsibility upon the seller, or to suspect the seller guilty of any form of deception, as the package in question had just as much chance of making it to them as it had of getting lost.

     

    The buyer obviously paid, or it wouldn't have been shipped. They've done everything expected of them.

     

    USPS--"Oops... You mean that zip code was for the USA, and not Tuxcueca, Mexico?" <------This comes from personal experience

    $58,000 "oops"

    in Auction Central

    Posted

    :ponder: What I'm wondering is, how the frack would this bid amount even come up, given the fact that eBay bids happen incrementally. Unless someone else had bid the item up to that amount, wouldn't it have just stayed within the lower price limits? Or has something else changed on eBay that I've missed?

     

    Granted, if I had screwed up like that, I'd have been nervous too... My luck, the item would have been shilled up to that amount by a ghost bidder :P

    Interest check...

    in Buy, Sell, and Trade

    Posted

    ok, so its like carrying combat on your keys? that sounds kool, does it work in a 2600?

     

    Most do. Some of the chips are non-functional, and at least one is a PAL version of 'Solaris', I think. :ponder: If you aimed 'em right, you could slot them in and play them. :)

    Interest check...

    in Buy, Sell, and Trade

    Posted

    I brought these out a while back and they went over very well. I found a nest of Combat carts breeding in a corner of my basement and harvested the chips for projects, tinkering, target practice, etc. :cool:

     

    $2.00 each or three for $4.00 Price includes shipping!

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    Worst Labels

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    Nonsense, it's Frogger. a label-less PB cart is always Frogger. I think as soon as the label falls off the ROM undergoes a mutation or something.

     

    Right! Every labelless-PB cart I've ever seen is a Frogger. That's what happened to all the Hulk protos... they're Froggers now! ("I'm chaaaaannngggiiiinnngggg!!!!")

     

    You guys hit both nails with the same hammer! I hate to jump on the bandwagon, but Parker Bros. is the worst I have ever seen for just giving up and turning nudist. I keep a glue stick on that shelf specifically for any PB carts I find in the wild. (I have three with no labels--you betcha! FROGGER!!)

     

    Also, I have yet to find an Apollo with an end label :x

    Star Ship Label variation. . .

    in Atari 2600

    Posted

    I also like Star Ship! Especially the "Alien" and the quirky sound fx. Playing this game is like meditation to me. :D

     

    As I've said before, the beauty of the older games is the actual game play. We didn't have those awesome graphics, so we had to get by on actual content! I'll take old, blocky graphics and quirky sound effects any day over a game with no plot or point. :cool:

    Thinking about other sites. . .

    in Classic Console Discussion

    Posted

    My faves besides AA are:

     

    Digital Press

    Jaguar Sector II

    RF Generation

    Neo-Geo.com

    NintendoAGE

     

    On that note, I have an absolutely HATED gaming forum...

     

    The Next Level (TNL)

     

    THAT place is FULL of assholes who at any opportunity jump up your ass for anything. Most of them act like a bunch of elementary school kids... Stay away from that place...

     

    Will do :cool:

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