OldAtarian

How incredibly accurate.

Any ribbons for these printers will probably be very old. Even if you can find them NIB they will probably still be dried out after all this time.

I thought it was a sex toy.

I've got the Intellivision version. It's a pretty good game but I don't think I'd pay that price for it.

NEVER buy from sellers who use stock photos. They usually use stock photos to hide the fact that either the game that you will receive is damaged in some way or they are just too lazy to take their own photos. Either way, whether the cart is damaged or they can't be bothered to take their own photo, it shows how little they really care about keeping you as a customer.

Zaxxon for the 2600. Horrible translation that plays even worse than it looks.

The last time I checked they weren't exactly distancing themselves. The last statement I saw said they neither condemn nor condone their actions.

Better to have people fighting and attacking on the interweb via DDoS rather than actually shooting and bombing each other. If a website goes down it's an inconvenience, if someone drops a bomb on you you're dead. I'd prefer the inconvenience over death. How do you know.....? What if you were dead and woke up...do you know how bad your life would suck then? Personally I been there.....! For all the inconveniences life throws at me I would rather stay dead! Death is an unknown. IMHO I think it's like a light switch. When you die the switch is turned off. That's it. No heaven, no hell, no dancing on a fluffy cloud, nothing. I could very well be wrong but I'd rather stay alive for now rather than dying to find out. Of course if there is nothing, then I wouldn't find out, because I'm dead, and there's nothing so how could I report back on my findings or even experience it? Inconveniences can be overcome, death cannot....at least not yet. Which is interesting to think about. If there is something, and you're hanging out on a fluffy cloud talking to Elvis and Frank Sinatra and suddenly your physical body is brought back to life, would you get sucked back into your body? I know if I were kickin' it with Elvis and Frank Sinatra and some doctor brought me back I'd be pissed. Of course if you're cremated then you're screwed. Unless there's reincarnation. Could I will my video games to my future self? It's funny then how if there's nothing how so many people who have had those experiences all describe the same thing. Some people try to dismiss it by saying your brain takes a massive drug trip right before you die, but is everyone's drug trip the same? I have yet to meet two people who describe having EXACTLY the same drug trip, regardless of what they were on. If everyone's drug trips are different then their after death experiences should be different if that's all it is. There's something more going on there than the brain tripping out before it shuts down.

I don't think Mac drives are faster than ST drives (they certainly couldn't be a lot faster). The Midi connection is used for a high speed transfer between the ST and the digital logic inside the Translator device. It is used not because it is faster than the drive cable connection. It is used because the emulator couldn't use the direct drive connection, which is handled by the ST FDC. The Spectre GCR is a cartridge. The emulator can perform fast transfers with the cartridge port, it doesn't need the Midi connection. The Magic Sac and Spectre 128 are also carts. The cart format has nothing to do with it or else the Magic Sac and Spectre 128 wouldn't need the Translator One either.

The value of the item will be determined by Ebay with an open auction. Item values are constantly changing depending on demand/etc... With your system you are just increasing the value of the item to what YOU think it is worth, not what it is actually worth, and that is not a good way to approach Ebay which is why nobody does this but you (still waiting for someone to chime in that they do your system also, but nobody will...) I don't really care what anybody else does. If I'm the only one doing it then it's so much the better for me. While i'm happily accumulating rare game and computer items, the rest of you will be left scratching your butts wondering why you never win any auctions.

I'd honestly say getting two items for at least 1/3 their total value is actually doing something RIGHT.... but then again, I'm not the one experiencing a severe case of sour grapes. Go back to school and take math again. $75 is not 1/3 of what those games were worth.

You have to many Winter Games And too many 1050s! And too much of EVERYTHING. It must be redistributed to the Atari Age members forthwith!

Pretty sure your right Retro... there was a bug or bugs in the game that was never fixed. What kind of bug and is it possible for anyone to hack it to fix it? This game is aparently unplayable... Newcoleco has modified the rom, you can get it from his website Unplayable you say? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR9_LSrlBiE Captured directly from a real Colecovision through the RF output, NOT an emulator.

