MaximumRD

Sweet find for my collection! (Reveal @3min 43sec) THANKS!   
 
 
Description - Surprise RETRO GAMING find! Cool addition to the collection! 
Reluctantly decided to check our Electronics / Appliances Recycling Bin and to my surprise I was amazed to find a sweet addition to my Classic Gaming collection! Needless to say I will be checking it on a daily basis lol.

Gotta admit clones with built in games intrigue me. 

Thanks for sharing. 

Heh well we already had our Canadian Thanksgiving but still, I am thankful for this site for the awesome supportive people, for the type of community that is different from others as far as the whole feeling and general vibe we have here. Thankful to have a place where we can all appreciate and discuss whatever classic gaming or computing platform that we grew up with or have nostalgia for without it sinking into "platform wars" or which console or computer was "better" endlessly that seems to happen in every other group or forums that are into our hobby. Thankful for the people who took a chance to check us out and stuck around long enough to "get" what sets us apart  lastly very thankful I met Justin and finally decided to become part of the team here, I do not admin or moderate any other place (well besides some Facebook groups I created) but I am glad took a chance to be a moderator here and have no regrets.   

Atari I/O Member Stores are an easy way to set up shop in our community. We encourage our members to buy and trade with each other, expand their collections and discover new interests. Just like a farmers market, it's a great way to barter, find what you need and get to know your community too.

Open your own store! Post pictures of your items, edit your layout, set prices, add graphics and play with fonts. You can create links to your PayPal, eBay, Etsy, Atari I/O Member Feedback and more. Post links to your store on your blog, social media, and on other websites. You have a space on Atari I/O that's entirely your own, for you to build and customize as you want.



HOW DO I OPEN A STORE?
Create a new topic in the Member Stores forum Include your user name somewhere in the topic title as the name for your store. For example: "Greenween's Game Store", "Mrs. Rowsdower's Nerdery" or "MaximumRD's Shop of VHS Horrors" If you'd like to start with a pre-defined template, send me a PM with your store info and graphics, and we'll set the page up for you


BENEFITS

No Membership Fees No Transaction Fees Bartering with other members is strongly encouraged Trade with friendly neighbors you know


WHO CAN OPEN A MEMBER STORE?

Member Stores are for anyone and everyone who would like to set up shop and engage in friendly, fair commerce within our community. Member stores are for:

The classic gamer who loves to buy, sell and trade, and wants to set up a small shop of their own The member with an Etsy store who creates nifty hand-made retro treasures The vintage collector with lots of magazines and VHS tapes The locally owned record store with a love of retro goodness and a desire to be active at Atari I/O The guy with a booth at the flea market The member with an eBay store who always has items up for grabs The long established Atari vendor who wants to reach out and become an active part of our community with an “information desk” inside of Atari I/O
Member Stores are for everybody who is an active member here and wants to participate!



HOW DO MEMBER STORES WORK?

We put a great deal of thought into how we’d like to do this and decided that simple is best. Member Stores start out as a blank topic that is yours to customize. Functionally it differs from a normal thread in that responses are turned off, so the thread remains your storefront, exclusively, and doesn't become cluttered with conversation. You can set up your store and edit it the same way you would a normal post. Like a normal post, up to 12 images, 14 emojis, and 2 videos can be used. We've even added new Member Store emojis, like the PayPal logo, to make it easy for you to build and edit your store! You have the freedom to develop your page any way you want. When you sell out of an item, or have a new item to list, you can come back to edit it again and again. The Member Stores forum sorts topics alphabetically based on the name of the poster to make it easier to search for a friend's store. Member Stores are not online shopping cart systems or methods for processing payment, they are a private space for you to set up a store front within our site.

If you need help getting started let me know! I am always happy to help set up your new store.



WHAT IS REQUIRED?

