Jason123

I understand Black Awareness month and all, but I feel that Marty Lipper's comment about Ed Smith who may have been "number 2" is adequate in the context:

"The man was an engineer, and he knew his business. When we interviewed him, he was a decent guy, and that’s all I cared about."

https://www.fastcompany.com/3063298/ed-smith-and-the-imagination-machine-the-untold-story-of-a-black-vid

A few significant errors there, IMHO. This guy was not responsible for "literally creating an industry bigger than the movie industry". If you had to give that responsibility to anyone, it would be Ralph Baer. And the Channel F was not "the first video game console with interchangeable game cartridges".  That honour also goes to the Magnavox Odyssey - designed by Ralph. The article specifically states the Odyssey did not use interchangeable cartridges, but I have a dozen or so of them sitting right here, so there's that.  Yes, they were just circuits that rewired the console's electronics - but they were plug-in-game-cartridges nonetheless.
 

Yep, been talked about and yep - silly alright.  

Yes, that guy appeared on the forums and was a jackass.

Why doesn't he just play the games (under properly supervised circumstances) and re-establish his old records in a way that doesn't leave any questions?

This is worse than when George Costanza tried to keep the Frogger machine powered while he took it to his apartment. 

It's just some dumb cartridge.. a piece of plastic.

I saw this earlier this morning and meant to come check if someone had posted about it.  I guess I cared so little that I forgot - LOL

I was expecting to hear that the game variant was somehow rare, but the article doesn't say that.  It just says that a sealed Kid Icarus is a rare find.  So the price is potentially high because of the seal . . .

I'll bet it sells for some serious coin.   But wouldn't it be funny if it sold for $38.45?