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  5. Posted

    *shrug* I kept my mouth shut this long and I'm legitimately interested in the going price for these things. Just trying to share my own experience, blah.

     

    I have a slim so have never really gone shipping for one.

     

     

    I've had one in a sale thread for $25 shipped for a week, guess that is high? I just went by closed auction prices.

     

    It might be a little high for all of us bargain-basement pickers/hunters but it's probably worth it. I know there is a large variety of collectors here... so it's worth a shot. *shrug* If you're just lookin' to unload it I'd drop the price to $20 shipped and let her go... If it were me which it's not. ;)

     

    Is bumping a thread to compete bad form? In the case of reminding someone you have it for cheaper I don't think it is...

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    A couple on this list are games you can often leave on for awhile, which counts toward playtime. I know I often have Animal Crossing loaded up and going so people can visit my town if they like, sometimes while I am watching a football game. Same with Mario Kart--sometimes I am just waiting for people I know to show up and race, so leave it on for that. I also do play it a ton, though.

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    If I haven't responded to you or failed to ship anything, please let me know. I had a tooth pulled and have been on painkillers. I am not much of a druggie and really underestimated the strength of this stuff--it has made me forgetful and listless and just a little bit cranky. Please accept my sincere apologies.

     

    NO LONGER CRANKY - EVERYTHING SHIPS FAST!

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    If you happen to see my thread about my search for an HDTV, you can read about how I ordered and expensive Samsung LCD that is now waiting to go back to Amazon.

     

    Just returned from Best Buy with a Panasonic plasma, TC-P42U2. The difference is amazing, standard def programming is actually watchable on this--it was terrible on the Samsung LCD. If you watch any old stuff at all, the LCD is probably not what you want. Also, the 46" was way too big for us, but I guess that's pretty subjective.

     

    I will say that football game were AMAZING on the Samsung. Really, really cool. But it just wasn't worth it to have everything else look crappy.

     

    This is only my opinion, but it will be a long time before I ever consider an LCD again.

  17. Posted

    My local computer recycling place had bucketloads (seriously, they were in 5-gallon buckets) of these and other stripped hardware when I was there last. I can check for you next time I am in.

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    This is a really good idea.

     

    For my part, my wife still thinks it is too big. We may be sending it back and getting a 40" instead. Do you get use to everything being even too clear? I am just having a lot of trouble adjusting to it and have been messing with the settings (not randomly, by looking at things like tweaktv and stuff) and I am just worried that we won't adapt. Talk about a first-world problem.

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    I have up an just bought a widescreen, you can look at this thread for some info, though not very helpful regarding obtaining a CRT HDTV. The consoles, for the most part look terrible, but the NES is a trooper in game mode, just not light gun... definitely look for something in game mode. Mine is a Samsung, as is the CRT it replaced (the CRT now lives in my game room).

     

    http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/169219-technology-marches-on-the-search-for-an-hdtv/

  21. Posted

    Here's my blog entry on the subject from a flea market:

     

    Socrates Educational Video System with Hodge-Podge cartridge ($1)

     

    So... I noticed this one because it had a cart in it. And also a "mouse system." It looks kinda like a Wacom tablet for kids. In all my years of thrifting I've never seen one and was obviously curious. No power supply. The guy selling it says "$2 and it's all yours."

     

    I just started laughing. "My wife will kill me if I bring that home! There's no power supply!" And on and on like this, with they guy saying, no, no, you WANT this. You NEED this. And me walking away and saying I don't even have kids! and then he goes "why you got all those video games, then?!" because I had the stack of carts in my hand. It was just a total flea market moment. So I turn around and say "ok, will you take a dollar for it?" And we laughed and laughed and he took my dollar and now I have this monstrosity sitting in my game room. With no power supply or batteries. Why??!! I don't even know. Yikes.

     

    I think I sold it on here for shipping only...

     

    Just a kid's toy.

  22. Posted

    Wow, great buy on the 2049er II. I still have not seen one of these in the wild; its a big hole in my collection.

     

    I had a similar thing happen when I lived in Boston. Guy had an ad up, and was in my neighborhood, but was asking $200. Big collection, I even went to check it out, but not worth it and the gentleman would not budge on price. Then I went to the used record store near my place a couple of days later and ran into Atari-seller guy coming out with a stack of vinyl under his arm--he had traded the Atari collection for store credit. I chatted up the owner of the store and walked out with a silver label Asteroids and a few other goodies for about the price of a CD! Fate.

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