let's chat ColecoVision

[cOLeCoHiTMan]

Should sell them in Windsor ... apparently they are worth $72

LOL

 

I think I have an extra steering wheel I'll sell for $25 if anyone needs one.

[Yurkie]

I think $25 is fair, especially considering what a huge percentage of them don't work.

[+opcode]

Do you remember the address?

Take a peek into the past with the Wayback machine?

 

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

 

 

 

I also remembered your site at geocities before your opcodegames site. (vgbelloq).

 

http://web.archive.o...lloq/index.html

 

Actually there was an older version, from the 90s. Opcode was still called Coin-Op Games back then. It was hosted on my college's server in Brazil. The main page had this MSX like cursor keys that you could click on to navigate. There were pages for the ColecoVision (with entries for Space Invaders and Pac-Man), Atari, Odyssey2 and intellivision. Yes, I was that naive...

[+opcode]

 

That job you got that time and maybe also now, was/is this computer-related. ?

 

Yes, and I would say unfortunately. I got disenchanted with the computer field while I was in college. In fact I almost quit the course twice. It took me 9 years to graduate. Terrible experience, I hated the course, the professors and mostly everybody else, as they were a bunch of geeks and nerds that loved to talk about programs and algorithms while they were having lunch. Crazy people.

Not too far from the Computer Science department was the Physics department, and I made some friends there. We would spend the afternoons talking about movies, books, comics, games, art, science, whatever but damn analysis of algorithms and stuff like that. I still have nightmares about my college days.

 

C&B Software, what stands C&B for ?

 

Caio & Baia. Baia was my nickname in school. Just don't ask me to explain the meaning here... Caio was my friend's name. He insisted to use Baia instead of Eduardo because according to him it would sound cooler than C&E. And he also insisted that we should use C&B, and not B&C, even though I was supposed to be doing all the programming. But he was the marketing guy, so... His father was involved with licensing Star Wars in Brazil and I dreamed that we could got a license. Of course that never happened...

 

I would gladly see that scetch you have for your arcade controller from 1985.

 

It is in Brazil somewhere. I can try to find it next time I go down there. I still find it amazing that I designed that thing before even seeing similar controllers. And it was very well thought, even including an expansion port on the right side, with clips to hold a secondary controller. I suppose I was way more creative back then.

[coleconut]

Since this kinda an open chat, does anyone else notice or feel that the interest shown in vintage video games is on an upswing again? I mean I thought it was humming along pretty good then I noticed a bit of a drop off lets say a few years ago but in the last year or so I'd say it is accelerating again. A possible barometer is Craigslist/Kijiji. I used to see only a few ads for older stuff and now there are pages upon pages for every console type and the prices people are asking are increasing. I mean on average, never mind those stupid ones. And seeing single games for Colecovision go for hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on Ebay. Every time an R6 and up shows up on Ebay there is a frenzy. Then there is Youtube. I think you can find a review on just about any given game. I dont know if the stores are doing well, I have a heckuva time finding any retro store that has any reasonable prices its always triple what I'd expect to pay but they seem to sell stuff.

I mean it makes me happy, sometimes I am forced to sell a couple items to fund the hobby and I always seem to make out well on that. I want new blood in the colletors ranks, it sustains interest. I dunno, anyone else agree?

[retroillucid]

...with clips to hold a secondary controller. I suppose I was way more creative back then.

 

Cool, we also designed the Arcade Controller to be able to plug a second controller

 

Guess we were inspired by your previous works without even knowing anything about it

[highinfidelity]

Since this kinda an open chat, does anyone else notice or feel that the interest shown in vintage video games is on an upswing again?

I'd say yes. There are always news, not only in the Colecovision field. The Vectrex is very well alive, and there are impressive new pieces of hardware (and I mean HARDWARE) made for home computers like VIC20 or C64 on an almost regular basis. As a matter of fact I'm having quite a hard time following all the news and tell apart what might interest me from the debris. Forums, homepages and all this stuff are useful, but sometimes an old-style printed magazine, with full articles, editorials and all those things would be extremely useful.

[Yurkie]

All right guys I'm back beer in hand. How's it going tonight?