In order to have a store you must:
Have achieved Orange Member status in the forums (around 100 posts) Accept PayPal Have multiple items available for sale* Your store must be more than a Trade List You must affix prices to all items listed in your store, or the items you link to elsewhere Keep your store looking clean, accurate and up to date Maintain a good reputation One store per person Abide by our House Rules No price gouging please Bartering with other members is encouraged
Items in your store do not have to be video game related. Board games, classic toys, comics, books, magazines, cards, collectibles, vintage items, apparel, computers, electronics, pinball components, artwork, hand made crafts, closeout items, pretty much anything relevant to our community is welcome in the store!

Services ARE able to be listed in your store! For example, if you offer an A/V Modding service and you want to set up a store as a "home base" to sell your services.
 
NOTE: If you have not yet achieved the number of posts needed for Orange Member status but are a Verified Vendor or Verified Etsy Member, we will waive the restriction and set up a store for you.
 
 
 
 BARTER SYSTEM IS ENCOURAGED

Barter is a system of exchange where goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services rather than for money. Essentially, a barter is a trade. Example: "He bartered his record collection for her comics." Bartering has many advantages in this setting. Instead of buying and selling with each other using PayPal, you can barter goods and services with other Atari I/O Members to avoid paying transaction fees. It would also be possible to trade goods for services, and vice versa. For example, in lieu of monetary payment for games or other goods, another member could barter services with you, such as AV modding your game console or performing a repair service. Bartering is not a requirement of Atari I/O Member Stores but it is strongly encouraged as a way to strengthen our community while circumventing transaction fees. Let others know you're open to bartering by using the Barter emoji in your store.



NEED HELP SETTING UP YOUR STORE?

Getting started with setting up your store can be tricky. It's not always easy to design your page or get the layout just right. To help you, we've created three Example Stores for you to use as a design template. You can start with the template design and make it your own in any way that you'd like. If you have questions, or if you need help and would like us to complete the initial setup of your store for you, send me a PM with all of your information and I will be happy to complete setting up the template for you. Please be sure to include all of your info in the PM, including which Example Store you'd like to use as your page layout (Example A, B or C).

Once we've completed setting up the page layout template for you, you can customize the page with whatever images and text you'd like. You can also include your price list and up to 12 images that you'd like to use on the page, and we can nearly complete your store for you. (Please be sure the images roughly fit the dimensions of the images in the page layout you've chosen. See template pages below for more.) We have also created some Tips for Building Your Member Store to help you along the way.

NOTE: Example Stores are not real stores. They were created to give you a template to follow, and show what can be done in the Member Stores with a bit of effort and creativity.


Example Stores:
Example A: The Jag Bar Official Store Example B: MaximumRD's Shop of VHS Horrors Example C: Zontar's Turbo Zone
Corresponding Page Layout Templates:
Example A - Template Example B - Template Example C - Template

NOTE: Stores operate solely as independent third parties. We don't process payments, and of course, Atari I/O makes no warranty and bears no responsibility for the actions and products of third party stores. Your creation of a Member Store constitutes your complete understanding and acceptance to these terms.

* “Multiple Items” does not necessarily mean “Multiple Products” or “Multiple UPC Codes”. For example, if you make Jaguar Rotary Controllers and you want to set up a store only to sell your Jaguar Rotary Controllers, go for it! We ask that you have more than one controller available upon request. Custom “made to order” products are acceptable so long as you continue to keep that product or service available at quantity. “Multiple Items” means that if all you have for sale is the one loose Space Invaders cartridge you have lying around, it’s not enough to warrant the creation of a store and should be listed in the For Sale forum.

Best of wishes on starting your new store!

