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"length of computer punch tape" Finally, I can do something with this useless UNIVAC I system...

I got a copy of the Homevision Repro game copy unit; then found out there a cartridges that go with it....&$%*.

Quite the steel/steal, both of them... I look at ebay every now and again for local CRT tv's. Still no luck.

Nice! I am waiting for Caramujo to be officially released in the AA store with a manual and box. I don't think I will ever get the GORF patches due to arthritis hand pain. This just in...don't get old ,it is not glamourous at all.

I should have bought some Odyssey (1) stuff 25 years ago, it is so expensive now.

Whoa! That's awesome. Hope you got a good deal, looks expensive.

I have all the books and the kindle copies. The first checklist b/w book is the one I use to keep track of homebrews. I am impatiently waiting for The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion Vol 5...You know, when you have nothing better to do. Or better yet, a homebrew and hack companion and checklist book for the 7800.

Had to buy two auctions to make a numbers matching Sears Breakaway IV text label 49-75107. Now impatiently waiting for the cib picture label version.(Actually a lot of picture label ones) Still climbing Sears mountain...started at base camp with my back in the day copy of Haunted House, now have eight 19 quart boxes of cib Sears releases. The top of the mountain is shrouded in perpetual fog....

Wow, that newsletter vol 1 number 1 is so rare! I missed getting it by one month since I have the other newsletter vol 1 number 2, which I consider to be the rarest Atari VCS/2600 item I own. Great finds...

A big thank you to Albert for being one of few that made the retro scene possible since the year 2000. I look forward to seeing what interesting original titles will be made available in the AA store in the future. Got 16 19 quart boxes full of AA goodness and counting....

Just got mine in the mail. Thanks Brent

Has anyone made a Berzerk using the AtariVox to add all the speech phrases?

I am stuck on level 88. The middle chute is a dead end at the bottom with a gold piece sitting there. I assume that is the last piece of gold to collect ,then a ladder appears, but it is hard to keep the other runners from falling in there and being in the way. Also, what the heck does the AtariVox say when the game is powered on?

Porch Pirates should be stuffed into a box and randomly shipped around the country (that is happening to some of the items I buy anyway) like it was portrayed in the south park episode that was all about Amazon. And if opening the box kills the Pirate, of well...

Yeah, it seems to be like every single dystopian novel and movie is coming true. The artists and technologists gave the evil ones to many good ideas and tools....Oh well, the AI will take care of it all ,a la Terminator. My answer? When it gets too bad I will walk into the forest. Even if that is the last thing I do ,at least it's pretty there.

That Boing! box is nice, mine is crushed and ripped open a bit, but it cost less that way. It took me a while to get the a loose regular cart copy. For some reason there are more Xonox style carts out there...

I should have bought gold and silver about 25 years ago. It so expensive now...for an evil reason of course, but that's a rant for another day.

I just had my revision 12 four-switcher open to clean it. That heavy sixer was really made to last. The molded speaker holders are so cool. Surprised no one here have made a mod of the heavy sixer with the speakers in it.

The number three was rattling around in my brain for the number of stereo games. Just couldn't remember which ones...thanks for the reminder. Of course, now we have to add the prototype Sonar, unofficially anyway.

My small part of the blame for the crash was growing up and getting a job($3 an hour!), a car($800), going to college(12 credits $146+200 for books); no time for fun and games. I was so busy back then that I didn't even see any of the bargain $1-3 games at all. Of course that has made it very expensive to collect missing stuff now. I have a lot of the history of video games books and it is amazing to see some of the decisions that were made ,in hindsight of course. The saddest was Coleco, they eventually sold off their only money maker...the plastic little round kiddie swimming pool. No really! The worst was the stock manipulation and backstabbing. the Imagic IPO comes to mind, coupled with the insider sale of stock by the Atari CEO and the early 3rd quarter lose of revenue released by same CEO a day or two before the Imagic IPO, thus sinking both companies; Of course the crook got away with it. Have to give Nintendo credit though ,for the cartridge lockout, vetting of the software and their demand that they produce the game carts. Pretty good business plan for them.

Hello, I don't know if E(vil)Pay will even allow us to communicate here at all...

I'll watch this one, since I lost an auction for this item two weeks ago.

Just bought a copy of Pineapple for the 7800 via AA forums. Proof the AA community is still awesome.

You have a great start to your collection. I have collected Atari 2600 games three times in my life and still do not have everything. There is a lot of original releases and now so many homebrew, hacks and downloadable roms, that very few people are able to keep up with it all. But that is what makes it fun and interesting. I learn of new stuff almost every week.

--Prepare for rant-- Google ,Facebook, all these high-tech (corporate spy agencies, gov control facilitators) companies in CA that are just shuffling electrons around, In a state that got very close to maxing out its electrical grid in last summer's heatwaves several times. When Atari, Hewlett Packard, Apple , the Silicon Valley were there in the 1970's the electric company (PG&E) would give a company a lower rate for using more electricity at their business, factory. Now we live in an era of no infrastructure improvements and electric rates that were increased in CA three times in one year.(criminal conspiracy anyone?) And on top of all this, the states across the land want everyone to use electric stoves, heaters, cars, without any reliable alternative to making all this electricity. --End rant-- As for the history of Atari as a business, they could have been Apple. Instead the east coast suits and their wall street brokers ruined it.(Sorry the rant really wasn't over) P.S. That Futurama bit with the aliens wiping out NYC, then the upstart medieval castles, is one of my favorite scenes.