What is the lifespan of a Radio Shack soldering iron?

[What is the lifespan of a Radio Shack soldering iron?]

I get about 3-4 hours out of one before it dies.

[Colecovision games for sale, some boxed, prices lowered]

 

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom. Cart version of the ADAM's pack-in game, with manual. Very arcade faithful version with great graphics and multiple levels. Manual is water damaged but readable. Cart is fine. $5.99

 

Dam Busters game cart with instruction manual. Great graphics, sound and gameplay. Very in-depth B-17 flight simulator. You must fly a night bombing raid on a dam and blow it up. Fight off enemy aircraft with front and rear machine guns, avoid AA flak, put out engine fires, control your landing gear, sight in bomb targets while flying. $7.49

 

Dam Busters - rarer French Canadian dual language label version. $9.99

 

The Heist - Hard to find, fun platformer, sorta like Impossible Mission. $5.99

 

Mr. Do!. Great arcade gameplay, graphics and music. Is there anyone who doesn't like this game? I've never met anyone who doesn't like it. A great version of the 80's arcade classic. The difficulty is just right, so it's not too hard to learn and not too easy. $3.49

 

Roc'N Rope cart with manual for Colecovision. Konami arcade classic with neat gameplay and cool graphics, 3 very different screens, challenging gameplay. $6.49

 

River Raid cart for Colecovision. Frantic arcade style action. Avoid tanks, planes, cannons, blow up the bridges in front of you all the while keeping an eye on your fuel gauge. $4.99

 

Beamrider cart with manual $4.99

 

Looping - boxed game with manual - $4.99

 

Carnival - boxed game with manual - $4.99

 

Cosmic Avenger - boxed game with manual - $2.99

 

 

Joysticks VHS, original 1983 Vestron Video release $9.99 shipped

 

Shipping is $2.99 for one cart. I combine shipping on multiple carts. USA only please.

[Y joystick cables for Atari,CV,C64 - $5.99 shipped in USA, only one left!]

 

 

$5.99 shipped in USA

[Bundle of boxed Colecovision games for sale]

 

 

The Dragon's Lair is box only, it was an ADAM disk game anyway.

 

All the other games come with their manuals, some with warranty cards as well.

 

I want to sell these as a bundle together. Requests to sell individual games will be ignored. Best offer.

[questions about COLECOVISION and ADAM computer...]

There are two versions of the ADAM. One was an add-on that plugged into the front of your Colecovision. The other was a stand alone unit with a Colecovision board built in. Yes, there's ADAM specific software on tape and disc but the ADAM could also play CV carts. The ADAM isn't more powerful, it uses the same Z-80 cpu as the CV but it has more memory and is greatly expandable with plug in cards. The ADAM is almost like a clone of the MSX computer. The games are usually much larger than cart games and are writable so you can save high-scores and initials etc.. There are many sites with CV screenshots but only a couple with ADAM info.

 

http://www.sacnews.net/adamcomputer/

[Antarctic Adventure & Cabbage Patch Kids CV ROM Variants]

There's a version of CPK labeled 128k, for the ADAM. It has different graphics/backgrounds not in the cart versions but I don't know if it's really 128k. I don't see how it could be. CPK is really just a relabeled Athletic Land game from the MSX.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SA50Pf9wk4

[Pac-Man Collection, Road Fighter, MemoryPack, TRON... (ColecoVision)]

I have 3 Colecovision games coming out too. They're not coming out till 2012 though. They're in the early planning stages. I've completed the box art, now I just need to make the games. Pre-order now!

[Top 5 Vector Games Of All Time]

Asteroids is beautiful. No emulator will ever perfectly recreate those ultra-bright shots and their halos.

 

The rest of my top five includes Star Wars, Tempest, Tac/Scan and Major Havoc.

 

I realize I should include Battlezone, but I never got much of a chance to play it growing up, and nowadays, I dunno, I actually find the rasterized Atari 2600 version more engaging than the arcade original.

 

No you shouldn't. Battlezone is easily the worst of the vector games mentioned, by far. It's one most people have played so it makes these lists. Once you get past the cool novelty of the dual sticks and targeting perspective you notice the forced death gameplay that won't allow you to win beyond a certain point.

[Top 5 Vector Games Of All Time]

I love Star Wars, but Tempest could quite simply be the greatest arcade game ever made.

 

WORD!

 

1. Tempest

2. Tac Scan

3. Demon

4. Armor Attack

5. Red Baron

[Colecovision Mr Dos Castle]

I have a Colecovision prototype of Mr. Dos Castle. The case has been opened and has two socketed chips inside. The case itself reads "Coleco MR. Do 12K.RLS.1 6/15/84". The chips inside read "Coleco Mr. Do A 4k.RLS.1 6/15/84" on one and "Coleco Mr. Do B 8K RLS.1 6/15/84 on the other. These labels are typed with what appears to be a dot matrix paper label. Any ideas on ballpark value? I know that Coleco prototypes are more uncommon.

