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  3. Posted

    How about taking them outside for a game of tag?

     

    Errr, because I don't want to encourage them to visit or approach me :) My repeated use of the words "brats" should have made this clear!

     

    Now, tag with a taser gun maybe..

     

    I should have mentioned they don't actually really care to play video games. They just like breaking stuff! At one point they preferred to run around with sticks knocking things over than play Xbox (choice of 100 games).

     

    I am after a Flashback2 and a Commodore 64 DTV2 (for myself!) but I don't think they are available in Australia.

  5. Posted

    By the way, you mentioned in your post something called "Astro Wars". Is that a dedicated console? I'd like to know more.

     

    I'm not cluey on the lingo so someone else can say what this is (I just call it a tabletop game):

     

    Astro Wars Link

     

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    I used to play this as an annoying 8 year old who was too poor to own one himself so would just hang out at the neighbours kids place, back in 1981 or whenever they came out.

     

    I don't really know if they are rare or not (in Australia), but I'm pretty happy to have one in perfect nick.

     

    Thanks for all the suggestions (I couldn't beat someone elses kids, not while anyone was watching anyway, ho ho), and locking the games room isn't an option because it is also my home bar and I'm a raging alcho.

     

    I will either buy some sort of display cabinet/china hutch/type thing with glass doors I can lock, or build something shoddy myself with MDF and Perspex. Give it a few kicks scratches and burns for that retro look.

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    Just relax.

     

    Keep em away from CD media as that can be scratched and let em enjoy the common megadrive/genesis games. I often entertain my 3.5 year old and his 4 year old best buddy with the genny. Right now for example they're into dinosaurs, spaceships and spiderman. Not a problem for the genesis, its got almost every kid craze covered from thomas the tank engine to Power Rangers. Right now my son is quite fond of "hedgehog", he loves jumping on the bees, fish and trucks . If he grumps out and breaks the genesis I'd number one - be shocked since its one tough cart machine and two not be worried since I can replace it for under $20 any time. Heck my son can even take the cart out and put another in all by himself, he can start the game from full off to playing...quite the fathering moment!

     

    That's all well and good for the replaceable and tough stuff. No problems there. Have got spare 2600Jr and 2 spare Megadrives.

     

    Was more a question for the stuff that isn't so hardy... a few of my Hanimex consoles have got ultra frail little joysticks, and there are also power/tv cables (the hardwired straight-into-the-console kind) that wouldn't survive a yank.

     

    As I mentioned am building up quite a number different units and would rather not have to keep an eye on them or have to pack them away all the time. Theft is another concern as my games room is detached my from house, and friends of friends come and go for parties which I can't always keep an eye on.

     

    I had in mind a particular nephew who just ain't right - I got him a wallet and him threw it up into a prickle tree. Got him the Spiderman web slinger glove thing and he threw it on the ground and stomped it. And that's his own stuff he's destroying!

  7. Posted

    What are people doing with their collections (that are still working) so sticky little fingers of nephews and visitors kids don't get into them? I'd like to have them out and viewable and playable, but not for descructive little brats.

     

    I've recently picked up a CVS, 2 Juniors, and also a Master System, 3 Mega Drives, an Astro Wars, 6 different "TV Tennis" type consoles (3 Hanimex, 3 other brands, 2 are cartridge based), and something else I'm not sure. With more to come. Also trying to get a Vic20, c64, ZX81, Spectrum 48+ as I had those as a lad.

     

    So too many to pack up and put away everytime (without grumbling) when an unexpected brat arrives. I'm fine with myself and mates using them because being from that era that grew up with them, can appreciate and take due care. But I can see a brat picking up my mint condition, working, not-a-scratch-on-it Astro Wars table top game and dropping it on the floor (and my games room floor is concrete). Arggh!

     

    I was thinking perhaps construction of some sort of unit, with a Perspex (acrylic sheet) front or top that can be hinged and locked. Will probably need room for 10 consoles now and up to 15 in the future. Like a custom display case or something. Can even have the consoles laid out flat horizontally, not vertically as I have a massive ugly table (about 3m x 1m) that I can put it on.

