Crazy Climber

Vintage 80's metal Crazy Climber is pumped!! Thanks man!

The size fits the era, you can make it look more like a NES if you want but the Coleco era was the HUGE system era

Home depot has big moving boxes, I've shipped a few things in them before. You can also tape two boxes together, I do it all the time because I'm lazy

Yeah, I was thinking around $70 USPS Standard post (the slow way) which isn't too bad. I just shipped a zizzle pinball machine (about the same size/weight as this for $50ish When you are ready to ship let me know, I've always wanted one of these tanks

You ready to ship this beast yet?

Good thing I read the comments before I sent a lowball offer on the Marty Those things are cool, I have no idea why but they just are!

I knew Best made a DDSB but I've never actually seen one so I think it's rarer than Dukes of Hazzard. It's tough to say value since that depends on if you count best electronics stuff as collectable or not. If you do I think CVGA's $75 number sounds fair, if you don't then it's worth about $20 at best since many people can make you a reproduction with an actual label for that price, lol.

Didn't know Pigs in the Castle ended up getting released, didn't know anything at all about Checked INN! Looks like I'm out of the loop for third party homebrew publishers

I know right? Those look fantastic!!

lol, yeah, even metroid one of the all time best selling NES games is $25 now

Yup! That is the trend lately, just like NES Super C is now worth $40+ when it was a $5 common all day for decades, lol

Price is the kicker here, if it's cheap I'm sure you will get loads of interest...if it costs more than just buying a hack/etc then probably not much

Bman! How you been buddy?

Thanks man! I try to be fair

Hello, I have a "new 3ds" I say new because that is what it is called (I swear nintendo did that purposely to mess with people trying to sell them, lol) but it is actually used...anyways, it's CIB in great shape, maybe 20 hours total use and has the following downloaded games... - 3D Outrun - 3D Space Harrier - NES Mike Tyson punchout - NES River city Ransom - a few RPG games that I can't think of the name off hand Also comes with the Zelda game Triforce Heroes (physical copy) and a CHARGER! Yes, the new 3DS not not come bundled with a charger but I have one that comes with Asking $175 shipped! Let me know if you are interested, Thanks!

China has been changing, the workers are getting paid more and getting more time off. The famous iPhone suicides kind of got the ball rolling on that.... http://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/ There are better links you can find but things are changing beyond just putting nets up so the workers literally can not commit suicide at work, lol

One of the first Amiga games I owned, I remember thinking "why on Earth am I playing a shipping simulator" ending up being a lot of fun though That is hilarious man! I never did play Star Trash, looks cool though

Dang, no Ports of Call!

Oh snap, Gauntlet and Super Sprint homebrew with 4 player team tap, awwww yeah!! I'll probably miss it because I'm not in the loop though, then it will be some extreme limited edition of course, $$$$$ on Ebay, par the course, etc etc...

about $10

Thanks Kiwi!

The thing about Atari collecting is the rare stuff is RARE and the common stuff is COMMON. Anybody just starting out in Atari collecting will wipe out the first hundred or so commons in one Ebay swoop. This makes those same hundred commons sitting at stores and vendor tables just sit there, forever..... If vendors and stores were stocked with mid range to rare stuff, it would move just as fast as anything else, it's just they don't have that. They have those same hundred or so games that every single collector has. Most new collectors start collecting because they scored a big lot, be it from a relative, friend, thrift store or whatever....guess what games were in that lot they scored? You guessed it, those same hundred commons... I think the Crash had a lot to do with this. You can look at what I call "family collections" These would be family systems that eventually get pulled out of the attic to be pawned on Ebay/etc.. The typical Family Atari collection is 50+ games while the typical family NES collection is around a dozen or less games. NES and beyond never experienced the absolute close out prices we did, getting new shrink wrapped games for $1/etc.. this just didn't happen in the following generations. Due to this, the typical "base collection" a new Atari 2600 collector receives already has all these common games that everyone on the planet already owns. The typical "base collection" for NES and beyond just has a mere handful of games making those not so rare games a lot more desirable since yes, they are out there, they are obtainable...but that new collector actually needs them!

Just another one of those childhood images that haunts my brain! The Thundercats logo This is another one of those shows I wasn't really obsessed over or anything but enjoyed. I never went as far as collecting any of it, I don't think I even owned any of the toys back in the 80's but I do remember the TV show quite well and can instantly zap myself back in time by hearing the intro! In tribute to this iconic cartoon of the 80's I made a logo for my garage! This was a fun one because I was able to use a new "tracing" feature I learned in autocad, basically instead of drawing it completely free hand I was able to trace around a picture of the logo I dropped right into the autocad frame, turned out to be a very useful feature for me and was able to replicate the logo rather well Nothing fancy on the materials, just a stock red and black which is a dead on match to the cartoon.... THUNDERCATS......HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

When I was able to help make a pack in for a new Intellivision game I was pretty excited! I had the option of two games, Brick out and Copter Command. I really drew a blank with Brickout, I could only come up with, well, a brick, lol. I had some better "ideas" of course but the limitations of my machine ruled out astronauts and other awesome fantasy art...I started drawing a planet but it just seemed to far of a stretch. Copter Command though seemed very doable, an aluminum cut out of the copter! Piece of cake! I had some large chunks of black aluminum composite that I scored from a stash of left over material (I believe it was library, can't quite remember what we used it for originally) and I was able to make around 200 of them, exactly what he needed! I used black since that is the color of the copter in the game. Here is a shot of one of the pieces after I cut a hundred or so copters out of it... It was a fun project and seemed to get good feedback. It's fun to be a part of things If anyone reading this has a project they are working on and would like me to contribute some way just let me know! Thanks!

This is a Chase the Chuckwagon sign. No real reason behind it, I have zero nostalgia with this game unless you count early collecting nostalgia. The gameplay on it does not tickle my fancy. I guess I just made it because I can? It's another sign that uses a lot of pieces, around 8 total I believe. I wanted to make the full purina logo in the background but the shape of the Dog made it look weird so I went with a 2/3 style background. I suppose I could have tried the sitting dog style and gone with a 9 piece 3/3 background instead of a six piece 2/3 but the thought didn't cross my mind until now, oh well, lol... One plus to this sign is my neighbor has one of these silly little dogs and he saw the sign on my garage, I do believe he now thinks I made the sign for him and his Dog. I guess the more neighbors that do not absolutely hate me the better, I'm not exactly the town favorite in my neighborhood