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    You'll find that a lot of people know about Play'n Trade. I personally hate the chain, whenever I go to one they have games like Combat for $5.

     

    As far as I know, Play 'n' Trade is like Game Force, more of a franchise operation. I've had decent luck with the ones here in Colorado, but then, my purchase rate of 2600 carts has slowed down quite a bit the past couple of years.

     

    As for my latest, I finally pulled the copy of the old Qbert board game out of my parents' place (only 1 piece missing), and one of my mom's sorority sisters got a framed poster of the Enterprise D from the first season of TNG from her work that they were just going to throw out.

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    Ive just got two CRTs right now... worth the effort of moving so that I can still play Duck Hunt, which is the only lightgun game I play at all right now. One's in the computer room for games, the other is in the living room for 'entertaining company' video viewing, and is by all rights the 'backup' unit.

     

    The rest of the video game stuff is a bit bulky, but I can manage when it comes time to move it. I only try not to by everything in sight because I have a limited amount of space to keep it all.

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    What I've noticed, since I got a Heavy Sixer over the weekend and can now compare to my 'Woody', is that my Woody demonstrates not only washed out colors in comparison, but also considerably more static than the H6. The static comes from the lighter internal shielding, the colors are because of some minor circuit changes.

     

    This thread talks about the color issues and the key difference: http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/142708-fine-tune-heavy-2600-picture-over-saturated-pic/

     

    I'm thinking of getting out the soldering iron tonight and modifying the Woody to bring it closer to what the H6 puts out. I might also replace the output cable in an effort to cut down on the interference static.

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    My Apple //e used to tear up channel 5 that my parents would watch off the antenna. It took them forever to figure out what was causing it, in fact I think I was the one that made the connection and for some reason told my dad about it. He'd been putting filters and stuff on the antenna to try and fix it, but nothing ever worked -- except turning the computer off. They finally got cable and that fixed the problem for good. Of the system I have the Intellivision and the Atari Heavy sixer seem way over shielded -- guess they were made before TI had the laws changed.

     

    Certainly, from what I've seen, it's usually easier to stop the offending emissions at the source than to try to shield the television receiver from it. Sometimes, moving the unit a few feet can do it. One also has to recognize that all external peripherals for a computer can serve as antennae (via the cable)... and the FCC does class a computer differently when it has an ethernet CAT5 connected compared to when it doesn't (class A versus class B).

     

    Two things with my apartment, is that when I moved in, living practically on top of an AM radio station, I had to shove my old external dialup modem into an old hard drive case to make it reliable against the rampant RF in the area, and one of my phones has it in the background during daylight hours. And I've had to move my clock radio a couple of times to give it better reception, something like a foot difference.

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    That's a good one! I found a boxed SMS, maybe a year and a half ago and sold it to a nice member here!

     

    $20 for a Sega Master System with one controller, in the box at one of the thrifts that normally isn't all that good to me. This is an incredible find at any thrift, though.

     

    Nice, I haven't seen a SMS at a thrift in years. I passed on one a couple of years ago for some reason and regretted it ever since. I still don't have one today.

     

    Well, I would have bought it for myself anyway, but I have a friend who was interested, and I already have a Power Base Converter, so I'm happy knowing it's gone to a good home. :)

  17. Posted

    The sticks are modified, essentially. They ape the outward appearance of the old CX-40 design, but the interiors are way different. The changes:

     

    Modern carbon dot versus the old metal domes

    The stick part is a screw in piece of solid plastic, versus the original nylon insert and vinyl cover

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    One should remember that, even if they corrected the standards for RF emission, part of the job of the metal shield is to not only keep the stray RF generated by the console inside it, but also to protect the console from the effects of stray RF from other devices. It may not prevent the console from functioning, it can make the video anywhere from slightly more fuzzy to unviewable.

     

    This is likely a potential concern when the FCC auctions off the bands that were allocated to old television, or low power television stations come online in that space.

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    We have PnT here in Denver now, and my experience with that one, and the couple of locations in Colorado Springs I've hit on the roadtrips to hit our Video Game Exchange down there (higher prices, but massive selection!), is that it's a franchise operation like Game Force that we also have.

     

    Unfortunately, we've shed a couple of Game Force locations here in the past year, both of them on my side of town. Out of the remaining ones, my preferences are the store in Boulder, and the store in Aurora that's near the Newsland.

     

    We also have a few Buy Back Games franchises. I've had poor luck with those, but the one in Arvada appears to have massively improved when they moved.

     

    Out of all of these, Game Force and Video Game Exchange appear to be the only ones that routinely carry games prior to the NES.

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    How does Tron Deadly Disks compare against the 2600 version?? Just got that one, too.

     

    The two differences are that you use the keypad to fire the disc, giving independent directional control over firing versus moving. And that you get a chance to 'tap' the drivers of a recognizer that comes over the arena between rounds. One's mileage will vary as to whether or not the independent directionals are a boon or bust with the game, but overall it feels on about the same level.

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    Big Lots

     

    http://www.shopbiglots.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3614964

     

    I secure one on top of the other with steel brackets then brace it into a stud in the wall. These are perfect for NES, 2600, Coleco, Genesis boxed...you name it. And the wife is cool with it. (It's better than all of the boxes I had laying around)

     

    For Big Lots $40 seems a little high. Can we get around $17.99? I've bought 4 already and I'll probably get another 2 'round Xmas.

     

    I use a couple of these in my game area, and another one for videos in the living room.

     

    Occasionally Big Lots will put them on sale for $30. That's where I got the last one.

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