Enjoy,

For those that missed it the entire MST3K 2016 Turkey Day Marathon is linked HERE from the MST3K Youtube Channel 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphKSOuaov0&feature=youtu.be
 
For MST3K Fans on Facebook join my humble but awesome group HERE 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximumrdmst3k/  

Classic TV Commercials - Amiga 500
Atari Fitness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq8GFF5zbHk

Classic TV Commercials - Amiga 500
Atari Fitness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq8GFF5zbHk

For those that missed it the entire MST3K 2016 Turkey Day Marathon is linked HERE from the MST3K Youtube Channel 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphKSOuaov0&feature=youtu.be
 
For MST3K Fans on Facebook join my humble but awesome group HERE 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximumrdmst3k/  

Heh well we already had our Canadian Thanksgiving but still, I am thankful for this site for the awesome supportive people, for the type of community that is different from others as far as the whole feeling and general vibe we have here. Thankful to have a place where we can all appreciate and discuss whatever classic gaming or computing platform that we grew up with or have nostalgia for without it sinking into "platform wars" or which console or computer was "better" endlessly that seems to happen in every other group or forums that are into our hobby. Thankful for the people who took a chance to check us out and stuck around long enough to "get" what sets us apart  lastly very thankful I met Justin and finally decided to become part of the team here, I do not admin or moderate any other place (well besides some Facebook groups I created) but I am glad took a chance to be a moderator here and have no regrets.   

I had a great trade with Starbuck66!  
 
Everything was in great shape, and he was a pleasure to work with.

 

Heh well we already had our Canadian Thanksgiving but still, I am thankful for this site for the awesome supportive people, for the type of community that is different from others as far as the whole feeling and general vibe we have here. Thankful to have a place where we can all appreciate and discuss whatever classic gaming or computing platform that we grew up with or have nostalgia for without it sinking into "platform wars" or which console or computer was "better" endlessly that seems to happen in every other group or forums that are into our hobby. Thankful for the people who took a chance to check us out and stuck around long enough to "get" what sets us apart  lastly very thankful I met Justin and finally decided to become part of the team here, I do not admin or moderate any other place (well besides some Facebook groups I created) but I am glad took a chance to be a moderator here and have no regrets.   

For me it's not about Atari or the games...it's about the friends and family that Atari, and gaming in general, have allowed to come together as one and sharing similar interests for a hobby that is like no other.  The people gathering around to enjoy games, even for just a few minutes, is what Atari was really about.  Thanksgiving is about giving thanks for a bountiful harvest for everyone to enjoy.  Similarly, Atari is about family and friends enjoying a good game either with each other or against each other.  Either way, we all live to see another day once the game battle is done.  I really wish that the rest of the world would settle their differences in a game competition instead of with real-life violence.  
 
I give thanks for the fact that I am still living to enjoy another day doing whatever the days bring.  Life is too short and it doesn't hurt a thing to stop what you are doing, slow down, and take a moment to enjoy the friends and family around you that love you and who love you in return.  With that being said I am thankful for all of my family that continue to put up with me daily, all of my friends here at Atari.IO and elsewhere (you know who you are) for all of the positive feelings and passion for everything Atari and more, and for Atari who made home video games an industry that is here to stay.  If it wasn't for Atari and video games I would not have the good memories I have of my family members and friends.  I'm not saying that I wouldn't have good memories of other things but those I do have were made while involving a parent in my world which just happened to be video games.  I can never be thankful enough for those times and for those who fed and kept my hobby alive and well.
 
All of my Atari friends are the best any one could ever ask for.  I am very thankful to have you all a part of my life even if it is just words on a computer screen.  You guys are awesome!  Enjoy this time with family and friends and for those who are traveling I wish you safe travels and safe return.  Not meaning to offend anyone but may God bless everyone of us while we fatten our guts while being surrounded by those we love.  
 
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

Heh well we already had our Canadian Thanksgiving but still, I am thankful for this site for the awesome supportive people, for the type of community that is different from others as far as the whole feeling and general vibe we have here. Thankful to have a place where we can all appreciate and discuss whatever classic gaming or computing platform that we grew up with or have nostalgia for without it sinking into "platform wars" or which console or computer was "better" endlessly that seems to happen in every other group or forums that are into our hobby. Thankful for the people who took a chance to check us out and stuck around long enough to "get" what sets us apart  lastly very thankful I met Justin and finally decided to become part of the team here, I do not admin or moderate any other place (well besides some Facebook groups I created) but I am glad took a chance to be a moderator here and have no regrets.   

