Back from the Dead Again. Putting some goodies on eBay today

[Joystick Jolter]

Hi all,

For those that remember me, and certainly all the "Big" names

who have been around awhile do, I'm back. I'm unloading some of

my one of a kind paperwork on eBay. Today is just a drop in the

bucket. I'll probably be putting stuff up every few days for a while.

I think I might even have a prototype or two left in my bag of tricks.

 

Check for seller: postcardmary (my wife's account)

 

[Joystick Jolter]

Have fun shopping. As I said this stuff is

One of a kind stuff..No one else I've seen

selling it anyway...

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8123721359

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8123721339

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8123721407

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8123721387

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=8123721367

[MrRetroGamer]

In your auction, you state the following:

 

IN THE EARLY 1980's I WROTE AND EDITED A  

VIDEOGAME NEWSLETTER AND PRODUCED A

TELEVISION PROGRAM ON GAMES AND COMPUTERS.

 

Can you elaborate on this please?

[Joystick Jolter]

Mr Retro Gamer,

Surely you must remember me as long a member as you

are. I've been up and down on here for I guess a couple of

years. I've sold some things that a few of the regulars have

bought as well. I've sold some real goodies in the past, such

as a complete boxed Malagai and Out of Control. Plenty of

prototypes as well. I'll tell you for sure Alex, Albert, CPUWIZ,

Tempest, Marco and Curt Vendel will all tell you I'm the "REAL

Deal".

I'll give you a little background. In the very early eighties

I got very pissed when buying my son a game for the Atari 2600.

It was an outright rip off. Can't remember which game it was but,

It may have been Pac Man, but I seem to think it was earlier. I

was furious because there was absolutely nowhere anyone could

get info on a game until it was out about 3 months and by then if

you or one of your friends hadn't already bought it you knew

nothing about it other than its name. I decided that I was going to

do something. I began a newsletter called the JOYSTICK JOLTER,

got a lot of laughs out of the name too. Done purposely for name

recognition. I started concentrating on videgame stores or places

that sold games. Using a few mailing lists I soon was over a couple

of thousand customers. By then I had contact with all the major

companies getting eprom, prototypes, press releases,etc. A couple

of my reviews were quoted by the likes of Atari, Activision, CBS,

Xonox and a couple others. As we approached 1984 the roof started

to fall in on the game industry and the home computer industry

began to make strides into the homes of regular people. Not only

"NERDS" . I switched the name of the newsletter to the Home Computer

and videogame newsletter. Continued that a while and I had been

doing some local access net television in Passaic,Bergen counties in

New Jersey. Got a lot of publicity out of that and got a chance to do a

weekly 30 minute show on a network called CTN(Cable Network of

New Jersey). That was on every cable network in the state. It was

late 1984 I guess. I even had Activision's Steve Kitchen on and did

a 30 minute interview. Wish I had the tape of that because it was a

"Super" show. Well when the Home Computer crash joined the Video

Game crash. I crashed with them. Lost quite a bit of money on a

couple of unnamed ventures and vowed to never go back to any of

that.

So here I am today with quite a bit of paper work from the major

and minor manufacturers of the day left. Why not allow the gamers of

today that have kept what was a dream for me back then alive. I've

sold off a lot but still have quite a bit left. Unfortunately I threw out all

my old computer stuff, but saved most of the videogame junk ;^) .

I lost some to a blown water heater some years ago, but everything I

have is in "Like New" condition. I'm sure some of those who have been

customers of mine in the past will vouch for that. Hope I didn't bore

you!

 

The Joystick Jolter

Tony

[CPUWIZ]

I'll tell you for sure Alex, Albert, CPUWIZ,

Tempest, Marco and Curt Vendel will all tell you I'm the "REAL

Deal".

 

Yep, anytime, got some real treasures from him in the past.