silverpoodleman
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don't fucking tell me how you stumbled across this page
How did I stumble across this page? It's not too terribly interesting, but it was sent to me by my boss.
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People are always trying to find good uses for their old systems. Even if they do not work, there is still life in them. At this link, http://www.destructoid.com/video-game-bikinis , you will find about the best use of video games I've ever seen (if I could only get my hands on them!!!).
Enjoy!
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1047!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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88, 370 - first time I posted though I started the week under 10,000 consistantly.
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Just confirming - I have Kung Fu Superkicks by Telegames. Is this the same thing and can I use it in this week's contest?
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I came across this interesting page that has a family tree featuring the video game controllers over the years starting with the Atari 2600 Joystick. It's a kick - check it out.
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I dug a big hole in my back yard and buried all my carts in it. I then made a map and placed it in a safe deposit box. Then I took the safe deposit key and deposited that in an airport locker. I took the airport locker key and hid it in a box of cereal. Then my wife threw out the cereal and now I'm screwed.
You too?
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Adventure is controversial? I've never known it to have many vocal detractors. Most people like it and the rest don't bother to shake up the (mostly undeserved) Haterade about it like they do about Pac-Man, ET, DK, etc.
Controversial? Uh, well, yeah! Everytime somebody mentions the fact that they do not like Adventure, there is a gaggle of people armed with a keyboard ready to defend it. There have been threads after threads about it and the arguments stay the same on both sides. It is one of those games where some will love, others will hate and yet, the world keeps spinning!
The simple reality seems to be that if you had Adventure as a kid and spent 80 hours a week playing it, you loved it then, you lkove it now and you'll love it when you're six-feet under.
For a newbie, I do not think it is the best game to start off with, which is why I recommended staying clear until he got his Atari feet grounded. Then, with a sense of getting "every" great 2600 title out there, he will obviously get to it eventually.
Hey man, this is like a cult - once you get a taste, you become addicted, brainwashed and shave your heads - AND YOU LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
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I think I am interpretting this question differently - the best place to start is to decide what type of retro-gamer you are going to be...there are many different types. Myself, I have 227 atari 2600 titles which I accumulated in a three month period, mostly on ebay because I did not know any better. For the most part, I generally stick to about forty or so games and have to make a special decision to grab a different title if I want to expand my playlist.
I do not collect games because of their value, but rather because, IMHO, the 2600 is a pure, clean gaming experience and the playability on many of these games is better than any of the flashy, modern games with little soul and no heart.
There are also those who collect because they like acquiring and then selling the rare games, which can be quite lucritive. There are those who have these games in an attempt to break records - those who have 49 different game systems and 5,487 unique game titles - those who are attempting to obtain one of every game ever released (that means every different vendor who released, for example, Space Invaders - there were six of them), those who only collect Complete Games (cart, manual and box), those who only collect the games they had as a child, those who had never experienced Atari and have fallen in love, those who love puzzle games, sports games or shooter games, etc., There are those who obsess about every point and those who are horrible at actually playing the games and could care less. In a nutshell, every type of collector is represented here and the sooner you figure out which one you will be, the better the experience will be and the more money you will save as you will not waste time collecting games you will play only once.
It is also important to educate yourself on the resources out there and familiarize yourself with the lists of what are generally considered to be the best games. This site is the best I've found for the 2600, 5200 and 7800 (sorry, folks, that is where I stop). However, there are also other sites out there and some of them are pretty good.
You can do a search in this forum for the "top 100" titles, "favroite games" or something like that. It is probably a good idea to start collecting the games most people regard as the best of all-time (for example, space invaders, pitfall, pitfall 2, KaBoom!, Warlords, Indy 500, Ms. Pac-Man, solar fox, circus atari, river raid, etc., It is probably also a good idea to avoid some of the more controversial games (like ET, Pac-Man, Adventure, etc.,) at least until you get your feet grounded. Spend some time reading through old old threads and feel free to send Private Messages (PM's) to anyone whose answer seems to be close to how you might feel. There are some very smart people on this site, filled with every type of knowledge there is about Atari - from the technical specs to art work to conventions, game play and trivia.