I don't think anybody besides oldatarian "shills themselves" seriously, bidding twice on the same item with two seperate Ebay accounts to max your bid out? Nobody in there right mind does that. It's the silliest thing I have ever heard. How is it silly? If a listing for something starts at 1 cent and I think it's worth $50, what's wrong with bidding the $50 and then backing it up with a bid from another account? I was prepared to pay $50 for it anyway and if it's an item that is going to generate a lot of interest it's going to reach at least $50, maybe more. I wouldn't do that for an item that will generate few bids, only something that is rare. Do you think I would bid $50 for a $10 item and then bump it up? THAT would be silly. Do you think a Video Cube cart for the 2600 is worth $50? Don't you think it would easily reach $50 in a regular auction regardless? I'm just bypassing a lot of the B.S. by getting the $50 bid to the top right away and increasing my chances of winning because if nobody else wants to spend more than $50 for it, it's mine. I don't care about the slim chance that I could have gotten it for less because 99% of the time I wouldn't have. If the $50 bid is high enough to stop other people from bidding, I get the item. What is so hard to understand about that? I'd rather have the rare item than the money. It is silly because your logic if flawed. You assume people react rationally, which they don't often do. Often people will see other people bid on something and the fact that someone else is bidding on that item makes the item more desirable to them and so they put in a bid, or a higher bid. As an example, a US seller had a PAL River Patrol taht he had been listing and relisting for about one year. It had a starting offer price and a much higher BIN. I considered his opening price to be a little too high, but his BIN was ridiculously high. After being relisted countless times, one buyer decided to put in an opening bid. After that, it others bid and the final selling price was even higher than the original BIN! I have seen this happen countless times. People think that since there are a number of bidders taht are bidding, it must be worth taht and more and they jump into the bidding too. I would never artificially try to prop up the auction price on something that I am interested in. You never know, you may get taht $50 item for $10 Anyone is welcome to outbid me anytime they like, as long as they don't mind overpaying because my high bid will represent the actual value of the item. It won't be a case of them beating my bid and still picking the item up for a fraction of what it's worth. The fact that the actual value of the item is the price to beat WILL deter a lot of bidders who are just bargain hunting or looking to buy something for immediate resale. All I'm doing is removing the mystery and letting people know up front that this is the price you have to beat if you want the item. If you can't afford it or don't think it's worth more than that then don't bid. If you do think it's worth more than that then I'll happily congratulate you on your newest acquisition that you paid far too much for.

I don't think anybody besides oldatarian "shills themselves" seriously, bidding twice on the same item with two seperate Ebay accounts to max your bid out? Nobody in there right mind does that. It's the silliest thing I have ever heard. How is it silly? If a listing for something starts at 1 cent and I think it's worth $50, what's wrong with bidding the $50 and then backing it up with a bid from another account? I was prepared to pay $50 for it anyway and if it's an item that is going to generate a lot of interest it's going to reach at least $50, maybe more. I wouldn't do that for an item that will generate few bids, only something that is rare. Do you think I would bid $50 for a $10 item and then bump it up? THAT would be silly. Do you think a Video Cube cart for the 2600 is worth $50? Don't you think it would easily reach $50 in a regular auction regardless? I'm just bypassing a lot of the B.S. by getting the $50 bid to the top right away and increasing my chances of winning because if nobody else wants to spend more than $50 for it, it's mine. I don't care about the slim chance that I could have gotten it for less because 99% of the time I wouldn't have. If the $50 bid is high enough to stop other people from bidding, I get the item. What is so hard to understand about that? I'd rather have the rare item than the money. If you want the BEST chance use one account and bid the minimum to kill the BIN if there is one. Then using the same account snipe it. Bidders often want what someone else wants. When a game has bids it is way more likely to get another bid than if it sits with no bids. With your method you will pay more and win less often. Simple as that. What are you talking about? So you're saying if someone puts up an ET or Pac Man cart for 99 cents and someone bids on it that someone is more likely to bid on it than if nobody did? By your logic if bidders draw more bidders then that common as dirt ET or Pac Man would sell for thousands because the first bidder would attract a new bidder who would attract another and another and another and it doesn't work that way.

I don't think anybody besides oldatarian "shills themselves" seriously, bidding twice on the same item with two seperate Ebay accounts to max your bid out? Nobody in there right mind does that. It's the silliest thing I have ever heard. How is it silly? If a listing for something starts at 1 cent and I think it's worth $50, what's wrong with bidding the $50 and then backing it up with a bid from another account? I was prepared to pay $50 for it anyway and if it's an item that is going to generate a lot of interest it's going to reach at least $50, maybe more. I wouldn't do that for an item that will generate few bids, only something that is rare. Do you think I would bid $50 for a $10 item and then bump it up? THAT would be silly. Do you think a Video Cube cart for the 2600 is worth $50? Don't you think it would easily reach $50 in a regular auction regardless? I'm just bypassing a lot of the B.S. by getting the $50 bid to the top right away and increasing my chances of winning because if nobody else wants to spend more than $50 for it, it's mine. I don't care about the slim chance that I could have gotten it for less because 99% of the time I wouldn't have. If the $50 bid is high enough to stop other people from bidding, I get the item. What is so hard to understand about that? I'd rather have the rare item than the money. Dude, your long drawn out answer just makes my head hurt and doesn't change the fact that using a second Ebay account to bid up an item you are already bidding on is silly. Find me ONE other person that purposely does this, you will not be able to, case closed, shilling yourself is silly...actually change silly to retarded, tired of being PC. And that's why you'll either lose or overpay if you ever bid against me.

