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  2. Posted

    wow. that game last time was when I first joined this site. I have not been on for some time, but figureded I would drop in and see what is happening. TO find this, Last one was amazing and fun. Not sure if it is solved yet, but if it is I dont want the answer!

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    Hard to say, He might have taken it into the GameStop and gotten offered $80 for it and wanted more.

    It's suspicious when a guy in a van pulls up to you in the parking lot and asks if you want to buy *insert product*

    Not so much so a guy trying to hock a game system outside a GameStop.

    If you knew what lousy deals they make you on used stuff, you'd understand. A friend of mine went to sell his PS2 and about 40 games so he could get a PSP. He wound up not selling them most of the stuff.

    He didn't like the sound of letting the games go for .50 a game!!

    I know once I was in one of those places not near where I live. I mom came in with a Dreamcast and like 20 games. The guy offered her like 20 dollars for all of it. She was ticked but was just about to when I said I would give her35 for it all. She took it and I was happy. the guy on the other hand was very pissed. too bad, he could have offered her more. I loved when he told me to get out and the lady yelled at him. I probably would not do that at a store I frequent, but I figured what the hell.

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    Where are you located? I can suggest a few great sellers in the country.

     

    C

    I am locaded in NE PA in the poconos, SO I am not far from Phili or NYC (within an Hour and a half of Phil and Hour from NYC) THanks for any help

    I looked on Ebay but am uneasy about that as I really do not know much about games, and probably could not fix one if it was not working well.

  7. Posted

    OK, I finally built my new house and I have room to start building an arcade area. but I really have no Idea where to go to buy them. I don't want many, but I want the ones I played as a kid, where do I go, and how much do they run about? I see multi games, but I don't want that kind of thing, I want old ones! Where do you guys get yours from?

  8. Posted

    http://www.challengearcade.com/

     

    Located in the Berkshire Mall in Wyomissing, PA . Thier pictures page doesn't seem to be working but I've been there and it's a very cool 80's style arcade.

     

    Dan

    OOOH, I live in the Poconos and not to far from there, I am going to have to get a pocket of quarters and spend a Sat morning there!

     

    I know last year I was at Disney in FL and went to their arcade place (cant remember the name, but there was a whole floor of them. I spent some time there, it was great!

    Also for those in south Jersey or Phili. At seaside Heights there is an arcade by the indoor Carousel that is all 80's games. just like back in the day when I was a kid and went there.

  9. Posted

    Local for me was a bowling alley Greenbrook Lanes, they had a decent one, 8 on the Break. and Blue star skating had a big one upstairs. I liked that b/c my Dad managed the place when I was little and I used to go with him on weekends and "help" out either in the skating ring or the arcade. I loved that, I would get to play anything I wanted but it was early on in VG history.

  11. Posted

    got nailed like this the other day. I was buying a speaker selector and was winning with under 10 secs, then I lost. what ticked me off was the "final" wining bid was like 5 seconds after close. pissed me off.

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    I had a 2600 when it first came out. I was 8. It was the last game We bought till I graduated college and bought a friend's NES. I loved my Atari, but I did not have many games until after the crash when I bought bunches of them for like a buck at some closeout store. I remember I had 2 good friends one had the Intelli which I just loved. I thought it was the greatest game ever (I still like playing mine now) and another had the Colecovision, But he ended up playing a lot of my 2600 games on it as he had the adaptor and not many games. I did like Venture on it though. I was never envious until NES came out and I really wanted to get one.

  17. Posted

    prices are lower today then back then. You must think of it as a percent of your income. The average income in 78 was much lower than today. so $200 as a percent of that lower amount is a higher percent then 600 as a percent of the average salary today.

  18. Posted

    IMHO this game has been changed enough to be considered an original release and not just a pirate hack of Space Jockey.

     

    In a very non-optimized non-expert disassembly, it looks like almost all of the Space Jockey code is (mostly) intact, with a few extra subroutines wedged in and most of the artwork changed.