I've no capture card, I'd need an Elegato capture card to do it successfully , so until I get one, I might cosier sticking a digital slr in front of the screen.

I have the Reys 128gb arcade attract front end on my raspberry Pi3 and all I can say is wow!! , it a replica of the hyperspin frontend with full video preview and matched game logos from all console and arcade platform , something like 8,000 to 10,000 games here, it's ridiculous but take about 2 hrs to mount the image, I have to say all you'd need is to connect this to a a set of arcade sticks and wacka it into a cab for a full retro gaming arcade suite, would save a fortune on a PC arcade setup.

There are many holidays that we celebrate without giving much thought to. We have the day off, we go stand in line to shop or go to the movies. Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that I like to think about the true meaning of when it comes time to celebrate, and what it means to me. On Thanksgiving Day I'm usually around the people and situations that I'm giving thanks for. My family and friends. The wonderful food I get to eat, and the life I live. That got me thinking about all the wonderful friends I've made in the forums, and the "family" that I don't get to see, except for in here. It made me reflective about how thankful I am for these forums, the "Atari I/O Fam", and the past couple years of experiences that have come with it.  So I wonder...
 
 
What does it mean to you to be part of this community?
 
 
For me it's meant: 
 
Exploring in my hobby in a deeply enriching way.
  To me it's meant being part of something that's a little new and a little different, attempting to pioneer new and creative ways to meet up here every night and include Atari and classic gaming into our lives.
  It's meant Atari Day, High Score Squad, our old Trivia Nights and celebrating Howard Scott Warshaw Day with a round of Insane Yars' Revenge.
  Being part of a movement to make things better through small actions.
  And in my role as a Moderator I've been fortunate in shaping small elements of this website, and hopefully impacted the way you enjoy your hobby as well.
  Most of all it's meant witnessing a new community form out of nothing and come together in ways that feel like we have a genuine bond with each other.  
  Today I am thankful for having all of you as such a nice part of my life.

I know it is a rare pretty much failed console. Oddly, there is actually a flashcart for it! 
 
Here is a video (not mine) DESCRIPTION 
 
"Published on Mar 3, 2016
The unsucessful console Amstrad GX4000 gets a new life with the new flashcart C4CPC. With it, not only You can run the few games released for this obscure console but you can run homebrew games and especially you can run CPC games (both 464 and 6128) converted for it. Note that nowadays is difficult to buy games for this console because they are not common and usually they are expensive."
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hhwVmYpwoQ

Great video on this title, I subbed! 
 
 
 

I know it is a rare pretty much failed console. Oddly, there is actually a flashcart for it! 
 
Here is a video (not mine) DESCRIPTION 
 
"Published on Mar 3, 2016
The unsucessful console Amstrad GX4000 gets a new life with the new flashcart C4CPC. With it, not only You can run the few games released for this obscure console but you can run homebrew games and especially you can run CPC games (both 464 and 6128) converted for it. Note that nowadays is difficult to buy games for this console because they are not common and usually they are expensive."
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hhwVmYpwoQ

So I came across this bad boy tonight in a Tweet. Looked it up because I thought the console looked interested. I have heard of Amstrad but seeing I am in the states I do not have much knowledge of them. This console however caught my eye!!!!! I think I am in love.   haha
 
Anyone on here have any experience with the GX4000? I would love to know what one of you know first hand and what you think of the unit. From what little I know, it is hard to get your hands on one. I guess they did not selling well due to lack of advertising. The games are expensive but I think I still want one! The console is sexy and the games look nice. Reminds me of a Snow Speeder from Empire Strikes Back. HAHA
 
Thanks guys!!!   

Oh and I can't recommend this cart enough!!! It has a TON of great high priced games and a few Famicom exclusives. EBay has them between $15-$25 right now. 

An event indeed! Everyone, please wish our own JUSTIN a HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
 
 Thanks for giving us this great site to form our community!     
 

 
 

As someone once told me...it's dangerous to go alone...here take this!