     

    Anyone got ideas or current implementations? My games room is 12 metres by 6 metres in total (in 2 sections, 9x6 and 3x6) so I'm not lacking in space. (That's about 39 feet by 19 feet for non-metric folks).

     

    Would love to hear ideas or pictures of other peoples secure setup.

     

    Cheers!

  8. Posted

    I'm so foolish!

     

    I had a power supply all along. So now I've got 2 Juniors and a regular CVS.

     

    I've also recently picked up a Master System, 3 Mega Drives, an Astro Wars, 6 different "TV Tennis" type consoles (3 Hanimex, 3 other brands, 2 are cartridge based), and something else I'm not sure.

     

    What are people doing with their collections (that are still working) so sticky little fingers of nephews and visitors tots don't get into them? I'd like to have them out and viewable/playable, but not for descructive little brats.

     

    I was thinking perhaps construction of some sort of unit, with a Perspex (acrylic sheet) front or top that can be hinged and locked. Will probably need room for 10 consoles now and up to 15 in the future.

     

    Anyone got ideas or current implementations? My games room is 12metres by 6metres in total so I'm not lacking in space.

     

     

    Cheers!

  9. Posted

    I have one of the old "game/tv" switches.

     

    No idea if they make them anymore. Maybe check the Dick Smith, Tandy and Jaycar websites?

     

    These days multi A/V switches are the go. Theoretically, you could hack up a couple of adaptors.

     

    Or, easier still - you can cheaply buy Y-adaptors which allow 2 aerial inputs for one output.

     

    I see.. I'm probably dreaming to be able to find some sort of multiple-input RF switch right? I've got about 5 old "RF only" consoles (mainly the old "TV Game" late-70s type, with built in games only) so far with more coming, and delicate cables on them. Would piggybacking a bunch of Y adaptors work?

     

    Will do a search for a more elegant solution..

     

    Can't see myself hacking anything up, except maybe the ends of my fingers! Already have various A/V switches, AV transmitters/receivers hooked up to TVs, PCs and Xboxes at my place, last thing I want is my poor electrical skills blowing something up..

  10. Posted · Edited by scottchicken

    @accousticguitar:

    Thanks, I did stumble across that site a few days ago but lost patience searching and navigating, awful web design! Will try again.

     

    @dark-aleph:

    Where I bought the units from took the pictures (using a power supply from a borrowed unit they claimed), so I am half suss as to whether they work or not, therefore a bit hesitant on making a big investment on sourcing power supplies!

     

    Thanks for that info, thats exactly what I was after. The power adaptor uses a 3.5mm tip as opposed to the plug-type that is used these days?

     

    Now I have happened to pick up a 2600/VCS (pic below) with all cables which should arrive in a few days, will I be able to use its power adaptor to test out the Junior units?

     

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    @rheffera:

    That would be unreal!

     

     

    New Question - as a kid I had one of those old Hanimex pong-clone units, a ZX81 etc, and I remember having a RF switch, a black box with just "TV" and "GAME" written on it so you didn't have to keep unpluging things. Can you get these today? With multiple RF inputs? As I amass a collection of my youth I'd like to save fragile cables from plugging and unplugging. Most of what I have collected so far have the hard wired TV (RF or two pronged thingy) cable plug.

  11. Posted

    Hi all,

     

    Forgive my "lack of the lingo" as I'm not entirely sure of specific models etc.

     

    I have 2 consoles which I believe are the 2600 Junior (with the flat black casing with silver/rainbow trim):

     

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    I don't have either power supplys or tv/rf cable connectors for them. I'm in Australia so we're on 240V, but don't know what the console power requirements are - are there generic power adaptors I can buy or is this Atari specific.

     

    And I have no idea about what to use to connect it to the TV..

     

    Any pointers would be appreciated.

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