Cobra Commander

I got a lot of respect for anyone who holds down a brick and mortar store these days.

Some filler, some gems. The one on top cut off is a Sears "Race". My Sears titles a starting to get respectable. These were harvested from local stores in Denver. Except for Poonyan, Nexar and Mega Force. Which came from OKC last week. Another box of games is coming from another store that had so many titles they had to be mailed because of luggage constraints.

I'm beginning to think that independent game stores are where its at for me right now. The flea scene is ok around here although I've been known to drive a good distance in "The Hunt". This summer I've scored decent stuff from the Mobile AL flea market. I've driven to a huge flea in Daytona and then to Sanford in the same day. Struck out in Mississippi. Scored again at the Pendergrass northeast of ATL. Lately my wife who travels during the week has been hitting local game stores in the cities she visits. So far Oklahoma city and Denver have been great to us. DFW is next on the list. At the beginning of the summer I was trying to get to 200 VCS games by years end, now I think I'm right around 300. The 2600 is the only console I'm collecting for. My hunt is now nationwide thanks to my wife who likes to shop for ANYTHING, likes exploring new cities and is OCD about lists. I'm going to have to start referring to the collection as "our" collection. We have only started the occasional lowball bids on ebay when we are bored and sitting on the couch or something.

What is the name of the store? My wife travels to the DFW area for her job and I may have her check it out.

Sega bass fishing is real fun with the Fission Controller. Tony Hawk's pro skater has a Dead Kennedys video playing on a jumbotron on one of the levels. If I ever get another console it will be a DC.

Movie Trading is the same as Vintage Stock I believe. They have five or so locations in OKC that my wife scored me several(40+) games from in her visits there. When asked about there other stores they were able to tell her that the Joplin MO store has over 3000! vcs games under that SKU in their inventory

Sega Bass Fishing is reason enough to own a DC. I think the VCS is more fun to collect for.

The Getaway. Got to the last crazy mission and gave up.

What store did you get it at? My wife will be in Ft worth this month on business and she tries to find me games in the different cities she visits.

Final Fantasy VII. Got bored Resident Evil. bored with final boss Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Bored with final boss. There's probably more.

Good info on that white board.

Best Buy should just eat them.

I want one!

A box in that shape would not add any value IMHO. I would pay $50 - $70 if it's minty fresh.

Here's what I got so far. I had some color harmony variations that looked real cool. I'll post them later.

http://atariage.com/forums/forum/29-homebrew-discussion/

I found one of those NTSC Joust games with a PAL end label in the wilds of Lower Alabama the other day. For some reason I knew it wasn't PAL due to its location.

A wooden chopstick eats corrosion for lunch used like an eraser.

In this case it most likely won't matter.

Polarity is important with most electrolytics if IIRC. How are your soldering skills? You may have loitered to long with the iron, perhaps a tin wisker. If somethings getting real hot it sounds like something is shorted to ground causing max current through minimum resistance. For shits and giggles you could leave it on and "let the smoke out". A sure fired way to see what is broken.

A Sears heavy sits next to my keyboard. I really prefer the faux burly walnut to faux oak.

If you just replace everything it should be good.

I got a lot bigger shit to be stressed about than home brew video games.

That's good news, I didn't know they were still available.

That's the best reason to start using an emulator I seen in a while. I kinda wish I still had the Krockodile Kart.