Amiga4Eva Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Hey all! After browsing a few parts of this site for a magazine article I'm co-writing, I thought I'd take the plunge and sign up. So hi there, my name is James. I'm like a lot of you. I enjoy shiny things from days gone by. While I don't stick to collecting just Atari, it certainly features among my collection. I'm what I like to term an 'active' rather than 'passive' collector - everything you see in these pictures is regularly hooked up and played, I can't just leave it on the shelf. My girlfriend gets dizzy from the amount of unplugging and plugging I do as Commodore 64's come out and Sega Megadrives go in . I'll admit, my strength lies in Commodore/Amiga knowledge rather than Atari (was that hissing I heard from the crowd? ) so I'm going to be poking and prodding you all with Atari based questions. Anyway, it's good to be here. I think I'll stick around. Oh, and before I forget - the pics! (and my blog) (http://mygurumeditation.wordpress.com/my-pictures/) I would have posted them here, but they're all 3MB+ and that might have taken a fair whack of the old intertrons to load. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapposh Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 What I like best is your TV with the round knobs. Love it! :-) Very nice collection. Many of your games look like australian releases. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowCoder Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Welcome to AA. Really nice collection. We're a pretty happy family here ... including a few distantly related quacks. I also like the white TV. It works really well with your Nintendo theme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Good stuff! Welcome to AA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiga4Eva Posted June 16, 2011 Author Share Posted June 16, 2011 What I like best is your TV with the round knobs. Love it! :-) Very nice collection. Many of your games look like australian releases. Seems like everyone loves the TV. It was a gift from my parents, direct from their shed to my collection . Also, I probably should have pointed out I'm from Victoria, Australia - hence why many of the titles are Australian releases . I'm taking delivery today of a whole bunch of Atari HES cartridges (some doubles), which I believe were also Australia only? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icbrkr Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 You get extra points for having a 500 and a 1200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiga4Eva Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 You get extra points for having a 500 and a 1200 Two of my prized possessions along with my CD32 (Although I'm still hunting for original controllers for the CD32 ) Both the 500 and 1200 could do with a floppy drive clean, but who can find those floppy disk cleaning kits these days!? Well, except for eBay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberpunk Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 i thought the Double Dragon VCS cart said DOUBLE BACON at first. got excited for nothin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiga4Eva Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 i thought the Double Dragon VCS cart said DOUBLE BACON at first. got excited for nothin I actually just fired up DD on the 2600 today. Damn! Hardest version of Double Dragon ever. So unforgiving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vectorman61890 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Luigi by the TV is genius lol. Very nice setup. And another person reminding me how awesome the vectrex is and that I still need to get one. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amiga4Eva Posted July 26, 2011 Author Share Posted July 26, 2011 Luigi by the TV is genius lol. Very nice setup. And another person reminding me how awesome the vectrex is and that I still need to get one. Great stuff. Thanks And yeah, the Vectrex is ace. I've got some updated pics here - http://mygurumeditation.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/a-collectors-story-in-pictures-again/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pis Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Fantastic collection! Welcome to atariage. And yes, the tv is definently the crownjewel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesk Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I love your organization. All of my stuff is a mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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