 

 

Are you sure it's Castle, and not just Mr Do? Mr Do was a Coleco title from Coleco, but Mr Do's Castle was released by Parker Brothers (I've heard it rumored it may have been programmed by Coleco though).

 

As for value, can't say for sure, as I've yet to see a prototype sold since i got back into the scene a year or so ago. I'm sure someone will chime in on it-- I know of at least one collector who has unreleased protos in their collection on here.

 

Murph

 

Didn't Coleco just handle/supervise the artwork/sprite design? They contracted out all programming is what I read. Mr. Do's Casle is too well programmed to have been a Coleco project. Doesn't 6/15/84 sound waaaay late for a CV release? I thought they were cancelling all new game releases by then. Anyone know when the game was released to retail?

[Why did the home computer die out?]

Those old 8 bit computers died out because you can't do shit with them in terms of programming unless you're a master of assembly. Assembly is too hard for the average person. People realized BASIC is near useless for doing the kind of things they wanted.

[Metal Head - Great Game - Never had a fair chance]

Will you please also do reviews for those other misunderstood classics, N64 Superman, Bubsy(jaguar) and Blasto.

[is this an astrocade proto or just a pirate cassette]

IIRC, Blue Ram was a upgrade kit for the Astrocade. That looks to me just like someone copied the game cart to a tape. Artillery Duel was released on cart for the Astrocade before the Blue Ram was. There's no way it's a proto.

[Neo Geo Shorty]

I don't think that's a real a NEO GEO mini cab. The ones I've seen look just like their full size counterparts only shrunken. The control panel should stick out from the cabinet, not be flush with it. I've seen real ones sell for $210-$400+. The ones I've seen are all single slot machines.

[Japan-only Spice Gamecube w/Spice GB Player,Spice BBA, games+ more $124.99]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FS: Japan import Gamecube system in mint condition with box. Rare Japan-only orange/spice color with matching spice GB Player and spice broad band adapter installed. Also comes with two matching controllers, one has never been used, 4 games plus GB Player disc, Nintendo brand memory card, a GBA to GC cable, A/V cable, power supply and deluxe padded Gamecube storage/carry case. System is in original, unmodded condition. Can be very easily modded to play US and import games; instructions are online.

 

 

$124.99 Naruto 2 game added. You pay Paypal fee.

[Bunch of good, harder to find Colecovision games, [email protected]@K]

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZquemenQQhtZ-1

 

 

 

 

and more, check out the link.

 

Most end Sunday night, the rest a couple days later.

[Tricks & Tips Magazine gets shafted, editorial staff laid off]

This just in.

 

Larry Flynt with a last ditch effort to save the mag has instead renamed it to Tits and Tricks. Expect readership to be up 1000% with the 11-18yr category.

 

The new 'Room of Doom' section will showcase massive porn collections.

[Tricks & Tips Magazine gets shafted, editorial staff laid off]

It seemed like the same magazine every month, just the back pages changed. Who cared to read the letters from 8 year olds asking about Sonic? I can't imagine anyone subscribing to it.

[Vectrex In the Spotlight - A wonderously unique retro experience]

too many words.

[my retro collection on ebay]

wow. doesn't get any more retro than that.

[How Do You Store Your Boxed Games?]

I put my boxed games into a box. Then I take each systems box of boxed games and put that into a larger box. Then I write the contents of that box on the outside and seal it with tape. Then I put that box into an even larger box and I write "X-MAS DECORATIONS" on the outside to fool thieves.

[BIG lot of UC, Rare & ER Colecovision carts ENDS TONIGHT]

Ends tonight! Sunday

[Wtd: Donkey Kong ColecoVision Boxed :)]

Knowing this hobby and the way people hoard stuff, I'm sure the first person who saw them on the Jack Berg site who knew they were rare probably bought them all and has them sitting in a box in his closet collecting dust.

 

and is staring at the pile of boxed DK carts while masturbating furiously.

[5200 vs Colecovision ad]

Wait until Pac-Man Collection is released for the ColecoVision and then CV will have the best Pac-Man (and Ms. Pac-Man)on ANY system.

 

PMC is also going to include Pac Man Plus, which may be the only home port of that game. That was an unauthorized sequel Bally made without Namco's permission.

[Dual Language (Eng/French) Colecovision?]

I have/had the French Canadian CV and roller controller and carts and they never get more $ on ebay. Coleco collectors aren't like Atari collectors who go nuts over every label variation.