Welcome to a great hobby!
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Is there anyone here with more than one that wants to sell/trade one of them?
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It occurs to me that this is a great way to take a great game that you love and turn it into a game you cannot stand to play.
After the 8,000th bottle/can, even the best pinot noir tastes like crap, no matter how good it is.
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I just accomplished a personal goal of breaking 1,000,000 on Solar Fox (Atari 2600) which I have been aiming for these past six months.
Although I think this is pretty impressive, I know there some guy out there thinking to himself that he wouldn't get out of bed if the best he could do on Solar Fox is a mere 1,000,000!! And even though it took six months, I think my proudest video gaming moment occurred when I finally got the secret word (HELIOS) after completing five bonus puzzles on Solar Fox (in a game I only scored ~770,000).
Anyway, this got me thinking, what are some of your personal proudest moments in video gaming. I'm not necessarily asking for world records, although, hey, if you got 'em and you're proud of 'em, list 'em. It could be everything from getting past the first !#@$%^#!!!! screen in Dodge 'em (2600) to finishing first on the AA 2600 High Score Competition. Obviously, it could be any system (I just happen to be mentioning 2600 again and again).
I'll give you another example - playing a 162-game schedule on Tony Larusa Baseball (Genesis) & winning the home run title or batting title - something like that -
Any takers?
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I got The Haunting last week and gave a it a few plays. I agree with your assessment that it is original, but to be honest, I find it not so responsive and somewhat diffisult to get hooked on. Am I not giving this enough of a chance or am I in the situation where "if you donot get it from the start, you will not get it?"
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Does anybody know of a good place in Washington DC or Maryland?
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Final Update - Thank you everyone - I've finished selling here - thank you all!
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Thanks for your words and understanding of the situation. My wife had to calm me down last night after my last post. She said I usually walk away from my AA time laughing with stories to tell but that last night I looked ready to kill. I guess it hurts because in real life, no one would ever have cause to doubt my motives. When you live an honest, decent life, your actions and words are simply not called in question or doubted as they were here yesterday. If there is something that doesn't sound right, people ask questions to clarify. THEY DO NOT ASSUME THE WORST AND MAKE ACCUSATIONS!Mobs are worse than real trolls. They do more damage because mobs are usually made up of pillars of the community, honorable men and women. The quickly formed "upright citizens brigade" goes on a little crusade hacking and slashing, raping and pillaging, drinking from golden chalices full of warm human blood, then they go back to their self-satisfied lives where they are convinced that they have never committed an evil act, as blood drips down their chins.With that, I'll end my comments on this post...and perhaps on futture posts as well. Who needs this agrrivation?
BTW, the situation you described above sounds like it would be a great video game
- Let's call it "Upright Citizens Brigade" - I've already imagined gameplay and can think of some kick-a** graphics and the box cover. Anyone know how to program? Let's make some money (FREE SHIPPING, of course 
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Keep in mind that the only thing I have to go on is personal experience from what I've seen and been involved in - Here is what I was thinking when I wrote that "more $$ via shipping per item" comment:
A seller is selling 100 games and has them listed individually on ebay starting at $0.01 with $5 shipping for the first item and $0.75 for each additional item. I have seen this time and time again on ebay, often with higher "additional item fees" like $2 or $3. In this case, the seller would make much more money if her sold one game to 100 different sellers because each would pay $5 shipping. So that's $500 plus whatever the games sold for minus shipping and shipping materials.
However, if four people each bought 25 games, the seller would only make $92 plus whatever the games sold for minus shipping and shipping materials (figure $5 for the first game to each seller plus $18 ($0.75 x24) for the other 24 games. $18 +$5 =$23 for each buyer -> hence $92).
In this example, the seller come out ahead $408 by selling to more people. In the first example, the seller makes $5 shipping per item. In the second, he makes $0.92 shipping per item. Hence, if listed separately and sold to many buyers, the seller would make more $$ per item in shipping. There is no trickery, no "gottcha's, etc., It is simply the way it is IF YOU LIST THE ITEMS SEPARATELY.
