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Those look awesome 

Currently have an Asteroids.  Price is $100 shipped.  PM me if interested, thanks.

Cheers to Scott Stilphen!! I just received 10 Atari 2600 carts from him. They all play and look EXACTLY as he described them. I'm looking forward to buying more from him! Great prices, fast shipping and an all around great guy. Thanks bud!

Also more on the Sears Video Arcade 2 -- the picture is wonky on some games.  Berzerk has a thick blue band at the top.  Space Invaders rolls a bit.  Some games are perfectly stable.  I don't think they made a PAL model, so it couldn't be that.  Or could it?

The finished product.  It works quite nicely! 
 
 

I just PM'ed GW and JMJ.  The donated 7800 is now fixed.  I was able to repair the power button without replacing it.  It actually wasn't that hard, so please let me know if anyone else needs help with flaky buttons on the 7800 console.

So here's the deal with the 4 joystick ports: One of the big selling features of the system, as far as being a 2600-compatible system goes, is the really cool all-in-one joysticks which integrate the paddle controllers into the joystick stalks. These joysticks work a bit differently from the regular 2600 joysticks, and you press the button on the 2800 console to select between "Joystick" and "Paddle". Because these controllers are all-in-one and different from the norm, playing a 4-player game like Warlords means having 4 of these 2800 Joysticks, each with its own controller port.
 
Remember, the 2800 was intended to dominate the Japanese market when it was designed, and they weren't initially thinking about American compatibility issues for Sears. The expectation was that Atari's official entrance into Japan would for the most part dominate the Japanese market. The 2800 joystick would be the officially released Atari joystick for Japan, and there weren't a ton of classic 2600 joysticks and paddle controllers floating around. So if you wanted to play a 4-player game, you'd just buy some extra 2800 joysticks at your local Japanese Atari dealer and you were set to go.
 
 
 
 
Thanks for sharing the link Rick!! I think that page is a pretty decent one-stop-shop for Atari 2800 knowledge 

More info on the Atari 2800 from this very awesome site:
 
http://www.atari.io/atari-2800/

Opened it up...lots of dust bunnies.
 

 
Side note:  I'm also working on a broken 7800 that Greenween donated to give to jmjustin6 (if I can fix it).  Look very closely at this picture...the cases are essentially the same.  Jmjustin, I'm working on your machine too!
 

 
And while the case takes a bath, I checked to see if the board worked with a new RF cable.  YES.  It does!
 

 

 

I have one in great shape, love it! Good on you.

Bring her back my friend!

Another RickR project:
 
I purchased an "as-is" Sears Video Arcade II on Ebay for a pretty low price, but it was advertised "As-is", and "powers on but the screen is fickry" (exact words from the ad).
 
It arrived today.  Very dirty.  I'm taking some before shots.
 

 
This thing has 4 joystick ports!  What the???  I wonder why?
 

 
And take a look at the end of the video cable.  No wonder it was "fickry"!  No RF adapter...just the RF cord spliced to an 75/300 ohm converter.
 

 
Another thing, missing power adapter.  This uses a different connector than the 2600.  I looked it up on-line...9V, 1 amp.  So I got a power adapter and connector out of my parts bins and spliced them together.  Don't worry, I'll solder and heat-shrink once I know it works.  The power lights do come on now!
 

 
Next step is to open it up and replace the RF cable.  Then we'll know if it works. 
 
 
 

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Maybe that's why I always have a soft-spot for Space Invaders besides it being the first video game I ever played.  I am a huge fan of Boston and thought the label looked familiar.
 
To be honest, though, it doesn't look the same to me.
 


 
And the term "copy" usually means "exact duplicate".  One might have influenced the other but Space Invaders' UFO artwork is not an exact copy.  Not trying to step on toes or anything but just pointing this out.  These have been a part of my life since my childhood and I have never thought about them being duplicates of each other.  

Incredible history there Rick! Thank you for sharing!!

That is excellent!  I want to visit that at some point. 

And that's not all...this museum has a ton of pop culture items that are incredible to see. 
 
 

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I visited the Star Trek exhibit at the Seattle Museum of Pop Culture, and thought I'd share some pictures.  It was a tremendous collection of real TV and movie props, mostly from the collection of Paul G. Allen.  The highlight being the real bridge console, captain's chair, and navigator's chair from Star Trek:  TOS. 
 
The link for the exhibit is here:  http://www.mopop.org/at-the-museum/current-exhibits/star-trek-exploring-new-worlds/
 
 

I've both purchased from and traded with RickR. He has always been easy to deal with. Great communication, accurate descriptions and quick shipping. Highly recommended!

Just had a great transaction with RickR. He's got my vote for sure!

New Episode of 7800 AVENUE is live! Armando & Carlos from Pixel Vault Games join me in the lounge this week to kick off our "Nintendo on Atari" block of shows and play Donkey Kong on Atari 7800 Check it out:
 
 

 
 
And check the sexy pics on the blog entry:
http://www.atari.io/donkey-kong-atari-7800-ave/

OK...a few more.  These were for Typography.  The idea was to originally create 6 different layouts where the classmates and instructor would vote which ones they liked best.  I'm a huge Gran Turismo fan and followed the series as best as I could.  I was anxiously (and impatiently) waiting for Gran Turismo 5 to be released so I used it as the focal point of this project. 
 

 
The one that got the most votes I went with.  We couldn't use black and had to use a color of a single hue.  So...this happened:
 

 
And then, just for fun, I found an in-game screenshot on the Playstation website and made a few changes on the typography.  This one was not for any credit at all since I couldn't claim all of the work.  While challenging it was a lot of fun to make.
 

 
So the game screenshot image belongs to Sony with the type layer being my work.  I did show it to the class though.
 
This last one is not gaming related at all but actually received a LOT of positive feedback from classmates and FB friends.  Quite a few downloaded it and made it their computer wallpaper.  This one was strictly for fun, a few bonus points, and we had to use brushes in Photoshop.  All I was trying to do was try to capture a spot a cousin-in-law and I would like to fish at from a distance on Bull Shoals lake.  It still inspires me what others have said about this one.  The instructor wasn't too impressed but others have said they loved it.  I used that feedback to keep learning Photoshop as much as I could.  
 

 
I think that's it for now.  I'm still looking up the stuff I did in college and...WOW!  I didn't realize just how much I have done.  I thought about creating my own website to share my videos on as well but I am happy right here.  I need to get back into creating things in Photoshop as I haven't worked in it for quite some time now.