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With the addition of HERO and Cosmic Commuter, I have completed the NTSC Activision games for the 2600. All my other Activision games are complete in box copies, and I hope one day I can upgrade these with CIB copies at a reasonable price.

I got a Core Grafx from a local gamer/collector this morning. He gave me a nice deal, and it came with an AV adapter that outputs composite and RGBs. It was $25 more than a PC Engine, but I was willing to pay a little extra to go with the dark gray case. Very nice looking console and it is tiny -- just the size of a CD case. This is the second console I bought in order to play in the I/O high score challenges. The Everdrive should arrive in a few days.

Was there an option to send it in? I'll have to go back and re-read. I've had an extra Ball Blazer set aside to serve as a POKEY donor for a while.

Nice! Looking good, Rick. The best thing for me is that using an SD cart means I don't have to deal with the death grip of my 7800.

I don't recall pulling off any feats worth remembering in all my years of playing video games. Sad, but then again, I've never considered myself much of a gamer skill-wise. The only thing remotely in-game feat-worthy is something that's not really a feat 😂 I've been playing Halo Reach in Firefight mode (waves and waves of enemies, no story) for about ten years. Earlier this year, I finally up the difficult from Normal to Heroic (Easy --> Normal --> Heroic --> Legendary), and I managed to finish classic firefight mode (set to one round) a couple of months ago. I felt pretty good about that, and it gave me the courage to try Legendary difficulty (that experiment was extremely short-lived).

Me, too -- loved Gorf in the arcade. It was quite the departure from Space Invaders gameplay. I remember being thinking "what's this?" back in the early 80s. I hear ya about the wallet. It doesn't help that Al releases all the new games in practically a single batch.

I haven't watched any ST series outside of TOS and TNG. I started rewatching both of them earlier this year and stopped. I'm planning to rewatch them next year. "Picardo" -- interesting name 🙂

No backpedaling allowed! 😇 😈 Go for 🥇 You're currently in first 🙂

Yes, this was the most surprising thing when I re-discovered the 2600 -- the passion of the home-brew community and the talented folks still coding for a 40+ year old platform. Some of the games rival NES games in graphics quality (to my eyes anyway). I've no doubt Champ Games will release an amazing version of Gorf. I'm also curious about their work on the 2600 Qix port, and their nearly done port of Robotron looks amazing.

Great job, @Sabertooth! I wonder whether this competition set the record for the highest point differential between first and last place 😄 It was very fun round, and I walk away with a story on why I acquired a Jaguar.

Superman II! 👍 Nice!! I don't know why I don't have any Christopher Reeve Superman movies in my movie library. Need to fix that. Thanks for opening 😇 and sharing the lovely photos! NSG's giveaways are always packed with a lot of geeky goodness.

In case @RickR's post wasn't clear enough, let the people's will be made more explicit to you @SuperTrooper: Open...

Added some NES games (couple of games with bad asses and some sports titles) and I don't even have an NES or a way to play these (yet?) 🙂 A local gamer was selling some stuff so I picked up some cartridges for future trades or junk box. He also tossed in some free displays/marketing posters(?).

I don't remember which game it was but I had to have a 2600 after playing it at my friend's house. I got it in 1981 or 82. That one TV in the house was definitely real back then 😆 Luckily for me, my parents didn't watch TV. I didn't have equipment conflict with them until several years later when I got into BBS and would tie up the home phone line. I always wondered why people would buy those black boxes with the boring looking cartridges, but that makes total sense -- if you're a Sears shopper, you bought your games there. I'm also about the colorful packaging, and it was the reason why I got into collecting 2600 games. And now, it seems like a lot of the Sears games are all the rage for serious collectors.

Hmm... I remember paying $300 for my 800 from Toys R Us because that was my dad's weekly net pay at the time. I suppose I could be wrong about the price. I gave zero hesitation about getting the 800 and gave no thoughts to anything else because it was Atari. It felt natural and obvious to me as a kid to get another Atari product. Yes that big price diff between the C64 and 800, and 5200 and CV for that matter, would have been a deal breaker for mom and pop. I guess when you've been the big dog in the market, it made the company feel like it can call the shots. Looking at those game prices now, they were very expensive! Game prices have only doubled since the 80s. I guess that's pretty good relatively speaking, but then again, the modern gaming market is so huge compared to back then.

Yes! Patches can definitely enhance the physical presentation of a game. What I like about these patches is that they're not reproductions of the actual Activision patches. They pay homage to the official patches while infusing some humor and are made for games that did not receive official patches. @RickR I actually haven't thought about how to display the patches, and it sounds like maybe a trip to Michael's or some other craft store is in order -- maybe Pinterest for some ideas 🙂 For now, they are sitting in the envelopes that they were sent in.

I just got another batch of new patches from Machine on AtariAge and ordered some more as new patches became available yesterday. If you're interested or want to see what's all available, see the links in my first post above. I especially love the Adventure patch -- very nicely embroidered. I got three so I can offer one or two for future trade or giveaway or junk box. The Venetian Blind patch came out a bit muted.

14,250 I posted earlier is still my highest score -- sad, I know 😆 but the Jaguar is a phenomenal console. I'm glad I got the chance to try it out.

yup, just found the link to it and added to my post

Looks like Howard Scott Warshaw e-published a new book on Amazon yesterday -- Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry. It looks to be only available on Amazon (paperback out in two more days). Another book that I really want to read! My life is a backlog. paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0986218669/ Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QG9XSWZ/

That is a fantastic collection and setup! 👍 ❤️ I also prefer CIB copies but because of crazy prices, I've decided to buy loose copies of HERO and Cosmic Commuter to complete my NTSC 2600 Activision collection. With the savings of foregoing boxed copies 🙂 I ordered a cartridge holder for HERO. I will follow up with him to have one made for Cosmic Commuter next year.

Here's my GameBoy stuff (OG GB, GBC, GBA). Getting the games out for the photo shoot, I was surprised by how many I still had back from the day as I had given away a lot of games with the GameBoy to a little kid. The Duke Nukem, Metal Gear Solid (pricecharting shows $80 for loose 😮) games, Tennis, Nemesis, Madden, Chessmaster, and In Your Face are games I bought back in the 90s iirc. The others GB games and GBA games are stuff I bought within the last two or three years. One thing that is not shown is my GBA multi-cart from China that I bought off of ebay. I bought the GameBoy Player for the GameCube and briefly dabbled in GBA games. I can't remember where the fanny pack came from. I may have gotten it from my cousin. Of the GB games, I believe Loderunner is the only complete in box game that I have. The cases for the GBA games are reproductions. They came in the case from the local store that I bought them from. There's also a homebrew and a multi-cart I got for free from someone on AtariAge. I believe the GBA Pokemon game was for Son #2 who played it on his DS Lite. Outside of that game, all of these are stuff that I bought for me. If I showed my DS collection, there would be a bunch that I bought for the kids.

That's some cool stuff you guys. I only have the GameBoy Color since I gave away my OG GameBoy many years ago. My kids grew up with the DS Lite. I gave away one or two but should still have another or two around. They briefly gamed on the 3DS. I don't think I have any rumble pack games but later will share a photo of what I have for the GameBoy.

In response to episode 676, I thought I share a photo of my Atari 8-bit Pac-Man boxes from my 8-bit collection.