My Geek Retreat

[Amiga4Eva]

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.

[zapposh]

What I like best is your TV with the round knobs. Love it! :-)

Very nice collection. Many of your games look like australian releases.

[SlowCoder]

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.

[toptenmaterial]

Good stuff! Welcome to AA!

[Amiga4Eva]

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?

[icbrkr]

You get extra points for having a 500 and a 1200

[Amiga4Eva]

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.

[bomberpunk]

i thought the Double Dragon VCS cart said DOUBLE BACON at first. got excited for nothin

[Amiga4Eva]

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.

[vectorman61890]

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.

[Amiga4Eva]

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/

[pis]

Fantastic collection! Welcome to atariage.

And yes, the tv is definently the crownjewel.

[jamesk]

I love your organization. All of my stuff is a mess.