It's those Anonymous bastards taking revenge on anyone who denounces wikileaks.

No, I typed what I should have. Sad Sack was the Beetle Bailey/Gomer Pyle of World War II. Sad Sack has ALWAYS had a K at the end going back to the 1940's when the character was created. That's where calling someone who never does anything right or who has perpetual bad luck a Sad Sack came from. And YOU should have said HAVE, not OF. The phrase is "Should HAVE said" or to use the contraction, "SHOULD'VE said" not "Should OF said".

I don't think anybody besides oldatarian "shills themselves" seriously, bidding twice on the same item with two seperate Ebay accounts to max your bid out? Nobody in there right mind does that. It's the silliest thing I have ever heard. How is it silly? If a listing for something starts at 1 cent and I think it's worth $50, what's wrong with bidding the $50 and then backing it up with a bid from another account? I was prepared to pay $50 for it anyway and if it's an item that is going to generate a lot of interest it's going to reach at least $50, maybe more. I wouldn't do that for an item that will generate few bids, only something that is rare. Do you think I would bid $50 for a $10 item and then bump it up? THAT would be silly. Do you think a Video Cube cart for the 2600 is worth $50? Don't you think it would easily reach $50 in a regular auction regardless? I'm just bypassing a lot of the B.S. by getting the $50 bid to the top right away and increasing my chances of winning because if nobody else wants to spend more than $50 for it, it's mine. I don't care about the slim chance that I could have gotten it for less because 99% of the time I wouldn't have. If the $50 bid is high enough to stop other people from bidding, I get the item. What is so hard to understand about that? I'd rather have the rare item than the money.

I didn't bid on this listing with two accounts. I made one bid first then increased it later using the same account.

Actually it is against the rules... eBay states... Just make sure that: * The two accounts are never used in the same listing. And by that they mean shill bidding.

with the use of two accounts, the only rule is to not bid on your own auctions with a different account. Actually, you can't bid on the SAME auction with two accounts. Doesn't matter if it is yours or someone else. I just find it funny that someone is mad that a rule was broken when they were going to break a rule as well. In this case the seller was really dumb as the seller should have told the potential buyer to bid and become the highest bidder and then I will make a side deal with you. Once the bid went over $250 then I am pretty sure that the potential buyer would have bailed out. Or maybe he would have paid $250+ and then everything would have been cool. Why couldn't my friend bid in the same listing as me? Does that mean that two Atari Agers who know each other personally can't bid in the same listing?

Sorry, don't understand exactly what you mean. But as I wrote in the posting before, I'm sure now it isn't a prototype. I have got some help from different boards all over the world and all came to the conclusion it's neither a proto nor a public System. In addition to that some German collectors sent me some promotion catalouge pics, where you can see the red striped Computer Adaptor. But it was never released. So it's one out of many other facts, that my model seems to be a demonstration model (independend of a fake-paint or not). My big problem is to find someone, who has safty information about it. Everybody can tell me, that it's not a standard model, but nobody can tell me what it can be else. So my assumption is a demonstration model. I mean those round stamps with the letters QC inside them. QC means Quality Control. It means the item has been inspected for defects prior to shipping. If it was a prototype, it wouldn't have had to pass through normal quality control checks because it was never meant to be sold.

That's why they have region coding. It's actually illegal to sell region coded items outside their intended distribution area because it violates the distribution rights granted to others outside that region. You won't see any legit companies violating that. I tried buying from several UK game shops in the past but got stopped at checkout when filling in my address info. Their checkout pages are setup to only accept UK postcodes and every single time I asked, I was always told they weren't allowed to sell outside the UK because of region coding. I've never had a problem getting movies or games used from individuals and even a few less scrupulous merchants of new items from overseas, though. Hong Kong and Taiwanese merchants are your friends. It's times like this that I really miss Lik Sang.

I like Earth Defense Force 2017 even though most people don't. It's like being in a 60's Japanese monster movie. It has everything you could ever want. Giant bugs, robots, alien spacecraft, and even a Godzilla knockoff! What's not to love? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8vEPNr-myw