Mikebloke

Received mine today! Oh its so great to play golf on the fairchild channel f on a real console. I'm still absolutely rubbish at golf, but there is something about playing it with the channel F controller. The other two games are cool too. My son enjoyed Kevin vs Tomatoes and Killer heads of lettuce was enjoyed too. Ps: has anyone worked out how to get the easter egg yet. I tried a few things but got no luck! PM me it if someone worked it out?

That's because most of us are Autistic. Social communication difficulties and fixed interests come with the territory. They are manageable aspects and often don't require any skill that challenges the difficulties that come with the condition. Collections of things is manageable, predictable, and ordered. This is probably my true answer to why I collect. Its one thing I never have to be good at in order to succeed, I just need to pump all my disposable income on it. At some point, we all find our limit, and then it's about whether we slow down, stop, or start reducing. I'd say most users on this forum is at some stage or another of this process. I'm definitely still in the slowing down phase. Not everyone will go to reducing their current collections to tailor it, but many will. Various YouTuber game collectors have gone through this process, making it more visible. For some, game collecting becomes like bonsai, clipping out the unwanted and tailoring your own aesthetics.

I genuinely laughed out loud when I first saw PC builder simulator, but hey, this isn't much more of a stretch. If we make it now it can still be a VCS release exclusive.

While this thread has been revived I would say there is a group mentality of modern gamers looking less favourable at the nes games compared to the msx games. However, if like me you never knew what an msx was at the time and you had the nes metal gear games, it looked absolutely awesome. Nes has a select number of decent games, that we often forget about the trash that also came with it. I wouldn't regard the nes metal gear games as trashy, when you compare it with other nes games.

16 bit + 8 bit = 24 bit DO THE Math lol. Still, I'm thinking about what home gaming for me was like in 1991, and it wasn't this good. Must have been a real eye opener for game enthusiasts at the time. Back then I was still playing 2600!

Although confirmed in the comments, it wasn't deemed important enough to be mentioned in the announcement trailer

Klarna is just like getting a bank loan to do home improvements, except its for tens to hundreds of pounds and not thousands, and not for massive projects but for buying fast fashion and adult sex toys, for the people who just need things they don't require to live but seemingly can't wait till the end of the month. It has made me wonder whether if the VCS was a fancy Win XP / 98 emulator with a cd/dvd drive and just made out to be a retro device whether more of us would be on board with it. To remove the pain of configuring old games (why does X1 beyond the frontier not work on my windows 10 laptop!) I'd pay money for a system that fits nicely in my living room, it can sit next to my amstrad CPC emulator GX4000.

Because I was fortunate enough to get a Concerto I'll probably hold back on grabbing one of these until everyone else has had a chance to get one (and fill my coffers back up), but did have one question: What would be the suggested power cable for a UK user, I'm not too technical but noticed it shares the same port as a mega drive 2 / 32x, would those power cables work or should I be looking for a different cable? But other than that, congrats on the release of the dragonfly! It looks super cool, I'll grab one when I can.

Yayy, just enough time to get paid so I don't get in the red!

It's nothing personal to you, but 80% of this thread is literally about the lack of people reading previous posts. Even in the last post or two by Batari not too far in the distant past, he mentions a hope of outsourcing some of the work to create more quickly, understanding there is a high demand for something like this given the lack of adoption from bigger romcart producers (even saint is hoping to look into it in the future, kritzz probably doesn't have anything coaxial based in the radar ever). He said he would have some up Sunday night, he got some up Sunday night. Because I'm stupid, I literally stayed up all night in the hopes of grabbing one 3rd time lucky. Others can't do this, which is understandable, and Batari recognises this and is trying to do something about it. You can use the search function inside topics to find posts from other users. Batari is the only person you need to read from, the rest of us might be just making jokes at your expensive (CPUWIZ makes some great corker posts, BTW).

Got an order confirmation, now at 4:47am, I'm going to bed ?

Can't seem to find it but 0 rep, dodgy picture and listed as untested. Wow. So glad I got this last year (or year before?) for a fraction of this price.