Hey guys - that is honestly the only thing I was talking about - Go ahead and read it again and see if this makes sense. I don't mind being questioned, but come on here - for some reason I'm getting pissed off at being doubted. Is there anyone out there that can say I've ever cheated anyone here? or come away from a business transaction with me feeling even a bit dissatisfied? I send games FOC to people I've met on this site who have helped me, trusted me or have simply shown friendship. This is nickles and dimes here folks - I'm not trying to screw anyone except the Mrs and since it's Friday evening, things are looking good on that front.
Have a little faith in your fellow retro-gamers. I'm not a newbie, not trying to take advantage of anyone and not trying to steal your pocket change.
I'm going to stop typing here and go calm down. I honestly did not expect this reaction from you guys.
To end on a positive note - thank you to all who have helped. I appreciate the PM's, emails and words of encouragement. Have a blessed weekend.
Marc
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I move the CCT (Center for Conspiracy Theories) there and build the new national office made from...you guessed it, ET carts
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How about a shout out for the old time games that were never given their due -
Solar Fox - 2600
Bump 'n' Jump - 2600
Ristar - Genesis
Trampoline Terror - Genesis
Zoom! - Genesis
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OK - obviously, I need to respond here
My object is not to cheat people out of money using high shipping rates. My object is to learn the best way to sell video games.As I have learned from people on this site, how to get the best deal when buying video games, I now turn to you all to teach me how to get the best deal when selling video games. (later, I will come back and learn write well sentence structure how to).
I'm here to learn folks. Again, thanks for any helpful suggestions you have.
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I'm getting ready to unload several hundred video games and am looking for the best way to do this which balances the amount of work for me and the profit I'll make. Actually, I'm looking for the most profit
Any suggestions??For the specifics, I have roughly 350 total games to get rid of (which would halve my collection of Genesis and 2600 games) - 300 Genesis games (90 dupes + about 200 other unique titles) along with about fifty 2600 titles and thrity 2600 dupes. I have not yet firmly decided which specific games are going and which are staying but the estimates are accurate.
I know the obvious answers of List them in the AA MArketPlace or Sell them on ebay. I am looking for more specific answers , especially from anyone who successfully sells video games for profit. If I were to list them on ebay, is it better to list them in one huge lot (or several smaller lots - perhaps by genre) which is obviously less effort on my part but I fear will yield less money/profit OR should I list them individually - which is more work for me but would probably yield more money/profit as I can make more $$ via shipping per item?
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Video Game Myths: Fact or Fiction?
in Atari 2600
Posted · Edited by silverpoodleman
In the Yahoo! Video Games section today, the title topic is Video Game Myths: Fact or Fiction?. Now, I'm sure you can guess where I'm going here because this topic has been brought up a thousand times on this forum. Since I have nothing to personally add, I'll simply paste the section.
Million of Atari games are buried in the New Mexico desert
Anyone who experienced the mind-cramping pain of attempting to play E.T. for the Atari 2600 knows that one of two things should happen to any copy of that game: it should be burned or buried. As it turns out, Atari opted for the latter...in a big way.
In early 1983, things could not have been going worse for Atari. The one-time king of the home video game consoles had suddenly found itself in enormous debt after a series of unfortunate events: competing systems from Coleco and Mattel were stealing market share, the new Atari 5200 was panned for being unwieldy, and low sales of its troubled Pac-Man port and its legendarily bad tie-in to Steven Spielberg's smash hit E.T. gave the software giant a black eye. As consumer interest waned, retailers returned boatloads of unused stock to an Atari warehouse in El Paso.
And by boatloads, we mean millions of games. So what does an ailing company do with roughly 10 million cartridges it can't sell to a disinterested customer base? How about poke around New Mexico for a suitable dumping ground and bury the problem altogether?
That's precisely what happened. According to the Alamogordo Daily News and confirmed by the New York Times, a city landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico provided the answer to Atari's cartridge conundrum. To be safe, they steamrolled the mound of product flat and, for good measure, covered the resulting game pancake in concrete.
Fact or Fiction? Fact!