Mikebloke

I've got a CIB xenophobe which is listed as a 7 on the site... But most of mine is 5 or below. I'm pretty sure I have a demon attack cart somewhere, but I didn't think that was rare?

Absolutely. 15 isn't a 3 figure game, even in dollars.

I'm happy for you to get casino poker so cheap and I'm very jealous, I feel like that one is going to evade me for awhile. 15 is a bit rare, I ended up with a SABA version which is probably listed under a different number before getting a regular fairchild version.

Fair enough, I can't remember what I paid for mine loose, probably 40 or 50 dollars converted. I would love to have a complete in box set, but with sellers who don't even post abroad I'm pretty stuck usually with European sellers. The import tax is like 25% as well, and it can really hit on big purchases. PS: I totally do the same wife telling tactics "this game goes for £300 normally, I saved hundreds!" ie £99.

I learnt basic because my first "computer" was an amstrad. Kids have Operating systems that do everything for them. However, having said that, a lot of schools in the UK will do programming in IT lessons to some level, albeit more concepts than a formal language. A few committed kids will learn a language on their own backs for the purposes of developing something with a "use" but not many. (visual) BASIC and python are usually what's used. In my line of work (kids n autism) you are more likely to find people who specialise in specifics, such as using random Windows operating systems, or using programs like excel, than people coding. I made my first video game sale (that is, something I coded) in Year 7 (first year of secondary education), I've yet to see someone personally in my work that has done something similar. The rest tend to just play minecraft/fortnite, and other people will regard them as "geeks" for this, but their actual technical knowledge is next to zero. I bought my eldest child some "coding" books that is more theory and concepts than actual programming, and he didn't display any interest at all and went back to playing pokemon.

Awesome! I gave it a spin for 5 minutes. Not bad.

Is this the same seller as the other ones? I can't view them anyway!

The videopac is probably a device most intended for children. My youngest, 3 learnt how to type thanks to the console in less than two days, and enjoys playing the math and keyboard based games. A friend came over with his teenage girls, and hilariously they spent hours playing some of the games, like the racing one. There is something in the simplicity of it all. Similar to you, its a console probably best used occasionally, before I would have it out whenever I bought a new game for it, but now I have a "complete" collection this doesn't apply. I think I'm on the list for a C7061, The odyssey2/videopac multicarts is some of the cheapest devices you'll find for any system, I believe some retailed at something like $30-50 at some point.

This appears to be a thing, I bought a loose empty NES box to store my console and accessories (I did have a box originally... then at some point in the early 90's my parents probably chucked it). Soon after it sold someone put another one up for the same price as I paid saying "apparently people buy these things!", but actually I probably paid a bit more for the box itself because I got half a dozen games with it dirt cheap. Its been 20 years since I've bought a NES game for a quid!

Sigh, these recent games you guys have mentioned is US only. I can't even find it in search because sellers don't send abroad. Its such a shame, especially given ebay's international system basically pushes all the costs onto the buyer at no risk to the seller. Its like the London effect, but international. Shame, given most of my rare fairchild games have come from the states or europe. I would have been tempted to go for the boxed american football game, as I could resell my loose copy, but even slot machine is too much for me - good job I can't buy it anyway. Edit: Can't even message the seller, wow. I mean really? That resistant. I get people probably message with offers all the time... But to block all forms of contact? Oh well. His loss of profits.

I think if people want to pay that much on a bidding system with a low starting bid then fair enough. If I had that kind of cash I'd pay it if it meant further development of the Fairchild Channel F, even indirectly through helping your cost of living.

They feed the beast money, the beast feeds them hopes and dreams of a system capable of playing 15 year old games and preloaded with 40 year old games. It will all end in a fiery battle where FBI agents try to storm their headquarters before they commit ritual suicide in a cosmic reinterpretation of the word "released".

Wonder if any of these kids ever owned a real atari.

I would be interested too, I'm always going to be after an sd card device... But supporting homebrew on the channel F is good too! Golf will be amazing on the system! Edit: box please

Not a thrift find but an ebay purchase, I got a psp awhile back, the model with component out with a bundle of games and the add on camera. Searching through the files I found what was obviously the previous owner testing out the camera for the first time and going round the house with it. Pretty sure it's a Christmas present too because there was a tree and tired worn out parents who couldn't care less!

It's frustrating I know. If it was going cheap I wouldn't have published it here in the hopes one of us could nab it but I felt it went into the boundaries of expensive so what's the point. I might have been tempted to pay the loose cart prices (about £65, but then shipping from Australia) if I was desperate to finish a collection and not bothered by boxes. I have alien invasion with instructions which I think I paid about 50 for, got a loose copy of pro football for less than that, and I have a boxed saba version of galactic space when I got a set to fill gaps. I get doubles occasionally so I'm happy to post here first from now on but it's usually unboxed, semi rare but not the rarest.

So there is some interesting ebay items at the moment including an ITT Tele match system, which I quite like the shell of but not interested in buying! There's a few carts out there too at the moment: boxed 24 Pro football and a couple of loose "rares": 23 and 26, that's the alien Invaders and galatic space wars. I'll be honest and say I've never been tempted by boxed copies of the zircon games, too expensive for me!

Good catch, it's probably this! I tested my pal cart and it had some difficulties including freezing but did eventually appear to work.

Thanks for this information goodtofufriday, good to know this is a common issue with potential remedies. I haven't looked at my own controller yet, but it gives me some hope of reviving it!

Personally I think the 7800 version needs a touch up to fix the stupid collision detection and make Course 4 playable for normal humans.

Occasionally it can be a bad luck scenario with the cart and the console and the tv setup. My first thoughts as a programmer would be to switch the TV, then try the same TVs with a different console. Variances can cause issues on occasion. I don't own a 4K TV so don't know how they would handle it, but traditional 1080p TV's shouldn't have an issue. My first thought however was to simply blow into the cartridge slot (don't kill me!) for a dozen tries and hope for the best, if not, give the contacts a clean. It might be an issue with dirty contacts is skipping some code and causing the image to drop in a funny way.

Nice AES set, I'm stuck with just the CD versions, like I can afford to keep up a real Neo Geo collection!

Got a new score 9600 on the retron 77. I think as a dirty casual for 2600 games gorf is tricky, phase 2 seems to have some cheap, although totally predictable I'm just not good enough to avoid attacks that wipe out your lives. The phase 4 ship is a git to get used to. Ironically the first time I did it in one shot and actually said out loud "wow that was easy" have had trouble with it ever since XD

There is no such thing as too much, especially for the Channel F! I've got loads of potential ideas for the system if only I could get my head down for longer than 30 minutes to work out how things work as they do. I suppose theres two ideas potentially of branching it: Keep it more like Adventure, and allow movement in all directions, creating a "maze" of screens to find items. Not sure how complex this could be for Channel F but could then use Adventure like mazes where you have to switch screens to get to new areas. Make it more like Pitfall, and have a single axis of movement (left, right) and add a form of jump button to avoid obstacles and enemies. It could perhaps be expanded to an underground level through a ladder system later (perhaps switch it to black and white for these areas to make it look "dark").

I just realised, one of the players could have "blocked it" off by pressing the button to hide their own trail. That's a feature, not a bug!