I decided a long time ago that I would only ever try and go for UK releases, which makes the prospect of collecting sets a lot easier as its almost always less than US and Japan lists. This comes with the fact that many consoles can't play these games due to region lock/picture variation anyway. I have a few complete UK sets, but not many. And they are all small libraries. A few years ago I bulked and started to buy romcarts. Having a R4 card for DS given by in Laws a few years before ruined me, as I had virtually an entire library of games at my fingertips. I had largely given up emulation on pc because it didn't 'feel the same'. Looking at NES prices (2nd console I owned after 2600) made me realise it was impractical for me to own entire sets of the larger, more popular console libraries so romcarts it is. I still buy though, some consoles have games not easily run on a romcart or multicart, some are small libraries that I would like to have 100% in (some include non UK releases too because libraries is so small). My buying is more specific now, and I'm starting to buy homebrew which is something I never used to do before. My tastes is changing, and so is my collecting. As some parts of collecting is now prohibitive to those of low earning backgrounds, I'm choosing to not engage. Edit: to answer the question properly: UK physical releases, any version (including foreign that work), no variation doubles. I collect to play, getting a set is a bonus.

This is a good price to get all of them in one go, hope someone takes you up on it!

Its the sleepless anticipation to get a hold of an atari 7800 concerto cart from batari that is causing these poignant mistakes!

Plays nicely on a real console, sorry I didn't last long enough for fireball in this one, but I did do before! Edit: I also tried your fly swatting game, it is much harder on a real console than on emulator!

The excuses is starting to run out, but perhaps they have one last surprise up their sleeve!

Don't you just hate being right. Yep we are still on the second step as they are still waiting for some, but hey, at least they are doing some of the order prep now. Perhaps next week actual shipping... for a 3rd week of December earliest delivery? Looks like some kids might get these by the 17th of December after all!

I need to wake up earlier in the morning rather than stay up at night XD

I probably have all my kids as babies pictured playing hearts of iron games invading Poland. Blackmail material for when they are older.

It delayed so much that I can probably afford to buy it. Yes, we'll probably get it day 1, I only buy a a couple of games brand new, and I negged on the pc release of death stranding because I basically watched it on twitch (OHN brotherrrrrssss)

It was discussed in the original thread awhile back, but 3rd party development is largely reliant on two things: 1) being supported (you expect design docs, a developer device, someone at hand to answer questions) - Jani seems to have had that but he is the first person we know of that has 2) a player base that is going to buy your game, possibly simply by random and because its available in an accessible way. If you are generous and expect a 1% take up rate as a 3rd party developer, then on the VCS we're talking at most a couple of hundred. Assuming your game is relatively retro, easy to make, priced accordingly, you might make 8 or 9 $ profit on each sale. Aiming for $1,000 turnover is not a viable business plan.

I actually went to the trouble in the last couple of years to get boxes for consoles I never had when I bought them, including the 2600. They aren't the originals and in some cases not even the same model - but they serve a really important purpose: They store my machines and protect them when they aren't being used (which is probably the best place for them given even half the ones that are out just act as dust collectors!). In boxes consoles is mobile, secured, displayable, deliverable (if ever sold or given away) but most importantly, stackable. I just don't have the space for 40+ boxes to not be on top of each other, I can't do that with loose consoles and plain cardboard boxes is horrible brown colour. With this in mind, repairing (or preserving in crossbow's plastic case suggestion) is the only solution as it fits all the functional uses a box does. I think every option has been discussed now. Most of us would repair from the inside - reinforcing is also a good idea - others have contributed alternatives to tape - but if it was too much work, and looking at the damage I don't think even taping with clear tape on the outside would be completely terrible situation (yes, it ruins the picture on the box and can never be removed without taking the ink off.. but it would remain functional). Crossbow's idea is also an alternative: the plus side is you don't have to change the box in anyway, the negative side being that the plastic cases tends to be quite pricey for what they are (especially a full size console box) - but preserves the condition of the box as you have it now. The worst condition one I ever got was just the front panel of a 1292 machine - they did warn me and offered to throw it away but I said I'd keep it anyway! I used it as padding for the box when I sold it on. Good luck with whatever strategy you decide.

250 was auto denied, so don't feel bad! I think its safe to say under those numbers (bare in mind it started at $2,100), anything lower than 50% will be set to auto-reject. Realistically, while we are all frustrated by the strange hyperinflation of Fairchild Channel F stuff, knowing checker games with no box was going for 4 figures, it would be hard for seller to want to accept less than that, even if there wasn't interest. Hopefully now the next one passes under the $1,000 mark, as less and less people are prepared to pay this much. My main reasoning for this is that despite the curiosity of Channel F and the story of Jerry Lawson (who was an engineering hero and should be celebrated for his achievements, just not at the expense of us getting reasonably priced checker carts), it does not attract the same level of curiosity as 2600 or NES carts where there is a collector/investor mentality. Those of us that collect Channel F don't do it to encase it in a plastic shell and never use it again, but to stick it in a real device and play the darn thing - this may well be the only protective factor that ensures these prices go down one day.