     

    Of course, in those days, without having the advantages of modern assemblers and disassemblers, the wise thing to do would be to leave as many things in place, so that you wouldn't inadvertently disturb something. That implies that the hacker did not have access to the original source code, but I think this was assumed from the beginning.

    I know nothing about programming. Air Raid just looks completely like a different game to me then Space Jockey. The case really sets this apart from all other games, as it's original. I see Listspy says that Air Raid shares 56% of the code with Space Jockey though. The debate is then at what point does a game become original? To me it is when you are playing a game and have no idea that that it is related to a different game. I wouldn't know the difference until someone told me.

     

    Good point on them not wanting to mess too much with things though. It's easier to leave stuff like it is especially if you don't have a lot of tools at the time.

    Good point. 56% does not seem to qualify as a hack to me. I mean bridge and texas hold em have morethan 56% in common yet are 2 completly different games.

  19. Posted · Edited by iguana

    I am going to add my 2 cents with the caveat that I know nothing about pirates or anything like that. Just some observations.

     

    1st are there any games that use this t shape beside this. I ask because economically speaking it would be quite expensive for some pirate to make a small run of this type of casing. If I were to Pirate a game I would look to purchase overruns of carts. or at least purchase casings that were already made so as to cut the costs of casting a new die.

     

    Again this is all from my head so it means absolutely nothing. The only reasonable thing I could think of for development of this type of casing AND the fact that there is no name of a developer or company anywhere to be found is that this cart was created as a sort of Proto. That is a small company put it together in hopes of selling the game to a larger company for distribution. Then I could understand the cost (depending what year this was produced) of setting up a small run casing. It would draw attention from a larger company who could them mass produce it at a lower cost and use the casing as a selling point. This would also explain the lack of any name on the game as well as the lack of any known box or manual, as they would leave that up to the new manufacture to put together in a sales and marketing plan.

     

    If this were the case it would be my guess that once the program itself was reviewed no large producer would want to take it because of the close resemblance to Space Jockey Programming and no smaller producer would want to touch the production costs of that casing. Thus 10 or 15 of these things would have been floated out to several game companies in hopes of a bite.

     

    This again is just my ramblings and I have no proof of any of it. But at least it would kind of all fit together.

     

    either way thanks for sharing this stuff with us. It is real fun to watch you do what 99% of us would not have the balls to do and get some answers. I salute your love for gaming!

  20. Posted · Edited by iguana

    cool score. bottom line is a dollar for anything is probably worth it. I mean really the entertainment you get is way more than a buck. I do feel some of your pain when dealing with jerk vendors. I spoke to one woman who had a 5200. I had been looking for one and was even willing to overpay a bit for one. She would not come down from $100 on it (oh it did have one game) At that I was kind of put off, but offered her much less. SHE YELLED AT ME! yelled right at me saying she could sell it on ebay for 130 easy. I shook my head, put down the couple of things i was going to buy at a reasonable price and walked out laughing. I should have done like Jetset did and gone back with a few ended auctions. I bought one the next week for $20 with a box and 5 games from another place.

  21. Posted

    Last night I was watching My Name is Earl and lo and behold in his ex wife's trailer was a 2600 sitting on the coffee table running (I could not get a good look at the game but it looked like it may have been night driver) No one was playing it, it was just running while Crabman was laying on the couch. I watch this show every week (it is a good show) but never noticed that before, has anyone else seen it on there?

  22. Posted

    yea, if you are looking to buy a bunch of them and it is at a flea market I bet he would cut you a price for much less. I would offer him like $15 for 10-12 carts. This way he is still getting over a buck each and you get 10 games.

  24. Posted · Edited by iguana

    Schrodinger's theory states that the dragons are BOTH dead AND alive at the same time inside the castle. it is not about probability, it relies on your actual observation in the castle. The real question though are do the Dragons exist if you are not in the room? In which case the dragons are not inside the room as there is no room to be inside.

    this is pretty funny though.

  25. Posted

    I did not mean this literally, I think it was all voted on anyhow on their site (though I did not check it out) I just thought it was funny that it came in lower than some of the other toys and they did not use a real 2600.

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